When Dennis Hopper’s son asked him why he made the Mario movie he said, “so you could afford shoes, son”. His son responded, “dad I didn’t need shoes that bad”
I'm honestly surprised that there hasn't been a professional Netflix/Hulu style documentary about the production of this movie. It just makes so much sense
There have been a few making-of documentaries about it. Basically, everyone hated working on it and half the cast was drunk while filming. Dennis Hopper just rolled with it, stopped reading the script, and stole the show as the most entertaining part of the whole mess.
theres a making of documentary on the blu ray release. i guess this movie is so atrotious to hollyowod that no executive or Nintendo wants to event think about it anymore.
Imagine being a parent at the time and taking your kid to the movie thinking it's just gonna be a fun little Mario flic, and then dealing with their nightmares for years
@@factsnfeatures it kinda makes me think of a lot of the early 2000's kid's films, like Cat in the Hat and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, they had such bizarre themes and were deeply steeped in weird fashion trends of the time, the late 90's and early 2000's are deffo a weird time in children's programming cozza all that, but to everyone growing up it was kinda just normal until they grew up and went "huh, that was weird" -- cheers!
There’s a lot I love about the 1993 Mario movie, both ironically and unironically, but one of the more obscure things I love is Shigeru Miyamoto’s review of the movie. In a 2007 interview, Miyamoto said "The one thing that I still have some regrets about is that the movie may have tried to get a little too close to what the Mario Bros. videogames were. And in that sense, it became a movie that was about a videogame, rather than being an entertaining movie in and of itself." Yes. According to Miyamoto, the failing of the Mario movie was not how far removed from the source material, but how *close* it was. The fact that Miyamoto is supposedly close to the new Mario movie makes me both very excited and concerned on what his idea of a distanced Mario movie will be like.
Lmaooo no way, how the fuck was that his takeaway?! Haha well Miyamoto is and always was an interesting character. Maybe he was on the same shrooms he took to create the original Super Mario Bros games when he watched the movie? Only way to explain how he thought it was too accurate to the games (again how the fuck did he??)
I really enjoyed this movie as a kid. Like yeah it's not faithful to the games and the production being so nasty sorta makes it uncomfortable, but I found it really fun with the crazy ass Blade Runner Koopa city, Dennis Hopper, the ridiculous but still pretty endearing design of the Goombas, the super scope guns with all those really fun VFX, the jump boots, the bob-omb with the branded shoes, the lady Bob Hoskins practically motorboats to get the rock back, fungus dad. Like a lot of this film I could recount from memory which I can't say about a lot of crappy licensed book or video game movie adaptations I've seen in my life, and I'm like 90% sure I'm not gonna be able to say that about the Illumination film when it comes out.
Same, this whole video was nostalgia hit after nostalgia hit. Like yeah the movie made 0 sense and nothing like the games to even dumb kid me, but some how the weird stuff and wannabe Bladerunner aesthetics made it all the more memorable I guess lol
3:12 - 3:52 Fun fact: That's actually supposed to be Pauline from the Donkey Kong arcade game. In fact, her full name is "Daniella Pauline Verducci". Peach doesn't exist in this movie. More specifically, she was fused with Daisy because at the time, Peach's English name was Toadstool. And the executives said "We can't market this shit" and scrapped her in favor of Daisy.
You think Captain Lou would want to be involved in this shit show? I'm happy he didn't get involved, because we can remember him as he deserves to be remembered: Only doing good things.
@@smbsuperfan271 Yeah, because he defined an existing Mario character on-screen in the Super Mario Super Show. Using an established version of him would've been a smarter choice for casting the movie.
Everyone in the movie is like a gross humanoid gritty realistic parody of themselves, and then there's Bob-Omb... The ONE character they decided to keep accurate to the games if freaking Bob-omb of all people, I can't even.
Was talking about this movie on the phone with my dad. I hung up the call, open youtube, and this video is the first thing on my recommended. Get. Out. Of. My. Head.
I was under the impression that I had watched the entire movie when I was a kid. But now half of it feels completely new. I guess I glossed over some parts or I suppressed them because of trauma.
