Product: Super Mario Bros. [VHS] (1993)
Rating: 5.0
Childlike Wonderment In A Grown-Up Dinosaur World
When you're a kid you watch everything with an amazement that can only be the product of your own imagination. You see these characters, people and places and think only of the fun adventure they represent.Super Mario Bros. was no different. Kids can watch it and fall into a place surreally connected to our own reality and just have fun. You may not have entirely understood what was going on, but you knew that there were two brothers fighting for love against an evil lizard king.As an adult it's easy to see that this imagination was the product of not only childlike wonderment but also of the youthful dreams of the cast/crew working to bring it all together. They fought to make something unique and clever that would stand as something enjoyable for everyone. This is an arguable point, but the intention still stands.The film's 20th anniversary comes in May of 2013. What better time than now to show that it has fans, a following and, most importantly, an enduring future. This movie would benefit from an updated re-release that shows everything that was put into it. It's something every kid wants to see and show their own children.