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Can you make a movie out of a video game? Thats the question that is answered by this film. Mario Mario and Luigi Mario, two hard working plumbers find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in medium hi-tech squalor. They find themselves the only hope to save the Earth from invasion.
Mario en Luigi, twee hardwerkende loodgieters, komen in een andere wereld terecht waar dinosaurussen zijn veranderd in high tech dieren. De twee broers zijn de enige hoop van de mensheid om de aarde te redden, voordat King Koopa die vernietigt.
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 m...
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ust 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.
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In 1993 Super Mario was bigger than Mickey Mouse , and so Hollywood decided it would be a good idea to make a Mario Bros film. It wasn'tIn the early 90s, Mario the plumber was more famous than Mickey Mouse . He was so famous he got his own film, and while the Super Mario Bros movie was the first-ever videogame adaptation, it was so bad it was almost the last. The game's hallucinogenic, 8-bit world of piranha plants, pipes and mushrooms made it an unlikely property for a live-action adaptation, and so it proved. Super Mario Bros has gone down in legend as the Heaven's Gate of the videogame movie, nearly destroying the entire genre singlehandedly.And yet it all began so promisingly. In 1991, producer Roland Joffé , best known as the director of The Killing Fields , made a trip to Japan to secure the movie rights to Super Mario Bros. Tea
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