Fun fact: The director of the movie confirmed the movie is actually a PREQUEL to the 1985 NES game. That's why the movie ends that way. Mario, Luigi, and Daisy would go back to the Mushroom Kingdom which evolved to what we all are familiar with, Koopa evolved to Bowser and Mario meets his own girlfriend which is Peach. So if you really want a second part so bad, chance are you already seen it. Or played it. 😂
@@brandonspain12345 The directors of this movie are both lying frauds that never worked in Hollywood again. Also some of the writers of this movie started working on a comic book adaptation of their idea for the sequel. They never finished it but you can read what they did make online, it's pretty good. It's based on Super Mario Bros 2, there are Shyguys who are dudes with gas masks and Wart is in it, and he's a big fat human man covered in moles.
Man, even though I watched this a few times on TV I had forgotten like 99% of this movie. Every scene was shot in that same dark, depressing, bland, grungy bladerunner set so most of the movie kind of blends together for me. The only thing that stuck with me from that movie was the meat and veggies scene. Toad comes in with this plate of raw meat, Daisy says she's a vegetarian, and asks if there's chance for a plate of steamed veggies. Toad later comes back with nice plate of veggies. As a kid I thought that was a great bit of world building to show that in a world of dinosaurs meals are prepared for both carnivores and herbivores. Also that plate of veggies was probably the most colorful thing in the movie
Do you know that most of the animals you labelled as meat eaters would eat vegetables too? And herbivores will totally eat meat if they have access to it.
This is a classic tale of a director that wanted to make their own movie no matter the franchise they are involved rather than respecting the framework of said franchise...pretty much like Wes Anderson does with everything he touches from Capcom...but at least this movie is ironically funny
I unironically love the Super Mario Bros live action movie and I will happily die on the hill of defending it. It's a genuinely imaginative if fucking weird movie that did the best with possible with the limited source material they had.
This was the most insane shit just because even with an explanation of HOW these decisions were made I for the life of me can’t understand WHY these decisions were made
Gillchrist is the forgotten last memeber of the Red Letter Media gang. You can see him in Gorilla Interrupted. As far as I know they didn't get along too well, that's it, no real drama. He has a thing for She Hulk.
this should of just been a martial arts movie with call backs to the game. I mean i like he jump suits, but their should of been henchmen with brown color costumes and green colored costumes to be koopas and goombas. And get rid of the dinosaur de-evolve stuff and maybe peach is the girl they need to save from a crime boss/ evil king who wants to conquer the mushroom kingdom. like bruh we got the crack head universe edition.
@@plantain.1739 Both the original score and the selection of licenced tracks are excellent. If they hadn't got at least that right I don't think I would've watched this a million times as a kid, because that's what I was actually enjoying :P
When people complain nowdays that movies based on some franchise don't look like they imagined I usually think, Imagine growing up in the 80s and 90s(Like me). I mean, this movie is a good reprensentation of what that was like.
I genuinely love this movie. I know it's a bizarre mess and barely related to the Nintendo franchise, and there is probably a good helping of nostalgia, but I enjoy watching this film to this day.
Oh yeah, i remember watching this movie a lot of years ago and even back than i thought that it was 'weird' or something lmao Maybe because i expected it to be like somewhat related to the game?
I was an obsessed 11 year old Mario fan when this came out. I had the original NES at the time and played the three original Super Mario Bros. games a lot as well as watched the The Super Mario Bros Super Show and Adventures Of Super Mario Bros. 3. When the Super Mario Bros. movie came out it was the first time a video game movie adaptation had been made so there was no notion of how it would be. I saw it in theaters when it came out and actually enjoyed it even though it was different from how the characters looked in artwork from the official game art. Keep in mind that the video games of the time were shown in 8 bit and 16 bit pixels so a lot was left to the imagination. I wasn't even aware of the films infamous and bad reputation until the 2010s. Even though I understand it's flaws that it's not considered a good movie I still have a nostalgic fondness for it. I still have my old VHS tape copy of the movie all these years. It does seem to have a cult following now.
This is literally my favorite video game movie my parents were annoyed because I always wanted to rent it from blockbuster we should have just bought it because of how much we rented it
This movie was broadcasted 3-4 times on air TV here in my country. I recorded it on VHS, from national air TV, and watched it like a good 10-15 times after that. You don't understand how much I liked this movie as kid, it was just super fun to me watching Mario coming to life in the stupidest way possible. Nothing made sense! And I loved it!
