It’s clear a lot of big and small bits got the chop in order to hit a more family-friendly runtime, and the film suffered as a result. To that end, Ryan Hoss and the folks at Super Mario Bros.: The Movie Archive, dutifully keeping the fungus flame lit for the last fourteen years, have done a great service toward lending greater respectability to Super Mario Bros: The Movie via their release online of a heretofore lost edit, christened the “Morton-Jankel Cut.” Found on a VHS tape and laboriously restored by filmmaker Garrett Gilchrist, it adds about twenty minutes to the extant 105-minute version and serves as a pretty good proof-of-concept should the studio want to put out something more official.ĭoes the added footage make Super Mario Bros. Instead, it’s right there in the middle, which has proved fruitful terrain over the last 28 years to nurture a dedicated fanbase ready to trumpet praise for the fascinating ways it stands apart.
Although the theatrical release is perhaps too narratively disjointed and tonally dissonant to qualify as “good” (at times it’s almost like a Funny or Die parody of a “serious” attempt at Mario and company), it so proudly brandishes its bonkers, go-for-broke aesthetic (I mean, how can you not love Dennis Hopper playing King Koopa?), one hesitates to label it entirely “bad” either.
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