Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: SUPER MARIO BROS.

[@TheBrandonTenold]

What do you think of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. film? Misfire, cult classic or something in between?

[@SasquaDash]

Both.

[@mikesilva3868]

Dont watch the super Mario bros movie from 1903😊

[@soelo592]

Yes

[@diegolorente8435]

I can’t wait to see the new Mario movie by illumination

[@randytessman6750]

For what it was, a big budget major hollywood movie it was TRASH ! Not even bad enough to be funny, it was just sad.

[@elvinsolano6177]

Rest in peace to Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper

[@davidparrish1205]

And Robert D. Raiford.

[@biohazardmadness1155]

I will always remember Dennis Hopper from land of the dead

[@johnnysasaki]

@@biohazardmadness1155 coincidentally killed by John Leguizamo in that movie. Small world.

[@biohazardmadness1155]

@@johnnysasaki that too

[@dustinbrown1815]

Yep

[@ramblinbananas888]

My mom rented this for me when I was 6. She's not a gamer and I remember her saying "This doesn't look anything like your Nintendo."

[@johntheechidna1]

Your mother is SO right.

[@jackattacksfilms]

Dennis Hopper's line about mud is like the anti-matter equivalent of Anakin's 'I don't like sand' line from SW

[@viscountrainbows2857]

I hate how diabolically correct this is.

[@onemariobro]

Fun fact: in a super Mario comic Big Bertha had a crush on Mario so in a weird way this also adapted an obscure piece of Mario media

[@GoGojiraGo]

Was that the comic with Stanley the Talking Fish?

[@MrBlueSkyof1607]

Was probably unintentional.

[@blootube97]

@@MrBlueSkyof1607maybe not since the concept artist of the movie wanted to incorporate as many Mario game references as much as he could (very limited freedom but props for trying) and the ape at the last part of the movie is supposed to be a set up to Donkey Kong 😅

[@jscar06]

Fun fact: the actress who played Lena (Fiona Shaw) was later cast as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter movies. When the first one came out, I knew she looked familiar. Thanks for covering this film, Brandon!

[@sergiocampanale3882]

She was (and still is) a respected English actress with plenty of stage credits, though she has a good sense of fun that let's her occasionally dip her toes into popular culture ,,, This, Harry Potter, 'The Avengers' (1998), 'Pixels' etc.

[@BYERE]

The problem with making a movie about Tetris is that as soon as you fill up a row of cinema seats, they all become available again... and the more rows you fill, the faster the movie will go!

[@Unholy_Holywarrior]

but at least a tetris movie would have an awesome soundtrack

[@rgerber]

thats actually kind of a plot for a horror movie

[@jonnyman98989]

That's an easy fix, just leave one or two seats empty in every row... Aaaaand make sure you leave the nosebleed section COMPLETELY empty, otherwise the movie ends right then and there.

[@BYERE]

@@Unholy_Holywarrior See, you say that, but I went to see the new Mario movie, and it has a cheesy... and safe... soundtrack that I was NOT expecting.

[@Unholy_Holywarrior]

@@BYERE look up tetris nes soundtrack, especially #3

[@fatenabu1]

So fun fact, Mario's girlfriend's full name is Daniella Pauline Veducci. She is Pauline.

[@cartooncritique6625]

They should have just called her Pauline then since that's what she was called in the games.

[@fatenabu1]

@@cartooncritique6625 You would think that is what they would've done. Wondering if it was one of those random script changes while filming.

[@johntheechidna1]

@@fatenabu1 Like the same script changes that made it so completely distant from the source materiel, it could have just as easily been some parallel-cyberpunk-dimension-loaded-with-humanoid-reptiles movie and wouldn't have needed Super Mario Bros slapped on the title just to give it "some" link to the video games. I'm sorry, but as far as video game adaptations go, this is one of the worst...and I've seen Mortal Kombat Annihilation!

[@fatenabu1]

@@johntheechidna1 yes it is bad. I never said it was good. Do I find it enjoyable though, sometimes. I find it enjoyable in the whole, this is a thing I watched when I was younger so it brings back fun memories. Also I like watching the reaction of people who have never seen it. Overall though, it isn't all that enjoyable and it is bad. I am confused by you seemingly wanting to justify this movie being the worst. Is this meant to be an argument? If so who with? I don't think anyone is arguing that the movie is the greatest film ever made. Also why the apology for saying this movie is the worst? I didn't make it lol.

[@Medusa7700Siren]

I knew it! I thought she seemed like Pauline so headcanon I just went with it lol

[@marshallhuffer4713]

Here's a fun fact: In an Q&A with The Guardian, Bob Hoskins was asked what was the worst job he ever did, what had been his biggest disappointment, and if he could edit his past, what would he change. The answer to all three was Super Mario Bros.

[@danielramsey6141]

Oh hey! That is a Fun Fact :D

[@lutherheggs451]

Its hilarious now when people cry about Pratt in the animated movie not being an Italian but those same imbeciles ignore that going by this Mario is British, Luigi is hispanic and even IF we go by the nails on a chalkboard Martinet Mario would be French. the "closest" thing to an Italian Mario was that awful Lou Albano live action segments on the 90s cartoon.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

"Alright, Bob. What would it take you to give it your all in this movie?" "A gallon of scotch should do the trick."