I love most cult classics like The Wizard and Hackers but this one might be a bit too much for me. That being said, I always have time to watch someone review it regardless of they're dumping on it or not. It's just like Earthbound, I prefer to experience it all from afar. 🤣😜
@@XgoDuo Yeah, mate, Charles Martinet's forced squeak makes me cringe when he's just announcing a game title. I never wanted to hear full conversations in that voice... and now I won't. So yeah, Chris Pratt will do fine.
I remember seeing this movie in a drive-in as a kid and loved it. It's silly hot trash, but it's kinda fun and has aged well in a so bad its good kinda way. I would love for this to get a 4k retransfer.
"Mario and Luigi kill without hesitation" - huh, I didn't realize this movie was so accurate to the source material
The Mario Brothers really are Judge, Jury and Executioner! Pog
Now you know what my people have known for decades
@Otneimica I mind my business til I get into a kart.
When Dennis Hopper’s son asked him why he made the Mario movie he said, “so you could afford shoes, son”. His son responded, “dad I didn’t need shoes that bad”
oof.
And he was on Late Nite with Conan O'Brien when he said that!
Oh no......
I'm honestly surprised that there hasn't been a professional Netflix/Hulu style documentary about the production of this movie. It just makes so much sense
actually, Gaming Historian made a video on the production
I’m just a young mexican stoner that smokes weed on my UA-cam channel, tryna me it out the hood One Day👌
I don't think Nintendo would allow it
There have been a few making-of documentaries about it. Basically, everyone hated working on it and half the cast was drunk while filming.
Dennis Hopper just rolled with it, stopped reading the script, and stole the show as the most entertaining part of the whole mess.
theres a making of documentary on the blu ray release. i guess this movie is so atrotious to hollyowod that no executive or Nintendo wants to event think about it anymore.
"Nintendo hating everyone" sums up their entire existence perfectly
lmao, for real.
Imagine being a parent at the time and taking your kid to the movie thinking it's just gonna be a fun little Mario flic, and then dealing with their nightmares for years
... excuse me, I have to go apologize to my Mom.
I was probably 4 the first time I saw this movie, and it was one of my absolute favorites to rent. I've seen it more than a few times.
@@pwabd2784 badass child, I respect that
I honestly thought this movie was completely normal as a child.
@@factsnfeatures it kinda makes me think of a lot of the early 2000's kid's films, like Cat in the Hat and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, they had such bizarre themes and were deeply steeped in weird fashion trends of the time, the late 90's and early 2000's are deffo a weird time in children's programming cozza all that, but to everyone growing up it was kinda just normal until they grew up and went "huh, that was weird" -- cheers!
There’s a lot I love about the 1993 Mario movie, both ironically and unironically, but one of the more obscure things I love is Shigeru Miyamoto’s review of the movie. In a 2007 interview, Miyamoto said "The one thing that I still have some regrets about is that the movie may have tried to get a little too close to what the Mario Bros. videogames were. And in that sense, it became a movie that was about a videogame, rather than being an entertaining movie in and of itself."
Yes. According to Miyamoto, the failing of the Mario movie was not how far removed from the source material, but how *close* it was. The fact that Miyamoto is supposedly close to the new Mario movie makes me both very excited and concerned on what his idea of a distanced Mario movie will be like.
Continuing the cyberpunk theme of this movie, the Mario movie will be like Blade Runner 2049
Lmaooo no way, how the fuck was that his takeaway?! Haha well Miyamoto is and always was an interesting character. Maybe he was on the same shrooms he took to create the original Super Mario Bros games when he watched the movie? Only way to explain how he thought it was too accurate to the games (again how the fuck did he??)
I bet he didn’t see the movie
That's definitely a bad translation of some coy Kyoto doubletalk.
@@thecianinator how did they fuck it up that badly
Honestly the Yoshi is really good compared to every other non-human character.
