Super Mario Bros. (Film)

"This ain’t No Game"

- Tagline

Super Mario Bros. is a 2020 American Computer Animated Action-Adventure Fantasy Comedy film based on the Super Mario Bros Series which is published by Nintendo and is produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. The Film is directed by Phill Lord & Christopher Miller from a story by Lord & Miller with Alex Hirch, Mike Rianda, Jeff Rowe, The Hageman Brothers and Matthew Fogel Cowriting. The Film stars Danny McBride as the titular role of Mario while Paul Rudd plays Luigi. The film also stars Charles Martinet, Gina Rodriguez, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Willem Dafoe, Kevin Hart, Sarah Silverman, Josh Gad, John Cena, Gabriel Iglesias, JK Simmons as Main Roles with many more supporting cast members. It follows 2 Brothers, Mario & Luigi, who are Plumbers in New Donk City working for their abusive Uncle/Boss and Cousins as they are sent to the Mushroom Kingdom where they have an Adventure of a lifetime having a sense of self-discovery, self-worth, destiny, morality and fulfilment where they must save Princess Peach from a giant ruthless fire breathing monster named Bowser.

Development for a new Mario film began in the early 2010s after the success of Nintendo’s legacy content and the success of Wreck-It Ralph, but did not leave the planning stage due to failed negotiations with Sony until 2016 where DreamWorks managed to pick up the rights for the film with Phil Lord & Chris Miller directing the film. Both wanted it to be both a film that was both enjoyable to newcomers and old-time fans, also wanting this film to set the golden standard for Video Game Movies.

The film released on March 10th 2020 in 2D and Real 3D formats in Cinemas and for Mar10 Day and also temperially released on September 13th on Netflix for Mario’s 35th-anniversary. The film received very positive reviews from Critics and fans alike with praise given to it’s faithfulness to the games, the film’s mature themes, the humour, the writing & performances (Mario getting the highest praise out of all of them), Action Sequences and Animation but some criticised it for it’s screenplay. The film however, initially underperformed in the Box Office from Universal’s and Nintendo's expectations due to COVID-19 which lead to mass closures for cinemas, only grossing $380 Million with a budget of $95 Million despite gaining back it’s budget. However it gained a huge Cult following due to it being released on direct to streaming services such as Netflix and Peacock.

The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, being the first Video Game Movie be nominated for an Academy and Golden Globe Award, but lost both awards to Pixar’s Soul.

The Success of Super Mario Bros launched a multimedia franchise, two sequels (Super Mario Bros 2: The Lost Levels & Super Mario Bros 3: Galatic Chaos) and a multitude of Spin-offs (Donkey Kong Country, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker & Wario’s World)

Synopsis
The Mario Bros live a quiet, simple yet boring and lacklustre life in New Donk City, while Luigi is somewhat content & pleased with this simple life and fitting in, Mario strives for more in his life as he seeks for fulfilment & his place in the world as the firstborn Son of a Worldwide Hero, which he does many odd jobs to find his calling on life, including finding more about this weird land of Mushrooms when he was a Baby but none of them came to fruition for him. In 2015, At 30 Years Old, They now work for their abusive Uncle/Boss Spike Scapelli along with their cousins (Wario & Waluigi) and in turn the rest of the workers also being mean to the Bros. One day after a mishap with a giant ape with Mario’s girlfriend, Mario & Luigi are sent to Plumbing duty in the sewers where they find a Warp Pipe that leads to the Mushroom Kingdom. From there, Mario (Who is prophecied to be a long wanted Hero) & Luigi (Who is having severe doubts about his self-worth and esteem due to being neglected from the prophecy) are quickly wrapped up in an magical Adventure of a lifetime where they must save Peach (The Ruler of this land) from Bowser (an evil, strong yet dumb Koopa) and his army (The Koopa Troop). Along the way, they meet some unlikely yet helpful allies and gruelling, powerful yet wacky foes as they journey across this weird new world. Will this Adventure be a spring breeze? Or will this magical yet challenging Adventure take a mental toll on our Heroes?

Plot
The Movie begins with a narration (done by Charles Martinet) about who and what the Super Mario Bros are, the narration states:

'”Do you know who the Super Mario Bros are? Of course you do! They’re are the most popular video game icon in the planet, starring in many Games, TV Shows, Comics, Merchandise and uh, a less than stellar movie I will say. The Super Mario Bros have struck the heart of many with their fun gameplay and with his wacky array of characters, But I will ask you this question, do you know where the Mario Bros came from, their Origins, how they became Super? Well, I know, so strap in folks as today I'll tell you the Story of the Super Mario Bros.”'

Yoshi’s Island
It cuts to 65 million years ago, a meteorite crashes into the Earth, but instead of killing the dinosaurs it creates a whole new Island, The Mushroom Kingdom. The dinosaurs cross into this new Island, mysteriously evolving into 2 races depending if they’re a carnivore or herbivore, Koopas (Carnivore) & Yoshi’s (Herbivore), However, this Island was inhabited by alien race of anthropomorphic Fungus named Toads, who excelled the Koopas to the Darklands after they wanted to rule the Kingdom, which lead to the Yoshi’s finding a new home in the Earth.

In 1985, It shows a Stork carrying Baby Mario & Baby Luigi (who the narrator introduces) to their Parent after being left behind in their Hometown. It then shows that the scene we’re watching was from a cauldron which is owned by Kamek, Kamek gets angry as this is the thing that’s stopping Bowser ruling the world. Kamek sends an army of Toadies to capture the 2 Bros and kill them so Bowser can rule the world. The Stork flies through the sky when the army of Toadies attack the bird, leading to both Babies and the stork falling down to a Island below. This Island is, of course, Yoshi’s Island. The 2 Babies fall into a basket of fruit, which is being carried by a Yoshi, who is collecting fruit and giving them to the Villagers in the Island, when suddenly he takes out the babies to one of the villagers, The Yoshi screams and wonders what it is.

Word got around about this weird new “fruit”, leading to a island wide panic, eventually the Yoshi Chief to call a meeting to deal with this new “fruit” We get a court scene inside a tree where the Yoshi’s wonder if the fruit is safe to eat.

Before they can go on a final judgement, Kamek and his Toadies attack the island, looking for the babies, the Yoshi Chief tells the other Yoshis to fight, while he takes the Green Yoshi to tell him something, he tells Yoshi that there was a prophecy from the superstar in the Island that a Baby in red will be the saviour of the Mushroom Kingdom and that they may be a star child (a person who have unlimited power), which come once in a generation.

Yoshi tries to find the stork while the Chief distracts Kamek. Unfortunately it doesn't go very well as he’s then paralysed from the feet. Luckily, Yoshi found the stork and gave the Babies to him, flying away to his destination. The narration continues, saying during Mario’s journey he saw this wonderful land filled with giant mushrooms, Luigi was asleep at the time so he couldn’t see it. They finally make it to his destination, which is New Donk City. The Stork delivered the baby to the Bros mother (the original design of Pauline).

New Donk City
The narrator then says that Mario’s Father died from his injuries after an heroic fight with a family of apes. He managed to defeat the largest ape which quickly became imprisoned and the rest of the monkeys were forced to perform in a nearby circus, The City was named New Donk as a tribute to Mario’s Father and it’s most popular attraction, the Monkeys.

Mario always wanted to look up to him and live to everyone's expectations as the ape killer’s son but never really did. The narrator says the school was rough for the Bros, he tried telling everyone that this weird mushroom land but was bullied and made fun of, mainly by Wario & Waluigi, their cousins. He also looked up to Mighty Plumber, Popeye and Dirk Drain Head, thinking anyone can do anything if they put their mind to it, and that to Mario was being a Hero & helping people.

Throughout the years Mario says did multiple odd jobs while roping Luigi in to them, these include Doctor, Carpenter, Athlete (In Tennis, Football and Golf), Racer, Circus employee as a Juggler, Bartender, Cement Factory Worker, Freelance Artist, Toy Maker, Boxing Referee, A Shop Clerk and Soldier, although he was good at those Jobs, Mario quickly became bored of them and quit, he wanted to know where his place in the world is as all of these jobs felt like he hasn’t lived up to his true destiny, feeling like he hasn't accomplished anything in life as the son of the Ape Killer and something even more. Despite this, Luigi was always right by him supporting him on whatever zany venture he was going to, He also had a girlfriend, Pauline (Modern Pauline) who he met during his circus job, calling her everything in a great girl you could hope, he met one of his best friends, Friendly Floyd who he saved during his Solider days, from that he has been inclined to serve Mario & Luigi till the day he dies, he also gave them most of their jobs after that. However, Mario feels like he doesn't deserve them due to him always making their lives worse from words from Spike, Wario & Waluigi who despise him.

It cuts to when the Bros are around their late 20s after their mother's disappearance which was common in New Donk City, working for their boss/uncle, Spike, who doesn't like them at all, in a construction site. On September 13th 2015, It’s Mario & Luigi’s 30th Birthday as we see from an Alarm Clock, he chooses Red Overalls with a Brown undershirt, Luigi also wakes up and does their daily routine also getting Green Overalls and Brown Undershirt. The Bros say goodbye to their Landlord, Mr Arnold Segale, they then have a birthday breakfast at the local café, meet their local salesman/stalker Friendly Floyd, get supplies for their party in the local grocery as a reference to the anime which is run by Mr Miyamoto himself and bump into the mayor of New Donk City, Reggie. However it's all disrupted when the Bros are late to work and face being fired. Mario & Luigi go in their company van before realising it's suspiciously out of fuel, Mario sees Wario & Waluigi running away, laughing as they have an empty bucket of garlic juice. Luigi is breaking down at the fact of being late and getting evicted while Mario has an idea to go onto the rooftops as the fastest route, Mario gets out of the Van and up on the rooftops while Luigi reluctantly follows.

The Bros platform their way through the rooftops and try to make it work on time in a high octane action sequence as they team up to platform their way through the rooftops. Spike welcomes all the workers in the company and notices Mario & Luigi are absent, he has a malicious grin and takes out his stopwatch counting from 5. Before he says one Mario & Luigi roll down on the ground and perform a jolly dance.

Spike gets disappointed and angrily tells the Bros to get to work and put on their uniform. After that, Wario & Waluigi try to hinder their performance with orders from Spike to finally have a legitimate reason to fire them and mess up their work in a montage. Spike eventually gives up and decides to call for lunch and for Wario & Waluigi to go to his office. Luigi brings a healthy cheese sandwich while Mario brings a plate of Spaghetti. Mario tries to invite people to his party but they decline, making up an excuse not to go to it. Wario & Waluigi come to the table and tell everyone to go to the party to see how much of a failure and disappointment is just like Mario is to his father.

Ape Attack!
Before Mario can rebuttal, Pauline is captured by a nearby ape who came out of his zoo. Mario rushes into action, while Luigi watches in awe and fear. A cinematic sequence filled with action plays which follows Mario using his hammer while climbing an unfinished tower with the Ape is throwing Barrels onto Mario. Mario saves Pauline and pushes the ape down from the building, wrecking everything in the process. The builders and Wario & Waluigi then boo at Mario for destroying their hard work. The ape gets so angry and starts destroying everything in its path. It got so bad that Stanley's exterminator group calms the ape down. Deciding it's too dangerous to live here, they send the ape and monkeys to their natural habitat.

Spike gets so angry and decides to call the Bros in after work. At the end of the day, the Bros enter Spike's office. Wario & Waluigi are also there. Spike has a long speech of how he had always hated Mario & Luigi and has longed the day to fire them both as in his opinion, he lost his Brother and Sister in law in favour of 2 Bumbling idiots who talk about weird mushroom lands, saying he only hired them to fulfil his sister in law’s final wish of wanting the Bros to be happy. He was excited that today was the day of him firing Mario & Luigi as they're not a wrecking crew, but realises that there is a better way. He then sends the Bros to plumbing duty under the sewers to torture them.

Mario is excited at the fact of a new challenge while Luigi is scared at the fact of doing plumbing due to the Monster sightings from talking to Stanley as anyone there would die. Wario & Waluigi tell him that Stanley is always on the herbicide too much. Spike then gets angry at the fact that Mario is excited but quickly calms down as he soon realises that Mario won't be excited when he is working in the sewers with the Monsters (as Spike believes in the Monsters) as they would kill the Bros. Spike congratulates Wario & Waluigi for unleashing the ape and promotes them further despite destroying an entire building, Wario then says that he only did this to get closer to Pauline and knew the business would be in danger.

Birthday Blowout
Mario & Luigi, disgusted, leave to go home. Luigi laments at the fact of doing plumbing in the sewers, wondering if he’ll be killed while Mario instantly goes out without a thought in a suit for a date with Pauline leading to Luigi to set up the party by himself.

Mario & Pauline go to Candy Café for the date, Mario talks about his day about saving Pauline from the ape. Pauline tries to ignite a spark of talking about her upcoming career as a singer with her new song Jump Up Superstar. Mario, looking sad, then says that when he saved Pauline from the Ape and being late in the morning and finding a way to get there he felt like he accomplished something meaningful in life. Pauline asks what this means, confused, and tells her that he's breaking up with her as he wants to figure out what to do with his life not wanting it to be meaningless, hoping that they can just be friends at the moment, Pauline then gets angry at Mario and pours water on him, leaving and shouting she never wanted to see him again. The first musical number of the film would play, being about how Mario longs for excitement, fulfilment and redemption and wants to make it up to the people around him. The musical number ends with Mario being late for his party, before that Mario sees a family portrait of him, Luigi, his Parents, Spike, Wario & Waluigi on his phone. Mario starts to cry & apologises for his behaviour, before long his phone rings and he rushes back to his apartment.

Mario returns to his apartment and Luigi is basically finished setting up the Party with Mr Segale and Miyamoto present, Mario looks sad and tells Luigi to stop the party, the 2 of them try to pack it up but it goes to chaos. Before the Bros can properly discard the party, Wario, Waluigi, Spike, Stanley and the rest of the people in their work come to the Party, laughing at it. Wario says that this is Mario's biggest blunder and that his parents would be ashamed of him. Mario getting angry punches Wario and tells everyone to get out, Wario cries like a baby while the rest of them are either be scolding Mario for getting angry or helping Wario become better. Spike walks up to Mario and tells him that his father would never do this and that he could fire him right on the spot but is excited to torment them in sewer duty tomorrow.

Meanwhile back in Bowser's castle. Kamek uses the cauldron to see the future if Bowser will rule the world. The cauldron spouts that Bowser will be overcome by Mario, who is closer than ever to defeat Bowser. Kamek asks if there is a way to make Bowser rule the world, the cauldron says that the True Love could give Bowser unlimited power with a Princess which will create the Chaos Heart, a vessel of unlimited power.

We see 2 mushroom shaped mysterious spies, one red and one pink, looking into the castle and arguing what to do, Kamek hears them and tries to capture them with Burt the Bashful. The 2 spies keep arguing until the red one says that they should use the Green Pipe. The pink one says that they should only use it for emergencies. The red one ignores them and uses it anyway and brings them into the Warp Pipe without closing it. Kamek then assembles a few enemies and the Elite Trio to capture the spies.

