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dakotanorth8 Apr 2, 2026 +143

Bob Hoskins is a character legend. Smee in hook. Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Mario. Dude rocks

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krausthug Apr 2, 2026 +29

Smee smee what about smee?

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HoodieStringTies Apr 2, 2026 +22

Smee's me!

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Youthsonic Apr 2, 2026 +10

What about me!?

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Flarkinghelpful Apr 2, 2026 +7

If you want him in a strong leading role, the Long Good Friday is a f****** banger, he’s so mad the whole movie

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Enthusiasms Apr 2, 2026 +3

The music is great too

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Flarkinghelpful Apr 2, 2026 +1

Such a good main theme

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Mst3Kgf Apr 2, 2026 +1

His last scene at movie's end is a masterclass of non-verbal acting.

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Mst3Kgf Apr 2, 2026

His last scene at movie's end is a masterclass of non-verbal acting.

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AtFishCat Apr 2, 2026 +5

He's also fantastic in Brazil

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forever87 Apr 3, 2026 +4

> Mario Mario. he also plays a great villain in jet li's *unleashed*

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Money_Tennis1172 Apr 2, 2026 +3

He was amazing.. in Hook. I loved him in 'Mermaids' with Cher, Winona Ryder and Cristina Ricci. And with Jet Li in "Unleashed"!

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Either-Lawfulness368 Apr 2, 2026 +3

fr he was such a vibe in everything he did, lowkey miss actors like that

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loxkado Apr 2, 2026 +1

I wish he was still with us

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saxscrapers Apr 2, 2026 +1

Have turned into a massive hoskins fan over the last decade or so, realizing what a gem he was.

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Kevin-W Apr 2, 2026 +1

Truth!

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mountaindoom Apr 3, 2026 +1

Great in Brazil too.

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reddfawks Apr 2, 2026 +71

Because of this film, I’ll sometimes say “Monkey!” with the same inflection when I see a monkey.

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Kevin-W Apr 2, 2026 +6

Ba-Bomb!

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loxkado Apr 2, 2026 +1

Monke

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Jolly-Virus-9126 Apr 2, 2026 +34

The production history of this movie is kind of insane. The first draft of this film is basically a westernization of the old Mario OVA. Then it became a Blade Runner nightmare. Love the practical effects and set design. Easily in my top 5 favorite movies to watch, not necessarily favorite movies by quality.

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Merickson- Apr 2, 2026 +17

I would have liked to see the big climax on the Brooklyn Bridge that was supposed to be a callback to the bridges you fight Bowser on at the end of every castle level.

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Jolly-Virus-9126 Apr 2, 2026 +6

Me too but I appreciate that the T. Rex is supposed to homage the World final boss.

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PatBeVibin Apr 3, 2026 +1

>a callback to the bridges you fight Bowser on at the end of every castle level Ironically, they finally did this in the Mario Galaxy movie.

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WhatDoesThatButtond Apr 3, 2026 +1

I would not be surprised that the guy obsessed with adding giant spiders to 90s movies was responsible for the outcome here.

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Jolly-Virus-9126 Apr 3, 2026 +1

The real answer no shit is that the Max Headroom people got the rights and were like "This could be our Batman!" looking to franchise it longterm without any real prior passion for the series. Much of the final result of the movie comes from their batshit vision going unchecked before Disney stepped in AFTER the sets were already built so they couldn’t really change that element of it

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prodigalAvian Apr 2, 2026 +35

Trust the fungus.

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riegspsych325 Apr 2, 2026 +6

*the king is everywhere!*

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AlwaysBeInFullCover Apr 2, 2026 +6

*"And YOU! KOOPA! You're a lousy leeee-der!"*

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Main-Waltz-4976 Apr 2, 2026 +37

That movie feels like someone described Mario to a cyberpunk set designer over a bad phone line and they just ran with it. It’s objectively a mess… but somehow still iconic for how unapologetically weird it is.

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Mst3Kgf Apr 2, 2026 +8

The visuals do make sense if you know the directors were previously behind "Max Headroom."

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PaladinPrime Apr 2, 2026 +32

It's a wonderful unhinged acid trip of a movie.

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IamChicharon Apr 2, 2026 +95

I love this movie. Perfect Mario movie. Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo are amazing. The music is great. It’s funny and weird and wonderful.

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Troldann Apr 2, 2026 +45

It’s a beautiful disaster. It’s a flawed work of aspirational art. It’s raw and unhinged and experimental and I love it for all those things that it is which the modern Mario movie (well, I didn’t see the second one, so I can only comment on the first) isn’t.

