Nostalgia Critic Real Thoughts On: Super Mario Bros Movie 

Why does this not surprise me? Oh, Miyamoto...

***** He apparently was thinking it would slide over, just in case. XDDD... Another fun fact: Bill White *head of marketing at this time and was having a devil of a time with the movie along with their policies*, left Nintendo partially because of this movie. He then joined Sega and fought against Nintendo in the Lieberman hearings about violence in video games. He was also the one who slapped Nintendo down in an unforgettable moment during said hearings when he pulled out the Super Scope, said it was built by Sega (an error on his part, he meant Nintendo.) And described exactly how you play with it with rapid fire towards targets and it wasn't rated. He in one sentence stopped the hearings, turned the Senators who were huge fans of Nintendo, and saved video games partly because this movie was made.

***** No, from what it sounded like it was the actual movie right before release. Maybe he liked it when he was younger, I don't know. But that's what I read. It could be also he realized it was a train wreck and no matter what happened it would fade into obscurity. Which it did... Partially... But still was so famous it made a black mark on Nintendo's record.

with a grin on his face but deep down the actors were frowning (Particularly Hoskins and Liguizamo ) they both find this movie a nightmare

So he says that Super Mario Bros is a good movie, yet he's against making Paper Mario have a good story?

Wise man.

+Swedish X I honestly think that it was already dead on arrival as soon as you put Mario in live-action. I feel like with a whimsical and magical world such as the mushroom kingdom, it could look beautiful in animation.

+Swedish X daw how....err kind of him XD

+Swedish X Sure, Jan.

Or he knew about the original adult script before it was changed.

R.I.P Dennis Hopper

At least Doug did play Luigi with the Cinema Snob

which episode was that?!

Patrick Grealis Thanks! that was fast!

+sabreofasinner When did that happen?

Schwarzenegger and DeVito would've been better cast.

PowerGlove79 Weird.

PowerGlove79 illu,imate confirmed ?

PowerGlove79 Holy shit

PowerGlove79 that's precisely one week after I was born... huh.

Randy Williams NINTENDO POWER!

fanny de Vito was going to play mario

Danny de vito

Danny De Vito should be Toad.

LOL "Fanny de Vito" XD

As far as casting Mario, Tom Hanks was initially hired for the role, but was fired and replaced with Hoskins, whom the executives thought was more profitable. (contrary to popular rumor, Danny Devito was never a choice for the role of Mario)

Yeah, that was the one big gripe I had with his reviews. He was right about everything else, though.

cjermevpg *D E E P E S T L O R E*

They did that recently.

He wears deodorant so you don't have to.

Same here, I appriciate the cheesy but still _really_ like it. (I watched this movie for the first time summer 2014)

How in the hell were there laser disc back in 2004? Even in the 90s that was a barely supported format. :0

My dad bought weird shit on ebay. Possibly a pirated version of the movie.

+SegaChris5 VCD (Video CD) still exists and has new movies released on it even though it's a 23+ year old format that even worse than VHS quality wise, lol.

cesarjimenezanimator It's an honest guilty pleasure, dude. But, at least they didn't bother making a sequel to this movie.

cesarjimenezanimator At least they say it's nevertheless boring at a point. That's the main sin to me, anyway.

Xaviergray87 They probably couldn't afford to make it.

Shenron And I don't think they ever will. Oh well, let's just prey and hope that there's going to be an animated series reboot.

+cesarjimenezanimator To be fair, the Walker Brothers have watched movies that are worse than Super Mario Bros.

absurdious I kind of agree and disagree. Cage can certainly bring the crazy, but Luigi turned out to be more of a put-upon everyman to Mario's 'cheerful hero on amphetamines'. I do wonder if good ole Nic could have saved it?

well, I just thought if you gotta be fucked up and crazy, just give me the whole crazy stuff... go completely crazy and out of control, do you know what I mean? ;-)

Yeah, I get the idea. If the movie's going to be batshit, why not just push out the crazy boat the whole way?

I might never recover from this mental image. Thank you, Wootee.

ahahahahahah

FireofGia Agreed on the score. Alan Silvestri is a great composer!

Yeah, there are actually a lot of nods to the game when you think about it.

PikaLink91 Liking your comment just for the Kingdom Hearts image

Matthew Olson Thanks^_^

FireofGia Thought the car chase scene was pretty cool too.

Eric Garcia He specifically says they aren't really brothers

Jason Ibrahim No he didn't. He said that Mario is "Like his father".

Jason Ibrahim good god. They are brothers. Even as a kid, I understood that. Luigi: See, Mario raised me up. He’s been my mother my whole life! Mario: Hey! Luigi: Well, my father, my mother, my brother, everybody. Mario: Yeah, what would you do without your big bro, eh? Luigi: Like to take a chance and find out! Mario: I’d high-five ya, but then you’d be an only child!

Fenrir Blaze yeah even i remember that from the movie

He was actually the producer, but I do kinda blame him for the way the movie turned out because he really should've had the directors make a family friendly, somewhat, game accurate movie (Mario doesn't translate well into live action faithfully) instead of doing their own thing. Yes a director should have final say in what goes into the project, but it should be common knowledge when you let artists loose on an IP with a huge fanbase that's made to make money, and change their vision after pre production is done to suit studio mandates, you're bound for failure.

...Which itself is an odd connection, considering how many times the Super Mario Bros. Movie indirectly references Devo (i.e. the Devo Chamber and the Devo Gun).

Enter Christopher Pratt

Which film are you referring to exactly?

That distribution deal also got rid of the adult satirical tone the movie was gonna have.

+James Dale Bozeman wow, I have no idea why they would have kept their names off of it !! :O

it was the Fan4stic of the 90's

+mfsto I love the first Pokemon movie. Heck everyone I have ever met loves that movie.

How do you think you would have felt if it turned out the way it was supposed to, as an adult satire?

I would think, that it was/is a horribly executed adult satire... and would watch something of quality instead.

RTG2000 You haven't seen that version, nobody has.

And I do not believe that that was their initial intention, thats sounds more like one of the makers of the picture in hindsight tried to came up with an excuse for their failure.

RTG2000 John even said it himself.

+CrystalMoonStar Maybe he got it custom made

Those are movies, not characters.

Zachary Lancaster I meant the charaters. I was just using the films as a point of reference mostly.

+SpawnRevenge92 Heh heh heh....

ECL28E Ah! I had completely forgotten about this comment! And I really liked their review of Spawn :)

Arnold Schwarzenegger almost played Bowser!

Thank god they have integrity....

WTFN

What?

So... Like that recent reimagining, where Link is a cop trying to take down Ganon's crime syndicate?

I saw it the first day too right after school. I was 14. Haven’t seen it since. But I did buy the dvd.

John leguizamo did play Sid.