The Yoshi is the only thing I legitimately like
I really enjoyed this movie as a kid. Like yeah it's not faithful to the games and the production being so nasty sorta makes it uncomfortable, but I found it really fun with the crazy ass Blade Runner Koopa city, Dennis Hopper, the ridiculous but still pretty endearing design of the Goombas, the super scope guns with all those really fun VFX, the jump boots, the bob-omb with the branded shoes, the lady Bob Hoskins practically motorboats to get the rock back, fungus dad.
Like a lot of this film I could recount from memory which I can't say about a lot of crappy licensed book or video game movie adaptations I've seen in my life, and I'm like 90% sure I'm not gonna be able to say that about the Illumination film when it comes out.
Same, this whole video was nostalgia hit after nostalgia hit. Like yeah the movie made 0 sense and nothing like the games to even dumb kid me, but some how the weird stuff and wannabe Bladerunner aesthetics made it all the more memorable I guess lol
3:12 - 3:52
Fun fact: That's actually supposed to be Pauline from the Donkey Kong arcade game. In fact, her full name is "Daniella Pauline Verducci".
Peach doesn't exist in this movie. More specifically, she was fused with Daisy because at the time, Peach's English name was Toadstool. And the executives said "We can't market this shit" and scrapped her in favor of Daisy.
People need to understand: This was incredibly cool as a kid. I honestly thought it was rated R or something.
I was 11 when I watched this for the first time, on DVD. It almost instantly bored me.
Exactly the video I wanted to see. For some reason.
I'll never forgive them for not giving my boy Lou Albano a shot at the big screen
You think Captain Lou would want to be involved in this shit show? I'm happy he didn't get involved, because we can remember him as he deserves to be remembered: Only doing good things.
@@smbsuperfan271 And of course, doing THE MARIO
@@smbsuperfan271 Yeah, because he defined an existing Mario character on-screen in the Super Mario Super Show. Using an established version of him would've been a smarter choice for casting the movie.
Everyone in the movie is like a gross humanoid gritty realistic parody of themselves, and then there's Bob-Omb... The ONE character they decided to keep accurate to the games if freaking Bob-omb of all people, I can't even.
Was talking about this movie on the phone with my dad. I hung up the call, open youtube, and this video is the first thing on my recommended. Get. Out. Of. My. Head.
Google listens bro!!
I was under the impression that I had watched the entire movie when I was a kid. But now half of it feels completely new. I guess I glossed over some parts or I suppressed them because of trauma.
god i want a second part so bad...one that goes full termiantor ripoff
With the new mario movie coming out you won't have to wait much longer.
Fun fact: The director of the movie confirmed the movie is actually a PREQUEL to the 1985 NES game. That's why the movie ends that way. Mario, Luigi, and Daisy would go back to the Mushroom Kingdom which evolved to what we all are familiar with, Koopa evolved to Bowser and Mario meets his own girlfriend which is Peach. So if you really want a second part so bad, chance are you already seen it. Or played it. 😂
@@brandonspain12345 The directors of this movie are both lying frauds that never worked in Hollywood again. Also some of the writers of this movie started working on a comic book adaptation of their idea for the sequel. They never finished it but you can read what they did make online, it's pretty good. It's based on Super Mario Bros 2, there are Shyguys who are dudes with gas masks and Wart is in it, and he's a big fat human man covered in moles.
This is gonna look like Citizen Kane in a few months. Just you wait.
*Implying it’s not already*
What's going to change in a few months? Your balls dropping?
Yep,
Man, even though I watched this a few times on TV I had forgotten like 99% of this movie. Every scene was shot in that same dark, depressing, bland, grungy bladerunner set so most of the movie kind of blends together for me.
The only thing that stuck with me from that movie was the meat and veggies scene. Toad comes in with this plate of raw meat, Daisy says she's a vegetarian, and asks if there's chance for a plate of steamed veggies. Toad later comes back with nice plate of veggies. As a kid I thought that was a great bit of world building to show that in a world of dinosaurs meals are prepared for both carnivores and herbivores. Also that plate of veggies was probably the most colorful thing in the movie
Do you know that most of the animals you labelled as meat eaters would eat vegetables too? And herbivores will totally eat meat if they have access to it.