[@megapizzadragon2397]

Thats funny. I thought for sure it would have been that God awful Tales From the Crypt episode where he turns into an owl man.

[@Gojirawars03]

@@lutherheggs451 AY! DON’T YOU DARE START DISSIN LOU ALBANO!

[@76mrwolf]

"These things look like Shy Guys, if they enjoyed having their balls stepped on." You caught me off guard with that one. Thanks for the spit take Brandon. 10/10

[@jessicabombcat2180]

Funny enough the movie claims those are Snifits. Which…. Ngl may in fact be a Shy Guy that enjoys having its balls stepped on looking at them.

[@MrBlueSkyof1607]

​@@jessicabombcat2180Shy Guys would probably be almost close to the games, albeit wearing hockey goalie masks.

[@dansmith1661]

Trivia time: Super Mario Bros. innovated and introduced many techniques considered pivotal in the transition from practical to digital visual effects. It is the first film to have used the software Autodesk Flame, now an industry standard. It is also the first film scanned with a digital intermediate, allowing for the compositing of more than 700 visual effects shots. The disintegration effect for the inter-dimensional merge (Koopa in Manhattan) was inspired by the Transporter from Star Trek. Yoshi had multiple models for a different use and appearance, the full version costing half a million to make. Took 9 operators. Bob Hoskins crushed his hand from the slide door from that truck he drove in New York and he wore a cast throughout filming. He was also electrocuted and burned on set. He wasn't the only person who had accidents. The whole movie is pain. That goo Koopa slipped on was from a cut-scene of a worker sneezing and being put into the devo chamber set to goo, where he exploded.

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

“The whole movie is pain.” You took the words right out of my mouth!

[@vahaneloyan]

Dennis Hoppers in Space Trucker is an underrated cult movie. I loved it.

[@katerinavialpando3620]

He sure did Hopped off of this shit heap didn't he

[@vandalfinnicus1507]

Yeah, it's surprisingly cool, with the right glasses on.

[@jailcatjones3250]

I still think it's an inspiration for Cowboy Bebop being it had space trucking and look just like the vessels

[@dchegu]

Don't forget that Charles dance played the villain with an artificial cock. Plus the zero g sex scene

[@MisterBrimm]

I watched that recently and... well, I won't say I didn't enjoy it to some extent.

[@liamn.watson4867]

Now I wonder what a Jim Henson Mario movie would have looked like.

[@DasNordlicht91]

the puppets for Bowser and his hench creatures would’ve been cool as heck.

[@ToaAxiomMan]

That would be sick and a gigantic showcase of all the cool the puppets for Bowser, Koopas, Goombas and Toad

[@KasumiKenshirou]

The Jim Henson's [company, made after he died] Dinosaurs TV show looked more like Mario that the Super Mario Bros. movie did. I'm sure it would've been a million times better and he certainly wouldn't have made it a sci-fi distopia.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

​@@KasumiKenshirou Did you see the last season of that show though?! The dark, depressing ending that came out of seemingly nowhere. I'm not entirely sure we would have gotten a super upbeat Mario.

[@GoGojiraGo]

"Hi ho, Bowser the Frog here!"

[@J.Valentine1031]

The saga of the Super Mario Bros movie is a cautionary tale of what happens when you have too many chefs in the kitchen and one pot between all of them.

[@lolajaramillo4620]

Yeah, still love the movie though.

[@lycaonOmega82]

This movie is one reason why Nintendo said they want to oversee their own properties themselves. In fact it's also one big reason why Nintendo Studios was created. I think Nintendo wants to create a smash brothers universe. Because DK being in the Mario movie just feels out of place. Especially with a scene in the movie mentioning a bigger galaxy of worlds. Don't be surprised if Samus crosses over with Mario in a sequel as a reason why Mario and Luigi go to another galaxy.

[@TheRealSephiroth]

​@@lycaonOmega82 actually i believe it was mario who appeared in a DK game first in the early 80s he was just under a different name at the time. 🤓

[@johnnygyro2295]

​@@lycaonOmega82 Having recently seen the movie myself, oh yeah, I could see more movies. Especially a Donkey Kong spin-off.

[@johntheechidna1]

Especially when said chefs don't follow the recipe closely...>:(

[@ToaAxiomMan]

Hell yeah I dig the Brooklyn Accent for Mario and in my opinion it suits him

[@LadyAstarionAncunin]

The Yoshi puppetry was incredible, and I still like the movie poster.

[@ChibiFighter]

Even as a weird-looking live-action practical effect Yoshi still is adorable also that pipe mattress sequence looks like fun I'm surprised that wasn't turned into a ride at Universal Studios

[@Chipotleadvisory]

Fun fact the animated opening was actually the opening for Skinner’s film Billy and the Clonesarous!

[@KasumiKenshirou]

What WERE they thinking, sir? What where they thinking?