Mario Bros Mayhem
It cuts back to Mario & Luigi waking up and going to work while wearing the same clothes as yesterday, Spike, Wario & Waluigi show the Bros where they'll be working, Mario gets 2 Bags with 2 Hammers that were his father's, a Wrench, 2 plungers and plumbing snake and jumps down in optimism while Luigi seems more weary and decides to go home. Unfortunately, the group push him down to the sewers, locking them away the 3 of them laugh as no one has apparently survived in the sewers due to the Monsters in there. Mario & Luigi further explore the sewers as Mario sings the pipe song and finds a Giant Piranha Plant in there, they then sees Captain Toad and Toadette being chased by a few enemies such as the Elite Trio, Koopas, Goombas, Sidesteppers, fighter flies and more.

The Bros enter a high octane battle calling back to Mario Bros with its music and setting. They quickly manage to defeat them using teamwork. Luigi wants to continue their work while Mario saves Captain Toad and Toadette and Captain Toad explains the situation. That Bowser and his army are planning to rule the Mushroom Kingdom and eventually the world, Mario says he's heard of the place before that they’re talking about (lying to the Toads) while Luigi tells him to stop telling himself about this place that doesn't exist and tells Mario to continue their work, Nonetheless Toad tells the Bros (as Mario is “The Chosen One”) to come with them into another giant green pipe as they seemingly enter through another dimension screaming their heads off, ending Act 1

Mushroom Kingdom Chaos
The Bros, Captain Toad and Toadette fall through the pipe and end up in the Mushroom kingdom we all know and love, Mario & Luigi sluggishly walk out of a cave and are in awe and wonder at they see, They arrive in Toad Town while they are looked at funny from the Toads, while Captain Toad treats them as celebrities that shouldn't be seen. Luigi looks worried and wonders if he’s dead while Mario keeps on boasting, saying that this was the place he was talking about all his life and saying that he was right and all that stuff.

It then cuts to Princess Peach waking up and doing her daily routine, waking up, playing her guitar, checking her Phone, eating her Breakfast doing it in a messy manner all in a Musical Number, When Toadsworth arrives, she tries to put on a posh facade while stuffing Toast and Orange Juice. Toadsworth tells her to get ready for her coronation as the true ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom as her Parents have been missing for a few years at this point. Toadsworth walks to her and sees she seems sad, She answers that she’s very nervous and scared as she feels like has a lot to live up to, plus her pompous nature isn't her true self, wanting to be honest with her Subjects. Toadsworth answers that they all have to do stuff that they don't want to do in life and that she’ll be a great Princess despite her unruly nature. Peach, more confident, leaves her castle.

Before Mario & Luigi could investigate further in this weird world, a loud bell with eye rings and all of the Toads rush forwards while Luigi accidently gets caught up in the crowd while Mario follows. He asks Captain Toad what they’re doing and answers that the Princess of the land is getting her coronation, Mario follows the crowd to the Castle and Jumps on the Toads' heads to get there.

Meanwhile, Bowser looks sad while Kamek prepares to kidnap a Princess he tells Bowser of their plan while Bowser cries loudly, interrupting his plan, Kamek tries to hold his anger in and asks what’s wrong. He says that he feels like he’s gonna fail as he always does but doesn’t want to. From here we get a musical number as to why Bowser loves being a villain and why it’s so heart-breaking that he always fails his plans in the universe without Mario and due to his own incompetence. Kamek tells him that this time, they will not fail the plan of ruling the world as they’ve got unlimited army/power on their side, consulting Bowser from his feeling of disappointment, Kamek tells the Elite Trio to bring his magic cauldron.

Kamek & the Elite Trio make a bachelor show as we have Bowser choose any one of the Princesses which would include Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Rosalina, Pauline and Princess Shokora. Bowser chooses Peach and decides to capture her and go on a date with her to spark true love.

Full Frontal Assualt
We see Bowser preparing an assault on the Mushroom Kingdom with the Airships, Soldiers such as Goombas, Koopas, Hammer Bros, Chain-Chomps, Sledge Bros, Piranha Plants, Para variants etc. Bowser then sees that Bowser Jr isn't there. Bowser runs through the castle and breaks into Bowser Jr’s room who is playing a Nintendo Switch and grabs his tail. Before long the invasion is nearly ready and we have a discussion with the pair of them, Jr, seemingly distant while Bowser says that he’ll need to take this over one day like he did with his father, and his father and so on and so forth. Jr seems anxious and feels like he won't do a good job, while Bowser confronts him and says that he’ll be a good king in making in due time. Bowser & Jr board the Main Airship and ride to the Mushroom Kingdom.

Meanwhile, the Crowd eagerly waits for the coronation to begin. We see Peach coming out, a bit nervous, out of her castle and we see her servants in chaos due to setting up the afterparty, while 2 Guards Join her, Mario interrupts them saying that he has come to save them saying:

"It’sa me Mario! I'm your main man, your ram-a-dame, your can of spam."

Peach looks confused and asks who he is, Mario says that he's the Red Knight that they need, Luigi facepalms while Captain Toad interrupts, saying that he is just his motto as an outsider, which Peach understands due to her naive nature. Nonetheless, The coronation finishes and a massive party ensues when Mario tries to shake her hand which she does reluctantly but instantly washes but putting that aside the 2 of them have a friendly conversation about the wonders of Pasta, Toadsworth then goes to the Bros, pulling Mario's ear and tells him he shouldn't joke about being the Red Knight and also going to Peach and will punish them because of that. Peach expresses some anger at Toadsworth's punishment but Toadsworth says she doesn't understand and it's for her as he wants to protect her with all his power and he has no tolerance for liars. Mario & Luigi then fix a leak and kill Piranha Plants from orders from Toadsworth under the castle. Mario explains distress over this, saying he didn't come to the place of his dreams to do the same thing he's been doing for a decade which leads to Luigi finally snapping, saying that he should shut up about being a Hero as he blew his chance of being one after beating up the ape, explaining that they're plumbers and are only good at fixing Toilets and can't be Heroes, which leads to a heated argument with the 2 Bros butting heads and speaking Italian. Before it can get worse, they hear screams inside the Castle as Bowser attacks.

Several of the bullet bills hit the Toads as well as Bob-ombs, Thousands of Goombas, Koopas, and Hammer Bros drop down and take away the Toads. Kamek turns the Toads who run away into Stone including Captain Toad (who fled away like a coward) and Toadette while the Elite Trio gather up the Toads who have been kidnapped to the airship.

Princess Peach seems horrified at this and tries to save some of the Toads by diving head first into the action, but fails. The 2 Guard Toads try to protect her from the last Airship, the biggest of them all. The Airship doors open up to see Bowser and Bowser Jr standing. Bowser walks down and starts saying something until Bowser Jr on purpose trips him up leading him to fall down humorously, Bowser is obviously angry and tells him he’ll destroy his switch while Peach and the 2 Guard Toads laugh, Bowser glances angrily but still goes on with asking Peach for his hand in marriage and if she declines, he will kill her.

While all of this is going on, Mario & Luigi hide in a nearby Bush away from any danger and see that a Goomba found them, Mario & Luigi quickly dispose of them and continue watching. Luigi is freaking out and is obviously scared while Mario vows to take down Kamek. Mario exits out of the Bush and fights Bowser & Bowser Jr, but is made fun of by the Bowsers for being a Plumber, though Mario vows to defeat Bowser and save the Princess but fails and is knocked out, seeing there is no other choice, Peach willingly accepts marriage and is taken by Bowser.

Mario wakes up, hearing Toadsworth shouting at Luigi saying that they should have helped Mario before he quickly remembers the prophecy that the Yoshi Chief told him about in a quick flashback. It then goes to the present and Toadsworth’s realisation and rushes the Bros to the Castle and tells them of the prophecy, of which a man in Red will defeat the Mushroom Kingdom from Evil. Luigi asks of himself and says that it said nothing about Luigi, Luigi gets a bit sad before Mario quickly cheers him up and goes back to Toadsworth not giving a care of the world for his Brother. Toadsworth finally thinks Mario is the true Red Knight and tells Mario that he’s been waiting for this day for a long time and tells him that he knew that an Evil from Bowser was brewing for a long time and he needed the right person to stop it and today is that day.

Mario takes this all in and tells Luigi that he’s the person in that prophecy while Luigi says that they shouldn't lie of not being what they say they are, meanwhile Toadsworh buts in and says that Mario is the person, bursting Luigi’s bubble of doubt and grasp of normality.

Toadsworth gives Mario 4 Small Yellow Item Boxes which temporarily power-up Mario and a Regenerating Super Mushroom, which explains can be used to heal the Toads. He tells the Bros to get the Superstar, located in Yoshi’s Island which Captain Toad has visited and knows where it is as the Superstar will mean a guaranteed win for them. Before they go, Toadswoth gives them their iconic wear of Blue Overalls and their Red & Green Undershirts.

Ballad Of Goombas
Meanwhile, Bowser & his army celebrate a win, drinking Chuckola Cola from the Bean Bean Kingdom. As this is going on Peach is stuck in the attic, relentlessly worrying about the Toads and tries to escape in a sidescroller segment but she’s then captured by Bowser Jr who has gone away from the chaos of the party as Bowser is still mad at him for tripping him over, telling him to check the Prisoner. Peach is angry at him for capturing and essentially killing the Toads while Bowser Jr rationally explains that he didn't want to do this and only was made to follow his father. Peach somewhat gets nicer to him. The 2 of them talk and bond together somewhat as mother and son.

Back to the Bros we see them walking through a few generic New Super Mario Bros Hills and get ambushed by 2 Goombas, Red and Blue. They tell off the Bros for killing a Goomba during the attack as all of them have a universal chill when one is killed. Mario asks what a Goomba is and they respond with the greatest species ever created and say it's a sin to kill one. Mario & Luigi laugh at them while the Red and Blue Goomba are confused and decide to unite all Goombas and capture the Bros.

The Bros are tied up in a Castle with all types of Goombas from the series including Paragoombas, Goombrats, Galoombas, Goombuds, Octogoombas and Micro/Grand Goombas, they also a see a brown bag who is being held captive by King Goomboss. He walks to the Bros and talks to the 2 Goombas and whispers to them, he laughs hysterically and shouts these are the people who committed a "hate crime" to all Goomba kinds. Luigi tries to rationally defuse the situation but Mario makes it worse by jokingly saying to Luigi that the Goombas look like turds. The Goombas comedically overreact to this while King Goomboss gets so angry he decides to fight the Bros in a battle with all the other Goombas which could be another musical segment. Mario & Luigi get beaten up by Goomboss until Luigi tells Mario to use one of the Yellow Boxes. Mario crushes the Box and turns into Fire Mario & Fire Luigi, with a white overalls and a same red/green undershirts. Luigi asks what changing the clothes will do and Mario shrugs, but accidently affects his fire powers.

Mario would run around screaming that his hand is on fire and accidentally throws a fireball, burning one of the Goombas by accident. This leads to Mario using his fire powers to defeat the Goombas while trying to protect Luigi who doesn’t know how to use it. After the fight against the Goombas, the remaining ones put a new crown on Mario and are crowned King of all of the Goombas and tell them of their best price from the Mushroom Kingdom inside the bag, the mass killer of Goombas.

Mario thinks it's Peach and sees it's Captain Toad in stone and gets disappointed. Luigi wonders if they can use the Mushroom given by Toadsworth to help Captain Toad. He gives them Mushroom and breaks the spell put on by Kamek. Captain Toad says that iconic line we all know (and probably hate) of the Princess being in another castle. Mario gets frustrated while Luigi asks where to go to Yoshi's Island. Captain Toad says that they need to save Toadette and won't tell them where to go next unless they save Toadette. Mario tries to tell them that the Kingdom is in danger but says that he won't do anything until Toadette is rescued. Mario and Luigi accept that Captain Toad won't help them unless Toadette is saved. The Bros interrogate Goomboss to find out where Toadette is being held, he doesn’t budge but Mario threatens to destroy his Crown, he tells them that She’s being kept somewhere in Tostarena.

Tostarena Trouble
Meanwhile, it's after the party and we see Bowser Jr and Peach bonding. It's all stopped when Bowser busts open the door and the 2 of them become silent. He relieves him from his duties and wants to have a talk with the adults. Bowser says that they'll be getting married and he wants to know her. Peach doesn't open to him one bit as he caused the destruction of the Mushroom Kingdom. Bowser says that it was a tiny mistake and won't happen again, responding to how the destruction of a kingdom wasn't a mistake. Bowser loses his temper and tells Peach to either fall in love with him or face death. Peach responds that she will die for her kingdom to stop Bowser. Bowser gets angry, breathing fire everywhere and leaves. Slamming the door and destroying it. We see Kamek trying to consult Bowser and tells him to discard the whole wedding and add it to another list of the failures and says they should look for another Princess. Kamek tells Bowser not to give up, telling Bowser that he'll hypnotise her to love him, and Bowser tells him that he wants her to fall in love with him realistically. Kamek bursts out laughing and before long asks if he's serious. Bowser walks away and tells Kamek not to do the spell or else. Peach discards this and tries to escape once again, but The Elite Trio finds her and captures her.

Meanwhile we see our Heroic Trio walking through the underground. Mario asks more about Princess Peach to Captain Toad, Captain Toad call her the best person in world who loves her people and will do anything to help her, Mario asks if she’s single while Captain Toad says that she dated Prince Haru once and liked him but mysteriously disappeared, before the conversation can continue with Mario objections the Trio fall into a Yellow Pipe and end up in the Tostarena Desert, which is in the night now.

Mario & Luigi want to rest while Captain Toad pesters the Bros to save her. Mario asks Captain Toad if they know where to go and says they’ll check every Pyramid in the area. Mario & Luigi ignore him and go inside an Inn called the Angry Sun where they go to rest the lively and colourful nature all of that stops though and the Tostarenans stop what they're doing and look at them, leading to an awkward silence. Mario walks up to the counter with a bad western accent and asks for 2 orders of Spaghetti while Luigi facepalms, the Tostarenans get all of their weapons and tell the Bros that they don’t like outsiders. Before a fight ensues, Captain Toad with a Skull Hat rushes in and says that He’ll deal with them.

We hear Captain Toad shouting at the Bros and all of the Tostarenans look confused and see that Mario & Luigi are also wearing Skull Hats and the place continues as normal. Toad says that a guy may know where Toadette is as he has links to Bowser, Tubba Blubba. They confront Tubba Blubba and his Spike gang. Mario tries to intimidate to tell him where Toadette is Tubba Blubba but fails and eats him but instantly spits him out and says that he only eats Boos and hasn’t eaten one in a while. He then asks what Boo is to Toad, saying that they are cowards who run from anything tough, answering back “So basically Luigi!”. Luigi frowns and gets angry. Mario steals a Radish and Captain Toad tells him what it looks like using a black marker, while Luigi distracts Tubba Blubba by talking to him about his love life. Mario gives Tubba Blubba the fake Boo, Luigi sees the fake Boo and gets terrified from it running away from it. Tubba Blubba, despite first impressions, is duped and tells him that Toadette is in the Upside Pyramid.

