The Super Mario Brothers Movie. Why was it bad?

[Pegghead]

Well for starters I double checked and it turns out Uwe Boll wasn't even affiliated with the project. I actually sort of liked it (But believe me when I say I am an extremely merciful critic) and it was cool getting a bit of backstory behind a game with less plot than a bar of soap. But everything was just a bit too cheesy, the props, the script, the actors (Especially Dennis Hopper, though they shouldn't take a really talented, respected actor and put them into a silly role, it would be like taking George C scott and putting him in some kind of lame cartoon film...)

Spoiler: Oh wait

 

[Jeronus]

It was a movie that didn't even try to stay true to the game. Mario and Luigi are father and son. Princess Peach wasn't anywhere to be found. Bowser didn't look anything like a fire breathing dragon and the world it was set in was nothing like the one from the games. People(i.e. kids who played the game) were expecting a movie that put the video game magic onto the big screen instead it took the source material picked it apart and used the remains to make the frankenstein we have now.

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

Because King Koopa Bowser wasn't a fire breathing turtle.

What the hell was he then? NOT being a fire-breathing turtle koopa just destroys the very concept of "Bowser".

 

[slowpoke999]

If you really want to know why it's bad, I have just one word for you: Monkey.

BABOMB

Because King Koopa Bowser wasn't a fire breathing turtle.

What the hell was he then? NOT being a fire-breathing turtle koopa just destroys the very concept of "Bowser".

It was Dennis hopper in a suit with Gel'd hair that idk resembled bone-plates on a stegosaurus,the character was a mix of Dr.Evil and Donal Trump.

 

[Bob_Bobbington]

Because King Koopa Bowser wasn't a fire breathing turtle.

What the hell was he then? NOT being a fire-breathing turtle koopa just destroys the very concept of "Bowser".

Just an evolved dinosaur that looked a lot like a human.

 

[Yancyboy]

One simple reason as to why the movie was bad. Well actually I can't think of one. I thought is was great. I was a dream come true when i saw it as a wee child. That and princess peach was in fact a peach *whistle whistle*

 

[Nazulu]

It's not bad, just an average kid film which had it's ups and downs though I can't remember what they were since it was sooo long ago.

 

[Fasckira]

I remember reading an article somewhere that Bob Hoskins hated working on SMB because it was being so poorly directed, so much so that he actually regrets ever appearing in the film. I think the idea was pretty clever, I mean you could see they were trying to take a unique twist on it to keep it fresh but it just didn't work out too well.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

The Super Mario Brothers movie was directed by Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel, Uwe Boll has nothing to do with this.

If you really want to know why it's bad, I have just one word for you: Monkey.

and Ba-Bomb. In fact, lets hear them back to back

Ba-BombMonkeyBa-BombMonkeyBa-BombMonkey

God bless you Nostalgia Critic

 

[theultimateend]

Well... It was totally different from the world portrayed in the games it was supposed to be based on. It didn't really feel like Super Mario Brothers. If it didn't have the Mario license attached, maybe it would have been forgettable as opposed to infamous.

This is the reason why I didn't not like it

Same.

 

[kalaim]

Uwe boll had hell nothing to do with the making of this movie for sure.

There were enough bad filmakers back in the days to fuck up a videogame movie without habing uwe boll involved in.

Double Dragon > James Yukich
Street fighter > Steven E. de Souza
Mortal Kombat > Paul W. S. Anderson
Wing commander (wonderful game, shitty movie) > Chris Roberts.

 

[syndicated44]

I never saw it but I never thought Uwe Boll was part of it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/fullcredits#directors

unless thats wrong I dont know. I never saw it however I wouldnt mind one day seeing although today is not that day and tommorow isnt looking good either.

 

[kotorfan04]

Well lets see if I can give it a try.