[@BugsyFoga]

I honestly appreciate how freaking bizarre and out there this film got, cause nobody from today or even back then was expecting Cyberpunk Mario flick .

[@wren7195]

I would LOVE to see a Twisted Metal/Mario Kart crossover... I actually had the great pleasure of having my extremely kind and WAY too dedicated parents take me to watch this movie when it originally came out. Not enough time left in the universe for the apologies I owe those folks. Hell, even the Power Rangers movie was better than this.

[@PhazonEnder]

@@wren7195 Which one? There are multiple theatrical Power Ranger movies.

[@wren7195]

@@PhazonEnder Indeed. The original English live action. Filmed in Australia. To which my Mother actually said when the woman with the whirly tube noise devices showed up "Some of the fathers woke up." And I HEARD that. ...and was young enough to be confused. I mean he is literally flying a FLICKING falconzord, what is wrong with people? Heh Sorry, I'm drunk tired and it's very late. It's a very unique and absurd memory for me, and I find it very precious. There were a lot of parents in that cinema.

[@racheledwards2352]

Bob Hoskins & Dennis Hopper were a terrific actors, SMB aside. RIP Bob Hoskins & Dennis Hopper

[@Aaron-zt5ee]

5:53 I’m glad you pointed this out. I’m fine with a Mario with an Italian accent but I’m getting tired of people under 30 complaining about the latest animated movie having an American accent.

[@dencocreations1701]

The movie isn’t terrible, its a terrible adaptation, but the movie is so entertaining i cant help but love it

[@lolajaramillo4620]

I still think though that it had more of things from the game and the feel of it than people give it credit for.

[@jliller]

@@lolajaramillo4620 The filmmakers put a lot of effort into it; they were just incompetent.

[@dr.decker3623]

@@lolajaramillo4620 In Super Mario Bros 3 you have to save the Kings of the land that were morphed into different animals before going to the fire worlds to fight King (Bowser) Koopa,.. so the first draft was REALLLY close to Mario 3 and a dash of 2. The rewrites butchered the tone.

[@lolajaramillo4620]

@@jliller Yeah, and apparently they fought a lot on set, being a husband and wife team. Too bad they were hired out of desperation. Harold Ramis couldn't be hired for the filming like was wanted. But I still love everything on screen that this movie has to offer.

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

Also, I have a theory that the movie's premise of the Earth being split into two alternate worlds, one in which dinosaurs are still the dominant species, was the inspiration for Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger. It's like the people behind Super Sentai saw this movie and said, "Yup, let's put in elements from this movie in our second dinosaur-themed Sentai!"

[@bensneb360]

I have seen the extended cut online, and wow… I’ve never seen so many scantily clad strippers in a kids movie before… Only in the 90s lol

[@goldencash4]

Link?

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

Lol. Sauce?

[@lolajaramillo4620]

That's some of what I miss a whole lot of from the 80's to the 90's eras. It was a time where you could have the ability to go in more creative directions than the small bubbles people have created now at days. Children are treated as if their fragile pieces of glass that can't handle any rough stuff at all instead of being the neive, yet strong enough, smaller people, that they have always been.

[@dansmith1661]

@@goldencash4 super mario bros morton jankel cut dvd It's in Internet Archive, I believe.

[@bloodeagle6458]

Super Mario's hoe's

[@RetroRobotRadio]

In Japanese tradition it is normal to refer to two Brothers by the name of the older brother. That is why Mario and Luigi are called the Mario Brothers.

[@howdoyoudo5949]

But they're Americans in this and they told the police they're father and son.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

@@howdoyoudo5949 He's just explaining why Japanese people named the game "Mario Bros."

[@howdoyoudo5949]

@@KasumiKenshirou Yeah but it's an odd cultural tick to translate for an North American/Euro Audience

[@LilFireFox]

Fun Fact! The Actress who played "Lena" is Fiona Shaw. And she would later go on to play Petunia Dursley. Harry Potter's Aunt in the Movies.

[@governorboltz]

I wrote an article a few years ago about disappointing film adaptations, and this was one of them. My favorite line was saying how the look on Bob Hoskins' face when he and Koopa start to merge was his soul leaving his body realizing he was in this movie in the first place.

[@TheBattlesword]

Fun fact: there're technically 3 Super Mario movies. This one, the new one, and an anime one from the 80s that's closer in tone to the games, but also has a really dumb ending where Mario loses Peach to another guy

[@jack_stone]

Kinda checks out nowadays given a quite a few endings have poor Mario miss out on a kiss xD

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

Gratingly prophetic of “Super Mario Odyssey.”

[@chrislondo2683]

I remembered Cinematic Excrment did a review of that anime where he paid tribute to JewWario before taking the video down once allegations surfaced but someone has re-uploaded the video.

[@SwaggyG_2102]

Honestly, despite the movie flopping, I never really found it that bad. I remember watching it back when I was a kid during the late 2000s and thinking that it was somewhat alright.