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riegspsych325 Apr 2, 2026 +18

if they removed anything and everything that pertained to the Super Mario IP, I bet it would have fared better as its own thing. The movie takes a punk rock approach to the post apocalypse genre and puts it in a dense urban setting. I can’t think of many movies that gave that a shot And honestly, the Dinohattan set is very impressive, like they built an entire few city blocks that you can walk around and explore. Batman Begins’ Narrows and Hellboy 2’s Troll Market also give me those vibes. I don’t know why I love sets like that, it’s more than a testament to good production design

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dSpect Apr 2, 2026 +5

It shows that David L Snyder, art director for Blade Runner, was the production designer for this movie.

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riegspsych325 Apr 2, 2026 +4

damn, I didn’t know about that. Yeah, that’ll do it

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manachar Apr 2, 2026 +4

Isn't that just Tank Girl? If you haven't seen it, please do. It's got its flaws, but I adore the gonzo nature of it.

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SightlessProtector Apr 2, 2026 +20

It’s a perfect movie and it’s about a guy named Mario, but it is decidedly not a perfect Mario movie. From a Brit and a Colombian playing Italian brothers, to tiny headed Dinosaur people as Goombahs, to Bowser just being Donald Trump, like, it’s as un-Mario as it could be. That’s part of why it’s so fun.

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riegspsych325 Apr 2, 2026 +5

one of the best descriptions I’ve read for Hopper’s Koopa is that he looks like a pit boss from Biff Tannen’s Pleasure Paradise c*****

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fadvex Apr 2, 2026 +26

>Perfect Mario movie You can like the movie all you want but this is an insane statement.

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Noodle_Shop Apr 2, 2026

It's not perfect but its the best one we got

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BearWrangler Apr 2, 2026 +3

Fr, they can never make me hate this

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AFineDayForScience Apr 2, 2026 +2

I remember the first time I watched it when I was little, I was a little disappointed in Bowser and a lot disappointed in Yoshi. I mean he didn't say 'Yoshi!," "mlem," or "bffffah," AT ALL.

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LyleTheAdonis Apr 2, 2026 +2

Glug Glug Glug Glug

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WillemDafoesHugeCock Apr 2, 2026 +3

It's *definitely* nostalgia because I grew up watching this on a crappy second hand VHS tape, but I genuinely, unironically, love it. When I think of 90s action flicks, I think of the Mario movie.

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Merickson- Apr 2, 2026 +36

A batshit crazy masterpiece.

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cheezeebred Apr 2, 2026 +5

Couldn't have said it better.

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loxkado Apr 2, 2026 +1

We need more movies like this

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VeryPteri Apr 2, 2026 +13

If people are allowed to like Mario Galaxy for being dumb fun, I'm allowed to like this

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mikeyfreshh Apr 2, 2026 +21

This doesn't always work (obviously) but its really cool to see someone take a big swing with an adaptation like this. It could never happen today

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Nerrs Apr 2, 2026 +8

This adaptation feels like someone verbally explained all the details of a Mario game without ever actually showing them the game

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mikeyfreshh Apr 2, 2026 +7

Keep in mind that Super Mario World had just come out so there wasn't a ton of source material to work with. If you're just going off the NES and SNES games, there is no real story or character development or anything else of substance to adapt into a movie. The 3D games that came later added a little bit of that stuff but it's still not much. That's why the animated movies, despite being much more faithful adaptations, completely fail at any kind of storytelling.

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likelearyloons Apr 2, 2026 -2

It DOES always work though

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bsEEmsCE Apr 2, 2026 +6

I still quote it more than the recent Mario movie. "Glug glug glug" "how peculiar" "is she corpulent, very corpulent?" "no, shes just really round" "big bertha!" "name? Mario Mario. And him? Luigi Mario" "B-bomb!!" cmon. Dumb, but memorable insanity.

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introoutro Apr 2, 2026 +14

I have seen this movie a billion times, I cannot possibly love it more. Its an incredible piece of art that takes its source material and twists and perverts it in such an insane way, I sincerely have never seen anything like it. Like some adaptations go their own way with the source material, or try to be authentic but just miss the mark. And then *there's this.* Its also like-- an incredibly entertaining movie with kind of really legit production design? Like some of those sets are absolutely bananas. Also the [Mario Mario](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MNEF7kjf9s) joke is probably my favorite goof in all of 90's cinema.

