I loved this movie as a kid. And even then, I just saw it as a unique take on the Mario universe. I didn't care that it wasn't a faithful adaptation. I liked seeing how it incorporated the stuff from the games into this weird. It was fun.
Well said, rented this from my library as a kid and enjoyed it, the Illumination film was pretty meh for me compared to the Sonic movies, it just feels like little more then an extended commercial for the games.
There’s stuff I like about it. Actually, I like pretty much everything about it, except for the direction and how much of a clusterfuck the direction was due to the directors. Even the tonal issues are a mixture of bad direction and constant rewrites to the point that there were near-daily rewrites delivered to set during filming.
Agree to disagree. This movie should have been animated. SMB has no business being live action. Thankfully the 2023 movie is a far better adaptation of the games.
I am not sure kids in 1993 would have cared about an animated Mario movie. It would have had to be a lot more sophisticated than the cheap Mario animation on TV at the time.
I actually liked the 1993 Mario Movie a lot more than the new one yes it was wired, yes it had problems but it still looks and feels like Mario to me and that's why I like it.
very respectable take, and i agree for the most part. the reason i just can't enjoy this movie is because the story and narrative is kind of a mess, which is a shame because it's conceptually and excellent take on Mario Bros. then again, i'm a huge sucker for the star wars prequels in spite of them having the same problem as this movie but worse if you ask me. oh well, cognitive dissonance is a real thing. keep up the good work my man!
I honestly agree, i've always enjoyed this movie and still do whenever I watch it. And regardless of departures from source material, Bob Hoskins IS Mario! Way more than Chris Pratt ever will be.
The issue with this movie is the same issue with Disney's 1999 adaptation of "Inspector Gadget". In that these two movies are products of people who heard of the source material, were given a few very vauge summaries of said source material, tossed in one or two last minute, half hearted, almost backhanded nods to the source material, but never sat down to at least try and get a general idea of the core fundamentals of the source material.
Inspector Gadget was at least an interesting adaptation, I never grew up with the cartoon so I didn't get the same sense of wounded betrayal that some others did.
@@jacksonteller3973 I didn't grow up with the cartoon either, but once I started watching the cartoon and came back to the movie, that's when my enjoyment for the movie fizzled out.
I don't think it's a bad movie, in fact I enjoy it too. But it's definitely not a good Mario movie, if that makes sense, and I think that's why so many people have issues with it.
I Loved This Movie... I'm Glad Its A Stand Alone Just Like All The Different Adaptations Mario Had In The 90s. It Could Have Been On The Nose But What Is Nowadays
Thank you for drawing attention to the set design. I have nothing to add, it's just criminal that the high quality of the sets is ignored in favour of just calling the movie badly made overall. The super show probably did it first, but I remember 'I'm Mario Mario, he's Luigi Mario" specifically from this movie.
No. Its not because people say so. Its bad because its trashfire and amoral. In fact its so bad that you have to condense all the wrong things with the film in super condensed piles of manure. Super Manure N°1 - It doesn't look anything like the source material and has absolutely nothing to do with it beyond Mario and Luigi: Mario and Luigi don't jump on their own, there are no question blocks or power ups, Mario doesn't date Pauline, they replaced Foreman Spike with random goon Scapelli, Iggy Koopa and Spike Koopa are humans, Toad is a koopa trooper, koopa troopers are called goombas,goombas don't exist, Big Bertha is a human ally instead of an enemy fish, Princess Daisy's father is called Bowser, King Bowser is called King Koopa and he has no airship. They do go down a pipeline at one point but is not to get into the castle but to get out of it. The one single good thing about the film was Yoshi's animatronic that of course didn't look like Yoshi either. Super Manure N° 2 - Its production was nightmare from begining to end as the directors had no idea what they were doing and wanted to send a political message so it went overbudget multiple times making the cast reenacting the scenes countless times until getting to hate and survive through it by being inebriated 24/7, the film is ridden with spliced dialogues where there's no mouth movement and continuity errors such as locations that pop in and out of scene randomly and inconsistent fashion / wardrobe malfunctions in between scenes, and even from a narrative standpoint nobody knows who Princes Daisy is despite looking EXACTLY like the previous Queen which BTW King Koopa captures on the human side of the barrier at the begining of the film so the whole movie makes absolutely no sense. Super Manure N° 3 - It looks greassy and disgusting, its setting are basically run down buildings or cartilaginous mucus, and in the few moments when this is not on display there's over sexualization to the point there's even a scene at a night club with people parading adult toys and dressed in BDSM. There's foul language and gratuitous swearing, and overall the interactions are crass and either brutish or rude. It shows children that is OK to laugh at Blue/Brown collar workers, its OK to handle explosives and flamethrowers and explode or burn people to death, its OK to laugh harrasment such as the one done on Spike and Iggy Koopa, its OK to laugh at death such as King Koopa's wife Lena, its OK to cheat such as Mario cheating on Daniella with Big Bertha, and it displays sexual harrasment from King Koopa to Daisy in multiple scenes. And if this was a movie EXCLUSIVE for adults or at the very least rated R, none of this would be a problem, but ALL OF THIS is unfit for its underage viewers which lets not forget were the intended target audience for the film, and THIS is the worst thing about this whole shitfest. In Batman the source material was treated with dignity and respect by the Dinamic Due being crime solvers/ detectives against classic villains from the comics and its sexual innuendos while pretty ovious for adluts are toned just enough that children are unaffected by them. So no this film has nothing to do with Batman and its an insult to inteligence to even compare them. This movie is roughly a 7/10 even if you remove the amoral controversy surrounding it and 1960s Batman is genius 12/10 by comparison. EDIT: Also have a thums up lad. I disagree with the POV but appreciate the work.
