Super Mario Bros. The Movie 1993 In Review - Every Mario Movie Ranked & Recapped

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This episode of Kinda Funny In Review we rank, review, and recap the 1993 Super Mario Bros.
Movie by Nintendo starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo.
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[@jjjjjj2789]

Love Kevin's "a lot of Germans too" when Nick said there were a lot of Italians in Argentina.

[@joshmadison3653]

That one got a solid chuckle from me. That was definitely worthy of more of a laugh than it got from the group.

[@matthewwalsh1468]

He's not wrong...a lot of Nazis escaped to SA after WWII, to avoid being tried for war crimes

[@PeregrinesChagrin]

Absolutely underrated lol

[@hellsapoppin9326]

There's nothing better than Andy thinking John Leguizamo was actually Italian

[@CCZor]

which is funny considering the rant Leguizamo went over the animated Mario movie having no Latino casting (which he is wrong, Anya Taylor-Joy is part Argentinian and Fred Armisen is part Venezuelan)

[@CheefChaos]

40:38

[@iammidus2012]

That unfortunate era where latinos had to play Italian to get roles.

[@realrobrose]

I think it's funny they don't pick up on the fact that this movie HAS to be WHY he thinks that

[@forgetPAT1]

As a Latino that grew up in NY, that blew my mind bc John was always admired for being the NY Latino that made it up here lol

[@TheMissingLink000]

Funny that they would mention Demolition Man a couple times in connection to this movie because as it turns out, this movie and Demo Man share the same production designer :) He was also the art director on Blade Runner

[@TheCaliforniaHP]

Makes too much sense

[@langleymneely]

1:10:11 Not only is this the actress that played Harry Potters f-ed up aunt, Fiona Shaw is ALSO Cassians adoptive mother Maarva in ANDOR! She’s a great, legendary British actor that is a chameleon, slipping back and forth into very different roles throughout her career.

[@andrewgillenwater7828]

This is the chaotic, 2 Coke In Review energy I needed on a Friday

[@ClicheSk8r]

Kevin sneaking in "Alotta Germans too" about Argentina got me good!

[@OriginalBoondocksXVIII]

1:05:10 might've been the zaniest thing I've ever seen Tim do, and Greg's reaction right after only made it funnier 😂

[@Hatake0217]

I'm honestly offended on behalf of the TMNT movies

[@langleymneely]

Ok if you know the answer to this you are a goddamn legend!… Any one remember what Big Bertha in this is famous for? Especially in the 90s? She was the Pine Sol Lady! If you know, YOU KNOW!😜🤣

[@kylevesa2810]

Love the Hackers shout outs from Nick. One of my favourite random weird 90s movies. Along with Super Mario Bros. I do love those 90s dark/apocalyptic look to movies, like Johnny Mnemonic.

[@langleymneely]

DOA is an underrated gem, it’s a remake of the original Hollywood noir. The main character is poisoned and has 24hrs to solve his own murder.

[@langleymneely]

This film and fans forcing themselves to “like” it at the time is a prime example of geeky genre stuff being adapted for live action by people with no respect for the source material. Like superhero films of the era if you were around when this came out it was like drinking feted sewer water after being in the desert for days! It’s toxic, rancid shit but you were so thirsty to see the things you loved adapted that you had to appreciate it and take what you could get. I hate being THAT old guy but ‘kids’ today have it SO much better with adaptations across the board. When I see people ragging on the MCU losing a step here and there all I can think is “we are so goddamn spoiled as an audience”. As a kid I had to get excited for shit like this or Meteor Man because it was so rare for this kind of shit to get green-lit. So glad things have changed!

[@furrybproductions]

EXACTLY. 2 words: Superman. Four.

[@Crybe]

After showing this to my wife "Two Truths and a Lie", she realized that Nick meant fights Donkey Kong sometimes.

[@garymarra8070]

Thank you for this. I could not for the life of me figure out what he was thinking.

