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Message: [QUOTE="ATenderLad, post: 152839, member: 3864"] They went through a bunch of ideas, I watched it with four separate commentary tracks for that article I never wrote but the initial "big idea" was this [I]Rain Man[/I]-esque "Great American Roadtrip" with the Mario brothers. The eventual directors brought a pitch that was basically what we wound up with, but weirder on paper. (One of the many writers who contributed to a script is pretty sure they were inspired by a Doctor Who serial from 1970, [I]Doctor Who and the Silurians). [/I] The parallel Dino-earth was going to be very "Mad Max wasteland", with a Dinohattan drawing upon Blade Runner (hence why they got that movies set designer, and he really whipped ass in the final film regardless), but obviously it was a super troubled production. The initial script they ran with was pounded out in just over a week by Men In Black's Ed Solomon, who was rushed to finish and move on to another project. That he managed a filmable screenplay that incorporated what the directors and the studio had given him in that amount of time was pretty wild, but it basically broke in half as they kept changing it. The third act is basically just a jumble of things happening without setup; for instance, they realized too late that there was no *actual* reason Daisy was the only one who could merge the dimensions. Still, some stuff works, like the brothers coming to respect each others points of view more. Mario takes more leaps of faith, and Luigi gets more practical about his tools and profession. (Honestly though, Hoskins and Leguizamo have pretty great chemistry, it almost undermines that arc that they *don't* have more friction). The actors for Spike and Iggy were basically left to make up their parts, and they did a pretty fun job of it. Dinohattan looks fantastic, and I think the opening in Humanhattan is genuinely pretty good. It probably goes without saying that the effects work was fantastic, no one really complains about that part. The music is underwhelming, Alan Silvestri is a king but they seemed to just ask him for generic family movie fare. He'd done so amazing with [I]Who Framed Roger Rabbit? [/I]the year before, with that moody noir sound; no idea why so much of [I]Super Mario Bros.[/I] sounds like [I]George of the Jungle[/I]. (Which, to be clear, is being big and corny on purpose). There was probably never a *great* movie in there, but it could have been a good one with a more "harmonious" production, I think. ....uh, and that concludes my rambling. [/QUOTE]

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