Super Mario Bros Film

Super Mario Bros. is a 1993 movie based on the popular video game series of
the same name. The film followed the exploits of Mario Mario (Bob Hoskins)
and his brother Luigi (John Leguizamo) in a comical dystopia ruled by King
Koopa (Dennis Hopper).

Specifically, the film is havily based on Super Mario World, which was the
most recent Mario game at the time.

Plot

The movie's basic premise involves the notion that millions of years ago a
meteor hit the earth, splitting the world into two paraell dimensions. The
first dimension is our world, inhabited by humans who evolved from apes. The
other dimension is inhabited by humanoid creatures who evolved from
dinosaurs.

30 years ago, the dinosaur world's benevolent monarch was deposed by a
military strongman named Koopa. Koopa proceded to establish a brutal
dictatorship with himself at the center of a vast personality cult. Using a
special de-evolutionary machine, Koopa transformed anyone who opposed his
rule into mindless lizard drones known as Goombas. With his power over the
dinosaur world firmly consolidated, Koopa began to plan for the eventual
takeover of the human world as well.

Flash forward to present-day Brooklyn, New York, where a young archeologist
named Daisy has uncovered a massive find of mysterious new dinosaur bones.
She befriends two plumbers named Mario and Luigi Mario, after her car breaks
down. Unbenownst to Daisy, two strange men named Spike and Iggy are trying
to kidnap her. They are cousins of Koopa, and on orders to capture Daisy,
who is actually the daughter of the deposed king. She posseses a magical
amulet that Koopa needs if he is ever to succeed in uniting the two
dimensions.

Eventually Iggy and Spike succeed, and drag Daisy through an underground
portal into the dinosaur world. Mario and Luigi follow in after her.

The rest of the film involves the Mario Brothers trying to navigate through
the chaotic captiol of the dinosaur world ("Dinohattan"), track down Koopa,
and rescue the Princess.

Popularity

The film was an enormous flop. Although it boasted several big stars, the
film was denounced by critics as "cheesy" and lacking any sort of coherient
plot. The film was reasonably popular with pre-teens, though many fans of
the actual Mario Brothers series were upset at the movie's more "serious"
tone, and found its live action cast to be too drastic a departure from the
cartoony world of the games. The film's PG rating probably hurted the film's
potential, as well. The movie's dark atmosphere, realistic-looking monsters,
and numerous action sequences scared off many parents from bringing their
young Mario-fans to the theatre, effectively eliminating a key demographic.

Cast

Bob Hoskins - Mario
John Leguizamo - Luigi
Dennis Hopper - Koopa
Samantha Mathis - Daisy
Fisher Stevens - Iggy
Richard Edson - Spike
Fiona Shaw - Lena
Dana Kaminski - Daniella
Mojo Nixon - Toad

While the film is generally considered to be a disaster by fans of the games
and non fans alike, some consider it to be a cult classic.

It was directed by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton and was distributed by
Hollywood Pictures.

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