...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...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 21, 2021

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

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

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

| Jul 14, 2019

I don't honestly believe it deserves its reputation as one of the "worst films ever made", but I still wouldn't bother with this one...

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 17, 2019

Its eccentricities make it tremendously entertaining. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 17, 2019

Super Mario Bros is not a good movie, but it is psychotronic cinema of the first order.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2019

A baby hatches out of an egg? I apparently missed that entire part when I played a Mario game.

| Mar 5, 2018

This film shouldn't have been made, at least not this way. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 16, 2016

Dated, quirky adaptation of video game has some violence.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 10, 2015

There are none of the game's hidden pleasures, such as booby traps or treasure caches, and the casting is peculiar.

| May 30, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 30, 2013

Even moviegoers who don't own Nintendo (if any such species exists) will thoroughly enjoy these superheroes. And chances are, this is only the beginning of their film exploits.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 30, 2013

Devotees of the game may derive some pleasure from seeing its obstacles given quasi-flesh and set in motion, but that inert pleasure soon pales in a torrent of none-too-special effects, confusing story line and characters without personalities.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 30, 2013

Ultimately, it's one more stop in the arcade, beckoning, waiting to soak up time and money.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 30, 2013

Unfortunately, the highlights are sporadic.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 30, 2013

Bizarre, replete in often stunning special effects and verrrry strange from the outset, Super Mario Bros. is curiously entertaining, even though it often makes little sense.

| May 30, 2013

Bombs explode, cars careen and crash, people leap from dimension to dimension in this blaring, glaring picture. Kids might get a charge out of the mayhem. I got the vapors.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 7, 2011

As the ad campaign helpfully pointed out, "this ain't no game, it's a live-action thrill ride." Half-true: it is surely not a game, for it is typically held that games are pleasurable.

| Original Score: 2/10 | May 30, 2010