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If you’ve not seen this film get up walk away from the computer (or maybe not) and watch this film. Seriously I am telling you as a reviewer to watch this film. So do as I say. Now for some of you, your probably sat there wondering why I’m suggesting this but seriously this film is HILARIOUS. The Super Mario Bros (Jankel & Morton, 1993) film is actually really rubbish but it’s so bad it’s funny. If you don’t take this so seriously and don’t get your panties in a twist by the fact it ruins the Mario name it’s a funny watch. It’s by no means a good film, it’s suffers from a terrible script and narrative, the acting is terrible (this could be because of the script rather than the cast, please note the bias because I have a crush on John Leguizamo) and the effects are shameful even for a nineties film.

So maybe I ought to go into the story for those of you who didn’t watch it despite what I advised at the beginning. So the basic story develops when Luigi’s crush Daisy is kidnapped. She is taken through a wall underneath her archaeological dig site which takes her to an alternate world. So Luigi convinces his brother Mario to join him on his rescue mission. This alternate world is ruled by King Koopa, now the majority of the people in this world are evolved dinosaurs. Essentially before humans were on the Earth a meteorite came down hit the Earth wiped out most of the dinosaurs whilst moving some into an alternate world. A part of the meteorite chipped off and this was given to Daisy upon her birth. It looks like a seedy underground city, which I suppose it is. So the story is basically Mario and Luigi saving Daisy from King Koopa who wants to broken meteorite so that the human world and world of the Dinosaurs will overlap and King Koopa can become ruler of all.

See the narrative is really bad, I don’t see why they had to have such a stupid plot it’s ridiculous. Watching this film it’s even more terrible than what I’ve discussed, however it’s comic moments are genius. You can pick this film up for around 3 quid don’t bother looking on amazon, so it’s well worth those 3 quid. It’s an unforgettable film. If you have a sense of humour you will get some pretty big laughs from this film.

The effects and make-up/costume design is insanely bad. It looks like a much older film than it actually is. The film doesn’t receive any points for doing anything right or good. The film in fact only has one good point and that’s because Yoshi is in it and looks semi-cute. That’s hardly an argument for a good film. So I may be sending you mixed signals with this, I’m pointing out how terrible it is whilst saying its a brilliant watch because of how hilarious it is. Truth is I suppose the decisions down to you. Some people probably wont find this film as hilariously bad as I did but seriously I don’t expect anyone to saying this is a good film I’m trying hard to avoid saying that. But your missing out if you don’t watch this because of how bad it is. If I had to give this film a rating it’d have like a 1 star or something but still go watch it because it will keep you amused for an hour or so (just don’t spend loads on it).