10 Greatest Video Game Movies Of All-Time

This is an objectively terrible film, I know. It's ugly, stupid and has the most ridiculous plot ever plotted, but I would still argue that Super Mario Bros. is so ill-conceived that it manages to be a genuine curio. It's a film so questionable on every level that it winds up being endlessly interesting as a result.

And I don't care what anybody says: it is entertaining. Every moment, every scene. You can't look away. It's insane.

Where to start? With the bizarre prologue, which invents a crazily convoluted backstory to explain why there are dinosaurs living in an alternate dimension beneath New York City? Or how about Bob Hoskins' pitch-perfect performance as Mario (seriously)? What about the fact that Yoshi is an actual dinosaur, like the ones in Jurassic Park. Big Bertha? Dennis Hopper? The list goes on and on...

Super Mario Bros. is the kind of film that only 1993 could have turned out. In an attempt to explain everything that went unexplained in the iconic Super Mario Bros. game (for good reason), the script bends over backwards to explain everything. The fact that it's partly set in a nightmarish Blade Runner-like world only makes the whole thing even more fascinating.

As an adaptation, this is horrible, but as an experience... well, it's wonderful; I love Citizen Kane, but I'd take Super Mario Bros. with me to a desert island.