The Mario Bros. Movie

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a 2022 full length feature Animated film directed by Chris Meledandri and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto. The movie was animated by Illumination Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is based off the hit video-game series "Super Mario Bros." The movie released on July 1, 2022 in United States and performed successfully in the box office.

Plot
The film begins with a narrator reading a book about the legacy between the Mushroom Kingdom and the Koopa Kingdom stating that both kingdoms have been allies until both of their leaders died. When Toadsworth and Magikoopa came and took place. One of them, that being Toadsworth wanted to keep things going, but the evil Magikoopa had much bigger plans to silently claim the Mushroom Kingdom as their own but fails. Then the next line to the thrones, Princess Peach and King Bowser continue their tradition but Bowser had bigger plans, that was to capture the Princess to marry her, for romantic reasons and to gain trust to take over the kingdom.

It then shows the streets of Brooklyn, New York seeing the brothers, Mario and Luigi's plumbing business. Mario is given a call by citizen to fix his pipes as he says that they have been infested by plants. Mario and Luigi rush to the building only to find a building filled with several pipes, from the walls to the floors. They looked a lot different, being big and green. Mario and Luigi check through the pipes only to find nothing but empty pipes. Assuming it was a prank call, the brothers begin to leave until a giant Piranha Plant along with several others come out of the pipe. In shock, Luigi tries to run away but is trapped by the pipes while Mario tries to attack, they soon meet up with each other and find an empty warp pipe, which they both jump in, thinking it's an exit.

Instead, they get transported to a fantasy world called the "Mushroom Kingdom", in disbelief, the brothers enter Toad Town and talk to shop keeper, who welcomes the brothers to the kingdom while commenting on their odd appearance. Shortly after exploring, several air-ships come above with all the toads in panic, in confusion Luigi attempts to run away, with Mario chasing him, while chasing, Mario and Luigi are attacked and knocked out by a group of Hammer Bros.

The brothers then wake up to see the entire kingdom in ruins, with majority of the Toad citizens injured or ran away. They then find Toadsworth and a few toads. Toadsworth attempts to convince the brothers to stop King Bowser with them declining until he discusses about the Princess being captured. This interests Mario. Luigi tries to coward out, but Mario drags him with him using an excuse of "We're the Chosen Heroes."

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Cast
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 * Charles Martinet - Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi

Production
The movie was originally planned to be in the hands of Sony Pictures Animation, but was shortly rejected. In Early 2018, the movie was announced and would be a large partnership between Nintendo and Illumination Entertainment. With Nintendo on board, the movie had a longer production time and budget then the average film by Illumination.

It was later announced that the cast would be a mix of the cast from the video game series and new big-time stars.

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Alexandre Desplat, the composer of the Secret Life of Pets films, another Illumination film, and Mahito Yokotoa, the composer of Super Mario Galaxy.

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Release
The movie officially released on July 1, 2022 in the United States, a week earlier in United Kingdom on June 24, 2022 and a day earlier in Australia on June 30, 2022. In Japan, Nintendo's home country, the movie released the earliest there, on May 18, 2022.

The Latest release date for the film was China, on October 15, 2022.

Marketing
A teaser poster was revealed at E3 2021. The teaser trailer released on November 18, 2021 with the first trailer releasing on February 9, 2022 and the final trailer releasing on April 22, 2022.

Several promotions were used including posters, billboards in major events like San Diego Comic Con and E3 2021 and 2022. A Macy's Thanksgiving Parade 2021 float had Mario and Luigi waving out of a warp-pipe to promote the movie as well as several toys including a partnership with LEGO to produce 8 sets and McDonalds to launch a Happy Meal toys line.

A new video game exclusively on the Nintendo Switch simply titled "Super Mario Bros." was released to tie-in with the movie, with the story being based off the movie as well with the gameplay being like a modern Mario platformer.

Box Office
The film became the third animated film to break $10 million on Thursday previews, behind Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4. On Opening Day, the film grossed $17 million and made $109 Million on opening weekend, making it one of the most successful opening weekends for an animated film. Including it's International weekend performance, $190 Million was the total amount. Two weeks after it's release, the movie became the highest grossing Video-Game Adaption movie of all time, topping Pokémon Detective Pikachu and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

In Japan, the film opened at Number 1 in the Box Office charts with ¥1722.40 million ($10 Million USD), it kept a streak of number one in Japan for 4 weeks.

In total, the movie made $401 Million domestically and $956 Million worldwide.

Critical Response
On Review Aggregator, Rotton Tomatoes, the film averaged 68% based on 303 reviews. The websites overall response was"'While 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' isn't nothing to write home about, it is surely a fun experience and will most likely get the delight out of very fan of the video game series, and perhaps the best video-game adaption.'"On Metacritic, the film averaged about 59 out of 100, indicating mostly average or mixed reviews. Cinemascore gave the film a B+ on a A+ to F scale.

Sequel
Shortly after the films released Illumination Entertainment announced a new sequel to the movie. It has also been rumoured that more Nintendo video game properties could be seen on the big screen as well.