SuperMario-Club

DIRECTED BY: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic WRITTEN BY: Matthew Fogel RATING: 4.5/5 Who would've known that there would be a theatrical 3D animated film for one of everyone's favorite gaming heroes, the Italian-American plumber named Mario, many years after the infamous live-action film Super Mario Bros. (the one starring Bob Hoskins as Mario and John Leguizamo as his brother Luigi)? Well, to answer that question, almost nobody did. After Super Mario Bros. became a critical and commercial fiasco (despite being the first ever live-action feature film based on a video game) upon its release in 1993, the company behind Mario - Nintendo Co., Ltd. - nixed the idea of producing any more film adaptations of their franchises for more than two decades. At least until today. Nearly 30 years later came the big-budget and star-studded The Super Mario Bros. Movie from Nintendo themselves in association with Universal Pictures and Illumination (the companies behind the highest-grossing