Hayden Beckman

This was a HORRIBLE video game adaptation. First of all: NONE of the Mario characters would ever translate well to live-action. They are all mostly silent characters who only speak in short catchphrases and one-liners, never in complete sentences. So having them be like that in a live-action adaptation would be weird and even if you made them act differently and like normal characters, they wouldn’t be the same characters from the games. Successfully adapting and doing the Mario brothers and the other characters from their video game series justice is an IMPOSSIBLE job. NO actor would EVER nail playing the role of any of the characters from the Mario franchise in live-action form. It is just impossible for any actual person to portray these kind of characters in live-action form. No one would ever perfectly physically AND vocally portray characters like Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Toad, Wario, Waluigi, etc. If you ever seen their physiques and heard their voices in any of the games, you’d know that casting actors to play them is an impossible task. Some video games and video game franchises just need to be left alone and not be adapted into live-action movies (and shows too). This is proof that not all video game characters should be adapted on the big screen in live-action. Plus, this movie was super painfully inaccurate to its source material. I understand that it might’ve taken a bit of inspiration from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show by having Mario and Luigi speak like normal people and being two Italian-American plumbers from Brooklyn (which I can get passed by), but why was Luigi played by a Latino Colombian instead of a Caucasian man that looks Italian? They could’ve at least put cosmetics on John Leguizamo to make him look white and of Italian descent kind of like what they did to Al Pacino when he played Tony Montana in Scarface (1983) to make him look Hispanic and of Cuban descent. How can Mario and Luigi be related to each other in this movie if they’re not of the same ethnicity and why are they like 20 years apart? Instead of Princess Toadstool a.k.a. “Peach” being the damsel in distress kidnapped by Mario and Luigi’s arch enemy King Koopa a.k.a. “Bowser”, it’s Daisy who is the endangered princess kidnapped by him. Daisy in the games is a tomboyish princess who isn’t a damsel in distress, basically the polar opposite of Peach. Toad in the games is a short male human-mushroom hybrid (basically looks like a very little human boy who has what appears to be a mushroom for a hat on top of his head), but in this movie he is just a normal human named Toad. Koopas (who’re yellow-skinned turtles with green shells in the games) in this movie don’t resemble the ones from the games. Mushroom Kingdom which looks bright, colorful, fun, and imaginative in the games looks the complete opposite in this movie. The Goombas looked so HIDEOUS, CREEPY, CRINGEY, and reptilian with tiny heads instead of being little, cute, brown, armless, monobrowed, and umbrella-shaped creatures like in the games. Yoshi looked like a scary, carnivorous dinosaur with fangs instead of a cute, toothless, long-tongued herbivorous dinosaur wearing red boots. Bowser was a human with a stupid, hideous, wacky, and disgusting hairstyle instead of a huge, yellow-skinned, fire-breathing tortoise with a green spiky shell, red eyebrows, red head hair, and claws. The effects and designs for the Goombas and Koopas look absolutely and shockingly cringe-worthy, wacky, unconvincing, and outdated. 😬 I am the complete opposite of this comment this review i found was very peculiar Composed by ADAM REILLY