Super Mario Bros. | Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo

Super Mario Bros. | Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo | Great piece of Mario memorabilia

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Super Mario Bros.

	Super Mario Bros. Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo Walt Disney Video, 2003 average customer review:based on 161 reviews view larger image
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A classic

Some people say they loved this movie when they were a kid but they hate it the older they get and why is that? it's because this movie is for kids. When this film came out I was 5 and I saw it over 30 times when I was that age, now I'm 17 and in the past few years I've seen it 0 times. It's like some sort of peter pan thing because it's something about adults that blocks their imagination and makes them say classic KIDS movies like Super Mario Brothers is a horrible movie. There are things that you laugh at and love in this movie but you see them funnier as a child. Bottom line is this is a classic and I agree with the last reviewer your kids don't deserve to miss out on this amazing action adventure.

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Great piece of Mario memorabilia

I loved this movie. The crew did an excellent job of adapting elements from the three Super Mario Bros. games and Super Mario World to the inherent limitations of the medium of film. The characters were well-thought-out; their personalities were just as I had imagined them. Mario likes to be the boss of things, Luigi is shy, Koopa is a Hitler type, etc. (Well, all right, I didn't imagine Toad as a revolutionary. But that's about it!) The acting was great (OK, except for Princess Daisy). Bob Hoskins does the Brooklyn thing so well I never would have guessed he was British. In fact, my only real complaints about the movie are: 1) there should have been more mushrooms, 2) Mario is supposed to have dark curly hair, and 3) the Mario Bros. should have put on their Mario and Luigi costumes sooner. But those are minor compared to how great the movie is!

I realize I am in the minority when I say I loved this movie. Many were disappointed to find that the movie is not as much like the game as they had hoped. Yet, of the three Super Mario Bros. games, no two are similar. Mario doesn't even look the same from one game to the next. There is absolutely no logical consistency between the games. How does the world of the first game fit in with the third? It doesn't. So why should the movie fit in with any of the games? (There are actually a few subtle similarities between the movie and the games; for a complete list, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._%28film%29)

The dinosaur theme was based on Super Mario World, which took place in "Dinosaur Land." I agree, having dinosaurs evolve into humans who pass unnoticed in New York and think like present-day Americans (and even speak English!) is a bit far-fetched, but it's fantasy. We don't nit-pick the magic in Harry Potter, why should we nit-pick this? Even many who can look past this scientific flaw find the movie too "serious." Given the popularity of movies about the Holocaust and other atrocities of human history, how can anyone make the claim that the Super Mario Bros. movie is too "serious?"

If you don't expect it to be exactly like the games, you'll love it as much as I do.

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Best Movie Ever (...probably)

This is a 2 person written review.

Part 1: Nick.

I was born in 1986, making me a child who grew up around such greatnesslessness as Super Mario and ... Super... Luigi? anywho, point is, I grew up with mario.

I got my first Nintendo (a NES of course) at about the age of 4.. and my first game was Super Mario Brothers.

When I first found out there was a Super Mario Brothers Movie, on the inside, I grew closer to God.
I watched it, and as a naive little child thought to myself "I want chocolate cake..." BUT I also thought "This doesn't match with Super Mario Brothers AT ALL!"

And the truth is - It doesn't (really) at all!

As I grew older, I watched it every year or so... and more recently my opinion has changed on it.

I realize now that it was not meant as a literal take on the Super Mario Brothers games and that the writers decided to take a different angle when writing a movie that basically encompassed the entire 1980's generation (X and Y).

They wrote something both interesting and different. Something with such insight and brilliance that many people misunderstood and misrepresented it... typical of the human race.

This movie is one of the defining movies of my youth, along with the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, Mary Poppins and Bingo.

I suggest that everyone born in the time frames of gen X and Y see this movie... especially those who were encapsulated by the brilliant, and original N.E.S.

(By the way - Generation X is typically known as those who GREW up during the 80's, whilst Gen Y is those BORN in the 80's)...(Also, I may have been drinking tonight... and may have just obtained a Visa card to which I just ordered Mario Bros on DVD - No more BAD VHS for me!)

Part 2: DAP!

I pretty much agree

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super mario (good bad cheap as hell)

well i seem to see that most peopel witwhe love it or hate it i first saw this on disney channel about 2 - 3 years ago
the key with thsi movie is not to care about teh games as much
its got sucky effects
its director problay does drugs
and id like to add its aperfect b movie style movie
it doenst do teh games justice(but the games have no storyline sav eteh princess)
dont get me wrong tehre kick ass games
but teh movie has a speacil kind of drunken charm dont knock it till you rented it or stolen it lol

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