Howling Fan wrote:I actually liked "Super Mario Bros." for, like, the first five minutes when they were plumbers in Brooklyn. That followed the video game's storyline pretty well. Then, as soon as they entered that stupid dino-alternate universe-whatever-world, it didn't exactly adhere to the game. How far did it stray? About 5 seconds in upon arriving at said ridiculous world, Mario bumps into a nice, sweet, kindly looking old lady. And then.....immediatley produces a huge rifle from her purse, blasting away at anything that moves. I'm not sure I remember gun-toting grandmas in my childhood heyday of playing "Super Mario Bros." Must have been taken from a secret room in the original game. I mean, did the screenwriters ever play the game at all? Maybe they got it confused with "Doom."
Well... I understand your sentiments, but... Well, first and foremost, Maripland has undergone quite a few changes over the years.
Second, have you ever noticed that Mario's always right at home in the Mushroom and/or Koopa kingdom like he's been through this thing a hundred times before, even in the original 8-bit game? Sooner or later, there had to be some kind of point where Mario and Luigi first discovered the portal and looked around at everything like they thought this was a sign to stop drinking... But they did say something along the lines of "what the hell?" a lot in the movie. Therefore, the Mario movie must've been the prequel.
And finally, apart from Yoshi (who did appear in the movie), Mario's allies are a bunch of anthro mushrooms. Can you imagine them trying to make that work? Even if they could make it happen, you know the same bastards that got
Father of the Pride canned and are trying to do the same to Pokemon and Harry Potter would have been up in arms accusing them of selling drugs to their children.
So yeah, it was corny, but as a movie based on one of the oldest video games in the history of home entertainment, what'd you expect?
Scott Gardener wrote:It was intended to look that way. The mix of stop motion and obviously digitally rendered effects were intentional. The cheesy Casio keyboard soundtrack was also intentional. It was designed to look like a low budget documentary of fake biology. It's a quirky independant film styled comedy, that's best enjoyed while hyped on caffiene at two in the morning.
Well... Okay, I'll give it to you... But for some reason, quirky low-budget independent film style comedy is more enjoyable when produced by independent filmakers. It's one thing to have horrible acting, scriptwork or special effects, but it's another thing to have intentionally horrible acting, scriptwork or special effects because, when you don't give a flying crap, it shows.
Like in the scene where that kid shows Zissou the seahorse in the plastic bag, but you only see it during the zoom shot and not when he holds the bag up right in front of the camera. And all the director would have had to do to fix that would be to tell Bill to take a step to the left so his shoulder's partially blocking the view of the bag.
So sure, I can tolerate poor visual effects every now and then, but not when their so obviously bad it looks like their either making fun of their viewers or don't give a crap. That's why it made the list for me.
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