[@langleymneely]

The Walking the Dinosaur song was a beloved R&B/House classic back in the 80s! The movie totally grabbed it to license for the film because no one can deny what a BANGER it is! 🎶“Boom-boom, acka-lacka, boom-boom” EVERYBODY WALK THAT DINOSAUR BABY!!!🎶😜

[@Fizggig]

I legit was singing this song when it came on and prob a good hour or 2 after I watched it again this past weekend. Catchy as hell.

[@langleymneely]

@@Fizggig Such a great song! An all time banger!

[@iammidus2012]

Its actually a cover by George Clinton made for the movie. The lyrics are goom-goom instead.

[@ieyke]

So, here's the thing....Tim, Blessing, Nick, and Kevin are right about this movie. Tim mentioned the SMB Movie Archive. I'm not affiliated with them, but if there's anyone who's on the same level of expertise as the guys who run that website, it's me. I've literally taught those guys some stuff about this movie. So, without exaggeration, for some reason, I can genuinely claim to be one of the foremost experts on the subject of this movie. 🤷‍♂ And the thing is that Tim is right when he says that "This is what Mario WAS back then." He's not just right in the sense of "Oh, this is what we THOUGHT Mario was" No. This literally IS what Mario was back then. And the kicker - this IS STILL what Mario IS today. Almost everything in this movie is pulled straight from the games. It's not EXACT 1 to 1 translations, but more than anything that's because this movie is actually a COMBINATION of: 1. Mario Bros 2. Super Mario Bros 3. Super Marion Bros 2 4. Super Mario World 5. Super Mario Land 6. Super Mario Kart Between those 6 games you can find virtually EVERYTHING in this movie. The ONLY major difference in this movie is the visuals. If you reskinned this movie with traditional Mario visuals, everyone would LOVE this movie and no one would question it being faithful to the games. Broadly speaking, the movie's plot is the plot of SMB3. The Mushroom King has been turned into a plant/animal (fungus) using Magikoopa wands (Devolution Gun). Bowser is assisted by one of the Koopalings, Iggy and another Koopa prominent in SMB3, Spike. It should also be noted that the original premise of the Mario games is that all those bricks and blocks and coins and stuff that are all over the place in the Mario world are the leftovers of Bowsers INITIAL invasion of the Mushroom Kingdom, and all of those blocks are actually Toads who've been transformed into objects. They're not just blocks. They're Bowser's victims. Transforming the citizens of the conquered kingdom AND the Mushroom Kings has ALWAYS been Bowser's move. The setting of the movie begins in Brooklyn, and involves monsters coming through an underground portal among the plumbing, which the Mario Bros discover, which leads them to the Mushroom World. TO BE CLEAR, that IS the plot to the original Mario Bros game. That's the canonical way the Mario Bros discover and enter the Mushroom World from Brooklyn. The ORIGINAL Mario Bros game DOES take place in the Brooklyn sewers, and the original Donkey Kong DOES take place somewhere unspecified in NYC. They absolutely HAVE always been from Brooklyn since Day 1. Princess Daisy was the most current Princess at the time the movie was being made/released, as the princess of Super Mario Land. She's the princess of the desert kingdom of Sarasaland. (Peach's cousin) This movie is what canonically established Luigi and Daisy's relationship, which would later be made canon in the games. This movie is also the first of several instances of musical Toads and Toads playing guitars - another thing the games would adapt. Dinohattan is a combination of Super Mario World's Dinosaur Land, Yoshi's Island, and Daisy's desert kingdom Sarasaland all compressed into a single world mirroring Manhattan. Bowser's final stand in the movie has him hanging over the area in a "bucket" in the air - meant to replicate Super Mario World's final Bowser fight, in which he hovers above the battlefield in his Koopa Clown Car. The Shy Guys and Sniffits racing around in crazy Mad Max cars are meant to replicate Super Mario Kart. The Goombas and Koopa Troopas swaying back and forth are meant to replicate the two-frame walking animations of the Goombas and Koopa Troopas in the games. Mario and Luigi's rival plumbers are meant to replicate Wario, and the rival partner plumber predates the creation of Waluigi. The Super Mario Bros Super Show introduced us to the plumbing school where Mario and Luigi learned their trade, and there we can see lookalikes of both Wario AND Waluigi in a lineup of plumbers alongside Mario and Luigi. The premise of Mario and Luigi having rival plumbers mirroring them has been around since the beginning. Scappelli SEEMS to be derived from the game Wrecking Crew, and SEEMS to be an export of Foreman Spike - Mario and Luigi's evil boss (who seems to be related to Wario and Waluigi). In that sense, Scapelli employing the two rival plumbers makes perfect sense. Scappelli being turned into a chimpanzee in the construction site is ALSO a homage to Mario's first appearance as Jumpman, battling Donkey Kong in a NYC construction site. Mario's girlfriend Daniella was originally meant to be associated with Scappelli, and she's CLEARLY meant to be the movie's version of Pauline - liking Donkey Kong and Pauline is obviously straight from the original Donkey Kong arcade game. SUPPOSEDLY there are versions of the movie's script that give Daniella's FULL name as Daniella Pauline Veducci, cementing that she's Pauline. And that would be pretty much perfect and make complete sense. But I can't verify that. It goes on and on and on. 🤷‍♂ This movie ONLY gets the hate it does because it's aesthetically NOT what people were expecting. They KNEW they couldn't pull off the actual traditional Mario aesthetic, so they went another direction entirely. Choosing to go Blade Runner/Mad Max/Demolition Man with it.....is NUTS, but it's pretty fucking cool. It was just waaaaay ahead of its time in terms of doing a dark gritty post-apocalyptic dystopian reimagining of Mario, which is super common nowadays (even SNL just did it), but at the time it was something that people simply weren't ready for. And that's fair. It's NEVER going to sit well with people if you give them a weird version of something that they love BEFORE you give them a completely faithful version. That's just how people are.

