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"It ain't no game!"
At least that was what it said on the video box. It's a very clever tag line if we stop to think about it. Not only was this not a video game, but it also bares little to no resemblance to the video game.
Then, what in the world was this film about?
It’s genius if you look at it as a comedy. Unfortunately, I felt compelled to review this as what it was intended to be by the film makers, and according to the box label it's classified as a live action film. The film makers wished for it to be taken seriously to some extent.
What a conundrum. I really enjoyed this movie as a kid, but as a critic I feel compelled to evaluate it professionally.
Before I do I will fill all of you in on the background behind the production of this movie. Or rather, I will use a response to a reporter that asked Bob Hoskins (the British actor who plays as Mario) exposited to when asked about his worst experience by a reporter:
"It was a @#% nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! @#% nightmare. @#% idiots. See what we mean? Let's see another video game movie engender that kind of hatred from a distinguished British actor. It can't be done! The bar is simply too low."
It surely couldn’t have been that bad.
It was my turn to make an evaluation through a critical perspective. Please note that it would make the review too long if I pointed out the fallacies in comparing it to the video game it’s based on. I could seriously write a memoir on just how this movie is not like the Mario games. Especially since I am a seasoned gamer.
The setting is Brooklyn. Mario and Luigi (John Leguizamo) are on the move to do what they do best; plumbing. In this portrayal of the characters, Mario is shown as a cynical plumbing veteran, and Luigi is the optimistic yet naive plumbing apprentice to Mario. On their way back from being beaten by the punctuality of a rival plumbing company, they make a stop to repair their broken van.
Whilst doing this Luigi lays eyes on an archeologist named Daisy (Samantha Mathis) whom he falls in love with on the spot. Mario offers to give her a ride in the Bros. van, and she turns to look at someone reading a headline about missing women on the front page. Daisy accepts the offer because…they are plumbers? As someone who has been to New York, I would rather take a cab than accept a ride from 2 greasy men in a dingy van.
Luigi asks her on a date, and she finds him cute and accepts, thus cementing Luigi’s role as the main character. (Was that a plot twist?)
The two hit it off on a double date that night. Mario’s girlfriend is not properly introduced to beforehand, but she isn’t important. Meanwhile the only thing Daisy talks about are her only interests; dinosaurs. I had to hand it to actor John Leguizamo; he knows how to portray somebody feigning interest. If that was supposed to be genuine interest I’ll eat my coat.
After the date Mario says goodnight to his girlfriend at the front door to her house, and she promptly gets kidnapped a few feet away from Mario. He finds out his girlfriend is kidnapped an hour into the movie. I meant it when I said she is not important.
Meanwhile Luigi and Daisy saunter along a dark construction site where Daisy's dinosaur excavation is, and she talks Luigi's ears off about dinosaurs again in the underground site. Right before they attempt a romantic kiss, the pipes burst and threaten to flood the site. Luigi gets his brother Mario for assistance, and we get to see Bob Hoskins in briefs flabbergasted. I really don’t know what to say about that, but I am starting to detect why he was so irritated by this film. That scene had no purpose. Why did we need to see that?
Mario fixes the pipes before getting knocked out by two kidnappers who take the helpless Daisy away (their names are "Iggy and Spike" for future reference). The Mario Bros. chase the kidnappers down the pipes seconds after getting knocked out. Luigi tells Mario to go one way, but Mario suggests an alternate route because he says “he has been listening to pipes all his life.” Upon going in the direction he told Luigi to go, Mario tells Luigi it is a dead end and to turn back. I guess he didn’t listen to the pipes that time.
The brothers find a rift leading them to another dimension and reluctantly leap into it. This dimension is like a dystopian New York, except instead of human beings there are dinosaurs roaming the streets...which evolved into human beings! WHAT A TWIST!
...Oh wait, no it's not. This movie spoiled the twist in the very beginning with the introductory narration.
I was also expecting more from the narration's proclaimed "what if dinosaurs have evolved into intelligent beings?" scenario touted at the beginning.
This "parallel dimension" is too familiar in the normalcy of our dimension, except with fungus growing on it. It came off as highly underwhelming.
I mercifully spared the movie comparison to the video game, but if it's going into the science fiction genre of live action it needs to make this look a little more impressive. This movie had a budget of $48 million; there was no excuse for the lack of vision here.
