Super Mario Brothers

UPC: 786936209389

Studio: Walt Disney Video

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Violence]

Summary: The huge success of the video games featuring animated Italian plumbers the Mario Brothers led to this $42 million live action movie. The two brothers (Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo) live in Manhattan and are chasing Princess Daisy (Samantha Mathis), who wears a necklace made from a meteor fragment. Its powers can free a race of reptilian creatures from the city's sewers. The villainous ruler of the creatures, who are descendants of dinosaurs, is King Koopa (Dennis Hopper). Koopa has kidnapped Daisy and taken her to the underworld of Dinohattan, which is rat-infested and strewn with garbage. The Mario Brothers must overcome many obstacles, just as they do in video games, to free the princess. The film spares no expense with its use of animatronic monsters and high-tech special effects. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi

Category: Adventure

Features: Dolby Digital Surround Sound
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Super Mario Brothers

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 06/03/2003

Audio: DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 104 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Opening Title [13:14]
2. Spaghetti [5:07]
3. Flood [7:33]
4. 65 Million Years [10:01]
5. Evolve [12:34]
6. Princess Daisey [:57]
7. Check-In [7:43]
8. Slime-Bucket [6:15]
9. First Victim [3:09]
10. Hey Mario [5:54]
11. Gateway [7:12]
12. End Credits [16:23]

Jeremy Wheeler

While most big-screen videogame adaptations act as a reminder of why game play doesn't necessarily equal great times at the movies, not many begin to touch the jumbled mess that is Super Mario Bros. Look no further than a quick comparison of the game versus the film to truly grasp at how confounding this production really is. While the Mario games are beaming rays of color-filled fun times, the movie is the exact opposite. With a design scheme reflecting other early '90s grim futuristic tales (Tank Girl, Judge Dredd), the production is everything that the game wasn't. So what audience was this man-made wreck created for, anyway? Good question. Years later, people are still looking for an answer. What is known is that Bob Hoskins was born to play Mario, though it's sad that his acrobatics -- wondrously displayed in Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- go unused here. Even worse, he's paired with the very un-Italian John Leguizamo, who isn't quite as obnoxious as his days as The Pest, but doesn't bring anything to the role besides a backwards baseball cap and a genuine New York accent. Of course, one can't forget about Dennis Hopper, but even he is upstaged by the Goombas, a mutated human/reptile hybrid whose hilarious grin and deft puppetry is probably the best thing in the flick. Despite its failure to encapsulate the game's tone, the picture's production values are still impressive, thanks to its large budget and equally huge sets. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Mali Finn  Actor 
Thomas Merdis  Actor 
Lucy Alpaugh  Actor 
Don Lake  Actor 
Robert D. Raiford  Actor 
Frank Welker  Actor 
Michael Lynch  Actor 
Terry Finn  Actor 
Wallace Merck  Actor 
Don Finn  Actor 
Matt Nikko  Actor 
Kevin West  Actor 
Dan Castellaneta  Actor 
Harry Murphy  Actor 
Jeffrey Pillars  Actor 
Parker Bennett  Screenwriter 
Jake Eberts  Producer 
Annabel Jankel  Director 
Roland Joffé  Producer 
Barry Morrow  Screenwriter 
Rocky Morton  Director 
Terry Runte  Screenwriter 
Alan Silvestri  Composer (Music Score) 
Ed Solomon  Screenwriter 
Tom S. Parker  Screenwriter 
Jim Jennewein  Screenwriter 
Bob Hoskins  Actor 
John Leguizamo  Actor 
Dennis Hopper  Actor 
Samantha Mathis  Actor 
Fisher Stevens  Actor 
Richard Edson  Actor 
Fiona Shaw  Actor 
Dana Kaminski  Actor 
Mojo Nixon  Actor 
Gianni Russo  Actor 
Francesca Roberts  Actor 
Lance Henriksen  Actor 
Sylvia Harman  Actor 

Country: USA