Super Mario (FAKE)

Note: Since this is a fake film, it should not be taken seriously. '''Note: I have another idea for a more faithful adaptation of Mario. My idea is called Super Mario Brothers: The Beggining of the Journey (The blog about this idea is in a blog from Greatest Movies Wiki). After read this two blogs, tell me in the comments which of the two ideas do you prefer (this or Super Mario Brothers: The Beggining of the Journey?) and why you liked Super Mario Brothers: The Beggining of the Journey and what do you think about Super Mario Brothers: The Beggining of the Journey and Sony’s Mario film'''

Super Mario is a 2012 American 3D live-action/computer-animated comedy film loosely based on Super Mario game series created by Nintendo. It was directed by Tim Hill, staring Ron Jeremy, Brie Larson, Adam Sandler and Michael Cera, with Justin Bieber, Frank Welker, Devon Bostick, and Benedict Cumberbatch as the voices of Toad, Yoshi, Rio, and Bowser Koopa. It is the second CGI/live-action hybrid film produced by Sony Pictures Animation after The Smurfs. The film had its worldwide premiere on June 16, 2012, in Júzcar, a small village in Spain, and released on July 29, 2012 by Columbia Pictures.

Premise
Peter Daniel (Michael Cera) and his brother Rio (Devon Bostick) are game designers and huge fans of Nintendo and the Mario game franchise. But every games that Peter made flopped and he thinks he will not be loved by Anna Page (Elliott Page). But, one day, when he decided to play Super Mario Bros. (1985), something stranger happened and Mario, Peach, Luigi, Toad, Yoshi and Bowser Koopa left the game and entered the real world, so, Peter and Rio need to help Mario (Ron Jeremy), Luigi (Adam Sandler), Peach (Brie Larson), Toad (voiced by Justin Bieber) and Yoshi (voiced by Frank Welker) to go back to the game and defeat Bowser Koopa (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) and his new friend, P.T. Boomer (Doug Lennox).

Plot
The Mushroom Kingdom prepares for the 27th anniversary of the day that Mario and Luigi saved the kingdom, Peach sees through a telescope that Bowser Koopa and his henchmen are planning to dominate the Mushroom Kingdom. Not wanting the attack to happen, Toadsworth orders the Toades guards to watch the kingdom. Then, in the real world, Peter, a game designer who is a huge fan of the Super Mario Bros. game (1985), showing that he has a brother named Rio and a crush on a woman named Anna, his ex-girlfriend. His life at Games Inc. is shown and his boss, named Math, who also studied with Peter in college, always humiliates Peter, even though his projects and ideas are good. Peter leaves work and goes to his room, where P.T. Boomer disguised as a mailman greets him, telling him that he got mail, and leaves. Then he plays the game Super Mario Bros. (1985). However, the game is buggy and images of the Mushroom Kingdom appear being attacked by Bowser Koopa and his minions. With this bug, Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Yoshi and Bowser leave the game and enter the real world, in Peter's home room. Bowser goes out and takes two hairs from Mario and Luigi. After introducing themselves and explaining their situation, Peter and Rio become friends with them and they allows them to stay in their apartment, mainly because he is a fan of Mario. The next day, Mario, Toad, Peach and Yoshi discover that they are video game characters, follow Peter to his workplace next to Rio’s bedroom, thinking that Peter works at Nintendo and that he can find Shigeru Myiamoto to help them. But they are disappointed to see that Peter does not work at Nintendo, but help him in the development of a game called Shigeru's World, in honor of Shigeru Myiamoto. Then Peter tells Rio to come into the workshop. Rio does and then grabs out his Sony camera and shows Mario and his friends a flashback when they were kids. Peter and Rio are playing on their N64 while eating Doritos, when their deceased father calls them and tells them to go into their workshop. Peter and Rio’s deceased father used to own the workshop and told them about knowing Shigeru Myiamoto when they get older. Their father said that they should know Shigeru’s latest video game and the Nintendo consoles he made. Peter and Rio then go back upstairs and play with Wii remotes. Rio then turns off the camera and rushes out of the workshop into his room. Then P.T. Boomer disguised as a mailman comes and enters the room. He lies that his real name is “M. D. Mailson” when Peter realized it actually isn’t, so he grabbed out his wig and revealed that he actually was P.T. Boomer! P.T. Boomer than is shocked and tries to kill Peter with a gun. Mario then stabs P.T. Boomer in the leg, and then P.T. Boomer fights back, nearly killing Mario. Then Peter tries to call the police, but he realized he left his phone in Rio’s bedroom. But on his way, P.T. Boomer blocks him, tries to kill Peter, but fails, and then runs away into the streets.