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

Another good thing from this movie: The concept of an alternate dimension inhabited by people that evolved from dinosaurs could also possibly be the inspiration for the premise of Abaranger. So without this movie, we wouldn't have Power Rangers Dino Thunder.

[@jimmylarson7856]

The actress who played Lena in this video game movie wanted to be a princess and years later in video game movie Pixels she played the Queen. That’s evolution right there

[@wesleyblake6249]

She’s also Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter movies.

[@alexkogan9755]

Brandon didn’t mention it, but the “Koopazilla” joke fits considering the fact Patrick Tatopoulos was the creature designer for this movie, and he was also the creature designer for Godzilla 1998. Heck even Koopa’s dinosaur form sorta resembles Zilla to an extent.

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

Funny thing is, there was a Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode called “Koop-Zilla”. It featured King Koopa (Bowser) as a kaiju.

[@alexkogan9755]

@@nicholaslienandjaja1815 Huh, well I’ll be damned.

[@Matkaizer08]

​@nicholaslienandjaja1815 not to mention someone actually made a Koopzilla fan film with him fighting Godzilla himself

[@SasquaDash]

Being a huge Mario fan, I really hated this movie when I was younger. But now, I've kind of grown to love it. It's a complete train wreck of a movie, but it's a fascinating train wreck. Also, the Goombas in the movie were actually supposed to be Koopa Troopas, with early scripts even mentioning them having turtle shell-like armor, but they were eventually reclassified as "Goombas" during the many rewrites.

[@doctorwyvern9992]

I think that would’ve also suited Dennis Hopper, only his should’ve had spikes as well.

[@ShinGallon]

That's kind of the way I am with the 1994 Street Fighter movie. Is it a good adaptation of the game? Hell no, but now, looking back, I can appreciate it for it's own thing, and Raul Julia chewing the scenery is great in its own way. Very similar to how I feel about this movie.

[@bZman]

It is a beautiful trainwreck because it wasn't forced by the studio to be as bland as possible. It was allowed to be insane and weird.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

​@@bZman Well the Trainwreck part came with all the rewrites, the involvement of Disney who added the horrible out-of-place soundtrack the fact the main cast was constantly angry and drunk (and hot because of the shooting location) Honestly the fact anyting even remotely usable came out of this whole thing is remarkable to me. It's a miracle the film came out in any way shape or form.

[@Necrowolf81]

@@ShinGallon lol what about the Double Dragon movie?

[@megapizzadragon2397]

Now all they gotta do is make a game based on this movie.

[@lolajaramillo4620]

I would love that, but unfortunately it wouldn't have the original cast voicing for it.😕

[@clown599]

aaaannnd now i want a Al Pacino's Robotnick movie... thanks Brandon...

[@rickyrackey7930]

That casting honestly would have been awesome. He would gone amazingly with a Early 2000s CGI Sonic voiced by Jason Griffith.

[@johntheechidna1]

Al Pacino would have been a better choice than Jim Carrey just being Jim Carrey instead of a rotund, robot-obsessed mad scientist, which is what Robotnik is SUPPOSED TO BE! Seriously, look at other films Jim Carrey has been in, and tell me he's not playing the same dumb goofy-face-making yahoo he makes Robotnik into in the Sonic films.

[@rickyrackey7930]

@@johntheechidna1 Have you played more recent games? Eggman was also a complete chaotic doofus despite his intelligence.

[@johntheechidna1]

@@rickyrackey7930 Doesn't help that he's been playing second fiddle to every new bad guy Sonic Team comes up with.

[@rickyrackey7930]

@@johntheechidna1 Well, the franchise needs new villains. People are gonna get tired of Eggman at some point.

[@cinegoth4144]

The garbage men are actually the enemies known as snifits. They are the ones in blue wearing the gas masks in the video games. It was a nice touch making them the ones to handle garbage.

[@slubberdagollian]

I unironically love this movie, through the world's thickest nostalgia goggles.

[@yourstrulyjohnnydollar8775]

Once I realized the crazy rage Bob Hoskins could bring to the screen, I felt so cheated by this movie. Forget Mario vs Koopa, I want The long Good Friday Hoskins to fight Frank Booth. And if one of them has to be dressed as a red plumber and the other is in a dinosaur costume, so be it.

[@KBWeeds]

😂😂😂

[@Unholy_Holywarrior]

bob hoskins best role is pink floyds manager in the wall, and then as smee in hook

[@maestro3947-b9g]

That would be the fight to end all movie fighta

[@mannyomega713]

bob hoskins would have made an excellent wolverine

[@jamesabernethy7896]

I normally save these as workout videos but because of some health issues I've been falling behind. Strangely enough because of the chemotherapy I had for testicular cancer( and yes... I did find the joke funny) Your channel is one of the ones I watched a lot of at the time and it help keep my mind off things. I'll always remember sitting in the hospital waiting to be taken to the ward, watching your Godzilla videos. I've always enjoyed your channel but for at that time it was a massive help to me. There are plenty of people who enjoy your channel but for some people, at some point in their life it was a mental lifeline for them. I hope you know that.

