John Leguizamo and Bob Hoskins hated the film so much that they purposely got drunk before filming each scene in the hopes of not remembering it. Hence the hairball voice.
Bob Hoskins was interviewed by the Guardian in 2007, and goes "The worst thing I ever did? ‘Super Mario Bros.’ It was a fuckin’ nightmare,” Hoskins said. “It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! Fuckin’ nightmare. Fuckin’ idiots.”
Can't say I blame him. The studio behind the film wanted a family-friendly version of Mario as opposed to the original source material of the Super Mario Nintendo games, yet the married directors wanted the film to be more adult, which is a clear result how this film turned out.
Even Dennis Hopper who played King Kooper hated working on the film and presumably only took part in it so he would buy a pair of shoes for his son for the payday.
@@TheDudeSWGAnnabel Jankel and Rocky Morton: Sorry to disappoint, but we just couldn't stand those dreaded Super Mario games, so we decided to even the odds by giving the world the Mario movie they deserve! (kiss)
Critic: What is Mario's last name? Mario: Mario!!! Critic: Yeah, now what is your last name? Mario: Mario!!! Critic: No, no what is your last name? Mario: Mario!!! Critic: Now ok, what is your first name? Mario: Mario!!! Critic: Great, now what is your last name? Mario: Mario!!! Critic: Fuck you, *looks to Luigi* what is your first name? Luigi: Luigi!!! Critic: And what is your last name? Mario: Mario!!! Critic: Shut up!!! what is your last name? Luigi: Luigi Mario!!! Critic: Those are both first names, what is your last name? Mario: Mario!!! Critic: Shut it!!! what is your full name? Luigi: Luigi Mario!!! Critic: Those are both fir......ok what is your first name? Luigi: Luigi!!! Critic: And what is your last name? Mario: Mario!!! Critic: Shut the ferck!!!.....what is your full name? Luigi: Luigi Mario!!! Critic: What is this? An Abbot and Costello routine? Luigi: Mario Mario and Luigi Mario!!! Critic: Are you fucking kidding me?
+Icarus975 It's weird, the commentary is on the right and the movie audio is way too loud on the left. And I'm pretty sure that I have already seen a working version of this by Doug.
They weren't father and son... Luigi said he raised him "like a father" after their parents died... And I actually liked this movie, although in fairness I saw it as an adult and could just appreciate the ridiculousness of it. Ah well.
@@alimahad8246 It can be hard to find stuff funny if it's so obviously wrong. It's cherry-picking is what it is. Luigi said his brother raised him and is the closest thing to a father he has, Critic somehow interpreted that as Mario and Luigi are father and son instead of brothers. It wouldn't bother me so much if he would just stop bringing it up.
@@DJ_Mystic Mario also tells Luigi in one scene that he would hug him but then he'd be an only child and in a deleted scene Mario mentions that their father made Mario promise to look after Luigi.
Plenty of people actually thought what Doug thought. I don't get why, but I guess the concept of Mario and Luigi having a huge age gap is something not a lot of people consider
I have to say I also thought the same thing as Doug. But let’s just all agree that this information was very poorly communicated in this movie, and it’s shit.
@@tedhuggins764 I’ve noticed a trend with Doug’s reviews of bad films, where he doesn’t realise something that was somewhat obvious but the movie was bad to begin with so I don’t really bother to defend it.
You know what's weird? The casting for Mario, Luigi, and Daisy are actually pretty decent. The actors of the three of them give the best performances in the film. I have no problem believing that Bob Hoskins is Mario and that John Leguizamo is Luigi. They do the New Yorker-Italien accents pretty convincingly and they put enough emotion in their performances so that it feels genuine (even if half the time they were clearly drunk). I also like the concept of using Daisy instead of Peach, and having Luigi be the one who has a love interest. That was actually a good creative decision that would've been amazing if the movie was actually good. Also, Luigi and Daisy's chemistry isn't exactly the best but it isn't bad either. They do it convincingly enough to make me feel bad when Daisy gets captured. The only casting that really sucks is Dennis Hopper as King Bowser Koopa. I like Dennis Hopper and he's played good villains before but he just doesn't fit this role. He's giving a fun performance but it just isn't who Bowser is. And I can't even blame Hopper cause he's just doing what the script's giving him. From what the recent Mario games have given us with Bowser's character (specifically in the RPG games that have come out), Bowser is supposed to be not one of the smartest villains per say, but one who's pretty maniacal and very driven, with some anger issues. He's a monstrous and animalistic creature, where he isn't one of the most scary villainous figures but is intimidating enough to be seen as a threat. He's also a character where if there's a threat that's shown to be bigger then him or a threat that comes towards him, he'll accept taking on an anti-hero role to help for the greater good (Bowser's Inside story being a good example of this). In the RPG mario games he's actually very complex. This movie was made after the first three Mario games (where Bowser had no character like in the rpg games) and because of that we get a big misrepresentation of who he is. Bowser was never a businessman character who tried to hide his animalistic nature. He also never tried to hide that he was the ruler of a kingdom (the President Koopa title makes no sense) as Bowser was always known for having a charmingly large ego.
