With the much more on-brand animated Super Mario Bros. Movie premiering on April 5th ... 90s were actually a great time for inventive live-action adaptations. Nowadays, that term has been ruined ...

Maddy Myers has run Polygon’s games section since 2020 as deputy editor. She has worked in games journalism since 2007, at Kotaku, The Mary Sue, and the Boston Phoenix. It’s obviously for the ...

Live action can't cut it. The first "Mario" movie proved that by staying rigidly earthbound. The real secret behind the unexpected and staggering success of "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" is ...

The title for the upcoming Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel has been accidentally leaked online by NBCUniversal, and it's the ...

Not to be confused with the 1993 live-action flop “Super Mario Brothers” starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo, the new computer-animated extravaganza “The Super Mario Brothers Movie ...

I am very clearly not a movie-goer who is being aimed at ... that isn't old enough to remember/know about 1993's live-action Super Mario Bros. It's pleasant to look at, with animators directly ...

When adapting Mario into a movie, a clear lesson has already been learned to avoid live action (see Super Mario Bros. 1993), and it's a good thing too, since Illumination's adaptation of the ...

LOS ANGELES, April 4 (UPI) --After a disastrous live-action movie in 1993, the animated Super Mario Bros. Movie, in theaters Wednesday, finally figured out how to make a movie out of the classic ...

Movie Debuts on Billboard Hot 100 The Super Mario Bros. Movie Is a Hit Things were not the same when the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie was released in theaters in 1993. That film was heavily ...

By Frank Scheck After the debacle that was the 1993 live-action Super Mario Brothers movie adaptation, the creators of the new animated version clearly felt the need to restore the faith of the ...

It’s not as awful as the 1993 live-action film, but that’s such a low bar, you don’t need a power-up to cross it. The Super Mario Bros. Movie is in theaters April 5. Correction: An earlier ...