The movie Super Mario Bros. has already brought millions of viewers to the Mushroom Kingdom during its week in theaters. However, the new feature film from Illumination studio is far from the first adaptation of Nintendo’s popular video game franchise.
Indeed, long before he offered himself this completely new life in cinema, the famous Italian plumber already had many (more or less unforgettable) adventures behind consoles, on big and small screens.
While we just talked about the disastrous 1993 live-action feature film and the very rare 1986 animated film that was released only in Japan, let’s focus today on the American series dedicated to the adventures of Mario and Luigi that aired on us. Aired in the early 90s.
Entitled Super Mario Bros Super Show!, this atypical program that combines animation and live action should thrill even the most nostalgic viewers who knew it back then.
The 52-episode run always opened and ended with two small live skits in Brooklyn, a laugh-out-loud sitcom starring two plumbers, Lou Albano (Mario) and Danny Wells (Luigi), and occasionally hosted guest stars.
The heart of the episode, in the animation, took place in the world Super Mario Bros., where Mario and Luigi shared many adventures with Peach and Toad, usually trying to escape the menace of the dreaded King Koopa (now better known as Bowser). All are punctuated by the famous music composed by Koji Kondo for the original games.
In the pilot episode (which you can find in its entirety on YouTube in its original version without subtitles), we follow, for example, the failure of Toad, who is unwittingly kidnapped by Birdo (the villain). Super Mario Bros. 2) who mixed it up with his baby. Then his companions tried their best to find the mushroom.
Finally, let’s mention that the opening credits of this series were none other than “Rap Plumber”, a song performed by Mario and Luigi, which we find identically… in the animated film that just went to the cinema.
(re)discover the extract below…
Source: Allocine
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