It cuts to the Morning, Mario, Luigi and Captain Toad head off to the Upside Pyramid and are chased by the Angry Sun, Pokeys and Spikes. Eventually they make it inside the Pyramid and make their way through it while also being chased by Chinchos. At the top of the Pyramid, they see a few Stone Toads including Toadette. Captain Toad rushes forward when suddenly, Knucklotec grabs him and keeps him captive, saying if he’s the one who stole the Ring. Mario & Luigi team up and try to defeat it, but fail. Mario thinks using brute force will defeat it but even worsens the situation and makes him even more angry. Luigi thinks and uses the Hands to hit him, Mario then uses this strategy along with using the Metal Cap from one of the Boxes to defeat Knucklotec. Mario thanks Luigi for his thinking and uses the Super Mushrooms to free all of the Stone Toads, including Toadette. Mario expects thanks from the Toads but all of them go to the just woken up Captain Toad to the annoyance of Mario.

Return to Yoshi's Island
Meanwhile, we see Peach waking up in the Castle and ending up in a cage above lava, Bowser greets her and makes a deal. They’ll go on one date and will fall in love with each other and will let all of her people go, or if she declines she’ll burn in lava and all of the Toads will be stones and in captivity forever. Bowser gives her an Hour before making a decision. Peach accepts the first choice in order to let her people go. Bowser leaves the room before realising that Bowser Jr overhears this and tells Bowser that was a bad thing that he did, Bowser laughs this off, saying that’s what villains do, forcing Princesses to marry them. Bowser Jr says that True Love comes in time, before he can finish, Bowser cuts him off saying that when you’ve lived as long as he has, You need to make drastic decisions. Bowser Jr tries to argue with him before Bowser yells at him to go to his room.

Kamek overhears and goes to Bowser and asks what’s wrong, Bowser answering he feels like that he will disappoint everyone around him, no matter what he does. He knows that Peach won’t fall in love with him and that true love won’t come to him. Kamek tells Bowser that no matter what he faces, his parents and Kamek will always be proud of him, despite the hardships he faced during his life. Bowser hugs Kamek, crushing his bones. Kamek then tells them about the next phase of the plan, to steal the superstar from Yoshi’s Island with the help of Petey Piranha.

Back to the Bros, they return the Toads in Tostarena to the Mushroom Kingdom for safety and plan their next move to Yoshi’s Island. Toadworth says that they can use Peach's Private plane, The Toad Express, and that Captain Toad can pilot it, Mario asks if he knows how to pilot it, Captain Toad confidently answers Of Course! Then instantly in the next scene shouts I don't know how to pilot it. The Plane serves crazily all around the ocean near the Cheep Cheeps, which catches the attention of Gooper Blooper, who tries to eat the Plane but they manage to escape, in turn using up all the fuel. They crash land on the Island, destroying their Super Happy Tree, and the Villagers look inside to see if they survived.

Mario, Luigi, Captain Toad and Toadette are arrested by the Yoshis on the count of destruction of property, they decide to call the Yoshi Chief to decide their fate. We see that the Yoshi Chief isn't the one from the beginning but rather the Younger Green Yoshi from the beginning. 2 of the Yoshis tell him to kill them or eat them and he decides against that. He frees them and hugs the group as they thought the Bros were killed by Kamek when they were babies. The group look confused as they can’t understand Yoshi suddenly Friendly Floyd from the beginning appears and tells them that he has a book for understanding 999 Languages for the price of 999 Coins, one coin for each language, The Bros don’t want to spend that much money so they make a deal about only getting Yoshi, Floyd stops his friendly attitude and tells him to pay for them all, he tries to beat them up before Yoshi gives him a golden egg, Floyd begins his friendly attitude and gives them the Book. Yoshi teaches them Yoshi (which is very difficult to teach) but they manage to understand it which gives Yoshi full sentences now, then Yoshi gives a Tour to the group around the Island as the Yoshi’s playing around and fixing the Island damage caused by the group. The tour eventually ends with the statue of the Previous Yoshi Chief, saying that he was great leader and a very big Yoshi, telling him about his heroic deeds and how his actions live on, while the rest of The group were mourning his death, Mario sleeps throughout the story as he always sleeps during long stories.

After the tour the Bros tell them why they’re on the Island, because of what Bowser is planning and that they need to get the Superstar. Yoshi takes the Bros to the Star Shrine in the Mountains, Mario sees the star and sees him in it but he vanishes, Yoshi tells them that Mario will need to prove he’s worthy of the star's power, first telling him to cut the Pasta. From here we get a montage of Mario & Luigi training through the Islands' many locations, which could lead to many call-backs to the Super Mario World games with their aesthetics and enemies including running through an herd of reznors, using a skull-boat in a sea of Blarggs, Draggodons, Lava Bubbles and Magmaarghs/Charvaarghs, Running away from a Banzai Bill & Chain-Chomps, Playing football with a few Chargin Chucks, Wrestling a Sumo Bro, Stealing back an Item from a few Monty Moles, Bench Pressing a few Lava Rocks, Spin-Jumping on a few Piranha Plants and Rexs, Swimming in waters full of Rip Van Fishes and Dolphins. The Montage ends with Mario & Luigi in a side-scrolling sequence running through the Island and mastering all of the aforementioned things.

Petey Peril
It’s a day later and Yoshi deems Mario as worthy enough to harness the stars power, but before he uses it, Yoshi gives Mario a 1-Up Mushroom in case things go wrong, Mario asks what it does and before Yoshi can answer, the Yoshis scream as the Island is under attack by the Elite Trio who have planted a giant Egg on top of it which hatches into Petey Piranha who was apparently taking a Nap in there.

Yoshi tells Captain Toad & Toadette to get the Yoshi’s to safety while Mario, Luigi and Yoshi attempt to battle Petey. Petey eats all of the fruit and spits it out onto the group with Luigi taking the biggest hit and having to time out. The Elite Trio tell him to get the Superstar no matter what, Petey wanders his way through the Island, destroying everything in his path. Yoshi tells Mario to ride him, Mario has a funny/weird look at him which Yoshi shouts at him to do it, which leads to Mario trying to find the right position which he does at the end

Mario and Yoshi chase Petey through the Island while The Elite Trio give him the location of the Star, Petey shouts that he doesn’t need directions and spits his weird goop on them. Petey then flies up to the top of the mountain as that’s where he assumes where the star is, which is where it is. Mario asks if there’s a faster way up there apart from the elevator, Yoshi shrugs while Mario thinks of a plan, Mario hits Yoshi and makes him use his long tongue to stick on his pants. Petey tries to shake them off but it doesn't work. The group eventually make it up to the top of the Star Shrine and duke it out, however Petey eventually comes on top and makes a deal with Mario & Yoshi, he either destroys the entire Island and everyone in it if they take the Superstar or he takes the Superstar and leaves them be.

Mario initially leans towards using the Superstar for themselves but Yoshi tells him to let Petey take it to save the only species of Yoshi, Mario tells him that the Bad guys will win and destroy the world, just like they did with the Mushroom Kingdom. Yoshi tells him that small sacrifices will have to be made in order for a bigger reward, Mario accepts that he’ll have to leave the Superstar behind.

The Elite Trio use an Airship to pick up Petey and ride away to Bowser’s Kingdom. We hear Paraplonk saying that they got a promotion in the bag. Mario hits his hand on the ground while Yoshi consults him, telling him it was the best thing he could do in that situation. The duo return to the ground, seeing the Island even in more destruction and that Luigi has woken up. Mario says at least the Yoshi’s aren’t there and before Yoshi can agree with him the 2 Toads take the Yoshi’s to the Village and see everything in chaos. The Yoshi’s surround Mario and attack him, saying he was the cause of the destruction of Yoshi’s Island, calling him unworthy of the Star’s Power, saying that he shouldn’t rely on Yoshi to do his bidding and he’s not the saviour of the Mushroom Kingdom.

Before they can do anything worse to him Yoshi stops the crowd from doing more damage to him and tries to explain to the Yoshi’s. Yoshi saying that he may not look like it, but will be capable of saving the entire world in due time and will have to learn to be a Hero, Yoshi also reminds them that their Chief’s including him and the previous ones wasn’t always perfect and that they’ll and he needed to make sacrifices for a better outcome. The Yoshi’s ease up on Mario, understanding where Yoshi is coming from. Luigi asks if Mario is okay as he looks a bit sombre and says he’s fine, saying that they need to continue their adventure and save the Princess. Yoshi leaves and tells the Yoshis to find a leader as Yoshi wants to supervise the group on their journey, using a row boat to get back on track to the journey.

Meanwhile, The Elite Trio and Petey return to Bowser’s Castle and give the Superstar to Kamek. Sergeant Guy asks why they needed the Superstar and tells the group to follow him. Kamek tells them that he hasn’t told Bowser about this as he feels he’s going to Overreact to it and stop his plan. The Group walk to the basement and we see Prince Haru strapped to a chair, Kamek calls this a De-Evolution Machine which needs a strong power source to use.

He puts the Star inside the Machine and uses it to turn Haru into a Koopa. When it’s done De-Evolving him, Prince Haru turns into a Dog, Kamek looks confused and kicks the dog away, Kamek saying that he still needs to work out a few kinks, quietly saying that he’ll dock Egadd's pay. Private Goomp asks why he needs a De-Evolution Machine if he has his wand. Kamek says that his Wand, although powerful, is running out of magic over the years and will eventually be useless in a few days time. With the power of the Superstar he’ll have near unlimited and endless power, use the De-Evolution Machine to turn the Toads into an Unlimited army in which he has captured a near limitless amount of people who were in the New Donk Sewers, and with the Chaos Heart, he’ll harness Bowser in order to overthrow the Koopaline, take over both Kingdoms and eventually the world. The 3 of them seem confused while Paraplonk says he’ll snitch on Bowser saying he’s sure to get that promotion then. Kamek stops him and says once his plan is complete he’ll give him a Bottomless Coin Sack. Paraplonk says he’s sold and goes along with Kamek double crossing Bowser. Throughout this we see Bowser Jr hearing the whole conversation and wonders what to do next.

Soda Jungle
Back to our group, our Heroes regroup at the castle, wondering what route that they can take to save the Princess. Toadsworth tells the group that they’ll need to go through the Soda Jungles, Cool Cool Mountain, the Rock Candy Mines and finally through the Meringue Clouds then into Bowser's Domain. Mario still looks sad and Luigi catches on, asking if anything is wrong he'll be happy to help. Mario asks Luigi if he is capable of saving the Mushroom Kingdom, Luigi gives a nonchalant "sure" saying if you put your mind to it and focus on the task at hand then anything can be possible, He then goes with the rest of the group on their journey, Mario repeating those words and looks more optimistic running to the rest of the group.

Meanwhile, Bowser Jr tells Peach of Kamek’s uprising and conspires to make a plan as Jr wants to impress his father by stopping Kamek while Peach wants to save her Kingdom and her people. Through a plan Peach & Bowser Jr manage to steal the Superstar and replace it with a crudely drawn Superstar, Kamek goes to de-evolve his next victim and sees it doesn't work, Kamek gets angry and figures out that the only person who could steal the star his is either Peach or Bowser Jr. Kamek storms through the Castle and finds Bowser Jr running with the star, after a chase through the entire castle. Kamek corners him and tells him to give him the Star or else.

Bowser Jr tries to reason with him of why he’s planning to overthrow the Koopa throne, Kamek answering that this plan has been set in motion for a long, long time and that he needs to complete what his ancestors have started through time including turning Peach's Parents into Goombas. Bowser Jr says that he doesn't need to carry out his plan and that Kamek and Bowser Jr can change that. Kamek dismisses this and tells Bowser Jr that if he gives him the star, he'll tell him where his mother is. Jr contemplates this but, finally thinks that he's lying, breathes fire on him and continues his path. Kamek calls the Elite Trio to chase him, despite their best efforts to capture him. Jr manages to outsmart them and give the Star to Peach and manages to escape again. Peach then writes a letter to Mario, calling him the red knight in shining armour that Toadsworth always told her about saying that he'll save the kingdom from the chaos it's in and that this is a little gift for her appreciation. She gives the letters wings using her powers so that it reaches the red knight.

Meanwhile, the group walk through the Soda Jungle, Mario and Yoshi keep on talking about the fight and what being a star child can be like while the others look bored at this, especially Luigi who feels like he's been replaced. Up on the trees above, we see a giant ape with a red tie and a small monkey on its back. Nodding and pointing to Mario. First, Captain Toad mysteriously disappears and the group apart from Mario  wonder where he is while Toadette is crying her eyes. Mario says he's probably gone to the Toilet, Toadette answering that he never goes to the Toilet and says they need to look for him to repay him for saving her in Tostarena. Mario leaves while the rest of the group try to find him with her. Then suddenly, a coconut smoke bomb is used and Toadette is also  gone. Luigi and Yoshi quickly run to Mario and say that something weird is going on and that they need to stop to figure out where they've gone. Mario gets angry and says that Toadette has probably left to find him, Luigi and Yoshi looking confused just go along with Mario. Before long Yoshi and Luigi's heads collide and are taken. Mario looks around and says he can finally get some peace and quiet,  he sees the weird wonders of the land including a lot of enemies from these types of forest levels including Giant Enemies, small yellow caterpillars, Uproots, Piranha Plants and more, Mario is then hit in the face with the letter, he sees it's obviously addressed to him as it sees to the Knight in Red shining armour, the letter reads:

'"Dear Mr Red Knight, I am the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom and as you've possibly heard I've been captured by a giant turtle monster called Bowser who I am to be betrothed to by the afternoon tomorrow which I really, really and i mean really don't want and if we fail the entire kingdom, no the entire world would be in danger if we get married that's how important it is to stop it,  i think you are capable in saving the kingdom alone as I've heard great things from Toadsworth and the Yoshi Chief but in order to make you truly succeed in this quest I have decided that you'll need the superstar in order to gain your true potential as only you can harness its power as only you are worthy and you'll need to prove your worth or else it won't work. To prove your worth you'll need to be strong, focused on the task at hand and rely on your strengths. And also remember only use it for emergencies, don't use it for anything stupid or whatever as this star is given to us from the star spirits and it apparently takes a while to regenerate, no one has heard or seen it's power before but it's something I guess. So enter the garden of madness as you'll defeat the evil Koopa and save the kingdom from chaos as I’m holding out for a hero"'

Love Princess Peach

Mario Vs Donkey Kong
Mario reads the letter, takes the Superstar, sees that he finally sees himself at the star and doesn't disappear and gets flustered by the words of the Princess and continues walking, After a few seconds of walking we see the giant ape right in front of him. Mario asks if he can help him while the Ape silently punches him, knocking him out. Mario, without his hat as a monkey guard stole it, wakes up and is in a cage underground while the rest of the group is tied up on the ceiling. Mario takes his hat back, tells the people to free him and sees the entire place is filled with Ukikis shouting and calling for their leader. We see the giant ape and his smaller monkey walk down to the cage breaking it. The ape grabs Mario by the throat and slams him into the ground, while the monkey tells him that the fight hasn't started. The Ape makes a deal with Mario saying that he'll let Mario and his friends go if he eats the Banana of Doom, a Brownish Green Banana that smells terrible according to Mario or will have a fight to the death, which he then says that he doesn't want to eat it to the dismay of the group on the ceiling thinking that Mario won't win. DK laughs, putting the Banana in his tie and accepts that Mario will have to fight to the death in a wrestling arena.

