This is quite a tricky one to review...

Good points:
The animation was very smooth, the action most of the time was pulled off very well, it had some fairly original parts (giant Mario for instance)

Bad points:
The action sequence was very broken and...it's hard to explain. It sort of started, got into a really smooth flow then aprubtly stopped and the music suddenly changes from this fighting style music to relaxing mario music in the blink of an eye.
Also, alot of things didn't make sense. Such as why Mario suddenly 'evolved' when he was in a pipe, why Mario kept calling Luigi's name after beating him up (not a big issue), and why they were fighting in the first place.
The ending was just completely unsatisfying

Overall it was fairly entertaining and enjoyable, just a few little things and the structure of the film that let it down =]

On a completely different note: The only similarities I see with this to SMBZ is that. 1) There is fighting and 2) Mario sprites were used...
The fighting style is completely different and way more exaggetated in SMBZ! Sheesh...

Everyone on this side of the planet, that is not gay knows that Luigi would beat Mario's fat red ass, after he steals peach from him and has some fun with her! But the parts where luigi was winning were o.k.

Pretty nice job dude, go Luigi!

dispite your claim of being lazy (and the ending is deus ex machina) its good enough. now i only problem is flow, you countinously break it whenever they hit with a hit thats sents them flying, if your gonna be fast paced with such things make sure you can at least not stop to badly for them to get some useless upgrade, make sure that in future you maintain the flow of combat and ensure you never get one sided in fighting as this gives a very boring fight. all in all worth a 9 but could get a ten if combat flow was improved. and btw people only whine about the other series (like smbz) because they want a new one out every day, just ignore them.

The thing is, it was too short for my taste. And that going to SMW part seems pretty pointless since they practically did nothing there.

The reason many consider this a SMBZ/DBZ ripoff is because it was fast pase fighting. If it is fast, they'll compare it to anything Z even if there was no energy beams or flying.

Want people to stop doing that? I recommend viewing and studying the MK Vs SF series by Proxicide. It was fast pase but not too fast. No blur or dashing effects, just use of slowed time. If you're next one of this series was like that, then it'll get more 10s then people complaining about ripping off "something something Z".

I may not know flash but I know plenty about fighting.