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Anonymous10/19/25, 03:17No.723606878
It really wasn't that bad.
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Anon10/19/25, 03:19No.723606991
it was good
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Anon10/19/25, 03:19No.723607027
I remember seeing this on the shelf at my local video store. Begged my parents to rent it for me. Watched it as soon as I got home super pumped, immediately lost interest when I didn't see the fun video game characters.
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Anon10/19/25, 03:25No.723607378
It's a movie that fixes the ye old video game problem of "why watch this when you could be playing it?" which automatically makes it good. The crazy creative shit poured into it easily elevates it to fucking fantastic.
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Anon10/19/25, 03:26No.723607434
it wasn't even bad!
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Anon10/19/25, 03:42No.723608261
The trope of main characters donning their iconic costumes late in a movie adaption is fun.I realize Nintendo/Illumination would never do it with their movie solely because it work hurt marketability.
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Anon10/19/25, 03:45No.723608386
Didn't have video games till I could buy my own. Saw this movie and wanted to play Super Mario Bros.
Played the game and learned platforming games are not for me.
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Anon10/19/25, 03:46No.723608435
Better than the gay Minions reskin.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:09No.723609585
I was 12 when I saw this at the cinema all the way back in 1993. As as 12 year old, I really hated this movie, and it was the first movie that I ever felt 'ripped off' (at the time) seeing, Like I wanted my money back. I must have had really high standards when I was 12. Because I thought the movie looked cheap, I thought it was boring. The cast was OK. In retrospect, I don't hate it as much as I did. I think the Uwe Boll movies made re re-evaluate the Super Mario Bros. movie in the: "well, it could have been worse" category.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:14No.723609804
That one scene of Dennis Hopper pointing and saying monkey has more soul than the whole modern Mario movie.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:15No.723609857
I liked it as a kid even though it wasn't like the games. As an adult I appreciate it different for its 90s campiness. Literally everything Dennis Hopper touched turned to gold just because of his presence.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:16No.723609931
It was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I loved the jump boots and goombas
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Anon10/19/25, 04:18No.723610017
>Go to see this in theaters
>So fucking excited
>Learn for the first time that movies could actually be bad
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Anon10/19/25, 04:20No.723610089
It would have worked better if it wasn't a Mario Bros movie
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Anon10/19/25, 04:24No.723610281
As a kid expecting Mario its awful, as an adult wanting 90s Nostalgia its kino as fuck.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:36No.723610786
(OP)
>>Go to see this in theaters
>>So fucking excited
>>Learn for the first time that movies could actually be badFor me it was:
> See it in the theatre opening night
> Theater had like a total of 10 people max in it
> Some of the other kids there were throwing popcorn and gummy candy at each other.
> Someone walks out
> Leave the theatre kind of underwhelmed
> Boom boom, aka-laka-laka-boom, boom boom, aka-laka-laka-boom boom, open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the Dinosaur.The movie itself was a really big box office bomb. Yes, it did open a week or two before Jurassic Park.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:39No.723610905
Japan made a manga adaptation
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Anon10/19/25, 04:40No.723610976
I liked the fireball guns a lot and the clothes were pretty baller. A fun kid's movie.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:42No.723611028
Not a great adaptation of the source material. I would hesitate it to call ot out and out good, but it's entertaining and enjoyable with interesting ideas.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:43No.723611098
>This Ain't No Game.
So it is a game?
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Anon10/19/25, 04:44No.723611143
But not as mario movie
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Anon10/19/25, 04:45No.723611179
They should have committed to the original ending which had Miyamoto interview the brothers and decide to make a game out of their story.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:48No.723611283
I know I wouldn't have liked Jodorowsky's Dune, as an adaptation of the book, but I would have enjoyed many aspects of it, mostly the art direction.
This movie, I enjoy in the same way. As a Mario movie, it blows geriatric dick. As a movie by itself? It was at the very least entertaining, and some of its design choices were very interesting as well.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:50No.723611354
I only saw it on VHS originally, was kind of sad to find out how much shit gets thrown its way as I got older.