As the Mario Bros. looked upon the scenery in horror the local police force tries to arrest the plumbers for absolutely no reason, and they manage to escape.
Meanwhile King Koopa (Dennis Hopper) monologues to his secretary Lena (Fiona Shaw) about how his race was “forced" to stay in this dimension of germs and fungus while dipping his hands in disinfectant.
The running joke is that Koopa is a germaphobe who is always sanitizing his hands, which renders almost all of his scenes fruitless in both comedy and drama. It also robs Dennis Hopper of any sense of intimidation, which is this actor’s greatest strength.
He needs "Princess Daisy" and the meteorite piece she wears around her neck to merge our dimension with this one. How this works exactly is not thoroughly explained.
Then Iggy and Spike come in and inform Koopa about the situation regarding the rock. Somehow, two bumbling minions can travel between the dimensions yet nobody else can do it. This is a plot hole bigger than a crater, and it completely shatters the purpose of an integral plot device.
Koopa issues a "Plumber Alert", putting a bounty on the heads of the Mario Bros. A police bulletin is posted on finding “a couple of plumbers.” That was ALL they had to go on, and logic be damned, it worked!
Before the police captured the Mario Bros. they had a run-in with an old woman with a shotgun-sized taser who attempted to rob them. A fat woman performed a suplex on the old lady before stealing Daisy’s meteorite piece and flying away with rocket shoes leaving the Bros. at a loss for words.
See why this movie should be a comedy?
At the police department the Mario Bros. meet up with King Koopa himself posing as the “good cop”, sanitizing his hands after shaking hands with them. He asks where the "meteorite piece" is, and the Mario Bros. were dumbfounded since to them it was but an average rock.
Rather than clarifying what it is he is looking for, Koopa attempts to gauge Luigi's eyes out with his stubby human fingernails. The police rush in to taser the Mario Bros. shouting "No one touches President Koopa!"
That part really confused me, because Koopa had been addressed as a king countless times. However there was also a billboard in the city that said "Elect Koopa."
This led me to one possible conclusion; the film makers did not know the difference between a democracy and a monarchy (please don’t let them vote).
After sanitizing his hands again, the evil king/president requests they be taken to the "Devo-Chamber." The Devo-Chamber is a place where Koopa can regress or progress evolution using a machine.
He explains that originally he was a T-Rex before using it, which sounded interesting.
He uses the evolution machine on a prison inmate the Mario Bros. befriended named Toad, who becomes a tiny-headed reptilian palooka called a "goomba." This act of punishment enrages the Mario Bros., and they shove Koopa into the machine to regress his evolution back to his original T-Rex state!
The machine has absolutely no effect at all. I love how the suspense in that moment piddled away into nothingness…like my expectations after this scene.
What follows is a chase scene pitting the plumbers against the police (with flamethrowers)! I thought that the chase scene was nonsensically entertaining, and one of the most fun parts of the film. It had the action and energy to keep the younger audiences entertained at the very least.
At the end of the chase their car gets launched from a cliff, however it gets saved by the fungus which acts as a sticky bungie cord. Throughout this movie the fungus is the deux ex machina. The plumbers wander through the desert bickering to one another.
Meanwhile, Koopa schemes to conquer our world using lasers that will de-evolve human beings into monkeys, animals which Koopa finds disgusting. He also de-evolved the former king of the realm into a revolting blob of fungus which ravages his city.
If he wanted the throne, why not just kill the king? As messy as that would have been at least there would be no more fungus ruining his world.
The Mario Bros. encounter Iggy and Spike in the desert, and after a botched attempt to capture them they end up telling Mario and Luigi all about the meteorite piece.
Long story short, Mario snatches the rock while dancing with the fat lady (found out to be named "Big Bertha") in a dance club. She notices the rock is missing and realizes Mario stole it from her.
Goombas storm in and Big Bertha assists their escape by providing them with shoes that allow them flight. Why she would suddenly help them is anyone’s guess.
Lena investigates the area and finds the meteorite piece, and keeps it to herself.
Afterwards Daisy is filled in by Lena on the fact that she was the princess of this kingdom/democracy, and a descendant of the dinosaurs. I imagine she must be really chipper about that.
King Koopa strolls in and hits on Daisy by showing off his pet Yoshi, an anamatronic dinosaur. Lena gets jealous of Daisy and leaves the room, and the Mario Bros. arrive at Koopa's castle--I mean, tower.