Meanwhile, having extracted strands from Mario's hair, Bowser creates two clones called Wario and Waluigi, who end up being treated favorably by Peter's boss, Math, who is startled to see that Bowser exists, and decides to help Bowser Koopa. After work, Peter tells Rio that he is going to have a romantic dinner with Anna, but it is a disaster because of Luigi. But with long months of work, Peter finishes the game and becomes a success, and Mario, Luigi, Peach and Toad realize that Peter receives attention from Myiamoto and Anna, helping Peter to become famous. And Peter takes care of them while Rio just hides in the basement, playing “Disturbia” by Rihanna on his Sony radio. Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi and Toad do a show at Comic Con, singing Baby (Justin Bieber song) and rap, with Mario dressed as rapper MC, and Math appears on the show along with Anna and Shigeru Myiamoto. Anna will talk to Peter that he is a successful man and that he should never give up on his dreams. Math tells Peter to market the game and treat Peter like a famous idol, but Peter doesn't agree with Math. Math tells Mario and his friends that Peter spoke ill of them behind his back, which is a lie. Bowser, Wario and Waluigi are in a game store, which makes game characters come to life and leave the game and go to the real world. P.T. Boomer disguised as a construction worker is shown building a new store in the streets. Peter and Mario argue at home and Mario leaves the house thinking that Peter cheated on him. Mario, Peach, Toad and Yoshi go to the Nintendo company, where they meet Shigeru Myiamoto, who is kidnapped by Bowser Koopa. Peach and Mario are also kidnapped by Bowser Koopa, so Toad and Yoshi go to Peter and Rio’s house, who is together with Luigi and Anna. They report that Mario, Peach and Myiamoto were kidnapped and Bowser Koopa did a spell that brought game characters to the real world while Rio comes out of the basement to hear this news, in addition to creating Wario and Waluigi, who are evil clones of Mario and Luigi, respectively. Then, they will redeem at the New York City game fair. Bowser does the magic, however, brings game heroes like Link and Red to the real world, who help Luigi, Toad, Peter, Rio, and Anna. Bowser is pre-winning, but Luigi saves everyone and Bowser, Wario, Waluigi and Math are defeated. Wario and Waluigi are laughing when they see Bowser and Math being hit. But then P.T. Boomer comes by. He then realizes the marriage, and then chokes Princess Peach to death. Peter, Rio, and Anna then are shocked that P.T. Boomer returned, and P.T. Boomer tries to kill Anna, but she thankfully wins the fight and survives. Luigi than catches P.T. Boomer and sucks him into the Poltergeist 3000. In this way, Luigi is recognized as a hero and Mario feels proud of Luigi. In the end, Shigeru Myiamoto tells Peter and Rio that he is going to be a good game designer just like him and that Mario and Donkey Kong are like children to him. In the end, Mario, Luigi, Toad, Yoshi and Peach say goodbye to Rio and return to the game. But before returning to the game, they organize a romantic dinner in Peter's real world with Anna and Rio, who is impressed to see that the game characters exist. Luigi does a clumsy act, which accidentally sends P.T. Boomer out of the Poltergeist 3000, making Peter and Rio angry. Then they show pictures, one showing a marriage between Peter and Ana in the real world, and another showing Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad and Yoshi renovating the Mushroom Kingdom to make it look like New York. Next, a post-credits scene is shown showing P.T. Boomer next to the portal, so he takes Math with him to the Mushroom Kingdom and they arrive in Bowser’s Castle, where they meet Bowser, Wario and Waluigi. When P.T. Boomer tells Bowser that Mario won the fight, Bowser plots revenge against Peter, Rio, and Mario.

Cast
01º Michael Cera as Peter

02º Ron Jeremy as Mario

03º Adam Sandler as Luigi

04º Brie Larson as Peach Toadstool

05º Justin Bieber as Toad (CGI character voiced by Justin Bieber)

06º Benedict Cumberbatch as Bowser Koopa (CGI character voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch)

07º Elliott Page as Anna Page

08º Shigeru Myiamoto as Shigeru Myiamoto

09º Jesse Eisenberg as Math

10º Drake as Yoshi (CGI character voiced by Frank Welker)

11º Danny DeVito as Wario

12º Stefán Karl Stefánsson as Waluigi.