[@furrybproductions]

I don't remember how many times I've seen John Leguizamo with his family in NYC. He lives near Union Square and I went to college in that area. Cool guy.

[@RetroKidReviews]

K another cool Greg sighting and man Greg just looks like he didn’t want to do this in review but yeah now that I remember it this movie did have a lot of ghostbusters vibes.

[@benkemper7711]

Because of In Review, I just watched this movie for the first time and it low key reminds me a lot of the Mike Myers Cat in the Hat movie😂😂😂

[@thezoof2841]

Did you guys actually compare this to TMNT? No way.

[@KingxLos1]

Let’s go…. It’s a me, Kinda Funny!!!!

[@DrewSunn]

Watched for the first time yesterday. I feel as though both of these movies combined would make a good movie, but individually they're both just fun... And I liked this kind of fun more.

[@RondyWooten]

6:25 That time is now. Here's your reminder.

[@TheCaliforniaHP]

Me as a kid WTF?!?! Me as an adult who was a 90s kid, o this is definitely a 90s film. I know the grittiness

[@Windytune]

I think there is a credit to Sniffits or reference to sniffits being the cops

[@fluffyjs9241]

Andy and Twitter are 💯 that 90s Turtles is vastly better than 93 Mario!

[@arturo182]

Not Nick calling the great Reb Brown a no-name actor 😠

[@ChildlikeMan]

Ya know what else Alan Silvestri composed? PREDATOR.

[@furrybproductions]

Am I the only one who, when they were talking about the wires in the Yoshi puppet, kept replaying Greg yelling out "Hentai!"?

[@Scotty220]

TMNT 1990 is miles better than Mario 1993. It's not even close.

[@infinitecorpze]

I actually liked a lot about the production design of this. Specifically costumes. There's so many cool weird outfits people are rockin and it's just such a weird vibe

[@forgetPAT1]

How did they skim past the fact that when Mario and Luigi get booked, the cop is getting some strange massage by a lady with her stiletto heels on. So fuckin weird lol

[@TheCaliforniaHP]

Love Blessing on In Review

[@brandenanthny1418]

i like how they said they were not going to do this movie the first time because its not in the same as the new movie and then people made them do it lol

[@gumgumleobazooka]

- rubs hands vigorously in anticipation -

[@TheMasonAguilar]

Birdman handrub

[@AbramRhodes]

We stand with Andy

[@realrobrose]

Greg feels like a dad chaperone sitting in a pizzeria, listening to his kid's friends go off about the piece of shit movie he had to sneak beers into so he can handle that this is his day.