[@lolajaramillo4620]

Nice, and I pray and wish the best for you in the future of your health.👍

[@jamesabernethy7896]

@@lolajaramillo4620 Thank you. Although I can understand why people would keep certain things private, I've always been open about what I went through then and what's happening now. Hopefully, it can help others to seek advice from Doctors in any situation or stay positive when something is happening to them. It's most likely something minor but the Doctors do want to check things out.

[@LadyAstarionAncunin]

Even as someone who played Super Mario Bros. when it originally came out, I still love this movie. Say what you will, but the aesthetics, especially the fashion, were great. Whoever did costuming and hair was on their jobs. And I personally found Bob and John likable in their roles, whether they liked their roles or not. As much as Bob hated it, he could have sleep-walked through it (like Jennifer Lawrence or Val Kilmer in a franchise film), but he didn’t.

[@3dpprofessor]

33:46 I would have 100% been on board for link and donkey kong showing up for a smash bros cinematic universe cameo.

[@Unholy_Holywarrior]

i saw super mario bros in the theater in the 90s, i know it doesnt follow the game really, but ive always liked the movie. bob hoskins was a very underrated actor.

[@lolajaramillo4620]

It actually follows a lot of the gameplay though, just with a futuristic twist, and an actual plot instead of just, "save the princess..".

[@MercenaryX21]

Same here, I even saw it in a one Picture theater in Glendale California at the time. I think they closed but it was quite the experience to watch that movie and the ninja turtles movie as well in that same theater which had a lot of history. Also I've just noticed something anyone remember the Mario with the Cape going across the screen before the dinosaur thing? Because the DVD in blue ray I've got don't show the Mario going across the screen from super Mario world on the SNES

[@johntheechidna1]

Bob Hoskins was the best part of the movie, in spite of saying this was the WORST film he had ever been in.

[@guilhermehank4938]

I like it the same way I like the first Judge Dredd movie. They are so separate from the source material that I cant help but love them as peak products of their time.

[@Makoto03]

So happy to see you cover the original Mario Bros Movie!! I hated it as a kid but looking back on it, it intrigues me by how off the mark it was. It has some 'So bad its good' quality to it, similar to the Street Fighter movie.

[@KristenDETW]

I think Street Fighter is better overall, but I still loved both to death as a kid. Same with Sailor Moon (still love it).

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

Street Fighter is extremely cheesy, but it’s better than this one.

[@soelo592]

The new Mario movie is almost out and it’s on Wednesday, at least. I enjoy the references that Brandon puts in the video.

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

Why Wednesday that's what I don't get.

[@ChaosSepher]

Weirdly enough the "meteor that killed the dinosaurs split the Earth into separate dimensions with one still populated by dinosaurs" would be used with the Super Sentai series Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger... and worked much better.

[@Reapermaskhybrid]

At least Japan knows how to make crazy crap look good, lord knows they'd go onto make two more dino-themed Sentai series after Abaranger.

[@Valenquill]

I remember seeing this movie as a kid with my dad and we were both dumbfounded. Seeing it as an adult I have a new appreciation for it. The concept of Mario being in a Cyberpunk world was an interesting and cool idea.

[@OrthodoxReview]

(For those who don't watch the whole video) Here's a fun fact. Here in Wilmington, North Carolina, where the movie was filmed we still have some of those sewer props in a local bar called the Barbary Coast, which was the bar featured in Blue Velvet, which also stared Dennis Hopper

[@StanBrooks]

I've seen this movie a dozen times and just now realized that Toad was played by Mojo Nixon.

[@Carl-R]

As a kid my mom got this for me on VHS and I always loved it. As I got older I knew it was weird and kid of seen as bad but I still loved it. Overall I never thought this was a “bad” movie.

[@captaintoyota3171]

Right? As kids we attach memories to even horrible films so we can rewatch later and get emotional dopamine release. I remember going to rent vhs as well. 90s kids shoulda united instead we let world get depressingly worse

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I think the main problem is it's an awful Mario movie. If you just forget that single detail it's a lot of fun. My problem is I remember seeing it as a kid, as a Mario movie and just every single scene being like WTF is this?! It's a fascinating curiosity but not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. I'd love to see that extended recut though. From what I've heard there is just a ton of unused stuff that they filmed and never used.

[@skunkman9815]

15:51 that’s not dino after-birth According to a deleted scene, there’s one guy who sneezes and koopa tricks him into sitting in the devo chair, then he de-evolves him into primordial ooze, so that stuff they’re slipping in is actually that guy’s primordial remains

[@diaborodevil3161]

You are my favorite person to cover this for catching the electric vehicle detail I thought I was the only only person who did

[@georgeowain]

In the novelisation, Iggy, or Spike. I cant remember which, explains that the portal is too unstable for Koopa to safely march his army through all at once. And Daisy's stone is needed to properly stabilise it.

[@jeffumbach]

I thought it was weird that the cave-in at the start of the film was enough to deter him and that he didn't just come back with some guys to dig it out. Also how did they know that the human side had been blasted open 20 years later, was somebody assigned to come over and check periodically if the tunnel had reopened?

