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==Plot Synopsis==
==Plot Synopsis==
===The Dimensional Split===
The film begins at the future site of [[Brooklyn]], sixty-five million years ago (from [[1993]]).  In an animated segment, viewers see that [[dinosaur]]s, such as a brachiosaurus and triceratops, dominated [[Earth]] due to their large size.  Long before [[human]]s existed, small [[mammal]]s, such as one resembling a skunk, coexisted with the dinosaurs and life was good.  However, when a giant [[meteorite]] crashed into Earth, many dinosaurs were destroyed and the remaining banished to the [[parallel dimension]] created by the meteor's impact.  There, the evolution of the dinosaurs continued and they became, according to the narration, "intelligent, vicious, aggressive beings" just like humans.  The narration begs the question, "What if they found a way back?"
65 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the [[Earth]], unaffected by the small mammals that shared the planet with them.  Life was good for the dinosaurs until a gigantic meteor struck the planet in modern-day [[Brooklyn]].  The impact was believed to have completely destroyed the dinosaurs.  Conditions were perfect for the mammals to grow and develop into intelligent [[human]]s.  However, some dinosaurs were not killed, but were banished to a parallel dimension created from the impact connected to the first through the meteor present in both.  On the dinosaur side, a shard chipped off of the rock.  Due to the nature of the meteor, if it was reunited with the shard, the two dimensions would be reunited into one.  The shard could also open a gateway between the dimensions.  The alternate dimension included another planet Earth.  However, unlike the mammalian Earth, the reptilian Earth was a barren desert with few resources.


As 65 million years past, the mammals and the dinosaurs underwent convergent evolution in their separate worlds, becoming two different types of humans, mammalian and reptilian.  Both were vicious, but only the reptiles knew of the mammals.  The mammalian world developed into its current state, naïve of the other world.
Twenty years before present day ([[1973]] using 1993 as the present), a young woman hurriedly runs down an unidentified Brooklyn street to the steps of [[St. Theresa's]], a cathedral, carrying a bundle covered in a red blanket.  There, she places her bundle down, revealing an [[egg]]-shaped protective case.  Taking a blue rock shard into an opening on the case, she lovingly strokes the case, pounds on the door repeatedly, and flees.  A [[nun]] opened the door, saw the case, and took it into the cathedral with her.  The young lady continues to run down the Brooklyn streets, narrowly dodging honking drivers.  She then climbed down into an open manhole.  Back at the church, the nuns observe the case as it opens, revealing a large egg.


===King Koopa's Coup===
The young lady continues to run down a long sewer tunnel, frequently looking back.  As she backs into another tunnel, she runs into a tall, sinister man, who asks her where the rock is.  She jumps away from him and exclaims, “[[Bowser|Koopa]]!” As the tunnel begins to collapse around the young woman, Koopa blocks the exit, leaving her to be crushed as she screams.  Back at the Cathedral, the egg hatched to reveal an evidently human baby girl.
However, the reptiles were forced to live in a barren world.  They crowded together in [[Dinohatten]], the only city on the planet, and competed for resources.  However, under the rule of the [[king]], the city was relatively prosperous. Although the king possessed the meteor shard, and thus had the means to reunite the dimensions, he refrained from doing so.  As time passed, his queen gave birth to their first egg.  The times were generally good, yet a man named [[Bowser|Koopa]] desired for the resources of the mammals.


King Koopa developed a machine capable of [[De-Evolution|de-evolution]].  De-evolution is a process by which one can reverse the process of evolution, reverting the victim to his or her pre-evolved state.  He realized that if he was able to reunite the two Earths, he could lead an attack on the mammals, de-evolving them into harmless [[monkey]]s.
In present day (1993), [[Mario|Mario Mario]] and [[Luigi|Luigi Mario]] were at their home and business, [[Mario Brothers Plumbing|Mario Brothers Plumbing Services]].  Luigi lay on the couch, eating snacks and watching a television program, [[Miraculous World]], in which the host introduced the concept of other dimensions, alternate worlds separated by time and space which somehow remained continuous with Earth's dimension.  As the show continued, Mario picked up the phone and began speaking with the [[River Front Café]] regarding a broken dishwasher.  As the brothers prepared to leave for the job, he and Luigi discussed the television show.  Luigi was enthusiastic while Mario gruffly proclaimed that the only miracle he knew of was that they were still eating while they were going broke.  Mario then complained that Luigi was spending money on the [[New York Post]], a newspaper Mario believed to be full of fiction.  Luigi protested that it had the article on the missing Brooklyn girls, but Mario cited an article about a scientist who turned his brain into [[cheese]].  Luigi confidently responded that, "Anything is possible, Mario, you just gotta believe!"  Belittlingly, Mario retorted that he did believe: he believed their rent was three months overdue.  