[@kesselwinks]

I love the reviews of these 90s movies. Leading up to the new TMNT, can we please get Surf Ninjas added to the list. If Balls of Fury gets be in MK in review, we trogs deserve to see what happens to Ernie Reyes Jr. after Secret of the Ooze. #SurfNinjasReview

[@MelodicQuest]

This movie would have been at least decent if it were its own IP.

[@GeneFJacket]

I was 12 when it came out and saw it opening weekend with my cousin, who was visiting over summer break. I still, to this day, remember us walking out and being dumbstruck by what we had seen. Not even mad, just completely perplexed that people made and released THAT movie. It sucks absolute dogshit and, even if we didn't know, you can 100% tell that everyone working on it had a fucking miserable time. Also, hey Greg, I'm gonna need you to fire Tim and Nick for those TMNT comments. Legitimately the worst takes any human could ever have about anything.

[@rhysdavies8477]

What’s on in review next week was I dumb and missed it?

[@kelb0y9o20]

44:10

[@langleymneely]

Oh no, Andy not knowing that John Leguiziamo is latino (Columbian/Puerto Rican) bums me out man! Lol

[@langleymneely]

No The Pest almost killed John Leguiziamos career. Lol

[@Fizggig]

yoooo i loveeeeee The Pest

[@langleymneely]

@@Fizggig Its one of of those classic examples of a film I liked as a dumb kid that only aged like milk as I got older? Lol But I STILL have that stupid shower song/rap in my head to this day!!! Lmao!

[@jeffshudrowitz373]

Saw this movie on shrooms in college. Not bad. You should probably eat mushrooms first though. Its a bit of a PIPE dream without.

[@kylemelendez358]

Im with tim with this and im usually against him on in reviews but this movie is simultaneously the greatest and worst movie at the same time. Im happy that this movie has gained a cult following over the years that appreciate it more than it really desrves to lol

[@chrisp6967]

Tim wearing a Fraiser shirt? nice.

[@pauldhoff]

It's a shame you guys didn't do PREY.

[@randalladkins7452]

Now they should watch Double Dragon (1994)!

[@GandalfGreyhame3]

Give Tim some weed that man is wound up!

[@2011zbjr]

I DARE YALL TO REVIEW THE PEST

[@Fudui2]

This movie gets way too much hate. It was the First videogame movie. It came out just after Bat Man Returns. They took the source material, which is shat and ran with it. I never liked the game but enjoyed the movie. The real question is, is this movie worse than Waterworld. Which I also liked. Sure, it was no Blood of Heroes. The whole game to me is just a stoned mushroom trip and the movie reflects that vibe.

[@Gffdybfycugff]

What’s next?

[@mattallenclosedforum9505]

Let's a go

[@sladesspades]

1:05:10 Amazing moment

[@kelb0y9o20]

44:10 also amazing

[@furrybproductions]

Featuring Blessing "Tha M********in' News" Adeyoye Jr!

[@marirod7849]

I haven’t watched this movie in years! But I still have images in my head of the characters and the set and that’s gotta mean something when the movie stays with you all these years.

[@ghostmkc4045]

Its honestly a great bad movie, its undeniably bad. However, so is "the room," Bad doesnt actually mean unappreciated.

[@dirizarr]

For some reason this movie was horrible to me and wish it was purge out of existence. Maybe it was the bad version on the stream, the annoying New York accent that sounded like some cheap sopranos, or maybe was the acid trip story and characters. I just couldn’t stand it and don’t remember not liking this much as a kid. I need to rewatch it in a normal setting.