[@guilhermehank4938]

Wait a fuck, there is a novelization?!

[@ctaco5112]

And they couldn’t have bothered explaining that in the movie?

[@vustvaleo8068]

this is like making a Megaman live-action movie with Sylvester Stallone as Megaman and the setting is the amazon jungle filled with mutants.

[@stornkolson]

Surprised you didn't mention that Toad was played by rockabilly guy Mojo Nixon. Also, his band was called the toadliquors

[@EddieC2000]

I can tell you my experience with this movie. Born in 1981 so I grew up with Nintendo. I was 11 at the time it was released. Never was I so pumped to see a movie. My Mom took me to it she fell asleep she said it was so boring. I walked out of the movie scratching my head in confusion. I was on the verge of entering middle school and all of my friends watched it in the theater too. Jurassic Park came out not long after and everyone quickly forgot about this movie. As big a fanatic as me and my friends were about the video game the movie was so bad no one ever spoke of it again....and I mean ever.

[@Adoniis101]

I’m not gonna lie, I always loved the dancing goombas scene 😂😂

[@jimtanner1689]

I saw this in the theater as a kid. Trust me it wasn't just adults wondering what the hell they were watching

[@danielramsey6141]

I know! At the same time I was kinda mesmerized at what I was seeing at the time too :)

[@captaintoyota3171]

I remember VHS coming out and yeah being so confused. But still kinda had atheistic of the time

[@talesofgore9424]

@@captaintoyota3171 Showtime and The Movie Channel would run these bad video game movies during daytime

[@jeffumbach]

And we were running late and missed the first several minutes so I didn't even know about the animated intro and the egg scene.

[@Necrowolf81]

same

[@MonsterKidCory]

As a kid... really, a young teenager... I found this oddly compelling as Baby's First Cyberpunk Movie. I mean, no, it wasn't the real Super Mario Bros. That was, and always will be, the Super Mario Bros. Super Show with Captain Lou Albano. But this was strange enough to be interesting in its own way. And a killer cover of "Walk the Dinosaur" on the soundtrack too.

[@jailcatjones3250]

Been waiting a minute for this review, it's my guiltiest pleasure. The chemistry between hoskins and liguizamo is perfect, it made me feel like they were actually brother's when in reality they are from 2 different worlds.

[@bigg7505]

Look, I loved this movie because John Leguizamo and Bob Hoskins are some of my favorite actors! RIP Bob Hoskins... moment of silence for the loss of such an amazing actor.

[@joanahkirk338]

12:48 my guess is the old lady is supposed to be Kamek or Magic Koopa. Yep, Bowser's Girlfriend is just some random character, but I judging by how she's dressed and holding some sort of weapon in her hands, sure. Kamek

[@redbranchknight1059]

Always felt this movie shared a world with the tank girl movie

[@Valenquill]

That makes a lot of sense. It would also have been an interesting crossover.

[@meco1641]

I randomly watched both of these movies recently - hard agree!

[@ElvenRaptor]

The crossover we were so cruelly denied.

[@frenstcht]

As a testicular cancer survivor, I approve of that joke.

[@marlonclark1896]

@MrWesdotcom good for him unlike my sister who lost her Battle with cancer

[@GUNUFofficial]

It's a fun movie especially with deleted scenes added, it's definitely not mortal kombat annihilation bad, it has charm. Also there's a sequel comic made by one of the writers that hasn't been worked on since 2015 so yeah.

[@lolajaramillo4620]

I need to find this comic, as I did not know it existed, and have hoped for and wondered what a sequel for this movie would be..

[@GUNUFofficial]

@@lolajaramillo4620 it's not finished tho. I'll find a link.

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

Also, I have a theory that the movie's premise of the Earth being split into two alternate worlds, one in which dinosaurs are still the dominant species, was the inspiration for Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

I'll actually watch Annihilation again before I'd ever watch this again.

[@carsoncarolina2358]

This is the Mario movie from an alternate dimension where SEGA and Nintendo swapped personalities

[@bigbaddawg101]

I would just like to point out that Koopa transformed Mario's greatest enemy into an APE, effectively making Scapelli into Donkey Kong.

[@johnnygyro2295]

That might explain why the movie treated Scaplelli as a secondary antagonist. Him turning into Donkey Kong could've been a sequel hook...

[@johntheechidna1]

Given how vicious chimps can get...

[@triggeredcat120]

That’s a pretty good point.

[@jeremygreen2883]

Looks more like Diddy Kong to me. Haha

[@bigbaddawg101]

@@jeremygreen2883 Diddy is a monkey, this was a chimpanzee, which is an ape.

[@RandomBros88]

If somebody decided to animate that entire movie with the same style as the thumbnail of this video, I would pay you thousands. I know this movie is bad but it's still a guilty pleasure of mine, but I would love to see it animated!

[@GNAWalker1992]

It’s Brandon’s First Disney Cult Movie Review. Congratulations on reviewing the Super Mario Bros movie. It’s so rad.