King Koopa then staged a coup of the government.  He was opposed, both publically and secretly.  Even his own two cousins, [[Iggy (Super Mario Bros.)|Iggy]] and [[Spike (character)|Spike]], sided with the king.  However, Koopa eventually overpowered the opposition and captured the king.  He forced him into his de-evolution machine and de-evolved him into a fungus.  To prevent his escape, Koopa imprisoned him in [[Devo 4]].  Koopa then pursued the [[queen]], who had taken the meteor shard.  The queen escaped into the mammals' dimension using the meteor shard and took her child, still in its egg, under her arms in a protective case.  Emerging in Brooklyn, the queen ran down [[Fulton Street]] and found [[St. Theresa's]], a Catholic church.  She left her egg on the doorstep, placing the meteor shard in the case.  After stroking the egg gingerly, the queen ran back to her own dimension.
Having pulled away from their business in their van, Mario instructed Luigi to turn left.  Luigi began turning right into an ally to his brother's protests, claiming his instincts told him that route would be faster as he plowed through garbage bags on the curb.  Continuing the argument, he claimed that [[sea turtle]]s travel thousands of miles on instinct, but Mario protested that they did not navigate [[New York]] traffic as they pulled into the café parking lot.  Luigi stopped his gloating at the sight of a [[Scapelli Construction]] plumbing van: the brothers had lost another job to their rivals.


Several nuns from the church found the egg and took it in, where it soon hatched to reveal a female baby named [[Princess Daisy|Daisy]].   
Meanwhile, a newscaster discussed the closing of one of New York's largest construction projects, located near the [[Brooklyn Bridge]], as [[New York University]] students continued to excavate dinosaur bones in the area.  Head construction contractor [[Anthony Scapelli]] arrived in a black limousine, waving to the construction workers protesting the dig as he emerged.  Noticing their arrival, a blonde, female student named [[Princess Daisy|Daisy]] approached them and declared that continue as long as their quarterly lasted.  Unshaken, Scapelli threatened Daisy, reminding her of the young women who had gone missing all over town.  With a face of disbelief, Daisy left, declaring her intention to contact the university.


Reentering her own dimension, the queen was ambushed by King Koopa in the underground tunnels that lead to and from the meteor site.  When he discovered that the queen no longer had the shard, he destroyed a key foundation and escaped as the queen was crushed.
Elsewhere, an oddly dressed man, [[Spike (SMB)|Spike]] looks disbelievingly at a pair of [[hot dog]]s in his hand and gets into his car, where another oddly dressed man, [[Iggy (SMB)|Iggy]] is sitting in the passenger seat.  Spike handed one of the hot dogs to Iggy, telling him it was dog meat as they throw the hot dog buns out the window.  Noticing Daisy, they declare that she matches the description given to them by Koopa, and they prepared to kidnap her.  Mario and Luigi drove down the street, their van stalling.  The older brother scolded Luigi for not checking the radiator, but Luigi insisted that everything was fine: the van had been making those noises all week.  Pulling over and opening the hood, steam flowed into the brothers' faces.  Mario instructed Luigi to check their messages for work while he fixed the engine.  Daisy continued to walk down the street, oblivious to the approaching Spike and Iggy.  Just as Spike was about to move in, several men carrying a pane of glass walked between him and Daisy and he hit his face against the glass.  Defeated, the pair returned to their car.


