...Jesus Christ, that sounds like something I would write. I can see the echoes of that in the set design though—the weird propaganda posters, for instance.

I love that movie, it’s weird and quirky, and only vaguely resemble what the games are, but that’s more of a strong point then a flaw. it’s the perfect 90s movie

Oh yes. The scripts dealt with a lot more sociopolitical themes to the extent that Koopa was directly modeled off both President Nixon and the three candidates of then happening 1992 presidential election.

I love this movie.
It’s not a GREAT movie, but it’s pretty good, and waaaaaaay better than people give it credit for.
The way everything from the Mario games is adapted and utilized is actually way more brilliant and interesting than people realize.
It’s like Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario World, and Super Mario Land…

I don’t get the hate this film gets. It had a unique execution full of interesting twists to it’s source material, hopefully the 4K remaster will make them shine. Why on earth would anybody want a super mario movie that feels and looks like the game? Not getting my hopes up for the Universal version...

I was a kid when this came out. I enjoyed it then, and i knew it really didn’t have much to do with mario but I still liked it. Even now I could watch it and still enjoy it even if its not a good movie.

Much like the 90s TMNT movies, I just assumed the ‘movie versions’ of kid’s characters were supposed to be fucking hideous and I loved it as a kid.
I’m fond of this film and always have been.

You know what, thinking back on it, you’re right. There was scaffolding and stuff. But WOW—is that seriously the canon reason? That... Makes a terrifying amount of sense.

Don’t act like you’ve never... <squints>... like you’ve never dug around in your underpants with a spoon before.

Although Koopa’s tower appears partially destroyed, this is just an unfortunate misconception. The the scripts instead describe the city of Dinohattan in a state of perpetual construction.

Still waiting for Trump to leave his Sports Almanac from the future laying around the WH somewhere.

It’s an average movie and a decent popcorn flick as long as you disconnect it from the Mario Bros franchise entirely and accept it as a goofy comedy with some pretty awesome special effects for the time. The “meme” culture of the early to mid 2000's stigmatized this film to notorious levels of hate that aren’t…

...Yup, and guess where Lizard-Trump lives?

I saw this movie in theaters on my 10th birthday and had been playing Mario since ‘88 at that point. I watched the Super Show, Mario 3, and Mario World. I read the comics. I breathed Mario, in as much as a 10 year old girl in 1993 could at that point.

I’ve never understood the hate for the Super Mario Bros. movie. I actually have always quite liked it, save for the last 15 minutes — but a good movie with a bad ending is nothing new, and that’s pretty much what I consider Super Mario Bros. to be. It’s a creative and interesting take on a franchise that simply COULD…

In my heart I have to say that Double Dragon worked a little bit more than Mario Bros., at least as far as being closer to the video game. Execution-wise? Double Dragon is kind of dull, and Mario Bros. certainly isn’t that. If you gave me the choice of watching one right now, I’d pick Mario Bros.

Glad this movie is getting the love it deserves. They managed to build an imaginative world out of the next-to-nothing they had to work with at that period in the franchise’s history. It was campy, had a neat aesthetic, incredible sets, and a surprisingly coherent plot. Very few video game film adaptations are as…

This movie always brings to mind one of my favorite rhetorical questions: who is more insane, the people who created a game where an Italian plumber fights turtles, eats mushrooms to grow, and shoots fireballs by grabbing (eating?) flowers in order to save a princess from a super turtle; or the people who saw all of…

Koopa in the movie actually was based on Trump. Many villains have been. Makes you think...