Product: Super Mario Bros. [VHS] (1993)
Rating: 1.0
Aaaagggghhhh! The pain! Oh the pain!
The Mario games have always been a very sentimental piece of my life. Hopping and bopping through the mushroom kingdom, collecting coins, and so-on. Needless to say, when I saw this film I was apalled. How it ever made it onto DVD, I will never know. If the screensaver quality prologue at the start of the film isn't enough to scare you away from the movie, you'll soon notice that the film has very little in common with Sherigu Miyamoto's video game classic that it is named after. There are too many continuity issues to list in this short review, so I won't bother. But basically to sum up the film, if you drained Water World, filled it with weird half lizard-half human creatures and put two badly dressed italian americans in the middle of it you'd have Mario Brothers. If you are a die hard Mario fan, this film will deeply offend you. I wouldn't say it should be completely avoided, as it does offer a few un-intentional giggles, but the film itself it [not good]. It's worse than Double Dragon, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Wing Commander, Resident Evil and Tomb Raider combined. Mario Brothers is the un-disputed king of live acted Video game movies gone terribly wrong.