The 90s Super Mario Bros. Movie is Better Than You Remember
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2023
- Super Mario Fever may feel like a distant memory now that the country's wild with Barbenheimer fervor, but its impact will be felt for decades to come. With over 1.5 billion dollars grossed worldwide, it's bound to create a new franchise that will shift the conversation on video game movies, placing them into the same safe IP realm as comic books and other beloved properties that are constantly exploited for content in this not-quite-golden-age of Hollywood.
But all of this has happened before. And somewhat less successfully.
1993's Super Mario Bros., directed by Max Headroom creators Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, and starring John Leguizamo, Bob Hoskins, and Dennis Hopper, was an instant flop upon release, and destroyed the careers of its writers and directors. It was hated then, and forgotten now - all-but denied by Nintendo and willfully ignored by anyone who could still remember seeing it all those years ago.
But now, 30 years later, and with the new Super Mario Brothers Movie in the rear-view mirror, let's take a look at why this mythical "bad" movie is actually Better Than You Remember.
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Yes! I've been making this exact comparison between these two films for a year now. Finally, someone understands. What it comes down to is that Super Mario Bros. (2023) is an 80min commercial for a video game and Super Mario Bros. (1993) is an actual movie.
I watched this with my friends during Bad Movie Night. We were saying "trust the fungus" and "glug glug glug" the whole night. John Leguizamo and Bob Hoskins' chemistry was amazing and the effects, sets, and costumes were great! As soon as Fisher Stevens came on screen, I squealed in joy. I love him!
I grew up on this movie. Definitely love it.
It aimed for the moon and missed. One must respect it on the strength of its ambition....and that bringing a video game concept to life was uncharted territory. Had it stuck to the premise of "this is the real story behind the game," audiences would have gone "Oh, I get it!"
Honestly, I think a similarly good reference point for this is the Robert Altman Popeye musical movie. It was a film made for genuinely capitalistic reasons due to Paramount not netting the Annie rights, with a director who was not skilled in this area, a musician who's often ponderous songs doesn't work for the source material, and nearly killed the career of its star, Robin Williams due to a similarly turbulent production mixed with a ton of drugs on an island far, far away from any union reps. But it also leaves an impact on you, regardless of the reviews, solely due to.... just everything. They tried to make a live action Fleischer cartoon with the best cast possible, and it weirdly succeeds in that regard in spite of everything else.
I love 90s Mario
I don't care what anyone says, this is a great movie! It's fun and weird. I loved it as a kid in the 90s and I still love it now.
Me too
total gem!
I like Super Mario Bros.
Trust the Fungus
The problem is that the original movie caters to a non-existent audience. Too dark and dilatory for kids, while too disjointed and inane for adults. I'd still watch it again over the new movie, but would rather read a book on Mario over either.
Great review, but just wanna clarify that Yoshi is supposed to be a baby T-Rex in the movie, not a Velociraptor. Why would a fascist dictator business man evolved from a T-Rex not have a T-Rex as a royal family pet?