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Anon10/19/25, 04:52No.723611453
Same creature designer as Godzilla 1998 and the Snyderverse.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:02No.723611850
No, it really was. When was the last time you watched it? We had a bad movie night a little while back. We watched it. It wasn't funny bad, it was just boring bad.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:02No.723611856
It probably would've done better if it didn't have the title Mario Bros but also probably nobody would've seen it if it didn't. It's not a very good movie either way.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:13No.723612418
it was ambitiously divergent and creative, which i can respect but also acknowledge was not at all suitable for what should have been its target audience, and the show runners did not have the skill or budget to pull any of it off.nintendo also completely dropped the ball for not exercising more creative and quality control, basically letting a bunch of no-names do whatever they wanted with their premiere IP.for what they were trying to do, they were looking for someone like tim burton to direct. really the only good to come out of the movie was that it got leguizamo his big break.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:15No.723612467
Butt breath
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Anon10/19/25, 05:43No.723613698
the fan "director's cut" is pretty good
https://archive.org/details/super-mario-bros-1993-the-morton-jankel-cut-extended-vhs_202207
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Anon10/19/25, 05:47No.723613916
I still remember thinking Mojo Nixon was such a huge get as a kid, wonder how they managed that
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Anon10/19/25, 05:50No.723614049
I recommend the Gaming Historian episode on it. It was a trainwreck of a production and the directors were husband and wife, but I agree that it's a strangely good movie.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve26GpPDTgY
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Anon10/19/25, 06:08No.723614854
I watched it all the time as a kid. I had zero fucking clue it was meant to be based on Mario. I thought it was like a convenience thing they were called Mario and Luigi.
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Anon10/19/25, 06:56No.723617012
Looking back, I actually liked how it didn't copy the games 1:1 and tried to put its own spin on things - whether it succeeded with that is another thing.
The Illumination movie meanwhile might've been way more accurate but a lot of the time it felt like you were just watching someone else playing a video game, making you wonder "...why am I not playing the actual thing instead?".
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Anon10/19/25, 06:58No.723617132
I DEMAND MORE TOYS
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Anon10/19/25, 07:00No.723617197
Yes it was.
fuck you.
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Anon10/19/25, 07:04No.723617379
Yes it was. The entire movie is having an identity crisis. It can't decide if it wants to be action or comedy so it does both badly. We barely see Dinohattan, Koopa is a shit villain with a garbage finale, Luigi can't act for shit, Daisy is a non-character. There are only five things you'll remember from this shit.
>the elevator dance
>Mario Mario, Luigi Mario
>the fat black bitch
>MONKEY
>the bob-omb
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Anon10/19/25, 07:11No.723617707
didn't mario's actor absolutely hate being in this movie lmao
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Anon10/19/25, 07:12No.723617735
>dumped the Mario Brothers into Dinosaur Judge Dredd
kino
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Anon10/19/25, 07:19No.723618012
I'm with the other anons that I was so disappointed as a kid when I saw it. The takes on the characters were so laughably different. As I got older, I grew to appreciate it as a quirky cyberpunk movie with a unique world, but even then, not enough is done with Dinohatten to really justify the outlandishness.
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Anon10/19/25, 07:23No.723618135
>The original script/treatment for the Super Mario Bros film was written by Barry Morrow, of ‘Rain Man’ fame. His initial draft was somewhat derivative of the prior film and was referred to as ‘Drain Man’ by production.
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Anon10/19/25, 07:24No.723618189
So why did the new animated movie re-use the entire plot from the live-action film? I'm glad it did though because it helped bring the entire thing full circle... was that the reason?
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Anon10/19/25, 07:56No.723619448
This movie predicted 9/11.
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Anon10/19/25, 08:03No.723619738
>excited to see the movie
>mfw it starts with that flash tier dinosaur cartoon
>mfw Luigi doesn't have a mustache
>mfw the main girl is called Daisy
>mfw Bowser is an old guy in a suit and all he does is ask where his pizza is (this isn't funny)
>mfw they barely do any acrobat stunts until they get the rocket boots
>mfw Yoshi doesn't join and was just a throwaway puppet
>mfw Luigi keeps vomiting believe in yourself nonsense throughout the movie
>mfw Bowser turns into Bowser for a 5 second effect and blows up in a bucket
>mfw finding out one of the two retards in the movie that did nothing was called Iggy
>mfw the movie ends with a sequel hook (what the fuck would it even be about)
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Anon10/19/25, 08:05No.723619856
I loved the games, and I loved the movie - the dinosaur city was interesting enough to help me look past the questionable adaption of the property.
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Anon10/19/25, 08:46No.723621321
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Anon10/19/25, 08:47No.723621363
I saw it in theaters :) good times
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Anon10/19/25, 09:13No.723622265
It's a fun movie, it's just a shit Mario movie.
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Anon10/19/25, 09:23No.723622619
Nah, it's charmless cynical garbage clearly written by a checklist, from a time when everyone was scrambling to have their own merchandisable and "toyetic" Batman-like hit.
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Anon10/19/25, 09:26No.723622726
compared to shit today, this is gold.
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Anon10/19/25, 09:55No.723623828
>In 1990, Dustin Hoffman attempted to purchase the rights to produce a film with himself as Mario, Danny DeVito as Luigi, and Barry Levinson directing.
This has to be made up.
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Anon10/19/25, 09:58No.723623924
It's just an example of taking artistic liberty in adaptation of video game.
But anyone has right to disagree with interpretation.