I'm just worried that when someone hears me say I enjoyed the Super Mario Bros movie, they're going to think I'm talking about the new ones and not the 1993 one with Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo. It's these kinds of misunderstandings that can ruin friendships.

i saw the mario movie with bob hoskins in theaters when i was 8 and i was so fucking confused and disappointed. i love it now!

Super Mario Bros. (1993) Our latest Terrible Movie is this prior live-action attempt at a Mario movie that became one of most notorious disasters of its era. It is baffling from beginning to end. Bob Hoskins plays Mario with a broad Brooklyn accent while John Leguizamo plays Luigi. #Filmsky 📽️

mario odyssey should have had a bob hoskins costume

it truly is a testament to bob hoskins' insane talent and humility that he hated every single fucking minute he spent on the set of the 1993 mario movie and he *still* put in a hell of a performance as mario. probably the best to ever do it next to robin williams

An undeniable truth is that of all the things that don’t work about the 93 Mario movie, Bob Hoskins is not one of them—he’s great. But out of the things that don’t work with the two newer Mario films? Chris Pratt is top of the list. It’s a way worse choice and a way worse performance on every level!

Casting Bob Hoskins as Mario - and/or thinking, "Of course," TO that casting - is some Wizard Magazine-ass, 95%-about-the-visual stuff...and I sort of love it, even though I don't think I've seen that '93 SUPER MARIO BROS.

Heard everyone was watching the Mario movie this long weekend, so

One of my favorite little moments in the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie is when Iggy and Spike call Koopa a fascist and oppressor of the proletariat. But they were only able to figure this out after their brains were evolved in the Devo Chamber.

Super Mario Bros. 1993 is one of the greatest train wrecks I've ever seen. This movie is a disaster, yet I can't help but love it

"I grew up in a Jewish community, so the Moses story was certainly part of the cultural air I was breathing. Stories about a child escaping destruction and later returning to restore balance are very old archetypes." Co-Director Annabel Jankel on Daisy in the '93 Mario movie

Why was Luigi such a focus of the '93 film? By '93, the Mario property was already 10 years old. Using Nintendo's research, the film's creatives were aware of the older sibling-1st player-Mario/younger sibling-2nd player-Luigi dynamic. 1/2

IndieWire After Dark, our weekly midnight movie club, revisits legendary cult hit 'Super Mario Bros.' (1993) with Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo.

I think my hottest video game movie take is that the 1993 Super Mario Bros. isn’t an out-and-out awful film, but it’s a terrible Super Mario Bros. movie. I’m not saying it’s GOOD… but there was potential for it to be something. Just not a Super Mario Bros. movie.

The 1993 Mario movie was a fever dream where Bob Hoskins fought lizard-men and everything weirdly made sense. Modern game films feel like watching a lawyer struggle to explain a board game. We traded creative insanity for a polished walkthrough.

It’s funny how some people are trying to reanalyze the original Mario Bros. movie as some kind of transcendent avant-garde masterpiece and like… Nah, that movie is trash. And that’s okay; it’s okay to like movies that are trash!

NOW WATCHING.

I'm rewatching the 1993 Mario movie. I still like it. Really hard to hate a movie with hot villianess Fiona Shaw in it. And Fisher Stevens warming up to be in Succession by playing a toadie to another weird powerful dude.

Not sure if it's even possible, but would very much appreciate critics adding reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for the '93 Mario movie. It would be nice to at least break 30%!

So…I did it. I watched the 1993 Super Mario Bros. Movie. And I’m not gonna lie, I both hated it and loved it at the same time.

Watching that Super Mario Bros. movie everyone's been yapping about

145.) Super Mario Bros. (1993) Not a good movie in the traditional sense but Bob Hoskins is so much better at selling himself as Mario than Chris Pratt and that does count for a lot.

I don't hate the Illumination movie like some do, but I do think the 1993 Mario movie still has a lot going for it, especially in its unique production design:

Guys, I think my Mario Movie might have been a different one...

I don't care if it has almost nothing in common with the games other than names. The Hoskins / Leguizamo Super Mario Bros. film is THE Super Mario film for me. It's delightfully insane and alien in a way the hewing-to-the-IP concept can never be. And, so help me, I want more of that universe.

I don't think Wizard Magazine was looking forward to the Mario movie

TONIGHT’S FEATURE 🎬🍄‍🟫 “tHe ‘93 MaRio mOvIe wAs tRasH.” What were people thinking?! Umbrella Entertainment, your 4K release was worth every penny.

We also watched the ‘93 mario movie and let me tell you, it is *such* a jarring experience

#ThrowbackThursday What did you think of the Super Mario Bros. movie back in 1993?

The 1993 Super Mario Bros. Movie getting revisionist fandom baffles me because I strain to think of an uglier, nastier movie. It’s like being maced relentlessly while a strobe light goes off.

Is the 1993 Super Mario Brothers Movie no longer the most maligned Mario movie now? I think it's great by the way.

They acknowledged the 1993 Mario before the Galaxy Movie! 🍄 “Trust the fungus!”

watched the mario '93 movie and i really liked it

Cannot even begin to describe how badly I want to dress like Daisy from '93 Mario Bros movie. 🥺😭

i just saw someone say the public is artless for not liking the mario 93 movie and like. Are we fr. Is that your ride or die

I will continue to say that the ‘93 Mario Bros movie was god tier and that gamers were stupid to hate it so much. They were just jealous that Mario fucks

i showed my friends the 93 mario movie yesterday and i forgot how insane the worldbuilding is esp in context dinosaur nyc is awesome

I keep saying that the 93 Mario Bros Movie is a great dystopian, cyberpunk movie. It’s just a bad adaptation of the actual games themselves.

New headcanon: The '93 Mario Movie is actually in-universe sci-fi themed fanfiction written by a really nerdy Toad and is never acknowledged outside of niche discussion because most other characters heard the story and were like

Watched the '93 Super Mario Bros movie with Kiddo for the first time, and for the first time in years for me, and HOW DID I NEVER REALIZE THAT TOAD WAS PLAYED BY MOJO FUCKING NIXON?!?

You're welcome to believe Super Mario Bros '93 is a good movie like I believe Star Wars 9 is a good movie. It's your life. Live dangerously.

YOU are rehabilitating the 93 Mario movie because you're mad about the new one, I'VE always liked it for being a weird and kinda bad 90s worldbuilding movie like Waterworld.

Can we live in a world where we accept the 93 Mario movie and the 2020's Mario movies are both different kinds of fun?

//What if people went to see the Super Mario Galaxy movie & they were shown the '93 live action movie instead? That’d be a legitimate reason why it’s released on April Fool’s Day.

Super Mario Bros (1993) I LOVED THIS MOVIE ACTUALLY. Seeing grimy early 90s NYC was kind of refreshing too. I love Bob Hoskins so much genuinely such a good performance. Technically speaking its like a sloppy kids movie but it has some inspired adaption choices. This could never exist today.

At least we have this masterpiece.

Do people actually like the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie or are they just being ironic? I remember it being really boring when I watched it back in 2022, so I don’t know if I’m just remembering it wrong or something.

The Super Mario Bros movie (1993) is weird. I love it but it's like the writers had a list of things from the video games that they needed to include no matter what. Like the light gun.

now that the super mario bros galaxy movie is out I can confirm that the 1993 live action one is still the best one