The hilarious thing is that their last names have been officially revealed as Mario Mario and Luigi Mario by Nintendo. That means.......those last names are canon.
While this movie is definitely terrible, I thought it was worth mentioning that he says Mario is LIKE a father to him. Like, their parents died and Mario had to take care of him or something. Also I'm surprised you didn't comment on what they did to Yoshi. Also, in their defense, the reason the acting is so terrible is because they were drunk half the time because that was the only way they could put up with the directors.
"Incest"? Off chance in hindsight you realize that there's times when a kid is raised by their older sibling, right? You know, when both parents have died?
@@1Up2081 Mario and Luigi from Mario Bros Dante and Vergil from Devil May Cry Sam and Dean from Supernatural Inuyasha and Sesshomaru from Inuyasha. I mean I got nothing against them being gay pairings, but the number fan fics and art that pairs characters who are brothers really disturbs me.
In cases like that the younger character still calls his brother a brother, unless he actually thinks he's his father. Or at the very least he specifies it and says something like "were brothers, but he's more like a father to me". In the case of this movie it was just a fuckup by the writer, who either forgot they were supposed to be brothers since there's such an age difference, or maybe didn't even know that (if the title of the movie was originally something else e.g. "Super Mario")
Daisy: "Guys, you are not gonna believe this." Luigi: "What?" Daisy: "I just have been to a strange place. There was a band called The Misfits with a fired executive, a teenage girl named Azula and some alien with a yellow ring called Sinestro." Mario: "Strange. I suddenly feel like this is a place where we have to go too." Luigi: "Well, let's go!"
@@pedrohenriquemoraessantos1164 Daisy telling the guys "You are not gonna believe this" was sequel-baiting. But the movie was so bad that the thought of a sequel is just laughable. The characters named are other sequel-baits from equally bad movies. At the end of the life-action "Jem and the Holograms" the Misfits were sequel-baiting. Azula was sequel bait from the life-action "The Last Airbender" and Sinestro was sequel-bait from Green Lantern. They are all waiting there at this strange place for their sequels to be made, which will never happen.
Actually Mr. Critic, it is confirmed by Mr. Myamoto who created the Mario brothers himself that Mario and Luigi's last names is indeed Mario. so the film got one thing right. so the brothers names are truly Mario Mario and Luigi Mario.
***** oh. then I don't know anymore cause that was the recent news I have ever heard Miyamoto say that their last names are indeed Mario. but guess he changed his mind again. that or he wanted to troll us. but that is what everyone was willing to accept.
4:05 The part where Doug is trying to get mario and luigi to say their last name was amazingly histerical. On a side note, Bob Hoskins would go on to voice Boris in Batlo while John Leguizamo would go on to voice Sid in the Ice Age movies
This was detailed more on Did you know Movies, but according to them, the directors were a couple who had NO INTEREST NOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE MARIO GAME! Plus, their scripts were changing so often, most cast members simply gave up memorizing their lines.
Apparently the reason this movie is so different from the game is because the creators had never played the games. The script was originally for a normal sci-fi movie and they changed it to include the game characters
No wonder it sucked so much. This movie was just another example of "Take a popular franchise, cobble together a bad movie that barely has anything to do with the source material and fool enough people into watching it," by greedy producers who knew this was an easy way to make money.
Actually the directors wanted to give the film a steampunk aesthetic and a darker tone,so they re-wrote the original script many,MANY times. Finally they were banned from watching the reshoots and expelled from post-production for fear that they would screw up the film even more in the edit.
I remember seeing this movie on TV as a kid years after it came out. I had no idea this was supposed to be a Mario Bros. Movie until Luigi (why he didn't have a mustache is beyond me) said Mario's name.
Well to be fair they are called the Mario Brothers and typically when doing something like that it's by last name for example the Kennedy brothers or the Williams sisters so saying their last name is Mario does make since and if it's not suppose to be, then that could be just a slight oversight after adding Luigi to the game. Second I don't think Luigi meant literal father I think more of a father figure in that maybe parents died early and he was raised by his brother. I mean that happens today in a way with single parent homes when older sibling takes up the slack.
