Before shows like Fallout and The Last of Us, the first live-action series based on a video game was quite different from ...

You may recall the live-action Super Mario Bros. Super Show from the '80s, but are you also aware of its short-lived ... The show ran 65 episodes over the course of its only season.

It utilizes a rendition of the Super Mario Bros. rap featured in the introduction of the live-action show The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! that ran for a single season in 1989.

The original Super Mario Bros. live-action movie from 1993 was something very different from the Nintendo-led animated film that hits theaters on April 5th. A ’90s time capsule.

Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key and Seth Rogen are among stars providing the voices for 'The Super Mario Bros.

The live-action Mario movie was weird, gross, and risky — and a lot more fun than the safe, faithful 2023 version. by Maddy Myers. Apr 10, 2023, 1:02 PM UTC. Image: Hollywood Pictures.

That reason is known simply as Super Mario Bros., the 1993 attempt at bringing the pipe-traversing, Koopa-stomping plumber (and his younger brother, Luigi) into the realm of live-action.

The turnout is all the more impressive considering the 1993 “Mario”’ live-action movie was a widely ridiculed box office bomb. More significantly, the 2023 “Mario” set a dramatic new bar ...

Image: via IMDB / Buena Vista Pictures. Long before Nintendo and Illumination's record-breaking Super Mario Bros. animated movie, there was the infamous live-action film starring Bob Hoskins and ...