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Excerpts from the original script of the Mario Bros. movie



Excerpts from the original script of the Mario Bros. movie

by Radiorapier

23 Comments

  1. Platforumer

    After all these years, it’s still painful.

  3. Vokle

    Look, I’m just gonna say it. I love the Super Mario Brothers Movie. I think it’s a dope flick. I honestly think it if wasn’t branded with “Mario” it would be a cult classic now. It they changed all the names y’all would love it like I do.

  4. Radiorapier

    So I recently read the original script of the Mario bros. movie, before many rewrites turned it into it into the movie we know today. The original resembles a fantasy movie, more whimsical wizard of oz than dystopian blade runner.

    The plot involves the Mario bros getting sucked down a pipe into the mushroom kingdom after “hildy” (basically daisy) gets kidnapped by Koopa, who needs to marry her to take over the mushroom kingdom and gain the crown of invincibility. The Mario bros meet Toad along the way, and discover from a wizard that they are part of a prophecy of two warriors that would save the kingdom. The wizard sends them on a quest to fetch his wand from the inescapable pit, where along the way the bros and Toad encountered hammer bros, yoshi, goombas, bob-bombs, and thwomps. All the while, koopa feeds Hildy a love potion so she will marry him. Eventually the bros crash koopa’s wedding and free the princess but it’s to late and he already has the crown. Mario tricks koopa into dropping his crown by challenging how massive he can make himself with his new powers, eventually leading to the crown falling off his head and causing a powerless Koopa to fall into the lava bellow.

    Luigi is the dreamer younger brother and Mario is gruff and bitter older brother. toad accompanies them, acting as the lovable coward who initially betrayed the bros. but eventually saves them.

  5. SyrupBuccaneer

    Imagine John McClane saying these. I think it’d work.

  6. Dankany

    Oh what a terrible movie. I love it so much.

  7. deltios

    Can’t wait for Vinesauce to see this and Vinny to do his Super ~~show~~ Mario World TV show impressions with this script.

    EDIT: Corrected myself, was referring to the wrong cartoon.

  11. MarcsterS

    I could only read these Vinny’s Mario and Lugui voices.

  12. DapperDano

    I remember reading the original script and Toad was much more a main character. I wish they had made that movie, even though it probably would’ve still sucked.

  14. hadesscion

    This sounds so much better than the dumpster fire we actually got.

  15. JonathanSchneider

    No wonder Mario is a silent protagonist these days.

  16. Bossman1086

    You used to be able to get away with so much more in a PG movie…

  17. ArtsyAlice

    Try reading this stuff in Charles Martinet’s squeaky voice.

  18. yawnful

    Duke Nukem: “I’m here to chew bubblegum and kick ass and I’m all out of bubblegum.”

    Mario: “Yeah. Let’s kick some ass.”

  19. [deleted]

    I know it was a total trainwreck, but I actually like this movie. It’s a stupid sci-fi interpretation of an NES platformer, and they dare to interpret it as a Bladerunner-style cyberpunk world. This movie gets so ridiculous, it actually starts becoming weirdly enjoyable. Before you know it, you’re actually immersed in its world.

    If only it had a bit more tender love and care, this movie could’ve been great. It still would’ve been a bad movie, but it could’ve been a bad movie for all the right reasons.

  21. weezermc78

    They really should have capitalized on that SLAVE LABOR CAMP scene

  22. YabukiJoe

    I read the script with the voices from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show. Makes it a bit funnier.

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