"Almost Unreal" is a song by Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released on 10 May 1993 as the lead single from the soundtrack of the 1993 live action adaption of Super Mario Bros., which starred Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper. The song became a top twenty hit in numerous territories, including Scandinavia, Ireland and the UK. It would also be the duo's final top ten hit in both of the latter countries—excluding a re-release of "It Must Have Been Love" two months later. The song proved to be unsuccessful in North America, peaking at number 94 on the Billboard Hot 100, although it performed better in Canada where it peaked within the top thirty. Roxette themselves were later dismissive of both the song and the associated movie. It appeared as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of their next studio album, Crash! Boom! Bang! (1994), mis-titled "It's Almost Unreal".

"Almost Unreal" was written by Per Gessle after he was contacted by Walt Disney Pictures about composing the theme song to Bette Midler's upcoming film Hocus Pocus. The song's backing track had already been completed at London's Mayfair Studios in March 1993 when Gessle was informed by Disney that US girlband En Vogue had been invited to record the movie's theme song. "Almost Unreal" was then transferred to another Disney project, the live action adaption of the Nintendo game series Super Mario Bros.. Although hesitant about the project, the duo decided to allow the company to use the song in the film, as they were both fans of Bob Hopkins and Dennis Hopper. The lyrics of the song were then modified to omit most references to Hocus Pocus, although the title would still remain in the song's chorus, with the lyric: "I love when you do that hocus pocus to me". Marie Fredriksson's vocals were recorded at Polar Studios in in March 1993, when she was nine months pregnant.

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