Biggest Problems With This Movie: Most Of The Casting. (Mario and Daisy are fine to me) Those Green Things Are Scary As Hell. The Score On Rotten Tomatoes Is A 23 (I know that's my favorite number, but not for a film rating)
@@thesupershinymegagengar2034 Uh...no. Luigi still calls him Mario, Mario mentions that their actual father told him to take care of Luigi before his death, and they do mention they are brothers.
5:52 Funnily enough that's kinda what happened. Long story short the script was constantly being rewritten all throughout production so Dennis Hopper just stopped memorising his lines.
2:37 ~ to quote dialogue between a normal yoshi and a significantly deformed yoshi: "Are your parents...siblings?" "Don't be ridiculous! My mom is my dad's mom!"
Mario raised his little brother, that's why he's kind of his "Father and Mother". He filled the role of guardian for Luigi as well as being a supporting sibling. That's all there is to it, there's no creepy incest subtext you're trying to imply here.
@4:12 NC: Okay, what's your first name? Mario: Mario NC: What's your last name? Mario: Mario NC: Fuck you (looks at Luigi) What's your first name? Lol funniest part of the review imo.😂😂
I know Mario and Luigi's last names are canonically "Mario" so the line Super MARIO Bros would make sense, but even then I still reacted to that fact the same way Doug did when I found out about that for the first time years ago. Nintendo really should've made their last names Jumpman. To this day I'm still pissed that isn't a thing.
And why Nintendo didn’t have any non Japanese tv adaptations for 30 years except for the Dickey Kong Country cartoon which is arguably more of a Rareware property
I heard so many horror stories about this movie, but this is STILL one of my favorite movies ever! A true classic. I feel sorry for the writers though. RIP Bob and Dennis.
3:55 where we learn Mario's last name You know I think that this movie suffered from the same problem as the 1998 Godzilla movie: if they were their own IP then maybe on their own they could have been some pretty decent films but the fact that they were intended to be based off of two already existing (& beloved) franchises made the movies unlikable because they deviated quite a ways from the source material with mainly the names being similar; there's a reason why for many years Kaiju film fans referred to Zilla as GINO (Godzilla in name only) until Toho (the studio that owned Godzilla) officially declared it its own separate character with a different name back in 2004 when they were making Final Wars. Imagine if they gave all the characters different, unique names then it would actually kind of be a fun, cheesy kids movie, but the fact that they made this based on Super Mario Bros & used the bare minimum of similarities makes this movie (really) bad EDIT: since I posted this comment I learned that the guy who designed the creatures in the Super Mario Bros live action movie also designed Zilla from the 1998 film
They should've just called the movie "Dinohattan" instead. But just like what James Rolfe mentioned, that if the movie wasn't called "Super Mario Bros" nobody would be talking about it, so the title helped the movie have some attention. Not to mention, it would've been doomed at the box office considering it was in competition with Jurassic Park. I also read that the two directors for this movie actually fought with the studio for keeping Mario and Luigi's red and green outfits. They didn't want it but the studio refused. I swear, there's actual storyboards for this movie where they tried working around it by having Mario and Luigi wear black leather jackets, pants and hats. They looked like gay gimps, it was funny as hell. So had this been unrelated to Mario, the two leads would've looked like the Y.M.C.A cop instead. 😅
Super Mario Bros Movie: I’m the worst video game adaptation ever Sonic the Hedgehog 2020: Hold My Chilly dog Edit: Fair Warning, this was made before the 2nd trailer dropped
And... color me surprised it looks like a Mario movie. Holy shit... and it looks good too. Like it looks, colorful, well animated and exactly what a Mario movie should.
+Snarfindorf good to see you don't read the description... It's an old video so the quality is crap because he didn't know what he was doing when he made it. He has been uploading the old episodes for a long time because a lot of people that want to see the old episodes don't want to go to his website to see them.
+SomethingCireMovies I saw this as a kid. I didn't really care that it wasn't accurate to the games. It was a cheesy bad 80's movie. The 80's had a lot of 'em. :)
Gracie J I don't really care if its accurate or not. I just think it's bad lol. And yeah 80s had a lot of bad movies. So did the 90s, the 00s, and now lol. *Never forget Fant4stic*
Luigi and mario's parents left/died when luigi was very young, mario was considerably older then luigi (18 or older) and decided he would raise his little brother, there now complain about something real.
