Super Mario Bros. (movie)

***Super Mario Bros.*** is a 1993 American science fiction fantasy movie. It was produced by Jake Eberts and Roland Joffé. The movie was directed by Chris Columbus. Super Mario Bros. was released on May 28, 1993. The movie is a loose live-action version of the 1985 Nintendo video game of the same name. The movie stars Bob Hoskins as Mario, John Leguizamo as Luigi, Arnold Schwarzenegger as King "Bowser" Koopa, and Meg Ryan as Princess Peach.

The movie was received with mainly negative reviews from critics and holds a 24% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert gave the movie two thumbs down on their television program Siskel & Ebert At the Movies. They also put the movie on their list for one of the worst films of 1993. It only made $20,915,465 of its $48 million budget.

## Plot

20 years ago, an old man from this dimension sneaks into Brooklyn, and leaves a child on the porch of a church, leaving a piece of the meteorite with it. The father encounters King "Bowser" Koopa when trying to return through a cave. He pushes a support beam over him, collapsing the cave and sacrificing himself.

In 1993, Mario Mario and Luigi Mario, two brothers who operate a small plumbing business known as Mario Bros. Plumbing, receive a call from a customer and drive to the location. They are beaten to it by their competitors: Lou Albano and Danny Wells. When Mario rings a telephone to look for other jobs, he hands the phone to Peach, the boss of a fossil-excavation project. She thanks him, to which Luigi and Mario offer her to take her back to the site in their van. Mario to ask Peach out on a date. After a double date between Peach, Mario, Luigi, and the latter's girlfriend Daisy, Peach shows Mario, Luigi and Daisy the site that her team is working at. They are interrupted by two Scapelli employees bursting a pipe and purposefully causing a flood. The brothers manage to fix the leak. However, two Koopas, Hal and Jeff, who've kidnapped several girls in Brooklyn in search of Peach, knock out the Mario brothers and kidnap Peach. After waking up, Mario and Luigi follow the kidnappers through a Warp Pipe to the Mushroom Kingdom, a chaotic kingdom in the fairy tale dimension ruled by Bowser Koopa. Hal and Jeff tell Bowser and his second-in-command Kamek that they've successfully found Peach but lost the meteorite piece she wears as a necklace to "the plumbers". Bowser, needing the rock to combine both of the dimensions and take over the world, offers a reward for anyone who finds them.

A large gorilla in red necktie named Donkey Kong steals the rock from Luigi and escapes. Toad sings an "anti-Koopa" song to cheer the two up, but is arrested along with the plumbers. At prison, Mario and Luigi shove Bowser into the de-evolution cauldron and escape prison. During their escape, Luigi finds a dinosaur named Yoshi hatched to the egg. They steal an airship and fly into the desert outside the Kingdom. Meanwhile, Bowser re-evolves Hal and Jeff's intelligence and sends the two to hunt down the plumbers. The koopas find the plumbers and Yoshi, who easily overpower the Koopas and demand to know where Peach is and what the rock is. They team up to get the rock back from Donkey Kong and rescue Peach. They find D.K. at a dance club; Mario dances with him to sneakily steal the rock back. Kamek and the other Koopas arrive at the dance club to find the rock. He finds it and catches Hal and Jeff while Mario, Luigi and Yoshi sneak away with the help of D.K., who gives the two raccoon leafs to fly.

The plumbers and Yoshi sneak into the boiler room of Bowser's tower and sabotage the heating. They trip the alarm, but finds two pairs of overalls, one red and one green, to use as disguises. They progress through the tower to find Peach. Meanwhile, Hal and Jeff introduce Peach and Toad to her mother, who has been turned into stone; he was Bowser's de-evolution victim. As Hal and Jeff retreat, Peach finds Mario, Luigi and Yoshi on a security camera. The three reunite, and Peach tells Mario and Luigi where Daisy and the other kidnapped Brooklyn girls are. While Peach and Toad attempt to escape, Mario, Luigi and Yoshi goes to rescue the Brooklyn girls. They takes out a Goomba, and all of them ride a mattress through a frozen warp pipe to escape. The plumbers, Yoshi, Toad and Peach reunite, but Bowser aims to breath fire at them with the rock in hand. Mario fires a fire flower at Bowser, knocking the rock out of his hand. Kamek steals it and, having been ignored by Bowser to insert the piece into the meteorite, which will combine the two dimensions. Luigi, Peach, Toad and Yoshi go to stop Kamek and return the Brooklyn girls home, while Mario confronts Bowser.

Face to face on a bridge, Mario activates the Bob-omb that he found and sends it towards Bowser. It falls through a hole before the two dimensions begin merging. Mario dodges a shot from the fire blast, which hits Louis. peach removes the meteorite piece, and the dimensions return to normal. Mario and Luigi grab a super star and attack Bowser. The Bob-omb goes off directly underneath Bowser, launching him into a barrel where he transforms giga-form. The Mario brothers continue attacking at Bowser until he's banished into the frozen swamp. Mario and Luigi are hailed by the citizens of the Mushroom as heroes.

The plumbers return home, but Daisy stays behind to help rebuild her home, sharing a kiss with Mario before he and Luigi leave. Months later, Peach and Toad visits Mario, Luigi, and Daisy to ask the brothers for help. Meanwhile, in the frozen swamp, Bowser, having lost his sanity and still in possession of the Mario's star and equipment salvaged from the remains of his airship, plots his return to the Mushroom Kingdom to seek his revenge.

## Cast

- Bob Hoskins as Mario Mario
- John Leguizamo as Luigi Mario
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as the voice of King "Bowser" Koopa
- Meg Ryan as Princess Peach
- Bill Farmer as the voice of Hal the Koopa Troopa
- Tom Kenny as the voice of Jeff the Goomba
- Mark Hamill as the voice of Kamek
- Frank Welker as the voice of Yoshi
- Warwick Davis as Toad
- Samantha Mathis as Daisy
- Peter Cullen as the voice of Donkey Kong
- Lou Albano as himself
- Danny Wells as himself
- George Carlin as King Toadstool
- Robin Wright as Queen Toadstool
- Dan Castellaneta as the narrator

## Infobox (movie)

- **image**: Super Mario Bros 1993 logo.webp
- **director**: Chris Columbus
- **writer**: Parker Bennett
Terry Runté
Ed Solomon
- **narrator**: Dan Castellaneta
- **producer**: Jake Eberts
Roland Joffé
- **screenplay**: George Carlin
- **starring**: Bob Hoskins
John Leguizamo
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Meg Ryan
- **music**: Koji Kondo
- **cinematography**: Dean Semler
- **editing**: Mark Goldblatt
- **distributor**: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. (US)
Entertainment Film Distributors (UK)
- **studio**: Nintendo
Hollywood Pictures
Allied Filmmakers, Lightmotive/Allied Filmmakers
Cinergi Pictures, Cinergi Productions
- **released**: May 28, 1993
- **runtime**: 104 minutes
- **country**: United States
- **language**: English
- **budget**: United States dollar, $48 million
- **gross**: $20,915,465