The star jimmy, the star. I wonder if Nintendo could launch this advertisement-as-movie these days.

Things I remember from this movie: the Power Glove, and the location of the Warp Whistle. And that's it.

Perhaps the greatest, most shameless product placement of all time. At the time SMB3 was about two months away from release so naturally little kindergarten Xeno was in awe at this sequence.

But the SMB3 thing was an important plot point, because the little savant boy was only good at games he "knew," and playing a brand new game competitively was like his retard kryptonite. HOLY CRAP PEOPLE, THE SUSPENSE.

The amazing thing is that SMB3 really did rule that much.

i wonder what that girl playing the game is doing these days.

Our local arcade managed to get a SMB3 in their Playchoice-10 right before this movie came out, but I still happily went to see and enjoyed this anyway. That's how big of a nerd I am/was.

I learned just yesterday that the little girl in this movie is Jenny Lewis from Rilo Kiley

i saw this in the theater as a small, small child. nostalgia attack.

nintendo's marketing ploys make me wistful against my will, what can i say.

....caliiiiiFORniiiia....

A touching tale of autism, Fred Savage's ham acting, and Nintendo's pursuit of the pre-teen demographic.

Wow it's been so long since I saw this that I was starting to believe that I'd just imagined it. Great post

I still get chills when Jimmy gets the star.

You moron, hold down on the white block to duck behind the background and you could have gotten a warp whistle earlier. Wasn't that obvious?

50,000 on Double Dragon! Go Jimmy.

Even back then, I knew this movie was a 90-minute commercial for SMB3. Not that it mattered or discouraged me from watching it, because it was a 90-minute long commercial for one of the greatest video games ever.

It was also the first movie I ever saw in the theater alone, because my parents refused to watch it.

Five stars for the inclusion of big/small world, the greatest Mario gimmick ever.

i'd just like to say the red haired girl is the lead singer of the band Rilo Kiley... weird.

You have to love how their scoring system is based on nothing at all.

And the hell with all the actors, we all knew SMB3 was the star here.

Autism ftw!

"Jimmy begins world 2!" That's not world 2...

And how could the girl know what the magic flute did if nobody had ever seen the game before?

I liked how in this movie's world every single arcade carried nothing but NES games.

Here's a fun game. Do a shot everytime the autistic kid says California.

Damn! That Mora chick is FINE!!!