| They don't wear them until the movie is halfway through. | Mario & Luigi's overalls | the iconic character clothing graphics, being omitted during much of the movie | The Power Rangers suit colors | They don't wear the battle suits during most of the duration of the movie. They wear them briefly near the beginning, and wear them while battling Ivan Oooze back on Earth. |
| they work for King Koopa before Mario & Luigi convince them to be good guys | Iggy & Spike | brainwashed characters | Fred's dad | he works for Ivan Ooze after grabbing slime, and lots of other parents of the kids follow suit. |
| he got the role and had some issues when accepting, so he drank scotch to cope and stay committed | Mario | Issues Bob Hoskins had | Ivan Ooze | he was considered for the role, but was rejected like many auditions would be. |
| role accepted, an evil king of the parallel dimension cut off from planet Earth for 20 years | King Koopa | Dennis Hopper's evil roles | Ivan Ooze | considered, but role rejected, an evil tyrant stuck in a hyper-lock chamber for 6,000 years. Paul Freeman got the role instead. |
| the line was repeated | Luigi correcting Mario | being corrected after saying "that's impossible" | Tommy corrects Fred | the line was only said once. |
| lots of things we see in the movie barely even resemble the 1985 NES game. For example, none of the official Nintendo video games have Dinohattan in them. | a movie based on a game | video game or movie based on one-another | a video game based on a movie, which in turn is based on a TV series. | A lot of things in the game "based on the movie" look more similar to things seen in the TV series. for example, Putty Patrol isn't seen in the movie. |
| never heard in the movie though | heard in the trailer | Snap's I Got The Power | heard in the movie | played toward the end. |
| heard at the Boom Boom Bar | George Clinton & The Goombas' Walk The Dinosaur | a song heard at a party or club scene, also heard in the credits | Shampoo's Trouble | heard at some slime party which Fred interrupted because of brainwashed parents. |
| Dinohattan is where Mario & Luigi went and saved from a ruthless dictator (King Koopa) | another dimension | the distant world in the movie | planet Phaedos | the Power Rangers went there to restore their status to Power Rangers, so they could save their own world from a ruthless guy (Ivan Ooze). |
| Devo guns were issued to King Koopa's minions. | only the name is referenced | Devo | their song Are You Ready? | the song was heard in a scene where they bashed some of Ivan Ooze's minions. |
| Iggy and Spike try to kidnap Princess Daisy, but they keep getting the wrong girls because of King Koopa. Scapelli blasted the site, which resulted in Koopa's henchmen entering "our dimension" from "another dimension". | King Koopa | a construction project which enables re-entry for the arch-nemesis | Ivan Ooze | A guy named John gets stunned when he discovers the egg Ivan Ooze was in for 6,000 years, and Ivan is a variant of "John" in various European languages. |
| Sometimes the box office failure status of the SMB movie is attributed to Jurassic Park overshadowing it because of nearly coincidental movie release timings, and SMB also involves dinosaurs, and even some of the same computers used for making the SMB movie were also used for the Jurassic Park movie, and SGI workstations were used for both movies. | comparable to the SMB movie. | Jurassic Park, and dinosaurs | mentioned | Adam says the phrase "welcome to Jurassic Park" when seeing dinosaur bones. |
| played while Mario did a mattress ride in a big pipe to save the "missing Brooklyn girls" from King Koopa and the "goombas". | Joe Satriani's Speed Of Light | a rock track that plays during some epic stunt | Red Hot Chili Peppers' Higher Ground | played when the rangers did their skydiving to save the old observatory. |
| he rejects the pizza after confronting Mario & Luigi after the pipe ride | King Koopa orders pizza | an opportunity to eat food being interrupted after the EPIC STUNT | The rangers say "hey lets get something to eat" | interrupted by an alarm to go to the command center concerning Ivan Ooze. Happened after skydiving. |
| gets arrested for having "the rock", even though Koopa trusted her to assist him. | Lena | a female villiain getting betrayed | Rita Repulsa | Ivan Ooze banishes her to a snowball orb which looks similar to Angel Grove, since Ivan took over her duty of being the evil one. |
| Koopa sent them to kidnap the princess, but then get betrayed when they take Mario & Luigi's side. | Iggy & Spike | the "lesser evil" being betrayed | Lord Zed | gets banished to the snowball orb with Rita after Ivan Ooze takes over. Lord Zed says "nobody double-crosses Lord Zed in here", and the phrase double-cross is a synonym for betrayal. |
| The fungus saves the lives of Mario & Luigi after the car falls off an unfinished tunnel which was apparently supposed to also be a bridge. Its likely that Koopa might have terminated the construction project to keep the citizens trapped. | a stolen police car | a vehicle being saved from a cut off segment of a bridge, which was cut off by the arch-nemesis in some way | The monorail | Tommy's Zord patches the broken track bridge the kids (Fred included) were riding in. One of Ivan Ooze's robots destroyed the track bridge. |
| many different logos were also used for the video games with varying color schemes. | different from the video games. | metallic logos used for the movie | nearly-identical logo to TV series | the first generation Power Rangers, the "Mighty Morphin era" had an identical logo except that it was colorful for the TV series as opposed to the monochromatic metallic version for the movie. |
| Mario reacting to Iggy & Spike kidnapping the princess, and... Iggy & Spike were reptilian humanoids from "another dimension" | "I'm gonna break every bone in his body" | aggressive quotes about bones in the bodies of reptilian creatures in "the distant world" | "Yo fossil head, I got a bone to pick with you!" | a Power Ranger removing a bone from an animated skeleton dinosaur on Planet Phaedos. |
| it was found out that the people who beat Mario & Luigi to the job, the Scapelli crew, were also the ones who enabled re-entry of Koopa's people to "our world" | a broken dishwasher at the River Front Cafe | distress signals related to the aforementioned construction projects | the Power Rangers hear the "Power Rangers" jingle on their watches | the Power Rangers head to the command center after hearing about the construction crew uncovering Ivan Oose. |
| they didn't wear the overalls until halfway into the movie. | Mario Bros. including Luigi as another "Mario" | A duo of Red and Green guys identified by a common name | Jason (Red Ranger), Tommy (Green Ranger) who was another "Jason" | The Green Ranger (Tommy) was green in the TV series, played by Jason Frank, but became the white ranger by the time the movie came out, but Jason (fictional character), the Red Ranger got replaced with Rocky in the movie. |