Inside the tower they steal their trademark red/green outfits from a locker. I don't know why they did this, but now they both indeed look like live action versions of the Mario Bros. (except John Leguizamo didn't bother to grow a mustache).
King Koopa orders a pizza while this is happening.
That pointless scene, among many, was meant to replace plot developing moments that were supposed to make the original cut, but ended up making this movie too long.
I was happy to learn later that they wisely skipped putting in a rap number for Iggy and Spike. I watched this scene with a greater appreciation, but I became confused later when Lena brought up that Iggy and Spike were rapping at the dance club when they never did.
Daisy escapes and finds out her father is now a revolting fungal abomination, and her reaction is a stunning display of dull surprise. I don't know what the directors did to bring out a wooden performance from an otherwise capable actress, but they did it somehow.
It was after this scene I start to get impatient with the film, as well as lose focus. The only thing I can do at this point in the review is tell it like it is.
The Mario Bros. soon meet up with Daisy, Luigi and Daisy get captured, and then the following events unfold: Mario escapes with his girlfriend and the other kidnapped women (including his girlfriend) through an air vent.
Luigi and Daisy get freed by Mario, and then finally Mario and Koopa get to have an epic final battle.
Luigi tells Mario to “trust the fungus”, and Mario uses it to beat Koopa by swinging on it like a vine and using it as a shield. It isn’t quite like “use the force” in Star Wars, but it’s original to say the least.
The dimensions merge briefly due to Lena jamming the rock in the meteor, which causes Mario and Koopa to teleport back to New York. Aside from destroying the World Trade Center (Why in the...) merging the dimensions doesn't do anything else. Koopa could have just as easily entered our world the same way as Iggy and Spike did.
Luckily Luigi and Daisy fix the problem by removing the rock from the meteor. This causes Mario and Koopa to return. I still did not know how that worked.
Mario and Luigi join forces and aim the de-evolution guns at Koopa after catching him off guard, regressing him to a puddle of goo (much like my brain after trying to analyze this movie).
They saved the day and the original king turns back to normal, and it’s ONLY the king that changes back. The goombas stay the same. Was the de-evolution machine some sort of spell?
The movie concludes with the Mario Bros. parting ways with Daisy, until she shows up later to inform them news that hints at a sequel. HAH!!!!
Sorry for that outburst, I mean I don’t think that is very likely.
You probably noticed while I was writing this review that I didn’t go into too much detail on the characters, but what I said was really all there is to them.
Mario most often just says “what is dis'?!” and doubts everything he sees.
Luigi cooks up theories to what’s going on, which are always correct, so that the audience can just barely understand every convoluted situation in the movie.
Daisy was purely a one-dimensional a plot macguffin. At least her character is consistent to her video game counterpart.
I thought that the plot became more and more convoluted near the end, so I did not have much to say on the events that unfolded during the third act.
Despite everything I said, I would recommend seeing this movie. I find it to be one of the more enticing train wrecks to watch based on the high camp value.
Professionally, I gave this movie the score it rightfully deserves.
Super Mario Bros. gets:
"It ain't no game!"
At least that was what it said on the video box. It's a very clever tag line if we stop to think about it. Not only was this not a video game, but it also bares little to no resemblance to the video game.
Then, what in the world was this film about?
It’s genius if you look at it as a comedy. Unfortunately, I felt compelled to review this as what it was intended to be by the film makers, and according to the box label it's classified as a live action film. The film makers wished for it to be taken seriously to some extent.
What a conundrum. I really enjoyed this movie as a kid, but as a critic I feel compelled to evaluate it professionally.
Before I do I will fill all of you in on the background behind the production of this movie. Or rather, I will use a response to a reporter that asked Bob Hoskins (the British actor who plays as Mario) exposited to when asked about his worst experience by a reporter:
"It was a @#% nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! @#% nightmare. @#% idiots. See what we mean? Let's see another video game movie engender that kind of hatred from a distinguished British actor. It can't be done! The bar is simply too low."
It surely couldn’t have been that bad.
It was my turn to make an evaluation through a critical perspective. Please note that it would make the review too long if I pointed out the fallacies in comparing it to the video game it’s based on. I could seriously write a memoir on just how this movie is not like the Mario games. Especially since I am a seasoned gamer.
