Product: Super Mario Bros. [VHS] (1993)
Rating: 3.0
Not a Mario movie
I was an avid player of all video games Mario so when this movie came out I was really excited to see it. It turned out not to be what I expected, but I wasn't too disappointed either. Instead of of traveling by pipe to get to other worlds, our gang meets up with the princess who turns out to be a paleontologist in charge of a dig regarding a large meteor rock. She's also got a piece of the meteor rock that she wears for a necklace, supposedly the only thing left with her after she was abandoned as a baby. The meteor necklace and the princess get taken as she and Luigi are ambushed on a date. So Mario and Luigi jump down the hole and into the Mushroom Kingdom they go. The characters all look like they do in the video game, but there are things that are off. For one thing they turn King Koopa into a sleazy business man and Yoshi is made out to be such a wimp. They search the city to look for the necklace, some stuff happens and in the end a crazy lady tries to harness the power of the meteor rock by inserting the remaining piece into it, herself. I wasn't too disappointed but if you're expecting something that's out of the Mario cartoon, you won't find it here.