===Dinohatten's Decline and Daisy's Life===
As Luigi dialed the nearby pay phone, Mario passed, telling him that he was going into their nearby deli for some water.  Daisy approached the pay phone, pacing anxiously and oblivious that Luigi was staring at her. [[Alf Brodsky]] from [[Alf Brodsky’s Department Stores]] called panicking: he had a huge plumbing problem, but Luigi was not paying attention. Instead, he wordlessly handed off the phone to Daisy, who thanked him.  Mario emerged from the deli with a bottle of [[Evian]] water in hand, yelling back inside that everyone had tap water.  Passing Luigi, he asked him if they had any work, but Luigi said no, still watching Daisy as she fumbled in her pockets for change.  Noticing, Luigi gave her a quarter, and she thanked him again, smiling.  Daisy made her call to the university, but the organization refused to add more security to the site.  At Mario's side, Luigi commented that Daisy was beautiful.  Mario encouraged Luigi to go talk to her, but he protested.  As she looked up, she noticed the Spike, who hastily pulled a copy of the [[Daily News]] over his face, pretending to read.  The front page read, "Missing Misses Still a Mystery."  Daisy walked over to the van and thanked Luigi for his kindness.  As latter began an awkward conversation including an offer to give her a ride, Mario stepped in, ending the conversation and repeating Luigi's offer for a ride.  With a glance at Spike, Daisy agreed.  When they arrived at the site, Mario politely offered his hand to help Daisy out of the van. Daisy, obviously amused, took his hand and stepped down as Luigi scrambled over to them.  As Daisy prepared to leave, Luigi, at the mumbled advice of Mario, awkwardly asked her out for dinner that night.  Smiling, Daisy accepted.  As the brothers left, Mario asked Luigi what he would do without him, and Luigi grumbled about not having the chance to find out and questioning why Mario had told Daisy about Luigi's thumb-sucking habit.
As King Koopa began his rule over Dinohatten over the next twenty years, conditions began to worsen.  Under his rule, the limited prosperity previously experienced began to fade away.  Additionally, King Bowser began to grow, escaping from Koopa’s tower and into the city, where he began to torment King Koopa and his regime.
 
Meanwhile, on Earth the nuns raised and supported Daisy until she was old enough to leave the church to attend [[New York University]], where her major was archeology.
 
===The Mario Bros.===
When he was younger, the Brooklynite [[Mario|Mario Mario]] took in an abandoned boy, adopting him as his brother.  Mario served as [[Luigi|Luigi Mario's]] mother, father, and friend as he grew up.  Unlike his brother, who was good-natured yet calm and reasonable, Luigi learned to focus on his gut instincts and thus developed a more erratic personality.  Mario and Luigi ran a plumbing business together, the [[Mario Bros. Plumbing Services]], but were forced to live life paycheck to paycheck because of [[Scapelli Construction]], a powerful business run by [[Anthony Scapelli]].  The company ran a plumbing division which took away much of the Mario brothers' business.


== Overall  Plot ==
== Overall  Plot ==

Revision as of 16:40, December 11, 2008

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Poster for the Super Mario Bros. movie.
The Movie Poster.

Super Mario Bros. is a movie loosely based on the Super Mario Bros. series of video games. While the film draws inspiration from the series, it follows a completely different continuity based in an entirely different world from its inspiration. Similarly, the characters are based on their archetypal roles from the games rather than their specific natures and actions.

The film cost an estimated $42 million to create due to its high profile cast and special effects, yet its gross revenue was only $20,915,465.

Plot Synopsis

The film begins at the future site of Brooklyn, sixty-five million years ago (from 1993). In an animated segment, viewers see that dinosaurs, such as a brachiosaurus and triceratops, dominated Earth due to their large size. Long before humans existed, small mammals, such as one resembling a skunk, coexisted with the dinosaurs and life was good. However, when a giant meteorite crashed into Earth, many dinosaurs were destroyed and the remaining banished to the parallel dimension created by the meteor's impact. There, the evolution of the dinosaurs continued and they became, according to the narration, "intelligent, vicious, aggressive beings" just like humans. The narration begs the question, "What if they found a way back?"

Twenty years before present day (1973 using 1993 as the present), a young woman hurriedly runs down an unidentified Brooklyn street to the steps of St. Theresa's, a cathedral, carrying a bundle covered in a red blanket. There, she places her bundle down, revealing an egg-shaped protective case. Taking a blue rock shard into an opening on the case, she lovingly strokes the case, pounds on the door repeatedly, and flees. A nun opened the door, saw the case, and took it into the cathedral with her. The young lady continues to run down the Brooklyn streets, narrowly dodging honking drivers. She then climbed down into an open manhole. Back at the church, the nuns observe the case as it opens, revealing a large egg.

