Blog: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 Beginning of the Journey (The blog about this idea is in a blog from Greatest Movies Wiki). After reading these two blogs, tell me in the comments which of the two ideas do you prefer (this or Super Mario Brothers: The Beginning of the Journey?) and why you liked Super Mario Brothers: The Beginning of the Journey and what do you think about Super Mario Brothers: The Beginning 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 mh:awesomegames:Nintendo. It was directed by Tim Hill, starring Ron Jeremy, Brie Larson, Adam Sandler and Michael Cera, with Justin Bieber, Frank Welker and Benedict Cumberbatch as the voices of Toad, Yoshi and Bowser Koopa. It is the second CGI/live-action hybrid film produced by mh:greatestmovies:Sony Pictures Animation after The Smurfs. The film had its worldwide premiere on June 16, 2012, in Júzcar, a small village in Spain, and was released on July 29, 2012 by Columbia Pictures.

Premise
Peter Daniel (Michael Cera) is a game designer and a huge fan of Nintendo and the Mario game franchise. But every game that he 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 needs 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).

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 Toad's 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, is introduced. (1985), showing that he has 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. Michael leaves work and goes home to play 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 homeroom. Bowser goes out and takes two hairs from Mario and Luigi. After introducing themselves and explaining their situation, Peter becomes friends with them and allows them to stay in his 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, thinking that Peter works at Nintendo and that he can find Shigeru Miyamoto 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 honour of Shigeru Miyamoto.

Meanwhile, having extracted strands from Mario's hair, Bowser creates two clones called Wario and Waluigi, who end up being treated favourably by Peter's boss, Math, who is startled to see that Bowser exists, and decides to help Bowser Koopa. After work, Peter 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 Miyamoto and Anna, helping Peter to become famous. And Peter takes care of them. 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 Miyamoto. 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. 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 Miyamoto, who is kidnapped by Bowser Koopa. Peach and Mario are also kidnapped by Bowser Koopa, so Toad and Yoshi go to Peter's house, who is together with Luigi and Anna. They report that Mario, Peach and Miyamoto were kidnapped and Bowser Koopa did a spell that brought game characters to the real world, in addition to creating Wario and Waluigi, who are evil clones of Mario and Luigi, respectively. Then, they will redeem themselves 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 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. In this way, Luigi is recognized as a hero and Mario feels proud of Luigi. In the end, Shigeru Miyamoto tells Peter 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 and return to the game. But before returning to the game, they organize a romantic dinner in Peter's real world with Anna, who is impressed to see that the game characters exist. Luigi does a clumsy act, making Peter 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 Math, Bowser, Wario and Waluigi plotting revenge against Peter and Mario.

Cast

 * 1) Michael Cera as Peter
 * 2) Ron Jeremy as Mario
 * 3) Adam Sandler as Luigi
 * 4) Brie Larson as Peach Toadstool
 * 5) Justin Bieber as Toad (CGI character voiced by Justin Bieber)
 * 6) Benedict Cumberbatch as Bowser Koopa (CGI character voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch)
 * 7) Elliott Page as Anna Page
 * 8) Shigeru Myiamoto as Shigeru Myiamoto
 * 9) Jesse Eisenberg as Math
 * 10) Drake as Yoshi (CGI character voiced by Frank Welker)
 * 11) Danny DeVito as Wario
 * 12) Stefán Karl Stefánsson as Waluigi.



