super mario bros

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/

with any luck, this will be the last entry in this fever-induced series of bad judgement calls.

at 1:37 (that is minutes:seconds, not hours:minutes) into the movie, it went from bad to worse.  this is a new record.  the previous holder of this record was guyver: dark hero, at 4:30.

when a voiceover explains the premise of the film to you in the opening scene, it is a bad sign.  when the characters emphasize the plot in their opening scenes, it is a real bad sign.  as bad as the plot was, though, it had nothing on the sound, scenery, acting, and costumes.

i made a movie once with some friends when i was in high school.  actually, we made several movies.  they were awful.  what kind of production values do you expect from tenth graders?  super mario bros is essentially the movie we would have made if it had occurred to us to rip off video games instead of movies like raiders of the lost ark.  actually, there is one major advantage to the movies my friends and i made: they were much shorter.

super mario bros gets one goomba trooper.