The young lady continues to run down a long sewer tunnel, frequently looking back. As she backs into another tunnel, she runs into a tall, sinister man, who asks her where the rock is. She jumps away from him and exclaims, “Koopa!” As the tunnel begins to collapse around the young woman, Koopa blocks the exit, leaving her to be crushed as she screams. Back at the Cathedral, the egg hatched to reveal an evidently human baby girl.

In present day (1993), Mario Mario and Luigi Mario were at their home and business, Mario Brothers Plumbing Services. Luigi lay on the couch, eating snacks and watching a television program, Miraculous World, in which the host introduced the concept of other dimensions, alternate worlds separated by time and space which somehow remained continuous with Earth's dimension. As the show continued, Mario picked up the phone and began speaking with the River Front Café regarding a broken dishwasher. As the brothers prepared to leave for the job, he and Luigi discussed the television show. Luigi was enthusiastic while Mario gruffly proclaimed that the only miracle he knew of was that they were still eating while they were going broke. Mario then complained that Luigi was spending money on the New York Post, a newspaper Mario believed to be full of fiction. Luigi protested that it had the article on the missing Brooklyn girls, but Mario cited an article about a scientist who turned his brain into cheese. Luigi confidently responded that, "Anything is possible, Mario, you just gotta believe!" Belittlingly, Mario retorted that he did believe: he believed their rent was three months overdue.

Having pulled away from their business in their van, Mario instructed Luigi to turn left. Luigi began turning right into an ally to his brother's protests, claiming his instincts told him that route would be faster as he plowed through garbage bags on the curb. Continuing the argument, he claimed that sea turtles travel thousands of miles on instinct, but Mario protested that they did not navigate New York traffic as they pulled into the café parking lot. Luigi stopped his gloating at the sight of a Scapelli Construction plumbing van: the brothers had lost another job to their rivals.

Meanwhile, a newscaster discussed the closing of one of New York's largest construction projects, located near the Brooklyn Bridge, as New York University students continued to excavate dinosaur bones in the area. Head construction contractor Anthony Scapelli arrived in a black limousine, waving to the construction workers protesting the dig as he emerged. Noticing their arrival, a blonde, female student named Daisy approached them and declared that continue as long as their quarterly lasted. Unshaken, Scapelli threatened Daisy, reminding her of the young women who had gone missing all over town. With a face of disbelief, Daisy left, declaring her intention to contact the university.

Elsewhere, an oddly dressed man, Spike looks disbelievingly at a pair of hot dogs in his hand and gets into his car, where another oddly dressed man, Iggy is sitting in the passenger seat. Spike handed one of the hot dogs to Iggy, telling him it was dog meat as they throw the hot dog buns out the window. Noticing Daisy, they declare that she matches the description given to them by Koopa, and they prepared to kidnap her. Mario and Luigi drove down the street, their van stalling. The older brother scolded Luigi for not checking the radiator, but Luigi insisted that everything was fine: the van had been making those noises all week. Pulling over and opening the hood, steam flowed into the brothers' faces. Mario instructed Luigi to check their messages for work while he fixed the engine. Daisy continued to walk down the street, oblivious to the approaching Spike and Iggy. Just as Spike was about to move in, several men carrying a pane of glass walked between him and Daisy and he hit his face against the glass. Defeated, the pair returned to their car.

As Luigi dialed the nearby pay phone, Mario passed, telling him that he was going into their nearby deli for some water. Daisy approached the pay phone, pacing anxiously and oblivious that Luigi was staring at her. Alf Brodsky from Alf Brodsky’s Department Stores called panicking: he had a huge plumbing problem, but Luigi was not paying attention. Instead, he wordlessly handed off the phone to Daisy, who thanked him. Mario emerged from the deli with a bottle of Evian water in hand, yelling back inside that everyone had tap water. Passing Luigi, he asked him if they had any work, but Luigi said no, still watching Daisy as she fumbled in her pockets for change. Noticing, Luigi gave her a quarter, and she thanked him again, smiling. Daisy made her call to the university, but the organization refused to add more security to the site. At Mario's side, Luigi commented that Daisy was beautiful. Mario encouraged Luigi to go talk to her, but he protested. As she looked up, she noticed the Spike, who hastily pulled a copy of the Daily News over his face, pretending to read. The front page read, "Missing Misses Still a Mystery." Daisy walked over to the van and thanked Luigi for his kindness. As latter began an awkward conversation including an offer to give her a ride, Mario stepped in, ending the conversation and repeating Luigi's offer for a ride. With a glance at Spike, Daisy agreed. When they arrived at the site, Mario politely offered his hand to help Daisy out of the van. Daisy, obviously amused, took his hand and stepped down as Luigi scrambled over to them. As Daisy prepared to leave, Luigi, at the mumbled advice of Mario, awkwardly asked her out for dinner that night. Smiling, Daisy accepted. As the brothers left, Mario asked Luigi what he would do without him, and Luigi grumbled about not having the chance to find out and questioning why Mario had told Daisy about Luigi's thumb-sucking habit.

