Date watched: 10/7/20
Starring: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper
Plot: Two Brooklyn plumbers, Mario and Luigi, must travel to another dimension to rescue a princess from the evil dictator King Koopa and stop him from taking over the world. (From IMDB)
Quotes:
- Strap your bone on, kid. We’re goin’ in.
- Oh-for-five, Oh-for-five. — What percent is that? — I don’t know. Let me think. — I don’t know, but it’s not good.
- I’m getting arrested for being a plumber.
- Alien species escaping from police detention… — Aliens? We gotta deal with aliens too? — Luigi, we’re the aliens! — We are? Whoa! Cool!
- And you know what they say about little girls, don’t you? — No. — Mm? They say… they never forget the first time they’re kissed by a lizard.
- Was she corpulent? Very corpulent? — No, she was just really round.
- Dance with me. I’ll hit you all you like.
- I’d like the Koopa Special. — Pterodactyl tail on that? — Yes. Dino, lizard, hold the mammal, no worms, and…spicy.
- These pipes haven’t been serviced for years. — Must’ve been a non-union job.
- We gotta do something. We tripped the alarm. What do you think I am? Stupid? — Yes. How we gonna get up? Huh?
- Can’t you get somebody to fix the heating? — How can they let us suffer like this? What are they? Cold-blooded? — Yes, moron. They’re reptiles. — Well, just because they’re reptiles…
- Hey! You must be the missing girls from Brooklyn. — Except Angelica, she’s from Queens, but she’s all right.
Viewer Quotes:
- “Scapelli’s been trying to force us out ever since we got here. It’s sabotage” — Listen all y’all, it’s a sabotage
- “I got a feeling.” – That tonight’s going to be a good night
- I like how they had that news report about the other dimensions at the start — Chekhov’s television program?
- “Where are we? — I don’t know. Maybe we got knocked unconscious for 100 years and woke up in Manhattan of the future.” — That’s a good first guess…
- “Good. Now, where’s the rock? — Rock, sir?” — So don’t let him leave the room without us
- “You must be the great Koopa. — That I am. Ruler of all that you see. A few miserable streets and endless desert.” — Ahh, so like how NY sees the rest of the world
- She looks like Marv from Home Alone 2
Things we learned:
- The lizard people really are in charge… just in another dimension
- Are the Goombas the Proud Boys?
Final Take:
That movie was a pipe dream…