The small monkey provides commentary for the match and introduces himself as Diddy Kong and the Ape as Donkey Kong the III, calling him the giant, brown, bongo loving yet somewhat dumb ape who in this continuity is DK's Cousin, everyone cheers for DK as we see DK waving and getting ready for the fight, he also pulls out a picture of Candy Kong saying this is for you. Then Diddy introduces Mario as a fat, New-Donkian 30-something nobody who moved the apes away from the City who the Ukikis boos, Mario asks Everyone for help apart from Luigi who he forgets, Captain Toad tells him good luck and he was the one who got himself into this mess and he's the one who should get out of it. Mario then realises that he was the one who made this happen and tries to explain that this was all a big mistake. But DK isn't having none of that and punches him, starting the fight. Throughout the fight we see Mario trying different methods of fighting but DK prevails, he then uses his hammer to beat DK but he manages to break it, Mario gets so angry he decides to pull him from his tie and everything in it of which DK appropriately responds to by a headbutt, DK talks about how he hates Mario for making him leave New Donk City away from his banana hoard which hasn't been found and losing everything, also saying that he'll will restore honour to the Kong Family from the Ape Killers as he's been training for this moment for his entire life.

We see Mario battered up with his clothes being partially ripped but he decides not to give up despite all the odds being against him which his friends tell him to just eat TBOD. Mario and DK jump and make a loud collision in the middle which catches the attention of Cranky Kong who's watching a show run by Swanky Kong, he runs downstairs and shouts at them to stop the noise, which everyone does. Cranky Kong waddles to DK and tells him what is going on, DK's tough demeanour is stopped as he meekly tells Cranky that he's fighting the person who sent them to his house. Cranky looks at Mario with a face of pure anger, hitting him with his cane and tells DK that he's finally made him proud, DK smiles and Cranky tells them to wait as he gets a bucket of bananas and he then tells them to carry on. The fight is one sided as normal with Cranky crudely and proudly shouting that his grandson.

Mario realises that his normal Power isn't enough and uses one of the Small Yellow Boxes to power him up. He then has a Blue shell, Cranky laughs uncontrollably and wonders what having a giant blue shell will do saying something about how dumb humans are, before Mario can shrug, DK nearly punches him, the shell makes him dodge the attack. After that we see DK chasing Mario but dodges each time, now the tables have turned, DK getting angry and agitated while Mario gets Cocky, a little too cocky that is as DK talks to Diddy giving him a Orange grenade which hits Mario, weakening him.

Luigi and Captain Toad talk about Mario and how this is embarrassing while Yoshi is sleeping, Captain Toad saying that this is the Star Warrior and the saviour of the Mushroom Kingdom. Toadette, meanwhile, is silent and wonders for a way for Mario to defeat DK, she then gets the idea to make Mario use TBOD and get it into DK's mouth. She tells this to Mario and Mario thinks it's impossible while Toadette says that nothing is impossible you just need to put your mind to it, so Mario grabs TBOD and shell-dashes on DK's Stomach and shoots TBOD in his mouth, DK about to punch Mario before his stomach gets upset and needs to vomit, so he steals Diddy's hat and pukes in it, also farting a bit.

After that Mario, despite all odds, is named the winner of this gruelling battle. Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong returns and the Ukikis are all disappointed and leave, but the most disappointed seems to be Cranky Kong saying that he showed promise in that fight but as always he was just a steaming pile of disappointment like he always is and tells him to leave his house and pack his things as he has further disgraced the Kong name. DK tells Diddy to free the hostages, the group congratulate Mario on his surprising win, Mario begrudgingly says thank you to Toadette before he sees DK crying with Diddy trying to make him feel better. Mario walks to the Kongs and asks if he's okay with DK's Quick response of a loud no. Diddy tells Mario that this was his big chance to prove himself to the world and more importantly his grandfather. This is were Diddy tells him of the backstory way back in 1985 of which the Movie has an 8-Bit art style now, Diddy explains that Mario's father did save the City from the raging ape however that isn't all the story,

You see Mario's Parents down on their luck as immigrants from the Luncheon Kingdom due to a giant bird creating chaos, especially his father not knowing his place in the world as he wasn't really a good cook compared to his peers and especially compared to his father, being in a similar situation to his son many years later who was stuck there for a year, that's when the circus was in town with a bunch of Kongo Bongo animals including apes, Mario's mother saw this opportunity and pressured Mario's father to steal one of the apes, of Which Mario Sr reluctantly does and steals one in a white tank top for their own nefarious deeds. Mario Sr and this Kong travelled around the world performing many tricks for the world to see.

A month later when he returned to New Donk City that his father found out as more animals from Kongo Bongo were brought in, It captured Mario's Mother and raged throughout the whole city until his son was brought back to him, on top of a building. Mario Sr tried to make a deal to the Ape that he would give back his son and he would be let free and give his wife back but the Ape wasn't having any of that and destroyed the entire building, while the Ape and Mario's Mother did survive, his son died in the process and Mario Sr would die from his injuries of the battle shortly after, The Ape was Cranky Kong and his son was of course, DK the II (AKA Donkey Kong Jr who would be a Teenager) with DK the III just being born. The incident was seen as potentially damaging for Newly built Metro City at the time and immigrants in general seeing as they needed more people to live there so the Mayor decided to twist the story in order to make it so that the Ape was aggressive to Mario Sr, they also decided that the Ape was to go back to Kongo Bongo along with his partner to live a peaceful life of which they would allow them to visit DK The III at least once a month.

Back to CG now, Mario tells Diddy that all of this was a lie and that his father was a world renewed hero, Diddy calls Mario stupid and says that his father was clearly in the wrong and he should stop living in ignorance, he also says that he wanted to prove that Cranky Kong was wrong by saying all Humans act the same but he feels Cranky may be right. Not knowing what to do Mario brings Luigi and they both apologises to DK and Diddy for the damage he has done in both New Donk and here and while they can't undone the past of the Ape Tragedy of 1985, the least they can do is bury the hatchet of this long war of Apes and Humans and start over by inspiring change and teaming up, Diddy tells DK that this is a lie while DK believes that the both of them are genuine. Mario and DK shake hands which leads to DK crushing his hand Cranky Kong sees this and shakes his head and leaves, Mario asks if they want to crash at his place for a while and they accept with Luigi saying at this rate they don't even have a place to live in.

Mario and the gang go out of the cavern and see it's the evening, they walk through the Jungle and to get to Cool Cool Mountain and see there's a giant lake of "soda" as DK puts it which can put the end of Mario's quest to save Peach right? Well DK thinks of a plan as from stories of Cranky Kong of these Giant Caterpillars who would roam the land and were immune to Soda, they would always come when loud noises would be heard, so the gang makes the loudest noises to make a Caterpillar herd come. And it works with DK having the idea to tame the giant caterpillars and ride them to Cool Cool Mountain, every hops on a different Wiggler as Diddy likes to call and ride through the sunset, everyone's Wiggler seems fine, Toadette even gets a Flutter. Apart from Mario, which wiggler's is red and the leader and is really fast and uncontrollable due to Mario making it angry, nearly falling into the Soda and causing chaos to each of the group members.

Luigi’s Mansion
After that, it's night time and we see the group basically tired of the entire adventure at this point, but Mario despite denying it is also tired but doesn't want to admit it. Luigi asks if they can rest while Mario denies the request and tells the group to keep walking as the Princess is possibly going to be married in only a matter of time before the world is plunged into chaos. The others look for a place to rest while Mario wants to focus but decides to call the group to go ahead, they enter a giant Mansion which is said to be an Hotel and say that they'll stay there for the night, which Luigi seems scared at as he apparently sees 2 Boos but everyone dismisses this. Mario reluctantly follows as we see the 2 Boos laugh. The group walk through the mansion and see a whole host of Portraits from Luigi's Mansion, we see many different types of Boo enemies from the series including Broozers and kind of Boos evading the group's attention.

They eventually make it to the dinning hall, Luigi says he'll cook but says he isn't as good as Mario, Captain Toad says he's not good at anything to Toadette but Luigi hears this and throws a plunger at him. After that, we see Mario being captured by King Boo and turned into a Portrait. Not before long the gang finds out the house it haunted and try to fight him, this segment here is another musical one and has King Boo taking out the group using their worst nightmares, finally when it comes to Luigi, his fear being ghosts, King Boo torments him with every type of Ghost imaginable, Luigi breaks down before thinking about Mario and how heroic he's been, being fearless and courageous not matter what the situation, Luigi inspired by Mario's actions goes in and faces his fears and knows that he doesn't need to be afraid of the world anymore and uses his power and inspiration to save his friends from King Boo.

After that, everyone is freed from the curses of King Boo including the family that was trapped here a while ago (AKA some Portrait Ghost characters), Mario asks if they’re happy now and say respond with a positive response, saying that being turned into a Portrait helped them rest and recharge their batteries. Mario, frustrated, continues on with their quest.

Meanwhile, We return to Bowser and Kamek as the pressure is on for them to make the wedding perfect. Bowser wonders where Bowser Jr is as he is needed for being the flower boy. Kamek decides to break the news to him and says that he has gone missing and has defied the Koopa Kingdom, taking the superstar for himself. Bowser gets angry and destroys the whole wedding and wonders why he would do this, Kamek lies and says that he wants to inspire change to the Koopa army. Before Bowser can do anything else Kamek says that he’s late for his date, Bowser runs and exits out of the Wedding to go on a date with Peach.

Stayin Cool!
Back to the group, they make their way through the top of Cool Cool Mountain, Mario is focused on the task at hand, we see the others playing with the all type of Penguins, making a giant sentient Snowman called Mr Blizzard through Snow Spikes, DK & Diddy could be having an intense snowball battle while using Snow Pokies as ammunition.

Mario would get increasingly angry at the group messing around, Mario says that they can’t mess around as Peach is in danger and he is the only one that is able to save her, Yoshi tries to reason with him, saying that they’re here to help and support Mario, Mario snaps back that he needs to prove he’s worthy for the star’s power as the incident in Yoshi’s Island he feels he’s unworthy and that he only has to focus. Before they can try and talk to Mario a loud horn noise and a giant icestorm is brewed, the penguins, snow spikes and others leave, Luigi asks what they’re running from and Captain Toad says that it’s the invasion of the Ice Bullies, when Luigi asks what are the Ice Bullies he gets launched by one. The rest of them try to stand their ground but fail, eventually getting launched off the mountain, leaving to only DK and Mario being able to stand there ground, eventually we see Chief Chilly who asks Mario to Freeze as they’re causing trouble in his land. The Duo try to evade being beaten by the Chief in a pushing match, we have Mario saying that he’ll deal with this alone as he doesn’t want DK getting hurt, DK abides reluctantly.

Mario runs and kicks Chief Chilly off the mountain, thinking he has short handed victory Mario gloats at DK for winning calling him a big clump of dumb ice however Mario doesn’t realise that Chief Chilly is right behind him and so he also launches Mario off the Mountain leading to a one on one with DK & Chief Chilly, which admittedly doesn’t take long as while Chief cracked the ice below them leading to a Battle underwater, DK grabs Chief Chilly and launches him to the Clouds above.

Date Night
Meanwhile, The Elite Trio still try to find Bowser Jr inside the Castle. Paraplonk says that this is the one thing standing between him and an infinite amount of money and that they shouldn’t give up while the 2 other members make fun of him. Bowser Jr manages to stay in the Airship all this time, Kamek calls the Elite Trio to give up as Jr can’t hide forever, they say that they need to pick up the VIP’s which comprise of all the Boss characters the gang have faced so far.

Bowser Jr hears them and uses a Hammer Suit to try and disguise himself as a a Hammer Bro who’s “cleaning”, eventually the 4 of them make it to the Airship and see Bowser Jr disguised, who obviously looks to short for a Hammer Bro, Kamek sees through his disguise due to the height, which Paraplonk would see as weird to judge a person by their height, Kamek captures Bowser Jr and says that they should pick-up Goomboss, Cranky Kong and Petey Piranha and that he’ll tell Bowser about Jr.

Speaking of Bowser we see how his date is going and it’s going really badly. Bowser, eating 5 big hams loudly and unpleasantly, tries getting advice from Boom Boom, who is sitting at a table right next to him with his Girlfriend Pom Pom, which Peach catches onto and thinks is really weird. Bowser tries to make small talk and ignite true love, but miserably fails as Peach will never forgive him for the destruction of the Kingdom, accepting that he has unfortunately failed this time and finally thinks to resort to Kamek's idea for hypnosis. Before he goes with Kamek’s plan, he decides to go with one last action before Kamek’s Plan can come to fruition, he says that he has a big, long…

Before we can hear the last word, Kamek bursts in and shouts his name as he finishes his sentence and the word is Baguette, Bowser can apparently make a big, long and tasty Baguette, as Peach looks disgusted Bowser asks that he’s ruining his date and that he was finally getting through to her, Kamek saying that he will never get through to her and that they should give up legitimately trying and use hypnosis. Kamek then says that he has Bowser Jr as he shows the boy to him.

Bowser and Bowser Jr look at the Kingdom from the distance and says why that he didn’t need to do any of this as he was already proud of him right from the start sure he was somewhat lazy and played video games too much but he loved him, until however all of this, tripping him over, talking with the Princess, defying his orders and starting a Koopa Uprising makes him not angry but disappointed, Jr looking confused asks about what Uprising and says that Kamek was the one who is starting the Uprising and that he only wanted to stop it to prove Bowser that he could live up to Bowser's expectations.

Bowser tearing up, hugs Bowser Jr and says he'll talk to Kamek about what he's planning, after that Bowser asks where the star is but Jr also comes clean about giving the star away to Peach, Bowser laughs this off, knowing that he says that Peach tricked him into giving it to her as she'll give it to the Red Knight, which Bowser told stories about to Jr of how he'll destroy the Koopa Kingdom, Bowser then also explains that the Red Knight will need to prove his worth and he's expecting him to be a big disappointment. Even if he's worthy, Bowser will use the Chaos Heart to rule the world while Bowser Jr quietly says he hopes so. Bowser tells Jr that he'll need to go with the Elite Trio to pick up one of his other guests, Bowser Jr gets ready for his new task, wanting to impress his father.

Rock on
Back to the group they make their way through the Rock Candy Mines and stumble across an old minecart. Captain Toad tells the group that this is where he did his training as a Hero and is familiar with the place, especially minecarting. Despite Mario’s warning of seeing that the track is somewhat unstable and wants to use a vine up above, but nonetheless the group use it to travel through the mines as we see the inside of the mountains, including monty moles and stone spikes using Bob-ombs and Bullet Bills to find Coins. We also see Buzzy Beetles and Spinys climbing on the ceiling.