Critic complains that Mario and Luigi's last name is Mario... He's mad that the filmmakers stated that the MARIO brothers last name is Mario. Also, apparently father figures are nonexistent to the Critic, because clearly Mario and Luigi are father and son, and not Mario is just a father figure....you know even as a fan of this movie I'll say that it has stuff to make fun of on it's own you don't to make shit up to complain about.
He also thinks the line "Bomb-omb" was stupid, but that's the actual name for an enemy in the Mario games. I don't really blame him for it though. He probably didn't know at least as of this upload's original release. Or who knows? Maybe he wanted something to criticize so he over acted.
That's stupid! Mario Mario? You fucking kidding me?! THAT'S REALLY DUMB! Mario is not even a last name, I get that's how they do it in video games but changes have to be made when you turn them into a movie or series.
To your point @2:30 -- yeah, that sounds weird to some people. But the way I grew up, on a shadier side of the neighborhood, a lot of brothers and sisters and cousins had to take care of each other while their parents were out at work or otherwise not available. While my mom and dad were out at work, my older sister was in many ways a second mom. A lot of people who have parents who are absent or busy are "raised" by their older siblings, because there was a lot more responsibility that had to be handed down. As a fan growing up with the game, I didn't find that to be a problem at all. And "Mario Mario" as a name. What's wrong with that? That was funny. You just pulled that gag yourself! But I definitely don't remember that terrible animated opening to the movie… I don't mind so much characters being turned into humans, because it was the '90s, and they couldn't do what the video game could do. Things had to be played by people because that was the only way to connect with the adult audience at the time -- we weren't where we are now where you can have animated characters do what you want. How else do you adapt something for the widest possible audience? This was how movies were made in the '90s. This movie was awesome (haven't seen it in a while, so we'll see if I agree with myself when I see it again). My only real gripe was the film version of Yoshi -- I was real glad Yoshi was still a dino, and not a dog -- but I did want Yoshi to be a bigger part of the movie and to be able to be rode like the video game -- but again, technology wasn't there. I can't fault this movie for a lot of it's problems and inconsistencies. You had studios that really didn't care about video game or comic book properties to begin with, but I was still grateful for the jumping-rocket boots, because they motivated something that existed in the game. I was glad that even tho the goombas looked wrong, they still had that dumpy, goofy walk, and were still stupid and made the same noises. I was glad to have an adventure in a strange world -- these things were still presented. Not totally true to the game, but how do you stay true to a game that has literally one plot? Dodge lava, don't get hit by Bowser. And I loved the cliffhanger ending. I was really hoping that would be a lead-in to a Boswer-based sequel where everything presented in this movie could be expanded in the appropriate direction. The fact that Peach was in shredded BURNT clothes was a good indicator of what was coming. And what do you mean "how does Mario know what she means"? How does he not know what she means? They were all just in a crazy adventure together. If the only other person who was on a roller coaster said, "you wanna go up again" then would you ask them whether they're talking about the roller coaster? If you over-analyze and excessively seek logic in places where logic doesn't exist, you're not going to have a good time. Movies like Super Mario Brothers, Batman & Robin, and Waterworld were bad, but they were GOOD bad. The characters were clear, there was adventure, people cared about each other and survived together. These days, the obsession with "logic" is destroying movies and turning them into Star Trek Into Darkness. Sure, it's pretty, but shut up, I'm tired of people in perfectly comfortable good positions whining left and right and then defeating a bad guy who has a good mission.
Great essay on it, it was an in interesting movie I enjoyed it, and it was funny , I can't believe it was made, but I'm glad such a quirky movie like this exists , due to nintendo being cagey with its property's . I love this film, I'm glad it exists Dennis hopper was great too.
I can't wait for Doug to review the 2023 movie because I'm looking back on this for nostalgia and I'm glad he called himself The Nostalgia Critic because he remembered it so he doesn't have to! 🙂
Insane to think this vid was the first time I ever heard about this Mario bros movie , probably would’ve had an insane blast if I ever saw the film as a kid .
I think it's aged extremely well. Hell, I wouldn't even say it has aged at all. If you are referring to the video and audio quality though, then yeah I agree with you.
In Italy, Mario is both an Italian first name and a last name. It is possible that someone could be named Mario Mario. It would be like if someone in the USA was named Thomas Thomas.
It would be cool to see a redux of these videos so that we can see if you opinions have at all changes about these films since you first reviewed them.
I actually miss these shorter reviews. Don't get me wrong, I like his new stuff, but I don't always have at least half an hour to watch everything he puts up.
