Super Mario Bros. (1993)

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

The first must-see film of the year.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

This movie is dumb. REALLY dumb. We're talking levels of dumb that shouldn't even exist. But yet, here we are.The people in this movie can not act. The editors can not edit. The writers can not write. And all of this failure cancels itself out, and makes something beautiful. This film.This movie had me smiling and laughing the whole way through. Almost NOTHING in this movie comes from the source material, the Super Mario Bros games. And I think that's another factor in why this movie is so great. As a huge Mario fan, there are even MORE faults to laugh at. Mario is like 20 years older then Luigi, Yoshi is just a little velociraptor, King Koopa is just a scary guy with a lizard tongue, the goombas are huge people with tiny lizard heads, there are like 4 characters that have no connection to the games whatsoever, it's just all so wrong, and yet, so perfect.And the real mystery to me is: Did the people who made the film know that?I guess we'll never know. But no matter, this movie is great. Watch it with your friends, watch it with your grandma, watch it with your dog, it's just the best.

Ignore the haters, forget the game, it's a great film. End of.

Obviously, this movie was played like it was supposed to be cringy. A funny cringy one though. And it was. But this still was just cringy. I had absolutely no idea of what was going on. And the wacky worldbuilding they made was just, what? At least the lead actor didn't take it seriously. But there's no real reason to even like it either.

I'm pretty sure the studio was trippin' when they greenlit "Super Mario Bros." Maybe the filmmakers just wanted us to see what Mario did whenever he ate a mushroom. I'm grasping at straws here, but how else can one explain such a disconnect from the video game? The game wasn't really that complicated; you're a plumber, you jump a lot and you run in one direction to save the princess. To be fair, there's nothing about the game that screams "Hollywood movie!", but this certainly isn't how you go about it.Bear in mind, I don't think the movie deserves its bad reputation; but don't go into this without recreational drugs. There's some wild stuff going on here, but if you walk in sober, it's not a whole lot of fun. More attention was paid to he convoluted lore and "Blade Runner" sets (in a Mario movie!) than telling an engaging story. Let me put it this way: Bob Hoskins is one of my favorite actors - I mean, the guy can do no wrong - but his talents are wasted on this.5/10