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

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

MartinHafer Why would I choose to watch "Super Mario Bros." when it was a critical and financial bomb? Well, IMDB recently changed their criteria for films to make their infamous Bottom 100 list and now this film is officially on it...at #96. And, since I have long been trying to see every Bottom 100 movie, I have a bunch of new pictures to watch and review.It's interesting when you read through IMDB's trivia about this movie. Apparently everyone connected with it except for the two directors hated it and hated making this film. I could only assume that I would hate it as well.Well, I did hate the film...for many reasons. Much of the problem is the plot. It often makes no sense (such as minions suddenly switching sides for no apparent reason), the dialog is among the dumbest I can recall in a film and the story is not at all the sort of thing I'd want young kids to watch...which is odd, since it's based on a kids' game! The plot, if anyone really cares is about Koopa (Dennis Hopper), a reptile who has used his evolving/devolving machine to make himself and many of his subjects in a parallel world look human. His goal is to capture Princess Daisy and use a meteorite shard to merge the two worlds and become dictator of both---though exactly how doesn't seem to have been worked out by Koopa. As for the brothers, they fall into the parallel world and battle Koopa to save the worlds.If I were describe the film in one word, it would not be terrible but TIRESOME. The film is dull, uninvolving and a bit stupid. I would NOT place it, however, on the Bottom 100...as there are many worse films which will never make the list because they were NOT made in the last 30 years--and the list is heavily weighted towards this. "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians", "Robot Monster", ALL of Al Adamson's and William Grefe's films and the terrible exploitation films of the 1930s and 40s (such as "Sex Madness" and "Reefer Madness") aren't even on the list--and these films are all, amazingly enough, worse than "Super Mario Bros." but were made during an era that has almost no representation on the list...not that this is a glowing endorsement! Would I put it on a Bottom 200 (if such a list existed)...easily!

Antonio Kowatsch Yes, the movie maybe super-silly but it's so silly that it's actually really enjoyable. It's also pretty funny and one of my guilty pleasures. As the name clearly indicates it's loosely based on the Super Mario Brothers video game franchise. But don't expect the protagonists to just jump around like in the video games. When I said that the movie is "loosely" based on the franchise I was actually slightly over-exaggerating. The only commonality is the fact that both protagonists wear similar outfits and happen to be plumbers just like the original characters. Everything else was added to make the movie more interesting and I think it was done rather well. The whole concept of an alternate universe named Koopa-Manhattan is so ridiculous that it ends up making sense in the movie. The first thing that kind of jumps at you as soon as the movie begins is the typical Brooklyn accent of Mario. It was hilarious and totally added to the overall flair of the movie (which was also set in Brooklyn). I really liked that. The Brooklyn accent is one of the most recognizable accents and unlike the Queens accent, which is slowly fading away, it remains strong to this very day.The movie seems a little bit dated by today's standards but that can mostly be attributed to the fashion that is donned by the inhabitants of Koopa-Manhattan. It was very reminiscent of the 80's.Furthermore the movie has a lot of memorable scenes and dialogues. Most notably the scene where Luigi asks Daisy out on a date. That one is hilarious and has actually become a pop-culture reference that is still used today. So it does have a lot of pop cultural importance. A minor critique of mine is the absence of Luigi's mustache. I mean, c'mon... Luigi has a mustache just like Mario but hey... I guess you can't have it all.The movie definitely has a lot of weird elements; from police officers in studded leather uniforms to animatronic rats, it's a whole lot crazier than you'd expect if you just read the synopsis. I also found it quite hilarious that the ultimate penalty in Koopa-Manhattan was "devolution". And yes, it's exactly what you think it is / what it sounds like. On a ridiculousness-scale this movie is a straight 10. So if you like bizarre movies this one is a no-brainer. It is very reminiscent of the original Total Recall movie in both the presentation and the setting. So that should kind of give you an idea of the flair that it exudes.As I mentioned earlier the movie has a lot of memorable scenes and dialogues. Some of my favorite lines from the movie include: "If I make you idiots smarter you won't mess up this time" (Koopa) And the pipe-dialogue between Mario and Luigi: Both walk into a room... "Look at this. It's a plumber's nightmare." "These pipes haven't been serviced for years." "Must've been a nonunion job." LOLAll in one it's actually a really good movie, just for all the "wrong" reasons. It's not trying to be philosophical or profound. It's just a fun to watch movie. I mean, if you take a movie like this seriously the problem doesn't lie with the movie but well... you get the idea. I don't understand why some people hate this movie this much. It seems rather bizarre to me. It's a family-friendly and goofy movie that also ends up paying homage to the 80's aesthetic. What's there not to love?Final verdict: recommended if you have a good sense of humor (and don't take the movie too seriously)

7/11 was an inside job Even though I think this movie is literal cancer to the video game industry, I first watched the movie when I was a child. Honestly I think this movie is enjoyable for the same reason we still play Sonic games, because it's easy and fun to make fun of it. With terrible choices in actors and design, it can still be a good night for you. So gather your friends, and watch this movie. They'll either think you have bad taste in movies, or you really like making fun of bad movies. What I'm saying is, WATCH IT!

mwcrunner This is one of the worst films ever made. This should've been scrapped a long time ago and should've been made into a full length CGI animated hit. Now I like Bob Hoskins cause of him being Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but Mario isn't cut out for him. Also Mario and Luigi are Italian, not American. Also whats up with Princess Peach not being in the movie and this Daisy person being a princess in it who is a freaking dinosaur? Also Yoshi didn't look like himself. He looked like he came out of the movie Jurassic Park. Also Toad should've been in this movie too but he wasn't cause its like the directors of this treated him like a push over. Also whats with the dance club scene in this movie and Mario and Luigi dressing up like pimps? I mean what kind of world are they in where people are Koopas and the king of them who is King Koopa a guy that looks like Donald Trump and Dr. Evil rolled into one? Lol. Sorry but it's true. Dennis Hoppers character looks like Donald Trump and Dr. Evil rolled into one. Also what was with all this fungus crap in this movie? I mean we did see mushrooms in it, but none of them made Mario and Luigi grow or gave them powers like flying or Koopa tails or fire. Also we only got to see one Ba-Bomb in this movie and that's also bullcrap. I mean if someone ever comes up with a new idea for a Super Mario Bros. movie, it should be a CGI animated one about where Mario and Luigi were born or where they came from and where King Koopa aka Bowser came from too and have all the good stuff that's in the video game, not a bunch of lizard looking like people and a Donald Trump and Dr. Evil combination abomination that later turns into a dinosaur like Muppet that gets turned into green slime and a woman who gets electrocuted and dies like Walter Donavon in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and 2 worlds one that is normal and one that is like Gary, Indiana and 2 guys who are just plumbers and don't have anything special to do like jumping and using powers and collecting coins. Of course there is going to be a sequel to the Disney animated video game film Wreck-It Ralph in 2018, so there's a good chance that we can see Mario and Luigi in that film since they weren't in the first one. This film deserves to be locked up in the studio vault never to be released again and forgotten for all time. Awful. Just plain awful.