Overall Plot

Luigi and Mario
Mario and Luigi in Super Mario Bros.

The story concerns Mario andLuigi Mario, two Italian American brothers living in Brooklyn, New York who are being driven out of business by the Scapelli Construction Company. Luigi falls in love with an orphaned college student, Daisy, who is digging for dinosaur bones under the Brooklyn Bridge. After a date, Daisy brings Luigi to the dig site, where she sees some of Scapelli’s men sabotage it by opening the water-pipes. Mario and Luigi manage to stop the flooding but are knocked out by two strange characters, Iggy and Spike. Mario and Luigi go deeper into the cavern, following Daisy’s screaming and eventually discover an interdimensional portal, in which Mario and Luigi follow Daisy. They then find themselves in a dystopian world where a human-like race evolved from Tyrannosauridae. It is said that they are descended from a T. Rex population that escaped through the interdimensional gate. Iggy and Spike turn out to be lackeys (and, surprisingly, cousins) of the world’s evil dictator, King Koopa (who does not look anything like the one in the game). However, Mario and Luigi failed to bring Daisy’s “rock,” a meteorite fragment that King Koopa needs in order to merge his world with the real world that was separated from King Koopa’s during the Big Bang. It turns out, though, that Daisy is the princess of the other dimension, but when King Koopa overthrew it and turned her father into fungus, Daisy’s mother took her to New York via the interdimensional portal. The portal was then destroyed, but when Scapelli was blasting at the cave, it was reopened. When King Koopa hears about the re-opening of the portal, he sends Spike and Iggy to find Daisy and the rock in order to merge the dimensions and make King Koopa dictator of both. King Koopa thinks only Daisy can merge the worlds, although as for Mario and Luigi, the plumbers were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Luckily for Daisy, the plumbers were persistent in finding her. During the finale, the worlds merge, but Luigi takes back the rock and the worlds separate. Mario fight King Koopa, and eventually wins, and he and Luigi de-evole King Koopa, making him a Tyrannosaurus, and then finally primeval slime. The brothers save the two worlds from the cruel dictator, and Daisy’s father reclaims control over the kingdom.

Cast

The special effects were coordinated by Paul J. Lombardi, who Shigeru Miyamoto later named Falco Lombardi after in thanks. (watch movie via: "http://www.watch-movies.net/movies/super_mario_bros/")

Quotes

For a full list of quotes, see here.

Critical Reception

The movie is generally considered poor. In a Nintendo Power article about New Super Mario Bros., a timeline of Mario's history could be seen at the bottom of the page. The Super Mario Bros. movie was mentioned, only with the words, "Yes, it happened. Let us speak no more of it."[1] Other critics have complained that the movie doesn't accurately represent the Mario series and throws the whole continuity off, leaving a "horrible mess."[2] The actor of Mario, Bob Hoskins, called the film the worst thing he ever did,[3] while Luigi's portrayer, John Leguizamo, states that he practically could not bear working on the film.[4]

Shigeru Miyamoto actually liked the movie, mentioning that his only real dislike of it was that he found it to be too true to the games, in stark contrast to most other comments.[5]

References

  1. ^ Nintendo Power Issue 203.
  2. ^ Wikipedia (Accessed on 7-20-08)
  3. ^ Guardian.co.uk (Accessed on 7-20-08)
  4. ^ As Leguizamo mentions in his autobiography.
  5. ^ Edge (Accessed on 7-20-08)
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