Super Mario Bros. (Alan Silvestri)

Another space-filling post courtesy of me.

Like a lot of kids, I played the "Super Mario Bros." video game. At the time, I was jazzed to see the movie. Looking back, even with its many flaws, I can't bring myself to hate it. It's so endearingly cheesy.

The cast has been fairly vocal about their distaste for this film (John Leguizamo's chapter in his book "Pimps, Hos, Playa Haters and Other Hollywood Friends" is especially entertaining). Then again, there's been a princess named Daisy tromping around Mario games for roughly the last decade. Like it or not, this movie's made something of an impact.

One of its strongest elements, by far, is Alan Silvestri's score. The bouncy main theme is temped in a little too much, with little variety in the orchestration (sort of like the love theme from Silvestri's The Mexican, but there's some fine action scoring, especially in the big climactic scenes.

Super Mario Bros.
composed & conducted
by
Alan Silvestri

1. Main Titles 4:01
2. Navigational Instincts 0:53
3. Iggy and Spike 0:18
4. "There she is!" 0:10
5. After Daisy 0:22
6. Invitation to Dinner 1:18
7. Another Kidnapping 0:17
8. Strange Fossils 0:58
9. Sabotage! 1:08
10. Knocked Out 0:37
11. To the Other Side 1:27
12. "What is this place?" 1:02
13. King Koopa/"Where's the rock?" 2:09
14. "Plumber alert." 0:19
15. Losing the Rock 1:11
16. Under Arrest 0:20
17. The Missing Girls/Police Station 0:29
18. Booking the Brothers 0:41
19. Firing Squad? 0:18
20. The De-Evo Chamber 0:35
21. The Escape 0:38
22. Prison Swing 0:58
23. Wild Car Ride 3:47
24. "Come with me." 1:12
25. Koopa's Command/Lena's Story/Wandering the Desert 1:31
26. Yoshi/Daisy Meets Koopa 2:30
27. "Plumbers!" 0:27
28. Imprisoned/Hitching a Ride 2:08
29. Escaping the Goombas 1:19
30. Koopa Chats with the King 0:45
31. Koopa Tower 0:08
32. The Super Mario Brothers 0:06
33. Lena Makes a Decision 0:18
34. "Am I interrupting?" 0:11
35. Lena Attacks Daisy 0:55
36. Iggy and Spike Help Daisy 1:09
37. Family Reunion 0:43
38. Flying Lesson/"My father." 2:03
39. "Lena has the rock." 0:49
40. Luigi and Daisy Caught 0:37
41. Lena Arrested 0:10
42. Escape from Goomba Barracks 1:12
43. Mario vs. Koopa/After Lena 4:11
44. Return to New York 0:37
45. "We're merging!" 1:09
46. Scapelli De-Evolved 0:17
47. Back to Koopa City 1:16
48. De-Evolving Koopa 0:51
49. The End of Koopa 1:55
50. Farewells 2:02
51. "I believe." 0:18

Disney's grip on their film scores has grown refreshingly loose over the last couple years, so don't count this one out.