Bad Qualities

 * 1) Despite being way more faithful than the 1993 film, the film's grasp of the source material is not very good. For instance, in the source material, the stories take place in a fantasy world called the Mushroom Kingdom. 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.
 * 2) The story is very unoriginal and rehashes elements from Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Smurfs.
 * 3) *The film uses the same concept as The Smurfs, as it uses the same concept of the main characters being transported from their world to our world. Since The Smurfs rehashed elements from mh:greatestmovies:Enchanted, Fat Albert and Masters of the Universe, this movie feels like a rehash of those ones too.
 * 4) Most of the casting choices feel rather unfitting and strange for the characters they play as:
 * 5) *The idea of choosing Ron Jeremy to play Mario is weird because it is supposed to be a family film and Ron Jeremy is an actor of adult films.
 * 6) *Adam Sandler's performance as Luigi is not very good as doesn't look anything like Luigi in live-action and he kinda sounds a bit too much like Luigi from mh:crappygames:Hotel Mario than Luigi in the actual games.
 * 7) *Despite doing a decent job in his role, Justin Bieber (yes, the Justin Bieber) (Bieber with a capital B) was cast for Toad despite him being a controversial celebrity among the music community. To quote the words of The Angry Video Game Nerd; What were they thinking?
 * 8) An excessive amount of product placements for Nintendo, Cartoon Network, Sony, McDonald's, Hello Kitty, Bob the Builder, Wii Sports, Sesame Street, LEGO, Pokémon, Pizza Hut, Domino's Pizza, Grand Theft Auto, Apple, Samsung, and etc.
 * 9) 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 about Shigeru Miyamoto.
 * 10) Anna is a pointless and unnecessary love interest to Peter, and she serves no purpose other than to just make really inappropriate messages about how he finds Peter to be hot.
 * 11) Sometimes, the movie has a few filler-worthy scenes that add nothing to the story and are just there for no reason at all, some examples include:
 * 12) *An awful scene where Mario dresses up as a rapper and he sings "Baby" by Justin Bieber, even Toad joins in and sings too.
 * 13) *A pointless scene where Peter, Mario and Luigi all play mh:awesomegames:Wii Sports, and it is very similar to the scene in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel where Alvin tires to play mh:awesomegames:Wii Sports, but destroys Dave's TV by throwing a Wii remote at it, with the only difference being that Mario ends up breaking Peter's TV with the Wii remote because his wrist strap broke.
 * 14) *Mario and Luigi arguing over whether to go to Pizza Hut or Domino's Pizza.
 * 15) Peter is basically a younger clone of Patrick Winslow from The Smurfs and Dave Seville from Alvin and the Chipmunks, except way more blander than both combined.
 * 16) There are tons of poor attempts of humour in the film.
 * 17) *There is a recurring joke where people think Toad is on drugs because he is a mushroom.
 * 18) *The one infamous scene where Yoshi pees in a bottle and someone in the restaurant mistakes the pee in the bottle for their bottle of apple juice and drinks it.
 * 19) *Toad pretending to act like a person with autism by watching an episode of Bob the Builder and screaming all the way through it, this scene is very offensive to people who have autism and it seems like the writers clearly have no respect to people who suffer from the condition of being autistic.
 * 20) *Mario and Luigi making very bad pizza puns, like "Pizza delicious" and "Pizza bit disgusting".
 * 21) *Waluigi singing "Shake Your Booty" by KC & The Sunshine Band when he gets tased by the police in the Plaza Hotel.
 * 22) Yoshi's character design is ugly and creepy and it looks completely unfaithful to his original design, in fact, he barely has any resemblance from his original counterpart aside from him still being a dinosaur and him still having his green colour.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Some parts of the film are faithful to the source material:
 * 2) *The beginning of the film still takes place in the Mushroom Kingdom (the world of the first game) and it still uses the classic designs from the game in the Mushroom Kingdom universe, it isn't until they get sucked into the real world when their live-action designs are used.
 * 3) *The way they used the creator of the Mario game franchise, Shigeru Miyamoto, as a researcher for them was very clever.
 * 4) Despite the ridiculous casting, the voice acting for Bowser, Toad and the acting for the live-action cast are at least decent.
 * 5) *Danny DeVito and Stefán Karl Stefánsson in particular were both great choices to play Wario and Waluigi, and they both sound nearly identical to the original voice actors for Wario and Waluigi.
 * 6) Wario and Bowser are good villains and they save the film.
 * 7) The CGI is great and Toad's design is faithful to the games.
 * 8) *In addition to this, the animation in the opening segment that takes place in the Mushroom Kingdom is faithful to the video games and the designs of the characters are identical to their original designs, although, the same can't be said for most of the live-action designs of the characters.
 * 9) Decent soundtrack of Heitor Pereira.

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 an inoffensive, yet generic kids film like Alvin and the Chipmunks or The Smurfs, it may not be as unfaithful to the games than that other ones we don't talk about, but it is likely that you will forget that this was supposed to be a Mario movie later on". On Metacritic, the film has weighted a score of 28 out of 100, indicating, "generally unfavourable 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 $587.4 million against a budget of $ 100 million, becoming a commercial success.

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 cancelled 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 Jaeckel, 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 cancelled 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 cancelled, 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 Beginning of the Journey, which would be about Mario (Jack Black) and Luigi (Paul Rudd) trying to rescue a princess in a fantastic 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.