The setting is Brooklyn. Mario and Luigi (John Leguizamo) are on the move to do what they do best; plumbing. In this portrayal of the characters, Mario is shown as a cynical plumbing veteran, and Luigi is the optimistic yet naive plumbing apprentice to Mario. On their way back from being beaten by the punctuality of a rival plumbing company, they make a stop to repair their broken van.
Whilst doing this Luigi lays eyes on an archeologist named Daisy (Samantha Mathis) whom he falls in love with on the spot. Mario offers to give her a ride in the Bros. van, and she turns to look at someone reading a headline about missing women on the front page. Daisy accepts the offer because…they are plumbers? As someone who has been to New York, I would rather take a cab than accept a ride from 2 greasy men in a dingy van.
Luigi asks her on a date, and she finds him cute and accepts, thus cementing Luigi’s role as the main character. (Was that a plot twist?)
The two hit it off on a double date that night. Mario’s girlfriend is not properly introduced to beforehand, but she isn’t important. Meanwhile the only thing Daisy talks about are her only interests; dinosaurs. I had to hand it to actor John Leguizamo; he knows how to portray somebody feigning interest. If that was supposed to be genuine interest I’ll eat my coat.
After the date Mario says goodnight to his girlfriend at the front door to her house, and she promptly gets kidnapped a few feet away from Mario. He finds out his girlfriend is kidnapped an hour into the movie. I meant it when I said she is not important.
Meanwhile Luigi and Daisy saunter along a dark construction site where Daisy's dinosaur excavation is, and she talks Luigi's ears off about dinosaurs again in the underground site. Right before they attempt a romantic kiss, the pipes burst and threaten to flood the site. Luigi gets his brother Mario for assistance, and we get to see Bob Hoskins in briefs flabbergasted. I really don’t know what to say about that, but I am starting to detect why he was so irritated by this film. That scene had no purpose. Why did we need to see that?
Mario fixes the pipes before getting knocked out by two kidnappers who take the helpless Daisy away (their names are "Iggy and Spike" for future reference). The Mario Bros. chase the kidnappers down the pipes seconds after getting knocked out. Luigi tells Mario to go one way, but Mario suggests an alternate route because he says “he has been listening to pipes all his life.” Upon going in the direction he told Luigi to go, Mario tells Luigi it is a dead end and to turn back. I guess he didn’t listen to the pipes that time.
The brothers find a rift leading them to another dimension and reluctantly leap into it. This dimension is like a dystopian New York, except instead of human beings there are dinosaurs roaming the streets...which evolved into human beings! WHAT A TWIST!
...Oh wait, no it's not. This movie spoiled the twist in the very beginning with the introductory narration.
I was also expecting more from the narration's proclaimed "what if dinosaurs have evolved into intelligent beings?" scenario touted at the beginning.
This "parallel dimension" is too familiar in the normalcy of our dimension, except with fungus growing on it. It came off as highly underwhelming.
I mercifully spared the movie comparison to the video game, but if it's going into the science fiction genre of live action it needs to make this look a little more impressive. This movie had a budget of $48 million; there was no excuse for the lack of vision here.
As the Mario Bros. looked upon the scenery in horror the local police force tries to arrest the plumbers for absolutely no reason, and they manage to escape.
Meanwhile King Koopa (Dennis Hopper) monologues to his secretary Lena (Fiona Shaw) about how his race was “forced" to stay in this dimension of germs and fungus while dipping his hands in disinfectant.
The running joke is that Koopa is a germaphobe who is always sanitizing his hands, which renders almost all of his scenes fruitless in both comedy and drama. It also robs Dennis Hopper of any sense of intimidation, which is this actor’s greatest strength.
He needs "Princess Daisy" and the meteorite piece she wears around her neck to merge our dimension with this one. How this works exactly is not thoroughly explained.
Then Iggy and Spike come in and inform Koopa about the situation regarding the rock. Somehow, two bumbling minions can travel between the dimensions yet nobody else can do it. This is a plot hole bigger than a crater, and it completely shatters the purpose of an integral plot device.
Koopa issues a "Plumber Alert", putting a bounty on the heads of the Mario Bros. A police bulletin is posted on finding “a couple of plumbers.” That was ALL they had to go on, and logic be damned, it worked!
