Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis, Fisher Stevens ...( see more see more... ) , Richard Edson

his is the story of two hard working Italian plumber brothers named Mario Mario and Luigi Mario, who befriends a young paleontologist named Daisy. She uncovers a massive find of mysterious new dinosau...( read more read more... )r bones. While exploring the tunnels where dinosaur fossils lay, saboteurs hired by the Mario Bros. rival businessman, Anthony Scapelli, to break some underground pipes. Meanwhile, in a hidden world called Dino-world, King Koopa's land is running out of water and going through problems so he sends Spike and Iggy to kidnap Daisy! Now the Super Mario Bros. find themselves the only hope to save the Earth from invasion then challenge a diabolical lizard king and they must battle giant reptilian goombas, outwit misfit thugs and undermine sinister scheme by taking over the world!

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PG, 1 hr. 44 min.

Directed by: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton, Roland Joffé, Dean Semler

Release Date: September 8, 1990

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DVD Release Date: June 3, 2003

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  • November 28, 2009
    Craptacular movie which was barely anything like the videogame! Made on a cheapo budget, they made too many compromises from the source material. The movie's setting was a dank sewer and a dirty steel mill, unlike the bright and colorful block kingdom the game existed in. Bob Ho...( read more)skins was perfectly cast as Mario; totally huggable. But what the hell were they thinking when they cast John Leguizamo as Luigi?? Luigi is meant to be Mario's older brother with a moustache, not some goofy kid. Princess Daisy was a beautiful addition to the movie. Dennis Hopper was great acting as King Koopa, but looked nothing like the ten-foot tall dragon in the game. They got the Goombas all wrong with their big bodies and little heads. And where were the turtle enemies which every level of the videogame had? The Mushroom King was goopy and disgusting. Yoshi was cute, but too small for Mario to ride on. The "Super" aspect of the game with them grabbing a mushroom and growing giant-sized wasn't covered. Mario and Luigi could only jump high with special power-boots. Lame. They took a fun fantasy platform game and turned it into an ugly wreck. Gosh this movie was totally disappointing. Terrible movie done hastily to cash in on the Nintendo game craze of the time. Jeez, they should've done a "Donkey Kong" movie at a New York construction site instead. Forget Super Mario Bros. unless you want to host a bad movie night.
  • June 29, 2009
    At the time this was quite the blockbuster haha despite it flopping it still seemed to be popular and it did show some nice effects and puppetry. The whole plot is crazy and really messed up, its basic but just messed up. Things happen that dont make any sense and there are too m...( read more)any weird characters that dont come from the Mario universe we know and love.

    Thats the problem with the whole thing, it doesnt resemble the Mario world we know from Nintendo, apart from Mario, Kooper and Luigi its virtually unrecognisable from the console game, its like they ignored it which was a mistake. The film isnt totally for kids either, they clearly tried to make it alittle more mature than the original target audience which again, for once, may have been the wrong way to go. A kids fantasy closer to the colourful game may have been the correct route with this. The casting was also poor apart from Hoskins as Mario who does look the part but Hopper doesnt really belong in this type of kiddie film.

    A very large mistake in design, concept and what they thought people would like, should of been good. Two stars for some nice imagination.
  • March 20, 2009
    "The Goombas are dancing again.
    - Deal with it!"

    A live-action big budget movie (48 million USD) about the most successful videogame of all time. Back in '93, the filmmakers thought that nothing could go wrong! Guess again...

    Seriously, "Super Mario Bros" has got to be the bigg...( read more)est disappointment for all videogamers. The film is a total disaster in every way you can imagine.

    The story is awful, but hey, the videogames with Mario have never been that creative. But the set design is probably the worst you could ever imagine. Where the hell did all the money go? The film's got Bob Hoskins (Mario), John Leguizamo (Luigi) and Dennis Hopper (Koopa) but they're not the kind of actors that would get millions for their roles.

    And after seeing the movie (now for a second time, 15 years between) the actors and every one involved with the movie should be soooo very much ashamed of the outcome of their work. And so should all the persons who saw the movie and liked it...
  • March 19, 2009
    So bad, you have to laugh. Hey, at least I was entertained by its badness.
  • August 23, 2008
    Pretty stupid...but I do like John Leguizamo. Not one I'd watch again though :P
  • February 24, 2010
    Wow. Epic. Probably the worst movie based on a video game ever.
  • February 23, 2010
    i suppose this is an alrigt somewhat entertaining movie i just feel it didnt truly capture the super mario vibes. there were lots of things i felt they should have incorporated and lots of things i dont think they should have added. all in all i'd say its ok and i would definatly...( read more) like to see a new super mario brothers movie. this theme has so much potential that these days technology could really improve on a real life mario movie. hopefuly there is a retry. not very recommendable.
  • February 16, 2010
    Horrendus, tepid, dull and absent of whatever use of common sense.
  • February 16, 2010
    BIG LETDOWN, THIS MOVIE HAD SO MUCH POTENTIAL AND IT FAILED COMPLETELY
  • February 14, 2010
    Bad doesn't begin to describe this movie.

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  • shikashadow90
    July 17, 2008
    To be honest , this movie was pretty good . I dont really see why people would dislike it so much :/
  • aoddball416
    June 22, 2008
    I ever so hard waited to see this which they never passed it in my local movie channel -.- yoshi couldn't be even better! mario b. U rock! =>
  • thedoctor2k7
    February 6, 2008
    this film was ok but it all depends on your type of humor if u like gd old fun u'll love if u like a direct adaptation u'll think it'd crap
  • flowerspowers28
    October 8, 2007
    i grew up with the games and this was just brilliant
    plus when i was younger i fell in love with john in this movie (luigi was and is always my fave)
  • Br0wn3yes
    September 17, 2007
    it was pretty good to me
  • giselsuperchick18
    August 1, 2007
    i luv yoshi awwwww sooo cute in the cartoon,video games and even in da movie awwwwwwwww
  • MovieDude1221
    July 10, 2007
    I'd say this made no sense. At All
  • abbydonkrafts
    June 25, 2007
    Hurrah! My skin finally showed up on this page. :D

    If you like this underdog of a movie, feel free to promote it by using the skin on your profile. :-)
  • abbydonkrafts
    June 22, 2007
    I finally got around to finishing my quiz for the movie. Feel free to take it. The link is in the "Movie Quizzes" box, or you can go directly to it here:

    The Super Mario Bros Super Quiz
  • abbydonkrafts
    June 17, 2007
    I just uploaded some more photos for the movie.

    For those of you who don't like the movie, check out these links:

    * http://www.destructoid.com/why-the-super-mario-movie-is-an-underappreciated-masterpiece-29694.phtml
    * http://www.jasoco.net/game-collection/smbmovie/

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