Super Mario Bros. (film): Difference between revisions

In 1993, Lightmotive made a [[Live Action Adaptation]] out of [[Super Mario Bros.]], which was later bought by [[Disney]] under Jeffrey Katzenberg's (now of [[Dream WorksDreamWorks]]) direction. [[Love It or Hate It|To many]], it either [[Video Game Movies Suck|sucks]] big-time, or it's [[So Bad ItsIt's Good|the quirkiest "adaptation" of the Mario canon]].

* [[Five Five Five|555]]: Averted. There is a scene in the film where [[Big Bad]] Koopa has ordered a wanted poster of the plumbers posted all over the underworld, with an 800 number to call if they are spotted. The thing is, the number is a legitimate toll-free number in the US, and if you call it, it's now a phone sex hotline.

* [[All There in Thethe Script]]: Various scripted plot points were likely never shot, including the reason why Daisy is the only one that can merge the dimensions: she is the sole survivor of the Portal-Keepers, an esoteric society mutated by the meteorite's radiation.

* [[Animated Credits Opening]]: Partially. The movie opens with a weird, pixelated artstyle that shifts into live-action after the dinosaurs express their contentment with life. This was due to [[Executive Meddling]] as the producers felt test audiences weren't getting the concept of the parallel dimensions and [[Viewers Areare Morons|needed it spelled out]]. The idea was to have graphics reminiscent of the games but they opted for a cheaper and faster route.

* [[Card -Carrying Villain]] / [[Exact Words]]: When Mario and Luigi meet up with their "attorney," the attorney tells them that they don't want to meet Koopa, as "one evil, egg-sucking son of a snake." When it is revealed that Koopa was the person who acted as their attorney, Luigi expresses shock, to which Koopa then repeats the above description, and then says "Did I lie?"

* [[Canon Foreigner]]: Anthony Scarpelli and, Lena., Andand Mario's girlfriend Daniella (who was based on [[Donkey Kong|Pauline]].)

* [[Clipped -Wing Angel]]: Koopa {{spoiler|is de-evolved into a T-rex near the end, but easily de-evolved further into primordial slime.}}

* [[Door StopStep Baby]]: Daisy.

* [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs]]: Dinosaurs popularity with children in the '90s is thought to be the reason they were so integrated into the setting.

* [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Monkeys]]: Koopa turns minor antagonist Anthony Scarpelli into one.

{{quote| '''Koopa''' (smiling): Monkey!}}

* [[Green -Eyed Monster]]: Lena.

* [[He's Got a Weapon!]]: "It's a BOB-OMB!" "HE'S GOT A BOB-OMB!"

* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: Koopa is defeated with his own devo guns.

* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: Between Koopa and Daisy, though Lena gets in on it a bit as well.

* [[If Jesus, Then Aliens]]

* [[A Nazi Byby Any Other Name]]: Brief moment when Simon passes another cop in the hallway, who raises his arm in a salute and says "Hail Koopa."

* [[Off -the -Shelf FX]]: The de-evolution guns are just Super Scopes (the SNES' light gun) painted black.

{{quote| '''Luigi:''' Mario here brought me up. He's been my mother my whole life.}}

** The earlier cartoon series and some other areas, such as the [[Nintendo Power]] magazine, also stated this to be their mutual last name. [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity|This does not extend to the actual game canon, though.]]

* [[Sequel Hook]]: Daisy dressed as [[Alien (Filmfranchise)|Ripley]]. According to writer Parker Bennett, this was literally lifted from ''[[Back to The Future]]''.

* [[Shout -Out]]: Tons to the games, although a lot of them are awkward and minimal. The barrels of the "Fry Guy" flamethrower guns look vaguely like red flower petals while they are obviously named after the enemy. The cartridges which power the jump-boots (themselves a reference to the Bros.' incredible jumping ability in the games and visually modeled after Thwomps) resemble Bullet Bills.

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Some of Lena's outfits, as well as dancers at the Boom Boom bar in a scene that was cut from theatrical release. You can still see them in the background in some scenes. Also check out Joseph Porro's [http://www.josephporro.com/www.josephporro.com/My_Films/Pages/Super_Mario_Bros..html early costume designs]{{Dead link}}.

* [[Two Words: Obvious Trope]]: Mario uses this trope to emphasize "IM-POSSIBLE."

* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]]: Toad gets himself arrested for singing one.

* [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]]: Koopa

{{quote| '''Koopa:''' What ''I'' care about, is the future of our species!}}

* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: Quite a few important plot threads are left unresolved and would have been [[Left Hanging]] had they not been put on the sidelines by numerous script rewrites and reshoots. Namely, the [[Alternate Universe|parallel world]] is still slowly dying from lack of clean, renewable resources, Toad and innumerable prisoners are still de-evolved, and rival plumbers Mike and Doug never get their comeuppance. The King remaining a citywide fungus ''would'' have been this had [[Lance Henriksen]] not cameoed in a reshoot where his character returns to human form after Koopa's defeat.

* [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?]]: In [[The Stinger]].