[@johntheechidna1]

In spite of the fact that it could have just as easily been a dystopian-parallel-dimension-with-lizard-people film without having "Super Mario Bros" slapped on it. Seriously, the games are about a brotherly duo of plumbers going through a colorful and whimsical world to rescue a princess from an evil turtle-dragon-wizard and his armies of turtles and fang-mouthed mushroom monsters...HOW HARD IS THAT TO FUCK UP?! Oh, right...this film did.

[@kultur-vultur]

The Kings in Mario 3 were always transformed into something and the wands you get change them back. So having the Mushroom King turned into a shroom in the movie holds water as a reference to the games the throne chair even was a nice touch. While it wasn't the Mario movie I wanted as a kid it was fun and entertaining I enjoyed it, I even had a Hoskins Mario action figure.

[@lolajaramillo4620]

Aw, I would have loved action figures from this movie.😮

[@dansmith1661]

@@lolajaramillo4620 They did make some. The commercials made the goombas look horrifying.

[@lolajaramillo4620]

@@dansmith1661 Cool.😎 Came back to say that I was in middle school when this movie came out, and watched TV quite a bit. How did I miss the toy commercials?!

[@brookswilliams5239]

Aww man you just unlocked a childhood memory for me I had those action figures too the Mario Bros came with some makeshift gun that shot a plunger out 😅

[@soknightsam]

Rented this movie a million times in the 90's. Also smoked a bunch of cigarettes dipped in nyquil back then. That may or may night explain my love of this movie

[@johnrhines6626]

22:13 Super Night at the Roxbury Bros.!

[@wendellcrouse1242]

I loved this movie as a kid. I love this movie as a 45 year old. Definitely a cult classic.

[@JoeyJ0J0]

I used to love this movie as a kid. Looking at it now, it's a creative idea with neat visuals . A cyberpunk Mario movie

[@guilhermehank4938]

I like it the same way I like the first Judge Dredd movie. They are so separate from the source material that I cant help but love them as peak products of their time.

[@johnlawful2272]

Should be a game first maybe a robot villain

[@fivenineone6085]

I liked it as a kid and in recent year got to show it to a friend. It's such a wild thing but I still do love it. It's just fun! Honestly a fun but inaccurate adaptation is so much better in my book than an accurate but boring one. The production troubles this one had definitely very intensly unfortunate. So glad you covered this one!

[@Neyebureturns]

After years, this review made me finally realize why Koopa's world is called Dinohattan. Because in the human world we called the city MAN-HATTAN

[@ramgladore]

Bob Hoskins was a perfect Mario. The cherry on top of the poop Sunday. Leguizamo was the poop. He didn't even have a mustache! Dennis Hopper is also a great actor and I see he did his best. I can't be upset at a good actor when the blame clearly belonged with the directors.

[@nullterm]

Funniest video on the planet is the one where Bob Hoskins explains how he found out from his kids Super Mario was a game, after he signed on. "I used to play King Lear."

[@willmistretta]

Honestly, I love this flick. It's a look back at the Wild West age of video game adaptations. Nowadays, we'd never get anything this twisted and "off model." These billion dollar IPs are effectively on creative lockdown and doomed to be eternally safe and unobjectionable going forward.

[@lolajaramillo4620]

Yeah.😒 So glad I'm a kid haven grown up from the 80's.

[@alf4fo]

Spot on analysis I was expecting more from the new Mario movie but all I got was one big 90 minute commercial, it made me appreciate this movie more for it's creativeness and wackiness.

[@mesarthim640]

You forgot to say that Lena (Koopa's wife or something) is Aunt Petunia Durseley from Harry Potter ! And it's incredible to see that years after Mario she was still playing the exact same way !!

[@billymountiii5788]

I really love this movie. I still enjoy it to this day

[@jamesbounds]

This movie is a guilty pleasure of mine.

[@t1mb0t]

"Sonic Plumbing - We flush what NINTEN-DON'T!" - Gold!

[@Maioly]

I have very fond memories of this movie because when it aired on tv for the first time (at the least that child me knew of), I had just moved to a new city, grandfather was visiting us and I was going to be at school while it aired; So I BEGGED him to record it and he did, along with every commercial break and a bit of the show after (except the 'animated' intro) And it had always been such a nostalgic experience to sit down and watch that tape, the commercials, everything... I wish I still had the tape, specially now that my grandfather is gone...

[@kilotun8316]

I was eight and this was awesome to my silly young mind. It was definitely a product of its time.

[@jonathankozenko]

I actually really enjoy this movie whenever I rewatch it, although almost entirely because it has an upbeat energy and much of the movie is really out-there. I can't really call it a good movie and I can't remotely call it a good adaptation, but I do find it fun to revisit once every few years. Objectively, the movie had great CGI for 1993, decent action sequences, great production design and the musical score by Alan Silvestri (who also did Predator, Who Frame Roger Rabbit & all 4 Avengers movies) is genuinely excellent.

[@lordkaijux5262]

21:52 Speaking of Nine Inch Nails, some of the fortresses in Super Mario World have mid-bosses where you fight those rhinoceros/triceratops-like enemies are named after Trent Reznor.

