I saw this movie in the cinema as a kid and at the time I liked it simply cause it was Mario. It didn't really make any sense at the time and it only vaguely resembled the games I played but hey... It was Mario right?

Clearly made in the time when dinosaurs were all the rage (thanks to and right on the heels of Jurrassic Park) we follow real life Mario and Luigi go down to... a weird dimension that resembles a mish-mash between cheap blade runner, 1984 and total recall. All your beloved characters like Toad and Goomba's are played by real life actors that only resemble the character in name. The mere fact Mario's and Luigi's surnames is Mario (cuz Mario Brothers yanno!?) says enough... How Nintendo every greenlighted this is byond me but there's a lot of interesting reading on how this movie came to be. It's clear the people in charge didn't know what Super Mario was at all and just read some of the footnotes to make a movie about.

I'm showing this movie to my two -5 year olds who are big Mario fans and they don't get it it either but it is what it is... A Mario movie... kinda... a little... ok...