Above them, we see King Bob-omb and a Chuckya saying that they’re late for Bowser’s and Peach’s Wedding and were about to leave but see the group in the minecart. He realises that Chuckya tells him that this was the person who Kamek said to look out for as he would ruin the wedding. King Bob-omb then jumps down and rolls like a boulder and chases the group. Captain Toad navigates through the mountain while Diddy says he has a plan, he then goes at the end of the minecart and starts aggravating King Bob-omb so he explodes, the plan almost works however until the group apart from Diddy who King Bob-omb manages to grab run out of track and fall to the waters with Fuzzies and Urchins inside of them, they escape but King Bob-omb corners then with an army of Bob-ombs, saying that he'll blow up everyone and Diddy if they don't turn themselves in.

Mario thinks of a quick plan by himself, he uses his last Item Box and turns into Cape Mario and quickly tries to make a diversion by making a tornado so that he can go save Peach while everyone else will stay with King Bob-omb and save them later, it doesn't work and Mario is chucked by the Chuckya and King Bob-omb explodes, knocking out Diddy in the process. The group scolds Mario for leaving them on their own. Before Mario can explain the Elite Trio and Bowser Jr use Bowser's Airship and pick up King Bob-omb, Bowser Jr wonders who the others are and said that he's supposedly the Red Knight that Kamek told everyone about, Bowser Jr smiles mischievously and tells The Elite Trio to take them away so that Bowser can execute him. As the Villains and Heroes go inside the airship, Act 2 ends.

Cloudy with a Chance of Chain-Chomps
The Airship flies its way through the beautiful Clouds as they also pick up King Lakitu for the wedding, which is home to the village of Lakitus, Chain-Chomps and Ty-foos. The group are tied up and try to talk to Mario about his decision while he just stays silent, thinking about how he's failed. DK is seemingly the most distraught, about his little buddy’s supposed “death”. Mario, getting angry at the group's scolding, uses his cape to escape, the group look happy as they have a chance to escape, Mario flies out of the prison before looking back and says he’ll come back to them. The Group get frustrated and wonder why he’s acting like this, DK gets so angry and pulls out from the chains that he was put from and free the group.

The Elite Trio, King Lakitu, King Bob-omb and Bowser Jr play this versions world of Smash Ultimate while Mario crashes the party and leading to another fight scene, The Elite Trio are up first and Mario manages to defeat them easily, Bowser Jr runs away inside while King Lakitu and King Bob-omb team up to defeat him next, King Lakitu throws King Bob-omb and Mario slams him down to the Airship, making him explode again, which nearly destroys the ship and makes it radically turn, which leads to the group falling down to the ground, DK uses a nearby Barrel and sees a torch, uses it to make a Rocket Barrel and save the group from death, except Luigi who manages to fall off, DK tries to save him but doesn’t work. Mario thinks he’s done but Bowser Jr comes out with his father’s Koopa Clown Car. A fight in the sky ensues, Bowser Jr using the fists, bombs, Big Steelies and Mechkoopas, Jr also uses his fire breath to fight as well, while all this is going on Luigi is calling for Mario’s help while the group are on a Mountain from the Rocky Candy Mines and try to think of a way to save Luigi, Yoshi tries to use his long tongue and it almosts works but it’s too short. Eventually Mario manages to defeat Bowser Jr and throw him in a mountain, he then grabs the Elite Trio and the Kings and warns Bowser of the Red Knight.

Mario thinks he’s once again done but he hears Luigi screaming to save him, Mario flies down while Luigi thinks that he’s gonna die as he is near the ground but he is saved by Mario in the last millisecond by his red and white sock. Mario files up to the Airship and saves Luigi, Mario wonders why Luigi is so mad in turn the rest of the group, Luigi calls out Mario out for his actions, for leaving the group when they need help the most and his attitude to them, Luigi would allow of this if he knew why he did all this. Mario says that he didn't want to hurt anyone and wanted to prove his worth so he can use the Superstar. Luigi blows back at him saying to look at Diddy as that was his mistake and that he probably was worthy of the star’s power  despite his recent behaviour, even if he isn’t that they can deal with that with their friends.

Mario says that means that he wouldn’t be a Hero and that he therefore wouldn’t be worthy as he needs to do it alone also saying Yoshi’s words of Small Sacrifices to make a big reward. Luigi realises that he’s a lost cause, He then asks a question, if they should go with Mario to save the Princess, Mario doesn’t answer and Luigi asks the question again and louder, Mario says No and the rest of group leave, even Captain Toad who is loyal to the Princess leaves as he thinks that the Red “Knight” should do this alone. Toadette also leaves because Toad is leaving, Yoshi says that he only hopes him good luck and says that even if he saves the Princess, he would have lost everything else over a person who doesn’t even probably know him, DK says that he hopes he’s happy as proving his worth and not anyone has potentially killed his best friend. Finally Luigi says that he’s supported Mario throughout his entire life through each ridiculous venture but says he can’t do that now as the Mario he knew and loved is dead, after that Luigi says screw you to Mario, the group finally leave.

Castle Crashing
Mario mutters under his breath and says that he can do this alone, Mario uses his cape to fly into the portal which is shaped like Bowser. A Montage would play, Mario would fly through Bowser’s Kingdom and sees the weird undead monsters of the Kingdom flying towards the castle, Peach is getting ready for wedding and is waiting for Mario, Bowser & Kamek have an argument about his plans for his uprising but put this aside greet guests going into the castle. The Elite Trio and Bowser Jr warn Bowser of the red knight and says that he’ll deal with him, Luigi and the group walk back and see Diddy has woken up, Diddy asks where Mario is and DK says that he’s left and caused him being knocked out, Diddy says typically humans and tries to walk but falls over.

Once the montage is over, the castle doors close as Mario arrives, his powers are gone and wonders where to go, Mario sees a pipe and leading to another side-scrolling sequence of Mario sneaking around, seeing all of the stone Toads in the basement and beating up guards. We see the wedding guests sitting and getting ready. A lot of the guests include a lot of enemies from the games and most boss characters from the film. Mario continues navigating through the castle until the wedding march plays and he rushes through the entire castle, Kamek says the wedding vows and goes to asks the couple if they want to marry each other and all that stuff, Bowser keeps on saying yes while Kamek asks Peach if they want to marry Bowser, and she looks angry. Kamek ignores her and says if anyone has any objections they can say them now, a random goomba says he objects and Kamek blasts him. He then asks if anyone else wants to object and they decline.

Kamek tells Bowser to now kiss the bride, before he can Mario finally comes bursting in and says he objects but is obviously out of breath, Bowser asks if he wants to rest and try that again Mario says he does and closes the door and takes a deep breath and proudly bursts “I Object!".

Peach has a sigh of relief while Bowser tells Mario that was good and he really felt the emotion from him but Kamek gives an angry glare and Bowser stops his nice demeanour and tells him who is he to stop a beautiful wedding and humiliate him while doing so. Mario says that it's duty too plus Mario didn't need to come to Humiliate him, Bowser holding his laughter and anger asks him why in response to this, Mario pulls up the Superstar, everyone apart from Kamek and Bowser gets scared and intimidated. Mario makes a snarky remark and tells everyone what are they gonna do about it. Bowser grinning says that he should use the power of the Superstar, Mario accepts and tries to use the power of the star, he tries crushing it, eating it and throwing it. Peach looks embarrassed and remarks to Kamek that this is the person to save the kingdom, Meanwhile Bowser is laughing his head off. Mario finally uses it by putting it in his chest, he floats up in the air in a Gold and God like aura while the star is being slowing injecting in him, Bowser laughter ceases as he gets scared and Peach's happiness and optimistic nature is heighten as the epic battle of the century is happening as the score builds up with an epic rendition of the starman theme, Mario is ready to fight that is until the Star turns into a Ztar and Mario's power is gone.

Peach's face begins to frown and Bowser happiness and pleasure returns, Mario looks confused and wonders what happened, Bowser tells him that he isn't worthy, Mario says that the prophecy said he was worthy, Bowser says that he isn't know and the star will find another host. Peach asks Mario if he's even the red knight or some guy who lied. Mario tries to explain that he got the letter that Peach sent him, Peach facepalms and tells him it probably wasn't directed to him, Mario says he has a red hat and she says anyone could have a red hat, hearing this Bowser takes Paraplonk’s Bucket and jokingly says that he’s the red knight. Mario looks to the star and sees Diddy meaning he is the red knight now. Bowser has had enough and says it's his turn, he breathes a large fireball and a chase begins throughout the entire castle.

Mario continues running through the castle as Bowser is chasing him with the final boss theme of Super Mario Bros 3 playing, Mario thinks he's finally outran him at the top of the castle but Bowser uses his shell to catch him up, which he crushes Mario with and they fall all the way down from the top and to the wedding floor as Mario becomes unconscious, Bowser reverts to his normal form and breaths fire on him and continues stepping on him, Kamek says his name three times each louder than the last before he finally angrily answers. Kamek says that it's a little too much and that they should continue with his wedding as he hypnotises Peach into loving Bowser.

Bowser eagerly waddles to the altar and the Bowser kisses Princess Peach which leads to the Chaos Heart finally being created and the crowd roars in happiness, the camera pans to Mario as the 8-bit Game Over theme plays as he's in a void of darkness. The Camera zooms out and we see that DK & Diddy were watching the film in a theatre, Diddy asks if it’s that’s it and DK shrugs, Diddy gets angry, throws his popcorn in the air and leaves saying that he acted all for nothing, as Mario gets up DK calls Diddy and Diddy goes back to his seat.

Death of the Plumber
Mario wakes up and wonders if he's dead and says that he needs to be up there and help the Princess, a familiar voice tells him that he just isn’t worthy, Mario says that he saw him in the star and that he is worthy and the star should have worked for him, The voice comes closer and tells him that he doesn’t understand and that the star will chose him as he comes closer, it’s revealed that this is the previous Yoshi chief from the beginning of the film, Mario tries to explain but he silences him and tries to explain why isn’t worthy, he then says that his behaviour and him pushing his friends behind was the main reasons why was worthy. Mario said that he needed to be focused and do this alone so that no-one could get hurt, The Yoshi Chief tells him to listen to what Luigi said to him in the Meringue Clouds. We hear the same dialogue as Mario’s face begins to get sad. The Chief tells Mario that his friends were the ones who helped him the most on his journey, not him, he shows him how his friends helped him. The Yoshi Chief asks why he did this.

Mario says that he finally had a purpose in life and accomplished something meaningful in life and he didn’t want to lose it like what happened with his father. He knew that the star deemed him as worthy but he himself felt like he failed when he destroyed his island, Mario apologises about it and the chief says it’s fine, he continues to say when the superstar was taken, when he caused the whole Kong debacle leading to Cranky’s disapproval and finally when his friends were captured and Diddy became knocked out and nearly killed. He needed to push himself further and further to feel he was worthy not only to himself but the world and the expectations that they put on him.

The Chief hugs Mario and tells him he was always worthy but pushing himself to the point of destroying his character and the people around him was when the star deemed him unworthy. The Yoshi Chief tells him that he didn’t need to push himself as he was fine but even if he felt like he wasn’t worthy enough, his friends could help him, also telling him that no matter your flaws, you are worthy of anything and that anyone can be a Hero if they work hard enough for it.

Mario understands what he has to do now and wants to save the world now, but realises that he is still dead. The Yoshi Chief tells him that the green mushroom he had earlier gives him another life, saying he’ll give him one more chance until he dies for real, he says not to mess this up and Mario says he won’t as the chief has a cheeky smile. The Yoshi Chief opens up a pipe and Mario warps back to the moment when Luigi is telling him off.

Luigi asks why he did all of this, Mario answering that he felt like he was gonna fail and not be worthy, Yoshi tells him that he was always worthy and Mario answers that he wanted to prove that to himself, Mario explains that he was trying to removing all his flaws as a person so he could be seen as worthy when in reality his flaws make him, Mario, and heck possible even worthy to an extent. He then says that everyone has flaws, Luigi is timid yet is just as heroic as Mario, Captain Toad is aragant and selfish yet is very resourceful, Toadette is a kiss-up to Captain Toad, overactive and annoying  but is very intelligent, Yoshi is a bit childish yet helps Mario in the best yet weirdest ways, Donkey Kong is dumb yet is really strong and loves the world and finally Diddy, who is still uncosiosus, is talkative and at points unfunny but has a pure heart of gold who loves his friends, he says that while he and everyone else should better himself as a person he shouldn't push himself over the edge and he apologises to everyone and tells them that they don't have to go with him if he wants to as he doesn't blame them but everyone has the potential of being a Hero and can do anything, if they put their mind to it. Luigi hugs Mario and says there's the Brother he knew and loved. Yoshi asks how they're gonna save the Princess while Mario thinks of a plan to save the Princess.

The Plan
Mario tells the group to follow them in the Airship and sees what they can do as a lot of the stuff from the Elite Trio are left there including a map of the Castle, a few hammer suits and invite lists to the wedding leading to a montage playing, showing each segment of the plan and how it's executed, Mario, Luigi & Yoshi use Hammer Suits to infiltrate the Castle in secret, Toad & Toadette go inside the Pipe that Mario did and try to revive the stone Toads with Mario’s Mushroom and get chased by Thwomps and Whomps, Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong (who wakes up during this) go inside the Castle to make sure nothing goes wrong as they're guests of Cranky Kong and make a distraction which was Diddy having a stand up routine but DK gets distracted by a big horde of Bananas and decides to eat them all, leading to an unintended distraction to be made to the dismay of Diddy. Mario's goal is to switch the Princess with Luigi and catch Bowser off guard, who initially declines but after Mario persuades him into wanting to wear the dress Luigi does so begrudgingly. Everyone likes the plan apart from Yoshi who asks how they're gonna get there. Everyone looks at Mario as he is still in his cape form and it cuts to Mario using his Cape Form to drag the Airship to the Castle.

After that, Mario, Luigi and Yoshi make it into the Castle and to the elevator as Peach's room is in the Spike shell thingy of the Castle. As more and more people come in they realise that more people will catch on to what they're doing. So they go into the vent and decide to wait there, then the 2 Red and Blue Goombas from the beginning enter the elevator. Luigi gets bored and decides to Beatbox, Mario tells him to stop as he thinks they'll break their cover but he ignores him and points as the Goombas are enjoying the music being distracted at the giant hole on the ceiling. Mario calls Luigi a genius and the trio Beatbox many familiar themes in the franchise to distract the people coming in the elevator from the hole.

As they approach the final floor the group leave and make it into the vent system. As the many enemies dance to the tunes, Kamek and the Elite Trio walk there talking about giving Paraplonk a promotion as he has managed to properly discipline the troops well and see the dancing enemies and look embarrassed and angry at them as they're dancing at nothing. Kamek tells Paraplonk to forget about any promotion as he can't even run his troops right.