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likelearyloons Apr 2, 2026 +3

Thank you, perfectly stated. It is perfect and beautiful

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Player5xxx Apr 3, 2026 +1

I convinced an ex to watch this with me (I had seen it but she hadn't). She said before we started that the title didn't make any sense and it would mean there last name was Mario. I pretended to think about it a bit as if I didn't realize and said they must have just not thought about it when they named it and just went with the game title. At the start of the movie Mario answers the phone and says "mario brothers plumbing" and she got all worked up over it again. I had to try so hard to keep it together. I told her to stop thinking so hard about it and just watch the damn movie. She lost her shit when it turned out their last name was Mario xD

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introoutro Apr 3, 2026 +1

Its the \*greatest\* joke, its f****** hilarious and it plays on this single thing that no one ever considers when thinking about Mario Bros. His name literally must be Mario Mario. It killllllls me.

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alblaster Apr 2, 2026 +3

I remember being so annoyed and confused when I saw this as a kid. What does this have to do with Super Mario World? But it grew on me. It's a fun very 90s crazy time.

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alex-2099 Apr 2, 2026 +4

Saw this in the theater and remember being psyched to see live action Super Mario World stuff. I also remember thinking "of course! they have special boots for jumping!" I don't mind the new movies, but I kind of miss when the 90s would take a thing and dramatically re-interpret it to an absolute fever dream of what it was. Double Dragon is another example of this.

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Demomanx Apr 2, 2026 +4

🎵Ain't got no water anywhere Food's bad, so's the air Got no resources, in a great big stupor All because of the evil King Koopa🎵

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SilkkTheShocke Apr 2, 2026 +4

Wish I could take the $30 I spent today to see Super Mario Galaxy and buy this on 4K

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PatBeVibin Apr 3, 2026 +1

I bought the Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition which comes with the 4K remaster and it's absolutely GLORIOUS. Was well worth the money even with the outrageous cost of shipping from Australia to the US.

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yandere_lily Apr 2, 2026 +6

Honestly this movie gets more hate than it deserves. It's weird, yeah, but kinda fun if you don't take it too seriously.

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Keefer1970 Apr 2, 2026 +3

This movie is completely insane and the behind-the-scenes stories I've heard about its making sound like it was a hellish experience for all involved. That said, I wish it were more widely available to stream.

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OldTimeyWizard Apr 2, 2026 +3

I absolutely loved this movie and I would stop to watch it any time that it came on television. I thought the idea of making your own completely different version of an IP was a cool concept as a kid. It was like fan fiction before fan fiction was mainstream.

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WillDesperate8027 Apr 2, 2026 +5

Is it a good Mario movie? No. Is it a weird cyberpunk disaster that’s a good time? Hell yeah. I love that Mario and Luigi are wearing the wrong colors liked 80% of the movie

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Ikarus3426 Apr 2, 2026 +3

This movie is perfect and doesn't deserve any hate. No, I will not rewatch it again as an adult without my nostalgia goggles on, you can't make me.

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Mothman129 Apr 2, 2026 +6

TBH? I've rewatched it multiple times as an adult and it holds up well as long as you take it for what it is, an extremely bizarre cyberpunk movie that just so happens to use a few names from Mario games. The 4k release is particularly fun to watch and makes me really appreciate the sets and costuming that movie had

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Starrr_Pirate Apr 3, 2026 +3

You really should, it's so much more fun as an adult as you can much better appreciate just how unhinged it is, lol. I mean, it *opens* with a human baby hatching from a dinosaur egg in a convent.

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SparxPrime Apr 2, 2026 +2

Was obsessed with this movie as a kid

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Over_Importance1882 Apr 2, 2026 +2

Haven’t seen it in years and yet still remember more scenes and lines than the first Mario animated movie I just saw a few months ago.

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Smodzilla Apr 2, 2026 +2

This movie is awesome

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dewittless Apr 2, 2026 +2

Truthfully, as terrible and weird and unsettling as this is, I actually have a really soft spot for just how insanely ambitious it is. They mapped out this entire world and set based on this bizarre Dino dystopia and at no point did they half ass it. There's no oil, because dinosaurs are pip, so the cars all work like bumper cars. They have used up all their resources, which were fewer, because of the lack of oil. If it wasn't a Mario film... I mean it'd still be bad but in a much more endearing way.

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orsothegermans Apr 2, 2026 +2

The “How did this get made” podcast episode of this is epic

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Unique_Tradition_522 Apr 2, 2026 +2

I unironically love this movie. John Leguizamo and Bob Hoskins are legit charming as the Mario brothers. I’d watch an entire movie solely about Mario and Luigi’s plumbing business. Those first 20 mins are full of fun character bits.