Before the police captured the Mario Bros. they had a run-in with an old woman with a shotgun-sized taser who attempted to rob them. A fat woman performed a suplex on the old lady before stealing Daisy’s meteorite piece and flying away with rocket shoes leaving the Bros. at a loss for words.
See why this movie should be a comedy?
At the police department the Mario Bros. meet up with King Koopa himself posing as the “good cop”, sanitizing his hands after shaking hands with them. He asks where the "meteorite piece" is, and the Mario Bros. were dumbfounded since to them it was but an average rock.
Rather than clarifying what it is he is looking for, Koopa attempts to gauge Luigi's eyes out with his stubby human fingernails. The police rush in to taser the Mario Bros. shouting "No one touches President Koopa!"
That part really confused me, because Koopa had been addressed as a king countless times. However there was also a billboard in the city that said "Elect Koopa."
This led me to one possible conclusion; the film makers did not know the difference between a democracy and a monarchy (please don’t let them vote).
After sanitizing his hands again, the evil king/president requests they be taken to the "Devo-Chamber." The Devo-Chamber is a place where Koopa can regress or progress evolution using a machine.
He explains that originally he was a T-Rex before using it, which sounded interesting.
He uses the evolution machine on a prison inmate the Mario Bros. befriended named Toad, who becomes a tiny-headed reptilian palooka called a "goomba." This act of punishment enrages the Mario Bros., and they shove Koopa into the machine to regress his evolution back to his original T-Rex state!
The machine has absolutely no effect at all. I love how the suspense in that moment piddled away into nothingness…like my expectations after this scene.
What follows is a chase scene pitting the plumbers against the police (with flamethrowers)! I thought that the chase scene was nonsensically entertaining, and one of the most fun parts of the film. It had the action and energy to keep the younger audiences entertained at the very least.
At the end of the chase their car gets launched from a cliff, however it gets saved by the fungus which acts as a sticky bungie cord. Throughout this movie the fungus is the deux ex machina. The plumbers wander through the desert bickering to one another.
Meanwhile, Koopa schemes to conquer our world using lasers that will de-evolve human beings into monkeys, animals which Koopa finds disgusting. He also de-evolved the former king of the realm into a revolting blob of fungus which ravages his city.
If he wanted the throne, why not just kill the king? As messy as that would have been at least there would be no more fungus ruining his world.
The Mario Bros. encounter Iggy and Spike in the desert, and after a botched attempt to capture them they end up telling Mario and Luigi all about the meteorite piece.
Long story short, Mario snatches the rock while dancing with the fat lady (found out to be named "Big Bertha") in a dance club. She notices the rock is missing and realizes Mario stole it from her.
Goombas storm in and Big Bertha assists their escape by providing them with shoes that allow them flight. Why she would suddenly help them is anyone’s guess.
Lena investigates the area and finds the meteorite piece, and keeps it to herself.
Afterwards Daisy is filled in by Lena on the fact that she was the princess of this kingdom/democracy, and a descendant of the dinosaurs. I imagine she must be really chipper about that.
King Koopa strolls in and hits on Daisy by showing off his pet Yoshi, an anamatronic dinosaur. Lena gets jealous of Daisy and leaves the room, and the Mario Bros. arrive at Koopa's castle--I mean, tower.
Inside the tower they steal their trademark red/green outfits from a locker. I don't know why they did this, but now they both indeed look like live action versions of the Mario Bros. (except John Leguizamo didn't bother to grow a mustache).
King Koopa orders a pizza while this is happening.
That pointless scene, among many, was meant to replace plot developing moments that were supposed to make the original cut, but ended up making this movie too long.
I was happy to learn later that they wisely skipped putting in a rap number for Iggy and Spike. I watched this scene with a greater appreciation, but I became confused later when Lena brought up that Iggy and Spike were rapping at the dance club when they never did.
Daisy escapes and finds out her father is now a revolting fungal abomination, and her reaction is a stunning display of dull surprise. I don't know what the directors did to bring out a wooden performance from an otherwise capable actress, but they did it somehow.
It was after this scene I start to get impatient with the film, as well as lose focus. The only thing I can do at this point in the review is tell it like it is.
The Mario Bros. soon meet up with Daisy, Luigi and Daisy get captured, and then the following events unfold: Mario escapes with his girlfriend and the other kidnapped women (including his girlfriend) through an air vent.
