10 Biggest Video Game Movie Flops
5. Super Mario Bros
Budget: $48 million
US Box Office: $20,915,465
For American audiences, it all began when Hollywood threw a bundle of cash at a Japanese video game series with the expectation of creating a movie franchise about two plumbers in an alternate universe. Instead, they made a cult curio.
Directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel (the creators of Max Headroom), Super Mario Bros now looks more like the missing link between Howard The Duck and Batman & Robin than the movie that kick started Hollywood’s obsession with video game franchises. It’s loud, dumb and expensive….but what were you expecting a movie based on this game to be like?
What The Critics Said: “Super Mario Bros devotes half its run time to lumbering exposition, yet still makes no f**king sense.” (The Onion A.V. Club)