13. Devon Bostick as Rio

14. Finn Wolfhard as Young Peter

15. Jacob Tremblay as Young Rio

16. Neil Crone as Peter and Rio’s (deceased) father

17. Doug Lennox as P.T. Boomer

Bad Qualities
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 * 1) The story is very unoriginal and rehases elements from Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Smurfs. Also, this film rehashes elements from [Enchanted], Fat Albert and Masters of the Universe.
 * 2) The idea of choose Ron Jeremy to be play Mario is weird, because it is suposed to be a family film and Ron Jeremy is an actor of adult films.
 * 3) An excessive amount of product placement, like the Nintendo, Cartoon Network, Sony, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, Apple, Doritos, M&M’s, and Samsung products and others.
 * 4) Poor grasp of the source material. For instance, in the source material, the stories take place in a fantasy world. But while the beginning does still take place in the world of the games, most of the scenes in this movie afterwards take place in New York City during the present day instead, and we don’t get to see the Mushroom Kingdom again after the first 10 minutes of the movie until the very end.
 * 5) False Advertising: Instead of being focused on Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad and Yoshi who are the main characters and getting a fair amount of screen time, the film mainly focuses on Peter (played by Michael Cera), who is a game designer who wants to know Shigeru Myiamoto.
 * 6) Anna is a pointless and unnecessary love interest.
 * 7) Rio has absolutely nothing to do with the plot because he has only 15 minutes of screen time and he doesn’t have a huge role whatsoever.
 * 8) For some reason, P.T. Boomer is somehow in the film. Although P.T. Boomer has nothing to do with Super Mario, he keeps appearing in a lot of scenes. The scene where he tries to kill Mario and Peter is way too scary and dark for a PG-rated film.
 * 9) In the flashback, Peter and Rio are shown playing on their N64 while eating Doritos, as they are recently shown playing with Wii remotes, although Rio’s Sony camera says it was filmed in the 1990s, when the Wii remote didn’t come out until 2006!
 * 10) An awful scene where Mario with rapper look is singing Baby (a song made by Justin Bieber).
 * 11) Peter is basically a younger version of Patrick Wislow from The Smurfs and Dave Seville from Alvin and the Chipmunks.
 * 12) Poor attempts of humor in the film.
 * 13) Yoshi’s character design is ugly and creepy.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Some parts of the film are faithful to the source material:
 * 2) * The beginning of the film still takes place in Mushroom Kingdom (the world of the first game).
 * 3) *The way they used the creator of the Mario game franchise, Shigeru Myiamoto, as a researcher for them was very clever.
 * 4) The voice acting for Bowser, Toad and the acting for the live-action cast are at least decent.
 * 5) The opening Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation logos are tinted red and green respectively, which are Mario and Luigi’s colours.
 * 6) Wario and Bowser are good villains and they save the film.
 * 7) Danny DeVito and Stefán Karl Stefánsson were great choices to play Wario and Waluigi.
 * 8) Even though he shouldn’t be in the movie, P.T. Boomer is such an awesome villain and we finally get to see him in an actual movie!
 * 9) The CGI is great and Toad’s design is faithful to the games.
 * 10) Decent soundtrack of Heitor Pereira.
 * 11) Devon Bostick does a great performance as Rio.
 * 12) At least the film was better than Super Mario 2 (FAKE)

Critical Response
Super Mario received generally negative reviews from critics and audiences. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 25% of 117 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 4.00/10. The site's critical consensus states, "Super Mario is inofensive, but a generic kids film like Alvin or Smurfs.". On Metacritic, the film has weighted a score of 28 out of 100, indicating, "generally unfavorable reviews," while IMDb has an average score of 5.3/10.

Box Office
This movie was a hit in the Box Office, with a box office of $530.4 million against a budget of $100 million, becoming a commercial success and the 2nd highest-grossing film in the Mario franchise. Then in 2015 and in 2019, the film spawned two sequels, Super Mario 2 (FAKE) and Super Mario 3 (FAKE), which both earned $986.9 million against a $90 million budget and $473 million against a $80 million budget, being the highest and lowest grossing films in the franchise, despite they were both huge box office hits.

Production
The idea of ​​making a Mario movie is very old. In 1990, Roland Jofé had won Mario's cinematographic rights to make a film based on the video game icon. The film had a screenplay written by Jim Jennewein and Tom S. Parker and would be directed by Greg Beeman, which would be about Mario (Danny DeVito) and Luigi (Tom Hanks) in the Mushroom Kingdom (which would be a fantasy world like Oz or Wonderland) trying to rescue a princess named Hildy from the clutches of King Bowser Koopa (Arnold Schwarzenegger), with the help of Toad and a wizard named Woltan. But the film was canceled because Roland Jofé was afraid that the film would cost a lot of money to produce and because the special effects of that time were not the same as today.

Another Mario film that was being proposed was a film that would also be produced by Roland Jofé, too, and would be directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Janckel, with a script written by Parker Bennet, Terry Runté and Ed Solomon, which would be about dinosaurs living in a world alternative cyberpunk (similar to Blade Runner and Mad Max) and evolving into humans, where Bowser Koopa (Dennis Hopper), would kidnap Daisy (Samantha Mathis), which would force Mario (Bob Hoskins) and Luigi (John Leguizamo) to go on an adventure to rescue Daisy. But the film was canceled due to production problems and because it was so different from games, and Rocky Morton and Annabel Janckel wanted it to be an adult film, while Roland Jofé wanted it to be a children's film. Then, the film was also canceled, Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo never played Mario and Luigi in the cinema.

Another idea for a CGI/Live-Action hybrid movie about Mario was an idea of Disney. According to Disney, the idea for a CGI/Live-Action hybrid movie about Mario was a comedy fantasy adventure story called Super Mario Brothers: The Beggining of the Journey, that would be about Mario (Jack Black) and Luigi (Paul Rudd trying to rescue a princess in a fantástica world world like mh:greatestmovies:The Wizard of Oz. But the idea was scrapped when Sony Pictures Animation bought the rights and Alvin and the Chipmunks made by Fox and The Smurfs made by Sony Pictures Animation were big hits in Box Office.

Trivia

 * 1) Originally, this movie would have been made by Disney and faithful to the game, starring Jack Black as Mario and Paul Rudd as Luigi. But the Sony version was released.
 * 2) Jordan Peele was originally considered for the role as Rio before Devon Bostick was cast