This is a classic tale of a director that wanted to make their own movie no matter the franchise they are involved rather than respecting the framework of said franchise...pretty much like Wes Anderson does with everything he touches from Capcom...but at least this movie is ironically funny
"Luigi flies, Mario dies."
- Miyamoto
I unironically love the Super Mario Bros live action movie and I will happily die on the hill of defending it.
It's a genuinely imaginative if fucking weird movie that did the best with possible with the limited source material they had.
"He's been my mother my whole life"
MAMA MARIO?
"Yoshi licks her hand that's the scene" You dirty liar, that scene gets ohhh so much worse.
The 93 mario film was such a bizzare and out there adaptation for the franchise that I cant help but appreciate it.
This was the most insane shit just because even with an explanation of HOW these decisions were made I for the life of me can’t understand WHY these decisions were made
Gillchrist is the forgotten last memeber of the Red Letter Media gang. You can see him in Gorilla Interrupted. As far as I know they didn't get along too well, that's it, no real drama. He has a thing for She Hulk.
I legitimately LOVE this movie.
I love how much the new mario took from this one. This is such an underestimated movie.
0:40 Classic Gilchrist!
this should of just been a martial arts movie with call backs to the game. I mean i like he jump suits, but their should of been henchmen with brown color costumes and green colored costumes to be koopas and goombas. And get rid of the dinosaur de-evolve stuff and maybe peach is the girl they need to save from a crime boss/ evil king who wants to conquer the mushroom kingdom.
like bruh we got the crack head universe edition.
Could it be that Yoshi is the punch line of pain ?
You forgot about the amazing musical score to this film.
Everyone forgets the score. Everyone.
@@plantain.1739 Both the original score and the selection of licenced tracks are excellent.
If they hadn't got at least that right I don't think I would've watched this a million times as a kid, because that's what I was actually enjoying :P
If you would have animated this instead of using the actual video, we'd all assume you were just lost in another fever dream again.
Not gonna lie, the rap that Iggy and spike sing is pretty catchy
Holy fuck. I never watched this as I always assumed it was simply god awful, but this is honestly amazing. Really good vid, man
ah yes, the 'iconic' super mario brothers van. That's canon for sure
Man you missed the part where the two bad guys that work for koopa actually sniffs some gLizzy's and then said "they say it's dog"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
That ending with the butt rock 🤣😂
Literally watched this film on VHS at work today
Thank you for playing Snot, long time I haven't heard this
When people complain nowdays that movies based on some franchise don't look like they imagined I usually think, Imagine growing up in the 80s and 90s(Like me). I mean, this movie is a good reprensentation of what that was like.
Ah the best video game Adaptation
I genuinely love this movie. I know it's a bizarre mess and barely related to the Nintendo franchise, and there is probably a good helping of nostalgia, but I enjoy watching this film to this day.
Im kinda surprised you didn't actually use RATM this time. Keeping me on my toes I see!
Keep up the wonderful work Ty!
Or: "If Mario Was Written By Christopher Nolan and Directed By Joel Schumacher"
I still like the movie , let's a all remember the Goomba polka dance
I’m glad I’m able to experience super Mario bros before super Mario bros later this year
Ok but I genuinely love this movie
Another Whimsu mastapeeeeec
... also I had never seen any of the Extended Cut footage, that stuff is crazy!
I thought this was just a fever dream I had. I'm more terrified that it's real
I love the hell out of that movie
Still more game accurate than the recent Netflix Resident Evil movies lol
"Mario and Luigi kill without hesitation"
I'll admit, this movie is my guilty pleasure.
This whole movie sounds like it was written by someone tripping on LSD.
this looks like a university project and it doesnt look half bad lol
You good sir, are LITERALLY the only reason this could have ever been bearable. I also don't know how you survive these
Oh yeah, i remember watching this movie a lot of years ago and even back than i thought that it was 'weird' or something lmao
Maybe because i expected it to be like somewhat related to the game?