[@that1individual273]

Do you know what song he uses in that clip? I can’t find it but it sounds like a banger.

[@lamensa5]

​@@that1individual273happiness in slavery (remix) by Nine Inch Nails

[@that1individual273]

@@lamensa5 Thanks dawg. Luckily I was able to find it a few weeks back. But thank you for responding regardless. 🤝

[@v1de0gamr23]

If Hollywood found a way to make a movie based on Battleship, I think they can contrive a movie based on Tetris 👍

[@bezoticallyyours83]

🤫

[@bobgunter9608]

Now I’m picturing in some other world what a sword and sorcery Zelda movie would’ve looked like at that time

[@MrBlueSkyof1607]

There is one. It's called "Legend" (1985).

[@johntheechidna1]

@@MrBlueSkyof1607 Just bring some pillows. Ridley Scott's pacing in the film will put you to sleep.

[@MisterBrimm]

I have a soft spot for this movie, but then again I'm a weirdo that appreciates bad or awkward movies. Bob Hoskins made anything watchable. RIP LEGEND.

[@guilhermehank4938]

It can fall into the "so bad its good" category

[@tannerprice2018]

Fun fact, before hiring Rocky and Annabelle, the team at Nintendo almost hired Harold Ramis to direct the film. He was even a Mario fan, but they couldn’t go through with hiring him, so they hired Rocky and Annabelle out of desperation.

[@lolajaramillo4620]

Sigh.😒 Not really a fun fact, but one that pulls me different ways. I love this movie for everything that it is, despite all the chaos with the filming for everyone, but I would have loved to see what Ramis would have with it.

[@johntheechidna1]

Hiring someone who actually played the games would have been better than those two idiots. How can you screw up so simple a formula so badly?! The 2023 film is closer to the source materiel than this film was!

[@guilhermehank4938]

I can imagine Ramis would at least make something far more enjoyable, especially since he probably would have at least played some of the games by then.

[@MrBlueSkyof1607]

Ramis later admitted that turning down the project was the smartest decision he ever made within the entertainment industry.

[@johntheechidna1]

@@MrBlueSkyof1607 Still, since he actually PLAYED the Mario games, I think he would have been a better candidate to work on a Mario film, God rest his soul.

[@glarryg2318]

I have this movie on DVD and showed it to my kids last year. They were, to say the least, flabbergasted. But we did discuss the good and bad points and agree that, if it had been made as its own, non-Mario-related story, it probably could have worked better. Now do the FIRST first Mario Bros. movie, the made-for-TV Japanese cartoon, "The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach!" It has a wizard and talking Goombas and a weird caterpillar-dog for some reason!

[@MsLucyLu21]

26:52 who's gonna tell him yoshi was a animatronic

[@christianrivera1326]

I was waiting the day you finally did this movie!

[@Deckaio]

Something funny: The actor playing Toad, Mojo Nixon, used his Goomba-form as his headshot on IMDB :D

[@lolajaramillo4620]

😄 Cool.

[@BrandonCroker]

When all else fails, trust the almighty fungus.

[@HydraSpectre1138]

The dinosaur prologue was not supposed to have dialogue or narration. It was also going to be stock claymation footage from The Lost World (1925) instead of CD-i-style 2D animation.

[@marshallhuffer4713]

Love how you used put the Mario Kart theme in the car chase. It works so well.

[@zonesproductions]

When I was young I had this new CD player with radio. I was playing around with tuning into some stations when I hear the familiar scene of luigi talking about the magic mushrooms. I managed to somehow tune into Sky Movies while it was playing the film. No idea how. But i listened to the whole film as a radio play.

[@wstine79]

I actually visited the warehouse in Wilmington where the film took place. Even saw a Goomba suit. I still like this film for how crazy it is.

[@lolajaramillo4620]

Aw, lucky.

[@raptorskilltor4554]

God,I wish they could try to make another movie with the first draft of the Mario movie

[@lutherheggs451]

OR they could have just made a Sci-Fi Cyberpunk movie that had nothing to do with a children's video game that in 1993 really had no story beyond bad lizard man takes princess...The reservoir tip on a condom is deeper than "Mario lore. Not sure what the director's didn't grasp about they were making a movie for children and not a movie for adults.

[@dr.decker3623]

@@lutherheggs451 The first draft was much more Mario, much less cyberpunk, the rewrites twisted it into what we have.

[@dr.decker3623]

@@lutherheggs451 In Super Mario Bros 3 you have to save the Kings of the land that were morphed into different animals before going to the fire worlds to fight King (Bowser) Koopa,.. so the first draft was REALLLY close to Mario 3 and a dash of 2.

[@saidi7975]

Yeah, I read an early draft (not sure if it was the first...) and it does gel better with the Mario most are familiar with.

[@lunatic0verlord10]

7:48 Then it should've been Iggy and Lemmy. These two usually work in pairs.

[@squiresphone]

@Brendon Tenold you are the best and all the video game references make this review top shelf. 👏