Super Mario Bros.

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Super Mario Bros.

PG

1993

1h 44m

Fantasy

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Brooklyn plumbers Mario (Bob Hoskins) and Luigi (John Leguizamo) rescue Princess Daisy from King Koopa (Dennis Hopper) and the Goombas in a dinosaur world.

Critics Consensus

Despite flashy sets and special effects, Super Mario Bros. is too light on story and substance to be anything more than a novelty.

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Adrián Álvarez

Espinof

I prefer a film that takes risks over inane projects. [Full review in Spanish]

Jul 14, 2019

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Mark Caro

Chicago Tribune

Like their video-game counterparts, co-stars Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo somehow manage to weave their way past threatening obstacles and escape with their dignity.

Rated: 2/4

Apr 17, 2019

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Carrie Rickey

Philadelphia Inquirer

Scenery rushes by, noise blares, characters pop up wearing new costumes that they couldn't possibly have had time to change into as they eluded their adversaries.

Rated: 1.5/4

May 30, 2013

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

...Super Mario Brothers is an origin story, but adds so much detail that any joy of seeing Mario fly is negated by heavy plotting and far too much time spent watching Hopper/Koopa chew the scenery...

Rated: 3/5

Jun 21, 2021

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Zaki Hasan

IGN Movies

Although the theatrical release is perhaps too narratively disjointed and tonally dissonant to qualify as 'good,' it so proudly brandishes its bonkers, go-for-broke aesthetic, one hesitates to label it entirely 'bad' either.

Jun 15, 2021

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Charles Pulliam-Moore

io9.com

Hoskins and Leguizamo... are able to sell themselves as the plumbers in large part because of the obvious fact that they both understood the movie was only taking itself but so seriously.

Sep 29, 2020

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Nin10dees n

Hear me out but its not a bad movie, but it isnt great. The plot is interesting and got me hooked, to be honest, the characters were ok for the most part, but you just cant try putting it into mario. it just isnt mario. You cant fit the triangle in the circle hole. change the names or smth and it wouldve been a 3.5 for me, but this movie was made in '93 so its not like anything soon will happen.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/23/25

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colt n

absolutely is horrendous kuppas face looks like a alligators face after it gets grinded in a meat machine! why!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/17/25

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Charlie M

Noise. That’s all this is is noise. 2/10.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/14/25

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Lincoln C

I loved the part where Mario was shot by Luigi.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/13/25

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T W

After years of going back and forth between loving it and hating it, I can definitely now say that Super Mario Bros is an epic sci-fi video game adaption with fun easter eggs for us old school gamers.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/03/25

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Audience Member

For being the first ever video game adaptation it didn't hold up in 93, after rewatching it it feels like it was actually going somewhere, because like if this movie had no Mario and Luigi this movie would have been very interesting like the concept of Dinohatten sounds really cool and felt like siberpunk 2077, and it would be amazing to see a sequel after 20 years. Also the ending felt like a to be continued but never make a sequel. So therefore "After 20 years this still ain't no game!" -Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/03/25

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Brooklyn plumbers Mario (Bob Hoskins) and Luigi (John Leguizamo) rescue Princess Daisy from King Koopa (Dennis Hopper) and the Goombas in a dinosaur world.

Director: Rocky Morton
Producer: Jake Eberts, Roland Joffé
Production Co: Allied Filmmakers, Hollywood Pictures, Cinergi Pictures Entertainment
Rating: PG
Genre: Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Jun 3, 2003
Box Office (Gross USA): $20.8M
Runtime: 1h 44m
Sound Mix: Surround