Product: Super Mario Bros. [VHS] (1993)
Rating: 3.0
Mario Bros On DVD, notice i didnt say SUPER?
I don't need to review the movie itself here, you must have been living under a hell of a rock to not know what this movie is and what game it is based off.I'm going to review the DVD itself.First, even tho this movie was not a super smash hit like they hoped it would be, and is dismissed by so many people as being a lame movie, it is still a very popular movie, and would have helped the movie out a lot if they had of put a little bit of time into the DVD itself. Cause even tho the movie might be lame, it is still one of those movies people know enough to check out, keep as a memory, or it's so bad you can't resist watching it again.The quality of the movie I thought could have been done a lot better. It's barely a step up from VHS quality, and the scene where the Mario Bros first enter the other Dimension trying to rescue Daisy was one of the first CGI effects of it's kind and broke new ground with what it did do. By todays standards it might look pretty average, but in it's day, that was the best you could see... and not being cleaned up for DVD quality, it just looks like a cartoon effect that gets easily ignored.Audio is audio.no subtitles included.But worse yet, no bonus features what-so-ever. (a trailer is not a bonus feature)Again I say it, this movie is based on the worlds most popular video game, so bad movie or not, people are going to buy/rent/see this DVD, and it has nothing to make it appealing to own. Sure, it's a cheapie, but I remember 100 featuretts when this movie was in the making, like Bob Hoskins talking about how he didn't realize this was a kid's movie and swore he'd never do one again after Roger Rabbit.The never before done CGI, the costumes and how they worked, the voices of characters blah blah blah... where are those featurettes gone?Not even Roxxettes video clip of "Almost Unreal"- Deleted Scenes? - Outtakes? Nothing exists anymore? Or is it another one of the million movies that will hold out till this edition has made a million dollars then release a special edition, a gold edition, a quantum edition then a rip you the eff off edition?It's cheap, but remember, for it being this cheap, all you get is the movie and a trailer, nothing else. Bad movie or not, this one deserved a lot better treatment then it has gotten here.P.S: Any reviews that say the movie was not based on the game in anyway need to think about something.... would you want to see Bob Hoskin's running around punching bricks for coins and jumping on turtles? Think about for a second, how do you put that into a live action movie? Go rent the cartoon series of Mario Bros. or Play the game... but don't expect a midget plumber who grows when eating magic mushrooms and finds princess' in castles kidnapped by a dinosaur and a bunch of creatures... how do you make that into a 90 minute movie? What did you expect?