The live-action fever dream of Super Mario Bros may be one of the best and worst movies of all time. How well do you remember it?
In the pantheon of bad movies, the live action Super Mario Bros stands out as a special kind of horrible. From its absolutely absurd storyline to its baffling options to tailor one of the world’s most popular video game franchises, there’s not much about the film that can be redeemed in a purely cinematic sense, but here in 2020, 27 years later at the launch of the movie, we can appreciate it for the cult classic that it is.
Does it make any sense? Absolutely not. Do we constantly find ourselves questioning our own sanity as we try to process what we’ve seen to write about it? Of course. Is it worth it anyway? Debatable. But here we are, independently. And to make things even weirder, there are currently no ways to digitally stream or buy the movie in the US If you feel like looking again, you’ll have to dust off your DVD player and find a copy, or you can search for one. Clan copy loaded on a video sharing website like Vimeo. Just a little suggestion. Either way, the lack of accessibility really increases the aesthetics of the dream movie, which can be a feature or a mistake, depending on who you ask.
So, without further ado, we present 27 things that definitely, actually, really happened in the movie Super Mario Bros, ranging from Nintendo’s Easter eggs to absolutely inscrutable lines of dialogue and everything in between.