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likelearyloons Apr 2, 2026 +4

It's non-ironically a great movie. It's okay to admit it

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SparxPrime Apr 2, 2026 +2

From what I heard the directors just wanted to make a movie about a post apocalyptic cyber punk world, but they only got approved to make a Mario movie, so they went f*** it and just made the movie they wanted to make anyway

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Griffdude13 Apr 2, 2026 +1

A film that tried so much to do weird things, Nintendo put safe hard guardrails on the animated ones that they’ve done.

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RoliePolieOlie__ Apr 2, 2026 +1

The 90s blade runner

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DefNotEvading Apr 2, 2026 +1

I haven't watched this movie as an adult. I'll have to give it a re-watch. I have such fond memories of it as a kid and thought it was enjoyable. I think the appeal would still be there for me now and would be cool to look back through a new perspective.

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bomberman12 Apr 2, 2026 +1

Say what you want….but unlike the animated movies, the live action original wasn’t boring!

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SomeGodzillafan Apr 2, 2026 +1

Just rewatched it recently after years from my previous watch. And it truly is awful, nobody has any clue what they’re doing, and it has probably the worst ADR of all time. But this film is too goofy to truly hate. Terrible adaptation but funny as shit

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Azzyally Apr 2, 2026 +1

I watched it as a 10 year old when it first came out and enjoyed it. I haven't watched it since but I have a clear memory of the last scene setting up a sequel that never came. I don't dare watch it again to ruin the memory of my childhood.

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ASEdouard Apr 2, 2026 +1

It has the same metacritic score as the new Galaxy movie, wild!

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Swimming-Tax-6087 Apr 2, 2026 +1

It’s unfortunate that this isn’t available in the US in either physical or digital. Only a $40 copy from Australia.

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eldenpotato Apr 3, 2026 +1

Google ‘super Mario bros 1993 internet archive’ - first result will be the full movie

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osmlol Apr 2, 2026 +1

One of my favorite films of all time. So much so that I ordered it in 4k from Australia.

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Quisqeyano Apr 2, 2026 +1

I watched this at my friend’s 7th birthday party in 1999. I was the only one who managed to stay awake for the whole movie, but I was also the only one who’d never seen it before. The climactic scene where they fight the guy who’s been sort of possessed by the fungus monster freaked me out but I didn’t want to wake my friends up, so I just laid there on the couch getting traumatized. It was awesome.

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Potential-Bird-5826 Apr 2, 2026 +1

If nothing else it introduced me to Joe Satriani's music, which I continue to listen to, to this very day

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Food_Kitchen Apr 2, 2026 +1

This film came at the height of the cocaine addiction in America when it was everywhere in Hollywood and producers were snatching up every IP they could and just slapping together a half-assed film around it.

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zamzuki Apr 2, 2026 +1

Trust the fungus.

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kayto9000 Apr 2, 2026 +2

It got way to much hate, I just finished rewatching after many years. I loved the cyberpunk aesthetic, the humor is fantastic ie early in the movie dude running right into the glass lol. Woulda been cool to see where the sequel woulda gone, they had lance Henrickson as the king.

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jarvisesdios Apr 2, 2026 +1

Fun fact: in the movie Face/Off the prison guards are wearing the goomba boots from Mario Brothers. Apparently it caused issues because they were very heavy and made of metal.

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azure1503 Apr 2, 2026 +1

*SCAPELI!*

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crackenpuff Apr 3, 2026 +1

This is my Mario movie. The newer one was good, but THIS was mine. I mean tons of stuff is not like the game, but that was ok. Trust the fungus.

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Kittycachow Apr 3, 2026 +1

“Was she very corpulent ?”

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BlueShadowNight Apr 3, 2026 +1

God this is such a fever dream of a movie. Just 10/10 for how absolutely bonkers it is and yet you can't hate it. Easily my favorite Mario movie that no animated movie can touch. 💯

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Imaginary-Plate2987 Apr 2, 2026 -6

What the f*** is happening in this thread? This movie is complete garbage.

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BobSchwaget Apr 2, 2026 +3

If this movie is complete garbage then I'm not sure what the other films including the one they're running trailers for now are supposed to be... festering raw sewage from a ruptured septic tank?

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shadeOfAwave Apr 2, 2026 +5

Different people have different outlooks on things.

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BealKage Apr 2, 2026 -1

Nostalgic millennials

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