Peach understands as the scene sees Mario, Yoshi and Peach with Luigi's clothes leave the room while Luigi puts on the dress and says that this is the stupidest thing he's ever done and that this won't work. Yoshi sees a nearby Goomba Mask and makes Luigi put it on telling that if anyone asks that he's putting on make-up and it needs to dry, Peach says that's not how it works Yoshi dismisses this saying most people here are boys and wouldn't know anyway.

Decoy Time
Mario, Yoshi, Peach, Donkey Kong and Diddy meet up in the main lobby and tell them that the decoy has been deployed. They celebrate as they eagerly await for the wedding to go shambles. Kamek sees that Bowser and Bowser Jr are ready and goes up to Peach's room and tells "her" that they're ready and asks why "she's" wearing the Goomba Mask. Luigi, taking Yoshi's advice, says that her make-up isn't ready. Kamek says that's not how it works as he has a wife at home and knows from experience.

Kamek then tries to take off the mask but Luigi tries to tell him not to but he manages to and gets angry when he sees that it isn't obviously Peach. He mutters to his breath '"he's here". ' A fight starts and Luigi manages to come on top temporarily but Kamek whacks him with his wand, but Luigi decides to not give up and kicks him under his feet and runs away with the Goomba Mask, Kamek immediately chases him.

Meanwhile, the group waits for Luigi to walk down as the wedding march is playing. Bowser Jr takes place as the marriage officiant as Kamek has had an accident. Mario pumps his fist in the air and thinks they've got this in the bag. But to their surprise, Luigi doesn’t signal them and instead goes with the wedding as normal, the group wonder why and Mario immediately comes to the conclusion that it isn't Luigi.

Before Mario can do anything, “Peach”, after Jr says the wedding vows agress and Bowser kisses the Goomba Mask. Creating the Chaos Heart, “Peach” laughs and unmasks “herself” into Kamek, Bowser gets angry and the group look confused, Kamek asks for the Red Knight and his ensemble to surrender themselves or else his Brother will be killed, knowing there’s nothing to do in the situation. Mario and the gang surrender as Bowser sees that he’s the red plumber and laughs that he’s the red knight but Kamek tells him not to mess with him, DK & Diddy ask if he has any plan and Mario doesn’t answer. Kamek brings down Luigi (who is wearing Kamek’s clothes) and tells Bowser to eat the Chaos Heart, Bowser hesitates and asks why and that it seems unsafe, leading to Kamek shouts to him to do it. Bowser eats it and gets a bad stomach ache and then passes out. Kamek grins as he finally won, Peach wonders how it worked as he needed to have true love with the person that he married unless of course, Kamek wanted to marry Bowser this whole time.

Kamek laughs as he tells Bowser Jr to file the divorce papers as he exits out of the scene, he tells them that he never loved Bowser in any way shape or form, he was a bumbling idiot who was passed down from a longer line of idiots that he only loved the idea of finally taking over the Koopaline for the future so that they can rule the world, which is enough for creating the Chaos Heart. Mario asks if he needed to dress up like that while Kamek says that he needed to fool everyone that he was a Princess, plus he likes dressing up as a Princess.

Kamek calls the VIP’s to beat everyone as they gang up to the group leading to one giant fight sequence of Heroes vs Villains, all of the guests watch in awe as Mario, Luigi Peach, Yoshi, Donkey Kong & Diddy Kong are up against King Goomboss, Tubba Blubba, Petey Piranha, Chief Chilly, King Bob-Omb, King Boo and King Lakitu. Before that, Luigi asks if they can all switch back into all their respective clothes, while Peach agrees Kamek says that he likes how comfy they are, despite this Luigi forces him to change so that the battle of the ages can begin which is where the last musical number plays named Don’t Lose Hope.

Fight Club
During the fight when the Heroes are losing, Captain Toad and Toadette come with an army of Toads which help the Heroes close the gap. Each of the VIPs get defeated one by one, Peach throws King Bob-omb to the bottom of the castle, Captain Toad and Goomboss lead their armies to chaos, Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong team up to defeat Tubba Blubba, King Boo & Petey Piranha and Yoshi sticks his tongue on Chief Chilly and hits it on King Lakitu.

Eventually the Heroes come on top and win this gruelling battle, the crowd applauds our heroes, even Cranky Kong smiles at how well DK has done. However Kamek is losing his mind and wonders how they won against a team of some of the most powerful opponents in the kingdom. Mario says that they needed to be a team in order to defeat them. Kamek gets incredibly angry and makes fun of them for this sappy speech and tries to use his last power of his wand to fight the team but that’s disrupted as Bowser wakes up and transforms into Fury Bowser. Which leads to everyone escaping including the Elite Trio, Bowser Jr and the Toad army apart from the main group. Kamek, at his last straw, tells Bowser to kill them all but Fury Bowser steps on him, finally realising about his true motives, tricking him into marrying him and what he said about him. He then asks Peach to marry him and she obviously declines, and so he gets even more angry and breathes a large, purple fireball at Peach but Mario sacrifices himself to save Peach, pushing her off the side. Before Peach can mourn the loss of Mario, Bowser grabs her and escapes outside of the Castle and grows larger and larger. The group and the Toad’s mourn the death of Mario, but not for long as the Superstar uses its power to revive Mario as he levitates up in the air, the score plays the epic rendition of the Starman theme and he turns Gold, Mario inaudible, with a thumbs up, levitates to save Peach.

The Final Battle
The final fight is set in a giant pool of lava, Bowser tells Mario that even if he’s worthy of the star's power, Fury Bowser is way, way stronger. Mario still doesn’t speak and the fight begins, the theme here would be the final boss theme from Super Mario Galaxy 2 as it sets the stage of the finale here. Mario would use his golden fireballs to hurt Bowser, which leads to Peach being dropped from Bowser’s hand. Mario stops the fighting and goes to save her. Peach thanks Mario and he puts her in a golden cage and the fight continues. During the fight Bowser grabs Mario and eats him but despite Bowser’s efforts, Mario escapes and comes on top, he takes his tail and throws him Super Mario 64 Style and waves goodbye. He breaks her cage and they fly back to the castle.

Everyone congratulates Mario on his win as he transforms back into normal while the Star turns Blue, Peach thanks Mario for his actions but stops her regal attitude and says that was the epicest, awesomest and coolest thing she has seen in her life and hugs Mario, saying that though he may not have looked it, shattered expectations as the red knight. But as the group begin to celebrate King Bob-omb who is in the basement manages to explode due to some rubble nearby which dropped on him and so the entire castle is crumbling down leading to a high octane escape sequence.

Eventually the group make it and everyone seems to be accounted for and present apart from Yoshi who had managed to trip during the escape. Mario notices this and tries to uncover the rubble to find him, luckily he does but unfortunately he is basically about to die. Mario thinks he’s failed as he basically killed him and that he should have made everyone okay but Yoshi tells him that he did the best he could in that situation. Yoshi says that he did the best he could, he managed to save the world, save the Princess and defeat Bowser and he was only a small sacrifice in a big reward.

Yoshi calls him the true red knight saying that he has his whole life ahead of him and this is just the beginning, that his life shouldn’t be defined by this one moment like with his father and how it derailed his life until the day he died along with how he should live it to the fullest, saying that he should decide what he does, not anyone else, Yoshi says goodbye to everyone and then turns into an Egg. Mario takes the Egg and puts it inside his bag saying he’ll never forget him. The group wonder how they’re gonna get home when they see Toadsworth, Buckenberry and Ala-Gold use a few Hot Balloons to take the group away and back to the Mushroom Kingdom. Before they go, Peach sees Prince Haru and takes him with her, acting as Peach’s Pet.

Mario & Peach throughout the journey back talk about the journey Mario went through while the rest of the group reflect on how much of a crazy yet amazing adventure it has been. They make it back to the Kingdom which is still in disarray, The Bros and the group offer to fix it at no extra cost, which they do in record time. Peach is impressed with how the new castle looks and even though they said that they didn’t need to give them anything, Peach gives The Bros a bunch of Mushroom related tourist gifts and a 100 Coin, Coin. The Bros tell Peach that they need to go back home, she gets sad, but understands and the 2 of them along with Yoshi’s Egg leave inside a Warp Pipe.

The End?
A a few days later in the morning, the Bros finally make it to their apartment, Mario is looking at the City, bored while Luigi wakes up and makes some Breakfast, saying that the 100 Coin Coin should allow them to stay afloat for 2 Months. Mario, taking Yoshi’s advice, says that they should go back to the Mushroom Kingdom permanently, Luigi says that it’s too drastic of a change to go through with.

Mario tells Luigi that he was finally someone there and not a foolish nobody that everyone made fun of, he finally felt like he lived up to his father despite the revelations he knew and he was happy, no matter what his decision is final and that he doesn’t need to go with him. Luigi understands and says he is with him all the way, the Brothers exchange a high five and a hug, but first Mario needs to do some things.

He first gives Mr Segale Spaghetti with Mushrooms in them and does the same to Mr Miyamoto. Mario knocks on Pauline’s door and she obviously is still angry at Mario due to the outcome of the date, and she nearly slams the door on him before he puts his foot on it, he apologies about his actions, saying he should have more considerate of his actions, he tells Pauline that he’s leaving the City to pursue his own dreams, Pauline tells him to stop talking about the Mushroom land, then he shows her the Spaghetti with Mushrooms and an Invitation to something, making her realise the place is real, Mario says he’s finally found the place he’s been talking about all this life and there he finally was a somebody there, Pauline accepts Mario’s apology and hugs him & tells him good luck. They also meet up with Friendly Floyd and give him a Spaghetti with Mushrooms, thanking him for being there for the Bros at the oddest times.

Mario meets up with Luigi at their workplace, everyone looks angry at them due to Maro punching Wario earlier and for surviving inside the sewers. The Bros enter Spike’s Office, he talks to his sons on the phone as they haven’t found their Bodies yet but his smug and happy attitude is ruined as he spirits out his tea and he sees the iconic Brothers in his presence. Spike angrily asks what they want and the Bros both smile and nod, throwing the Shroom Spaghetti in his face while Luigi pulls his beard. Spike loses it and finally fires the Bros, laughing hysterically. Mario & Luigi are smiling while Wario & Waluigi are looking confused as they come out of the sewers, they also throw Spaghetti on their faces.

Mario & Luigi enter back into the sewers and find the Pipe that leads them to the Mushroom Kingdom, The Bros make it to the Castle and knock on the doors. To the surprise and happiness of Peach she hugs the 2 of them and wonders why they’re back as she isn’t in danger, Mario says that they want to live here. Peach says she’s glad they’re here, Mario says that he never really got a proper Birthday celebration and that it would be nice to have one.

It cuts to Spike, Wario, Waluigi, Mr Segale, Mr Miyamoto, Friendly Floyd and the rest of Spike’s Company navigating through the sewers trying to find the big Green Pipe that Mario & Luigi are talking about, they eventually do find it and see a giant Party is there, but they’re more fixated on how Mario’s Mushroom Land is real. Everyone would be dancing their heads off to a song dedicated to Mario called Jump Up Superstar, even one by one the Scapellis get their groove on despite their angry attitude, the main attraction would be Mario & Peach, who would have the centre stage as both of them perform a duet, growing both as friends and something even more. The Final shot would be Mario jumping, recreating his render from Mario Party 6 with everyone following suite, ending Super Mario Bros (Kinda), Charles then ends the film with that shot while narrating.

'So, You finally know how the regular Mario Bros became the Super Mario Brothers! Mario has finally found his place in the world while strengthening the bonds he already had with his Brother, his ex-girlfriend and his extended family, plus the many new & wonderful friends he met along the way, it was a fun, wild & funny ride but it’s not the only story i have to tell with the magnificent Brothers, Oh no, we are far from done, there are many more stories I have to tell! but it’ll be a while before I tell another Super Mario Super Story, but for now. Thank you so much for watching our Movie!'

Credits
The First Credit sequence would be an 8-Bit retelling of the entire Film, the characters would use their Modern Colours with the artstyle from the first game, this would also include a cast call, After that the mid-credits scene will play.

Wart’s and All
We see someone is watching the events of the final battle unfold in a crystal ball, they stop it as Fury Bowser is being defeated. The Person says that “the red demon” has been defeating people from other dimensions as well. He then comes out of the Shadows revealing it’s Wart from Super Mario Bros 2 and calls his assistant and 2nd in command, Tatanga to prepare merging the dimensions.

The Return of Bowser
The Other credits sequence will play after this with music being remixes of the staff roll from Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario 64, having 2D Pictures illustrated by Yoichi Kotabe showing how and what the characters are doing after the film shows us:


 * Mario & Luigi opening a General service company in the Mushroom Kingdom as the build a new Wooden House


 * Peach makes adjustments to her castle for Dog Haru and has her coronation. She then has a wild party with Mario to the dismay of Toadsworth


 * Captain Toad gets Married to Toadette which wedding gets crashed by Wingo, (Mario has a irrational fear of Birds and runs away)


 * Friendly Floyd opens a branch shop around the world


 * The Bros and Captain Toad visit Yoshi’s Island to see how it’s going without a leader


 * Pauline is new Mayor of New Donk City


 * Knucklotec finds his ring in the rubble of Bowser Castle


 * Tubba Blubba finds King Boo’s lair and tries to eat all the Boos


 * Wario, Waluigi and Spike’s business become bankrupt as the Bros did most of the work without realising it


 * Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong move into Mario’s House, to the dismay of the Bros


 * King Boo, Goomboss, Chief Chilly, Petey Piranha, King Bob-omb and King Lakitu have a meeting about where Bowser, Bowser Jr, Kamek and the Elite Trio is and have their own weird theories


 * And finally, the Yoshi egg from Mario’s Bag hatches into a Baby Yoshi

The next Post Credit Scene plays we see Bowser Jr and the Elite Trio looking for Bowser, they find him sleeping and back to his normal form. The Group lift him all the way to the rubbles of the Castle, Bowser wakes up and sees his Kingdom in ruins, he vows his revenge on the Mario Bros. Bowser Jr backs him and says when he’s bigger, he’s gonna fight Mario again. Bowser, shedding a tear, says that he’s the best son he could ever have. Before long a purple, femine version of Kamek appears and asks where his husband is, Bowser and the group look confused, ending the Movie as the normal Game Over time plays. Diddy Kong tells everyone to go home.

