Super Mario Bros. (1993) Review: The Brief Version

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Super Mario Bros. is perhaps the greatest and most influential video game series ever made. ... The finished result, Super Mario Bros. released in 1993, looks nothing like the J-Pop fairy tale from the video game; more like some kind of strange cross between Land of the Lost and Solarbabies, starring two extras from a Spike Lee movie. ... Super Mario Bros. could have been such a kick ass flick! Instead, it set the standard for every shitty video game adaptation to follow (Super Mario Bros. is the first movie based directly on a video game) ... At a certain point you'll be looking at Dennis Hopper shooting lasers over the heads of giant lizard men trying to capture John Leguizamo and you won't be able to help but grab the DVD cover to make sure the movie is, in fact, named Super Mario Bros. ...