Super Mario Brothers the Movie is just downright terrible, no matter what angle I look at it from. I looked at it as funny, as cheesy, as a fantasy movie, and as a video game adaptation, and it's still horrible. I don't understand how the movie was made like this.
First of all, I completely understand that making a live action movie about Mario could not have followed the game's formula too closely. A fat plumber jumping on big turtles, growing when he ate mushrooms, and breathing fire when he touched a flower would have looked terrible. However, this movie carries almost no resemblance to the Mario games. You have Mario and Luigi as the plumber heroes. That's it. The big bad koopa is a dinosaur that has evolved into a humanoid dino. The Goombas in the movie are humans that have been demented into big lizards. Princess Peach is replaced by Princess Daisy. Yoshi appears as a pet to King Koopa.
It's like they wrote a fantasy script for a movie and threw Mario into it so they could call it a Mario movie. The movie itself isn't entirely awful, but it doesn't at all feel like a Mario movie. Making a Mario movie shouldn't have been too hard. I give it a 3/10.
First of all, I completely understand that making a live action movie about Mario could not have followed the game's formula too closely. A fat plumber jumping on big turtles, growing when he ate mushrooms, and breathing fire when he touched a flower would have looked terrible. However, this movie carries almost no resemblance to the Mario games. You have Mario and Luigi as the plumber heroes. That's it. The big bad koopa is a dinosaur that has evolved into a humanoid dino. The Goombas in the movie are humans that have been demented into big lizards. Princess Peach is replaced by Princess Daisy. Yoshi appears as a pet to King Koopa.
It's like they wrote a fantasy script for a movie and threw Mario into it so they could call it a Mario movie. The movie itself isn't entirely awful, but it doesn't at all feel like a Mario movie. Making a Mario movie shouldn't have been too hard. I give it a 3/10.