Heroes

 * Danny McBride as Mario Mario Jr, A Kind, optimistic, outgoing, adventurous, courageous yet unknowingly somewhat selfish, cocky, short tempered, gullible, dumb and childish plumber who is prophesied as the one and only Star Child/Red Knight. When presented with a challenge Mario would try his best to overcome it yet can get frustrated easily when it’s not so straight forward, he will always look for the best in the worst of situations and will try to help people at all costs, no matter what. He also loves food, especially Spaghetti
 * McBride was chosen as Mario as this was to be a new interpretation of Mario with a new character & personality seen in the games, McBride was also chosen as a homage to Bob Hoskins & Lou Albono’s role as the plumber while still giving his own spin on things.
 * Paul Rudd as Luigi Mario, Mario’s Younger Brother who is timid, cowardly, childish (more than Mario) and has social anxiety yet would still have the same Heroic ideology as Mario. He is more of the straight man and more down to earth compared to Mario but would feel like he isn't as Good as Mario due to him being prophesied as a Hero and him being neglected and forgotten
 * Rudd was chosen as Luigi due to his straight yet goofy/comedic nature of many of his roles. Originally, Charlie Day, Andy Samberg & John Mulaney were considered for the role but Rudd was seen as the best fit. Charlie was saved for another role in the film as Friendly Floyd while John Mulaney would be chosen for Luigi in the sequel series.
 * Gina Rodriguez as Princess Peach, The ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom who isn’t that posh and fair like most people would expect but rather is more tomboyish and independent despite what the prophecy says as the Red Knight will save her from evil. Peach has always longed for adventure as she has been stuck in the Mushroom Kingdom all her life due to fears of evil forces being interested in her beauty/status as her parents disappear at her birth. Due to this, Peach is very naive about the world and is always wanting independence despite her status in life.
 * Josh Gad as Yoshi, Mario’s Pet Best Friend, The Yoshi Chief and a Young Wizard who is extroverted, friendly, playful and caring.
 * Kevin Hart as Captain Toad, A somewhat arrogant, self centred yet Heroic & resourceful Captain of the Toad brigade who is a musician, Toadworth’s nephew and Peach’s Number 1 supporter
 * Sarah Silverman as Toadette, Captain Toad’s Fiancee who is a smart archeologist and is somewhat overactive, adventurous, intelligent and would help Captain Toad in his various antics despite how dumb they are or if Captain Toad doesn't want even her there.
 * John Cena as Donkey Kong The III, A dimwitted ape who is environmentalist and is obsessed with Food (especially Bananas).
 * Gabriel Iglesias as Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong’s Small Monkey best friend who is laidback, somewhat lazy and sarcastic, he also acts as the wisecracker of the group who will frequently tell jokes and break the 4th wall yet would know when not to have a joke in some instances and would be the person to talk to in the worst of situations.

Villains

 * Will Arnett as Bowser, The Main Villain of the Film who is a meathead, dumb, bafoonish, wimpy and a bit childish but is very capable, strong and knows how to get things done.
 * Michael Cera as Bowser Jr, The Nerdy, 8-Year Old Heir to the throne of the Dark Kingdom and wants to impress his father due to being pressured by the entire Koopa Kingdom. He & his father are on bad terms due to his situation with his mother, who left him when he was Born.
 * Willem Dafoe as Kamek, The legal guardian of Bowser & the godfather of Bowser Jr who is the overlooking threat of the film, wanting unlimited power from the creation of the Chaos Heart.
 * JK Simmons as Cranky Kong, DK’s rude and abrasive Grandfather and the father of the late Donkey Kong Jr which was caused by Mario’s Father. From that day forward, he’s always hated humans.

The Elite Trio

 * David Spade as Corporal Paraplonk, The self-proclaimed leader of The Elite Trio, a group of higher-ups in Bowser’s Army. Paraplonk is obsessed with getting a Promotion/Money and is completed devoted to Bowser, gladly dying for him at points.
 * Kevin James as Private Goomp, a member of the Elite Trio who is somewhat childish, dense, gluttonous and cowardly.
 * Steve Buscemi as Sergeant Guy,The most competent out of the Trio, he is a spell expert, quiet and always on task, yet he has a superiority complex, and is selfish & cruel

Bosses

 * Matt Berry as King Goomboss, The Pompous and Posh ruler of the entire Goomba
 * Craig Robinson as Tubba Blubba, The Chill leader of the Spikes who loves to eat Boos
 * Fred Tatasciore as Kuncklotec, The Guardian of the Binding Band, the ring of Bowser’s wedding
 * Nick Kroll as Petey Piranha, A Mutant Plant Moster who terrorises the Yoshi’s in Yoshi’s Island
 * James Woods as King Boo, The Cruel King of the Undead
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as King Bob-omb, Leader of a clan of miners in the Rock Candy Mines

Misc

 * John Goodman as The Yoshi Chief, The late and great leader of Yoshi’s Island
 * Bobcat Goldthwait as Spike Scapelli, The anger riddled abusive Boss/Uncle of Mario & Luigi and the caring father of Wario & Waluigi
 * Kate Higgins as Pauline, an up & coming singer who was Mario’s Girlfriend
 * Charlie Day as Friendly Floyd, The Bros salesman, manger, stalker and “Best Friend” who always manages to find a way to make a deal

Cameo Roles
Additionally, Charles Martinet narrates the entire film as Mario Sr (Mario’s father) and voices Toadsworth (Peach’s adoptive father figure and Guardian), Wario & Waluigi (The Greedy & Malicious Cousins of the Bros and the sons of Spike), Stanley (The Leader of an Exterminator/Animal Control group), King Lakitu (The Mayor of Clouds) and Chief Chilly (The ruler of Cool Cool Moutain and the council man of the moustache community).

Shigeru Miyamoto (who produces the film and is the creator of the series) voices as a fictionalised version of himself, who runs the Super Nintendo Entertainment Market, Reggie Fils-Aimé (Former President of Nintendo of America) voices as a fictionalised version of himself as the President of New Donk City. Samantha Kelly (The Current Voice Actress of Princess Peach) Voices the Bros estranged mother. Chris Meledandri, another producer of the film, voices Mr Arnold Segale, being the Bros Landlord and is a fictionalised version of the late the landlord of Nintendo of America called Mario Segale. Phil Lord & Chris Miller, the directors of the film, voice the Red & Blue Goombas respectively.

In the Post Credit Scene, Wart & Tatanga are both voiced by Mick Wingert as a stand-in for Jack Black & Zach Galifianakis in the sequel.

Development
After the critical and commercial failure of the 1993 Super Mario Bros film. Nintendo became wary of licensing its properties for film adaptations despite many companies including Disney & Don-Bluth asking for the right to create a Mario & Zelda Movies. According to Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, the idea for a new Mario film came from 2 reasons, from the success of Wreck-it Ralph and how the video game characters were portrayed there and more importantly, bringing their older games to the Virtual Console and other services; such transitions took time for the company, and Miyamoto recognized that "our content business would be able to develop even further if we were able to combine our long-beloved software with that of video assets, and utilize them together for extended periods. Miyamoto knew that the process of making a film was far different from that of making a video game, and wanted a film expert to lead the effort.

Following the November 2014 hack of Sony Pictures, emails between producer Avi Arad, studio chief Amy Pascal, TriStar Pictures head Tom Rothman, and Sony Pictures Animation president of production Michelle Raimo Kouyate were released revealing that Sony had been attempting to secure the film rights to the Mario franchise for several years. Arad visited Nintendo in Tokyo in February and July 2014 in an attempt to secure a deal. In October, Arad emailed Pascal and said he had closed the deal with Nintendo. Pascal suggested recruiting Hotel Transylvania director Genndy Tartakovsky to help develop the project, while Kouyate said she could "think of 3–4 movies right out of the gate" and expressed hope in "building a Mario empire." However, after the emails leaked, Arad denied that a deal had been made, stating that negotiations had only begun. BuzzFeed News noted that the emails did not take into account potential conflicts with Sony Pictures' corporate sibling Sony Interactive Entertainment, one of Nintendo's chief competitors.

Through Nintendo's work with Universal Parks & Resorts to create Mario-based attractions, Miyamoto met Chris Meledandri & Jeffrey Katzenberg, founders of Universal Pictures' Illumination & DreamWorks animation divisions. Miyamoto found both of their creative process similar to his own, and felt they both would be proper to lead a Mario film. They had started more earnest discussions by 2016, knowing that if they felt it would not work that they could easily walk away. In November 2017, reports emerged that Nintendo was collaborating with Universal to make & produce an animated Mario film. Then Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima clarified that a deal had not been finalized, but that an announcement would come soon. Kimishima hoped that if the deal was successful, a 2019 release date would be possible.

In January 2018, it was officially announced that DreamWorks would be making the film as Illumination were busy on other projects and were going through a major restructure, Nintendo announced that the film would progress with Miyamoto, Meledandri and Katzenberg. Meledandri said the film was a "priority" for DreamWorks and that it will most likely come out in late 2019 to mid 2020. He added that Miyamoto would be "front and center" during production. In January 2019, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa stated that the film was "moving along smoothly" with an expected 2019 release date. Furukawa also said Nintendo would own the rights to the film and both Nintendo and Universal would fund the production.

In August 2018, It was announced that The Lego Movie & Into The Spiderverse directors/producers Phill Lord & Chirs Miller would direct and create the story of the film and that Dan Lin & Roy Lee would produce the film instead of Jeffery Katzenberg who dropped out from the project to focus on other endeavours, in the announcement it was stated the film would be “the standard for Video Game Movies, being a film both fans and casual viewers can enjoy”. In the same month, it was also announced that Alex Hirsch would write the screenplay and Mike Rianda, Jeff Rowe, The Hageman Brothers and Matthew Fogel would co-write the film.

According to Chris Pratt who had collaborated with the duo with The Lego Movie, the duo were writing and discussing the first few drafts of the Mario Movie and would have fully written the film after the release of The Lego Movie 2. He also noted, he would have played Mario if Illumination was helming the film.

Casting
For the film, they decided to recast the characters due to this being a new interpretation of Mario and also wanting to make audiences not feel alienated from their short-form vocal performances.

Many Castings of who should play Mario and Luigi were considered, including Nicholas Cage, Danny Devito, Seth Rogen, Chris Pratt, Jack Black, Adam Sandler and John C.Reilly for Mario. Charlie Day, James Franco, Andy Samberg, Patton Oswalt, Kevin James and Will Ferrell for Luigi. They either decided to save some of these actors for other characters, they turned down the role or saw them as unfitting for the role. They went for Danny McBride as Mario who would later collaborated with the duo again for The Mitchells Vs the Machines, McBride was chosen as Mario as this was to be a new interpretation of Mario with a new character & personality seen in the games, McBride was also chosen as a homage to Bob Hoskins & Lou Albono’s role as the plumber while still giving his own spin on things.

Paul Rudd was chosen as Luigi due to his straight yet goofy/comedic nature of many of his roles. Originally, Charlie Day, Andy Samberg & John Mulaney were considered for the role but Rudd was seen as the best fit. Charlie was saved for another role in the film as Friendly Floyd.

Both of them announced that they would be playing Mario & Luigi in December 2018, This marked a rare occasion were the characters would not be voiced by Charles Martinet who had been voicing Mario & Luigi in most incarnations since 1992, which drew some backlash however most were open to the 2 Cast members. In Nintendo’s E3 direct, the full cast was announced (Mostly notably Gina Rodriguez as Princess Peach, Will Arnett as Bowser, Micheal Cera as Bowser Jr, Willem Dafoe as Kamek, Kevin Hart as Captain Toad, Sarah Silverman as Toadette and John Cena as Donkey Kong), with a generally positive reception, with most welcoming the idea of celebrity actors voicing the characters since this was openly stated to be a new interpretation, however, some criticised it for not using the original voice cast but it was stated that they would have some cameo roles. Voice actress Tara Strong, criticised McBride‘s casting and expressed preference for Martinet to voice Mario instead, lamenting on Twitter what she described to be Hollywood's disregard of professional voice actors. Martinet himself spoke positively of the film, saying, "I think it's gonna be a lot of fun".

Plot details were kept secret to the actors during recording, according to Rudd & Arnett, who noted they had to record their dialogue in many different ways, after which the directors selected the version they believed would be best suited for the scene.

Animation
Originally, the film would have had a different artstyle from the games however Nintendo wanted it to be close to the source material without too much deviation, despite this Nintendo allowed creative freedom with the property in terms of allowing alterations to original characters, having opposite gender, different sized, Younger and older species despite being mandated in recent Nintendo games. Most characters were close to their original counterparts but have small changes such as making Mario being more tubby and a little bit shorter, Luigi being taller and skinner, Peach being slightly shorter, Bowser being significantly larger than most of the cast, Kamek having sleeves too long for him, Spike being fatter and having a bigger beard, Mario Sr having a Blue Hat instead of having his Jumpman outfit and other small changes.

The company that worked on the film was DWA Glendale with Jellyfish Pictures, who then worked with DreamWorks on The Boss Baby: Family Business, How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming and Spirit Untamed, handled the additional asset production services using proprietary softwares like Premo and Moonray, alongside with a new tool called Doodle created for the 2D effects and for allowing the animators to move the lines around the character rigs which would then be used more extensively & effectively in The Bad Guys.

Writing
The Plot was mandated to have Peach be captured by Bowser and Mario to save her, despite this, various story ideas were explored and discarded, the story in the final draft was moulded from many Mario games such as Super Mario Bros (1985), Yoshi’s Island, Donkey Kong (1981), Mario Bros and Super Mario Adventures, being the main base for the film’s characters and some plot details. The film's main goal was to be a film both enjoyed by fans and casuals of which they had many references and cameos for the fans to look for and had many in-depth themes which people could relate to. The perfect opportunity was to have the film be an origin story in an alternate universe for the Bros and how they came to the Mushroom Kingdom, meet most of the characters and defeated Princess Peach, Originally planned was a story to take place at the end of the original timeline and put the Bros to the ultimate challenge, finally defeating Bowser once and for all using a Golden Mushroom, which was a homage to the Theme Park’s plot.

According to Alex Hirch, the biggest challenge was giving Mario a character and arc, since he was made perfectly flexible and simple to suit every situation. The writers decided to take traits from many different forms of media such as his love for food and his more dense attitude from the DIC Cartoons, his more heroic, determined and optimistic personality from the Adventure comics & the RPGs and took some of his more selfish, hot-headed, close-minded, distracted and gullible personality from the Super Mario Kun comics, they also decided to add a Jack of all cards persona with all of the countless jobs he has done throughout the franchise but was trying to look for his calling in life, seeking for accomplishing something in life & fulfilment, though being a plumber was still front and centre. The writers finally landed on something and gave him the arc of realising anyone can become a Hero & he is worthy of anything no matter what he thinks despite not living up to expectations. Other characters including Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Bowser Jr, Donkey Kong, Captain Toad etc were kept similar to their game counterparts some even having smaller yet just as important character arcs in the film.

The themes of the films were ones that were simple but effective and could provide complexity according to Jeff Rowe, some thought-provoking feelings, reliability and emotional depth to the viewers which include themes of self-worth, self-esteem, redemption, destiny, fulfilment, expectations on heroes and the main one, Anyone can do anything if they put their mind to it. Conversely, the themes of the film were to mirror how anyone can play the games and can feel all these feelings playing Mario games.

Soundtrack
'Main Article: Super Mario Bros. (Soundtrack) ' The film featured Michael Giacchino composing the original tracks of the score and Koji Kondo would supervise the ost and do the rearranged tracks of the film. The theme, We are Born to Play sung by Charli XCX is the sung at the end of the credits.