I was an obsessed 11 year old Mario fan when this came out. I had the original NES at the time and played the three original Super Mario Bros. games a lot as well as watched the The Super Mario Bros Super Show and Adventures Of Super Mario Bros. 3. When the Super Mario Bros. movie came out it was the first time a video game movie adaptation had been made so there was no notion of how it would be. I saw it in theaters when it came out and actually enjoyed it even though it was different from how the characters looked in artwork from the official game art. Keep in mind that the video games of the time were shown in 8 bit and 16 bit pixels so a lot was left to the imagination. I wasn't even aware of the films infamous and bad reputation until the 2010s. Even though I understand it's flaws that it's not considered a good movie I still have a nostalgic fondness for it. I still have my old VHS tape copy of the movie all these years. It does seem to have a cult following now.
Wow this was hilarious I hope you do more in the future
This is the review of this movie we didn't deserve, because it's too good.
LMAO. My God what a movie. It's absolutely insane. I cannot believe this movie was created without the director and writers being on acid.
Lets not jump to conclusions here
1993 was a wild year. I was 6 years old, and I remember an episode of the OG Power Rangers with the TMNT in it. Wild.
This is literally my favorite video game movie my parents were annoyed because I always wanted to rent it from blockbuster we should have just bought it because of how much we rented it
This review was actually amazing.
This is the greatest summary I've ever seen. Not just of this movie. In general.
This movie was broadcasted 3-4 times on air TV here in my country. I recorded it on VHS, from national air TV, and watched it like a good 10-15 times after that. You don't understand how much I liked this movie as kid, it was just super fun to me watching Mario coming to life in the stupidest way possible. Nothing made sense! And I loved it!
I can't believe Mario caused 9/11.
I love most cult classics like The Wizard and Hackers but this one might be a bit too much for me. That being said, I always have time to watch someone review it regardless of they're dumping on it or not. It's just like Earthbound, I prefer to experience it all from afar. 🤣😜
Wow, how did I not know about this! 10/10 would watch again!
This entire movie is only half as bad as Chris Pratt getting the role of mario
But he's so cool.
Chris Pratt will do fine as Mario.
@@thelordz33 you know who else would have done fine as mario...the voice actor for Mario, who is making a cameo
@@XgoDuo Yeah, mate, Charles Martinet's forced squeak makes me cringe when he's just announcing a game title. I never wanted to hear full conversations in that voice... and now I won't.
So yeah, Chris Pratt will do fine.
@@reloadpsi you know what, that's a fair point. GGs man Lmao
I'll always remember my mom renting a VHS copy of this film.
That was a weird hour and a half and I never told her what I saw
The end credits music is the funniest fucking thing to me.
If you switch it to Wario and Waluigi it works pretty well as an origin story.
Omgosh this just made my day, that you so so so much
I was really hoping you or Cody would do this movie!
"... iconic Mario Bros van ..." I don't know, something about that statement is funny to me.
could've had a sequel princess comes in "I need your help there's a new baddie,Bowser!"
what and acid trip...
Im honestly surprised that’s not the type of music they actually chose for the credits. Might as well put the cello track from cyberpunk too.
8:34 And for the past 30 years I thought it was because the goombas weren't properly housebroken....
I came to laugh at this movie and now I want to watch it so badly!
Toad is played by the music artist Mojo Nixon. Excellent artist
So the extended cut has a Mario rap and explicit nudity? Gotta check that out
This video is so goddamn underappreciated
This is the work of a deity
a beautyful piece of art🥸
Just picked up this dvd for $4 and it was totally worth it
"Yoshi tongues her"
Honestly not a phrase I thought I'd hear tonight
Iggy and Spike rapping sounds exactly the same as the rap episode from the Super Mario Bros Super Show... oh noooooooooooooo
Movie also known as “Mario and Luigi Enter The South Bronx”
The new movie can’t possibly hold a candle
I remember seeing this movie in a drive-in as a kid and loved it. It's silly hot trash, but it's kinda fun and has aged well in a so bad its good kinda way. I would love for this to get a 4k retransfer.
I really want to see this now
keep up the good work and great content! loving this new channel as much as the others !
There's something about old dinosaur movies. I mean I know they're wrong the dinosaurs don't look quite right but there's something special about them
Mario Mario and Luigi Mario
Mario Mario and Luigi Mario, that's canon, just like the bomb-ombs wear Reebook shoes.
I didn't like this movie when it came out, but I'm surprised to see that my opinion has changed, because now... I hate it...
I about died @ 12:54