Luigi and Daisy get freed by Mario, and then finally Mario and Koopa get to have an epic final battle.
Luigi tells Mario to “trust the fungus”, and Mario uses it to beat Koopa by swinging on it like a vine and using it as a shield. It isn’t quite like “use the force” in Star Wars, but it’s original to say the least.
The dimensions merge briefly due to Lena jamming the rock in the meteor, which causes Mario and Koopa to teleport back to New York. Aside from destroying the World Trade Center (Why in the...) merging the dimensions doesn't do anything else. Koopa could have just as easily entered our world the same way as Iggy and Spike did.
Luckily Luigi and Daisy fix the problem by removing the rock from the meteor. This causes Mario and Koopa to return. I still did not know how that worked.
Mario and Luigi join forces and aim the de-evolution guns at Koopa after catching him off guard, regressing him to a puddle of goo (much like my brain after trying to analyze this movie).
They saved the day and the original king turns back to normal, and it’s ONLY the king that changes back. The goombas stay the same. Was the de-evolution machine some sort of spell?
The movie concludes with the Mario Bros. parting ways with Daisy, until she shows up later to inform them news that hints at a sequel. HAH!!!!
Sorry for that outburst, I mean I don’t think that is very likely.
You probably noticed while I was writing this review that I didn’t go into too much detail on the characters, but what I said was really all there is to them.
Mario most often just says “what is dis'?!” and doubts everything he sees.
Luigi cooks up theories to what’s going on, which are always correct, so that the audience can just barely understand every convoluted situation in the movie.
Daisy was purely a one-dimensional a plot macguffin. At least her character is consistent to her video game counterpart.
I thought that the plot became more and more convoluted near the end, so I did not have much to say on the events that unfolded during the third act.
Despite everything I said, I would recommend seeing this movie. I find it to be one of the more enticing train wrecks to watch based on the high camp value.
Professionally, I gave this movie the score it rightfully deserves.
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"I dunno. I haven't been to Manhattan in a couple of weeks."
"Must've been a bad couple of weeks!"
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the reason why koopa didnt teleported his troops into the portal, it's because it's too small, and they had to go through that cave one goomba by goomba, it would take days for all of the troops arrange, the metorite separated the dimensions, Daisy's family were the gatekeepers, they discovered that the meteorite could open a portal to the other dimension, but they decided to not use it at all, Koopa betrayed the king, he did not killed him because that would anger everybody, he turned the prisioners into goombas that simply made the people shut up. it is a pretty good film, i would give 3.5 for the current comedy/sci-fi version. I would give it a 4.5 if it was made as a action film, using the Mad Max kind of script that was written in may 1992.
When Toad says to Mario and Luigi that the fungus is ''reeking his revenge on the city'' he means that the fungus absorved all of the water, killing many of the resources, which explains the whole ''want to conquer the other dimension'', and the reason why Koopa doesn't re-evolves the king to give back the water, he doesnt want to lose control.
But the movie still is not that bad, i know it's hard to follow the story, but hey, even i didnt like citizen kane the first time i saw it.
This is the very first videogame movie, you should go easy on it, just like everyone goes easy on Snow White because it was the first animated feature film ever, and i'm glad you didnt act all ''it's not like the game, therefore it sucks'' it's hard to make an videogame adaptation, they dropped game accuracy for a story, they did their best to create an consistent story, and i hope Disney releases an extended cut in HD.
It would have been better if they did. Don't get me wrong, I liked it.
I rather have the steroids version than a animated musical with characters expressing their feeling every 5minutes.
But this was made by hollywood pictures, which is unfortnatly owned by Disney, that means they cut 30 minutes of film to both keep a low running time and to reduce it to a PG rating instead of PG-13, for years the fans were begging for a extended blu ray release, along with the black cauldron fans, which do you think is the most probable of being released?
And for the record, I like the songs they put in the animated films (unless you count Enchanted, which was partially animated).
I may be commenting on a year old review, but I just wanted to point out the disadvantages of retelling a video game via a movie.
But what the hell, you probably already knew this after a year. In fact, I see no point in posting this comment.
Unfortunately, the movie is just as canon as Super Mario Galaxy, the TV Show, and Super Paper Mario. That is simply how it works with the Mario series: There is no continuity, so everything is just as canon as everything else.