Widely considered to be one of the greatest videogame franchises ever, Super Mario Bros. is an iconic, generation-spanning success that has taken on many iterations to always keep up with the times.
One area in which it failed miserably was the 1993 live-action film version that starred Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo as Mario and Luigi, Brooklyn-based plumbers who go on a fantastical adventure.
It was a critical and commercial flop, though it managed to find some bit of a cult following in the ensuing decades. Movie-wise, though, The Super Mario Bros.
Movie — the new animated cinematic collaboration between Nintendo and Illumination 00 is a winner for families, the perfect format for the big screen and one faithful enough not to turn off legions of fans, old and young alike.
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