[@iammidus2012]

Greg's love for Ghostbusters is so weird to me. 1 good movie, but the overall franchise is mid at best.

[@AssassinAlchemist]

Trust the fungus, 🍄🙏🏽👀

[@jettxjordan]

lmao

[@deadhead2665]

yooooo, who made that intro?!

[@tonysocki8714]

Great job this time Greg Miller.

[@alexishmael5905]

Apparently Mario has appeared in over 200 video games... Who would have known? TIM MOTHA FUCKIN GETTYS

[@Ktorrz18]

Kevin loving this movie makes me feel better about how wrong his Star Wars opinions are

[@blakeschriewer9253]

Faaaaacts

[@8bitdee]

The way Tim speaks of this movie should give anyone an indication to not listen to his opinions on other movies in other In-Reviews.

[@jettxjordan]

God bless Tim, carrying In Review on his back every episode. We see you!!

[@TopCheeseBarDown]

Nick will literally like anything if it the year it released in starts with 19

[@Kalamarikash]

I voted in Andy's poll and watched both movies when you reviewed them. Both aren't amazing but TMNT is way more enjoyable to watch than this monstrosity.

[@marcove3]

Does anyone know where I can get a sweatshirt like Tim's?

[@Juanzerker]

Broken arrow in review!!

[@ChildlikeMan]

Comparing this movie to TMNT '90 is a sin against God and mankind alike

[@NF_Redux]

i'm with Bless, Kev, Tim & Nick in saying Andy & Greg have no joy in their lives. Super Mario Bros. The Movie is in my top 5 video game movies alongside Mortal Kombat (1995), Silent Hill, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider & DOA: Dead or Alive, because each film committed to whatever the heck they were going for - this is cinema.

[@War624]

The amount of stories Tim made up this episode is wild lol. It's always on the ones he loves but everyone else hates on.

[@langleymneely]

Ok Tim, on par with the original Ninja Turtles movie!?! Really!? Maybe I will give you Ninja Turtles 2, but that first film? No freaking way sir! The Ninja Turtles film is at least faithful to the source material.

[@pantallica416]

Agreed, i would compare this to the third movie. The first two are bangers.

[@langleymneely]

@@pantallica416 yes! Of all the Turtles films it’s definitely comparable to the 3rd!

[@aaronmwolford]

lol this movie is great

[@nobodyexceptme7794]

Nope! Officially canceling Greg after this one! Tearing through Nick's what sir? Bringing up American tragedies I can tolerate, but genital mutilation of one's co-host? This man has to be stopped! I never need to hear anything that descriptive again in my life

[@Crazeyd0g]

First time ever watching this and even with some good parts it is definitely the worst movie ever reviewed on In Review!

[@joshuabarnett88]

How. In the holy fuck. Are they more positive on this movie than half the DC movies?

[@markling5058]

Because half the dc films are terrible

[@markling5058]

And not fun

[@byers31303]

Someone needs to take the guitar away from Andy. It gets pretty damn distracting when he’s just playing random notes throughout the ENTIRE freaking review! He’s been doing this the last few reviews and it is just super annoying.

[@reflectionist]

....Wait, you guys aren't serious about the flat earth thing, are you?

[@HOEL]

Tim has some bizarre takes on films, lol

[@hesthatguy4859]

Greg hates this movie so much it’s amazing. So much of this is just him being dumbfounded by Tim’s nostalgia lol

[@matthewwalsh1468]

Tim must have burned his taste buds off with some scalding pizza, because this movie was hot trash!! And nowhere near as good as TMNT (1990)!!!

[@LoveFactorySweatShop]

This-> Rewatchable for reasons. SMB 2023 -> Mid Machinema with good voice actors

[@Fizggig]

People give this movie so much shit but it really is not bad lol me and my gf just watched it this past weekend since the nice Mario Movie came out and I had a good time with it.

[@SOTELO_74]

This movie is garbage, don’t disgrace TMNT

[@kvoltti]

I don’t care if it’s “bad” I still have a warm place in my heart for this movie.