The first problem is that some idiots tried to make a movie version of a game that pretty much revived gaming, developed a pretty huge following and created a set of iconic characters for gamers everywhere. Also note that these characters HAVE ESTABLISHED ROLES, APPEARANCES, AND RELATIONS WITH EACH OTHER. Not to mention a relatively well known setting in the Mushroom Kingdom. Now while I mentioned that the characters have all these nice things the story is pretty bare bones. Princess is kidnapped Mario and Luigi saves her, Mario gets the shaft. Oh and for the idiots out there Bowser is the one doing the kidnapping.

So the issue arises, we have an incredibly popular property that is a lacking in the story department. What do we do? Well we can try to make a light hearted comedy that both celebrates and mocks the established canon and hope the fans will be pleased or we can try to make the movie "A serious action flick."

Sadly they went with this route that involved regular world (Never mentioned in the games) a bleak dystopic techno hell of a mushroom kingdom (Way off from actual description) they tried to make the villains menacing with plans for world domination (Of course!) They made the princess a secret princess for most of the movie (So hate that trope) and they made the brothers father and son...

To sum it up there were two big problems first of all there wasn't a substancial plot to base a movie off of, and the spirit of the game (Bright fun and fluffy) was contrary to the atmosphere that hollywood loved in the 1990s (Dark and edgy), and the second problem was when confronted with this problem they decided to go dark, screw the fans and make a conventional movie. Basically they sacrificed fan support to try to reach main stream, but they still held enough of the games conventions to make things seem odd. (I hope this post was coherent.)

Edit: These are the reasons I disliked this movie but if you enjoyed the move well you enjoy it and don't let any of these guys get you down. Sure most people might view it as bad, but I think everyone has a few movies that are generally regarded as crap that someone adores. I know I have a massive weakness for anything with zombies in it.

 

[Nieroshai]

Biggest problem: it BARELY HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE GAME!!! Sure there was Mario and Luigi and (almost-)Bowser. Sure, there was Yoshi. But the resemblance ends there. Completely.

 

[jboking]

Uwe Boll.

Excuse my ignorance here, but i can't see how he is connected here, all i see is that he did bloodrayne, house of the dead and farcry movies, but not Super Mario Brothers

yes, he did make the Mario movie. and Alone in The Dark. and hes coming up with a movie of Legend: Hand of God.

I'm sorry, what?

Anyway, the movie was okay if you didn't try to relate it to the actual Super Mario Bro's at all. Other than what they did to yoshi and bowser, I found nothing wrong with the movie.

 

[Socius]

... There was no super mario movie, all of humanity swore that incident never acured!
Watch your door, the MIB maybe comming for you all in the near future...
now they will also come from me! Now I must go find my hunting rifle, bye

 

[LeonLethality]

Wait...would this formula work backwards?
If we gave Uwe Boll a shitty game, would he make a good movie out of it?

OT: Couldn't tell you. I've never seen the Mario Brothers movie.

worth a shot, what have we got to lose?

 

[Rahnzan]

Because it tried its best to force a coke and LSD fueled programming experiment into a coherent and vaguely understandable plot that more than a child would be amused by, plagued with corny antics typical of the gamer stereotype of that time that anything game-related obviously wasn't to be taken seriously.





I loved it.

 

[Thaius]

Because they didn't get anything right. And we're talking about Mario here: that's just sad. There's very little story to speak of, and the only thing they actually did a good job with was Yoshi. Yoshi was exactly as I would hope a realistic-looking Yoshi would be. But Toad, Koopa, the Goombas... it was all just wrong. NOTHING in that movie was Mario except for the names.

 

[SonicWaffle]

Wait...would this formula work backwards?
If we gave Uwe Boll a shitty game, would he make a good movie out of it?

OT: Couldn't tell you. I've never seen the Mario Brothers movie.

worth a shot, what have we got to lose?

This summer, prepare for the time of your life in Uwe Boll's masterpiece...Knife Edge!

Alien invasions, on-rails shooting, some kind of weird tank think that transforms into a robot and then transforms again into...I don't know, it looks kinda like a couch. Its the ultimate thrill ride!

Seriously, if the inverse rule of good games-shit movies/shit games-good movies is true, Knife Edge will be the best movie you ever see.