Additionally, Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen,What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong and Mr Blue Sky by ELO are featured in the movie. Musical numbers include:


 * Another life (Mario)
 * Peachy Keen (Princess Peach)
 * I’m a King Bowser (Bowser, Bowser Jr, Kamek)
 * Ballad of Goombas (King Goomboss, Mario, Luigi)
 * A Yoshi Story (Yoshi)
 * Big Boo’s (King Boo, Luigi)
 * Don’t Lose Hope (Mario, Luigi, Peach, Captain Toad, Toadette, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong)
 * Jump Up Superstar (Pauline)

Theatrical
The film released on March 10th 2020 in the United States and Japan on Mar10 Day, March 5th 2020 on Europe and April 7th for other countries. The film was originally planned for a September 2019 to coincide with the release of the first Mario Game but was rescheduled to 2020 to have a bigger marketing push and to improve the animation of the film. It was temporarily released on Netflix on the 13th of September in the same year, it was taken down on the 31st of March and came back on September 13th 2021, exclusively on Peacock.

Home Media
Super Mario Bros. was released on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD on September 13th 2020 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Among the special features included 4 short films:


 * Elite Beat Agents: The Elite Trio make there way through the dangerous temple of Tostarena to steal the Binding Band
 * Welcome to Yoshi’s Island!: A Mockumentary short showing us a dangerous Tour though Yoshi’s Island, lead by Yoshi and the Yoshi Chief
 * Friendly Floyd’s Fantastic Voyage: Shows us how Friendly Floyd went to the Bros in Yoshi’s Island with a few mishaps in Isle Delfino
 * Rise of Donkey Kong: Showing us the events of the day when Mario Sr stole Donkey kong Jr and the outcomes of that in full CGI

The DVD release also includes an audio commentary, deleted scenes, in-Universe Bloopers and making of featurettes

Deleted Scenes and Scrapped Concepts
The deleted scenes of the film include:


 * The Original Opening for the film, it includes a different exposition sequence with No Yoshi’s Island sequence and instead details Mario & Luigi’s relationship, it follows Mario & Luigi fixing Pauline’s leak before to a high-octane chase with Wario & Waluigi using Donkey Kong, Mario & Luigi are fired prior to the events of the film and there’s no relationship between Mario & Pauline, it is said that the rest of film would have stayed somewhat the same apart from the Yoshi’s Island sequence would have come later on. The Opening starts with Bowser integrating a Koopa about a prophecy.
 * Peach in the Construction Site: This sequence is Mario & Luigi finding Princess Peach hiding from Bowser as they do sewer work, which leads to Captain Toad and Toadette finding them
 * Fake Cake: Replaces The King Goomboss fight with a Fake Bowser fight
 * Date of Fate, a cut musical number where Bowser and Peach argue about what love means, replacing the date in the dinner
 * Original Ending, The Original Ending shows that Mario & Luigi decide to return back home to New Donk City after saving Peach from Bowser, a time skip happens 3 weeks later where the Bros are world renowned Heroes after saving the world (Giving them the Name Super Mario Bros, calling them worthy successors to the original Mario Bros) as they open a new Engining business along with Mario restarting his relationship with Pauline and creating a birthday party inviting everyone from their previous work, realising they were wrong about Mario, leading to Mario realising he should be happy and accept what he should have in Life while Luigi accepts Mario is his only family and he can never change that, all of that is disrupted when Princess Peach and Captain Toad burst into their house, with ripped clothes and scars, wanting the Bros help once again, Pauline kisses Mario, as the 2 Bros wear their iconic overalls and head into the pipe to parts unknown, as they see the Mushroom Kingdom in complete chaos as Mario utters a more serious "Let'sa Go!" as the group jump towards the camera
 * The Ending was a homage towards the 1993 film, and also implied Wart and the 8-Bits were behind the attack though it's not outwardly stated, because of this the Post Credit scene has changed, instead of the 8-bits attacking, it's now more comedic with the Elite Trio pitch a game called "Super Trio Guys" to Miyamoto and Reggie

Marketing
Universal and Nintendo had spent $10 million on television advertisements to promote the film, generating 2.85 billion impressions.

The film's marketing campaign began when a short teaser trailer released in the February 2019 direct where an Rough Uncut clip of Mario & Luigi first arriving to the Mushroom Kingdom was shown, after the clip, the title of the film (SUPER MARIO BROS) was revealed with an orchestral remix of the main theme, with a short clip of Bowser laughing and fighting Mario in Bowser’s Castle at the end of the teaser, the trailer garnered a generally positive reception, with praise given to the Animation, Tone and Dialogue but earned a more polarising reaction to the Voice Acting, calling them too different from the games and sound disinterested in voicing the characters.



In Nintendo’s 2019 E3 Presentation, the first full trailer was released showing off Mario & Luigi in New Donk City, them arriving to the Mushroom Kingdom, Meeting Princess Peach & Captain Toad, Mario fighting Bowser at the start of the film and various scenes of Mario & Luigi through the Mushroom Kingdom. Other details about the movie such as a teaser poster with Mario & Luigi from the behind looking at the Mushroom Kingdom, a few screenshots of the film (showing Yoshi’s Island, Mario & Luigi at work seeing Donkey Kong attacking, fighting Koopas and Fight-files in the sewers, them first arriving to the Mushroom Kingdom and the first fight between Mario & Bowser in Peach’s Castle), a clip of Mario & Bowser fighting exclusive to E3 and a cast reveal character posters (comprising of Mario & Luigi in New Donk City, Peach in her Castle, Bowser & Bowser Jr riding their Airship, Kamek in a Caldron Room, Donkey Kong in a Jungle and Toad & Toadette exploring a forest) where also revealed around E3. The first trailer was shown earlier during theatre screenings of The Secret Life of Pets 2,Toy Story 4 and Lion King 2019. The trailer generated 220 thousand conversations across social media platforms within a day of its release, and in three days had been viewed 100 million times across all platforms, making the film one of Universal’s most viral films. It had a positive fan reaction, with particular praise being given to the faithful to the source material and McBride's and Arnett's acting which was seen as an improvement over the teaser with the Visuals, comedy, Music and Tone also being given praise.

DreamWorks released a second trailer for the film in October 2019 after the announcement of the delay, the trailer showed later parts of the film such as the fight between DK and Mario in the Jungle and the fight in the Sky along with scenes of Peach and Bowser, the trailer was released ahead of a promotional panel at New York Comic-Con where the first 20 minutes of the film, in which were most of the New Donk City scenes were shown. Lord and Miller explained that they chose not to show clips from throughout the film because they would lack context for the audience and didn't want to spoil details that would be big surprises for the audience, so instead aired an extended sequence for the presentation, even though it had some unfinished animation, deleted/altered scenes and music from the games as the Score of the film was not yet completed.

Critics noted the darker tone of the movie than expected which was praised, along with the visuals, voice acting and action scenes, the director's noted how Mario’s character & personality will drive the entire film and the people around him.

In 2020, Several clips of the film where released, including the first completed 15 Minutes of the film, The Musical Number with Bowser and the fight between Donkey Kong and Mario in the 2nd Act. All 3 clips managed to amass nearly 30 Million Views in only 3 days.

Box Office
Super Mario Bros. grossed $85.6 million in the United States and Canada, and grossed $294.4 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $380 Million. The gross of the film was significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic despite the film doing strongly originally, which first reduced movie theater attendance, then forced most to shut down within two weeks of the film's release, which lead to Super Mario Bros being a Box Office disappointment compared to other DreamWorks and Universal films along with expectations set by Nintendo & Universal, however despite this, it is one of the highest-grossing video game movies of all time only recently being beaten by Sonic The Hedgehog 2.

However despite bombing in the Box Office, it got a huge commercial success after being released on a multitude of streaming services, topping charts as one of the most-streamed animated film, kids films, & films in general of both 2020 & 2021

Critcal Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of 369 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes reads, "Wahooo! Despite having an long-winded runtime Super Mario Bros is an amazing video game adventure that both long-time fans and unfamiliar family members can enjoy for it’s beautiful animation, great voice cast, charming characters and a surprisingly thoughtful story with great themes and messages.”Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a 80 out of 100 based on 55 Critics indicating “Universal Acclaim”. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A on an A+ to F scale.

IGN gave the film a 8/10 and called it both a great film for everyone and a outstanding film for Video Game and Mario Fans alike, “Super Mario Bros boasts an amazing comedic, high-octane, charming and a surprisingly mature story that respects the audience which is elevated by it’s beautiful animation and incredible voice cast.” The Verge gave it a positive review, praising the Animation, Characters and the Performances but criticised how long the runtime was, feeling the story was clustered. “Despite being clustered around the 2nd Act putting so much in so little time, Super Mario Bros manages to remain incredibly enjoyable due to the mature yet comedic story, endearing cast of characters, outstanding performances and the breathtaking yet faithful Animation/Score.”

The Guardian gave the film a 4 out of 5 star rating, stating that, "The frantic, anything-goes nature of their films (though somewhat reeled back in this film), both in tone and visuals, is present with a tight focus on storytelling and dialogue with sight gags and set pieces used to supplement rather than distract" and "It’s also genuinely funny, a credit not only to the hit-a-minute script (though slightly bloated) but also to a finely picked cast of comic actors, of unusually high calibre that springy work well for the characters we all know and love," while also praising the animation, calling it "part of the energetic oeuvre of Phil Lord and Chris Miller." They also praised how well of an adaptation it is, “The film is not only just a good Mario film, but a great film that both knows what it wants to be for Mario Fans and is a film that is genuinely one of the best-animated adaptations there is.”

The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, stating that "Ultimately, this is an good yet bloated video-game based adventure that feels stitched together out of a hundred familiar film plots, often freely acknowledging the tropes & cliches that kill many animated films but manages to make it both unique, slightly meta, a breath of fresh air and surprisingly emotional (I didn't expect to get this emotional developed at a Mario Movie) But for audiences content with rapid-fire action and jokes and not really caring about the emotional stuff, the story or the well-written characters, the busy patchwork of prefab elements will be entertaining enough" although he said that "While the film’s Voice Cast, Action & comedy is superb, the film needed a tighter script & story so it could match the quality of those elements and be in one of the greats as it feels like the Story was a haphazard excuse for all of these to happen and thrive, despite how high quality they are”.

The Washington Post gave the film a positive review, calling it a “high action-adventure comedic Video Game film that uses it’s airtight casting and animation as its biggest strength but was critical of the plot, calling it too big for its own good. The New York reporter gave a mixed response to the film however, saying: “There’s some genuine effort here with it’s surprisingly fun cast, amazing action scenes and funny jokes at times, however it’s slow and fast pacing at points, odd story beats, characters not being fully developed, the other bland and annoying comedy and overall bloated story leaves a lot to be desired.

Netflix & Peacock reported in September 2020 and July 2021 from their quarterly earnings report that Super Mario Bros. had become the service's most-viewed animated work, with 95 million households having watched the film in the first 30 days of availability, with Mitchells Vs The Machines & Soul rivalling how well the film did streaming wise.

Industry Response
Chris Pratt, who worked with Lord and Miller on the The Lego Movie Films and was planned as the Main Voice of Mario in the Illumination pitch of the film described it as an "emotionally moving, cutting edge, progressive, diverse, funny, meta, action-packed, silly, visually stunning masterpiece”, Pratt also noted how much of a huge fan he was of the series since the original Mario Bros on Arcade and how well it brought the Magic of playing the game for the first time as a kid to him.

Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, who worked with Lord and Miller on 22 Jump Street and Voices as Remy in Ratatouille called the film "masterful," and continued, "This has been a non-stop year for me and I'm glad I'm ending it in such a cinematic high-note. Not only is it the best Video-Game film ever made, Not only is it one of the best animated film ever made, it's flat-out a game-changing (pun intended) MOVIE. Seeing it again tomorrow!"

John Leguizamo (Original Actor for Luigi in the 1993 film) called it infinitely better to the original 1993 film in every way and was also joking about how he wanted to voice Luigi again due to how better of a production cycle it seemed.

Video Game Industry Response
Geoff Keighley, host of the Game Awards called the film a huge step forward for Video-Game Movies and noted how much it juxtaposed to the 1993 film. Hideo Kojima, most known for their Metal Gear Series called the film “amazing” and continued, "It just goes to show you that any character in the right hands can be a transformative and mature experience."

Nintendo, despite some initial hesitation and doubts about the film considered it to be a true success and attributed higher sales of Mario games on the Nintendo Switch to the movie’s success and reception.

Accolades
Super Mario Bros. was both nominated for Best Animated feature for both the Golden Globe Awards and the Academy Awards but lost to Pixar’s Soul, additionally The film's other nominations include 5 Annie Awards (winning 2), 3 British Academy Film Awards (winning 1), a Critics' Choice Movie Award (which it lost to Soul), and 2 Golden Globe Awards (winning 1). It was named one of the ten best films of 2020 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. It is also noted to be the first film based on a Video Game series to win any of these rewards.

Sequel
Main Article: Super Mario Bros 2: The Lost Levels

In August 2020, the directors acknowledged that the origin story set and completed in the film could create the potential for many different stories to be told from the Mario universe, By the end of November, both Dreamworks and Nintendo had decided to greenlit multiple sequels and a spin-off films due to the "incredible buzz" surrounding it, planning for a holiday 2022 release. It was established that Phil Lord & Chris Miller however would not return for the sequel and would only give advice if needed, instead the film would be directed and instead, Alex Hirch who headlined the screenplay of the first film would direct the 2nd Film along with creating the story of the film with Matthew Fogel and Jeff Rowe creating the Screenplay. The film would continue the Mario Bros story as Kingdom-renowned heroes along with exploring an new and unfamiliar world with fan favourite characters and forgotten characters being in the film.

The film was officially revealed in Winter 2020 for a tentative Fall 2023 release window, the film was named Super Mario Bros 2 The Lost Levels and would feature all cast members from the previous film returning along with newcomers such as Jack Black as Wart, Taika Waititi as Tatanga and Stephanie Beatriz as Daisy, it was said that the film would be a “Crazy, Off the wall Transformative experience” from people who worked on it.

The film is set 3 years after the events of the first film and follows Mario & Luigi who are now living their best lives after previously working for their abusive relatives in New Donk City, now they are their own bosses running a successful General Engineering Company in The Mushroom Kingdom. Mario is also starting a relationship with the ruler of the land, Princess Peach to the dismay of Toadsworth and her pet dog Haru, Luigi on the other hand is raising a pet Yoshi as his own son and is trying to get with Peach's best friend, Princess Daisy (who rules Sarasaland). However, the Bros life is frequently hindered by the ruler of the Darklands, Bowser, alongside his son, Bowser Jr, his commando team the Elite Trio and his new advisor Kammy Koopa who try to capture the Princess, rule the world and to have vengeance with Mario after he brought the Koopa Kingdom down, since then they've had many alterations but after Bowser losses to Mario while the Bros are on vacation, he sets his biggest plan in motion to take Peach's Castle into space but is abruptly halted when a race of people from a banished dimension called Subcon lead by an Evil Frog named Wart, have devised a plan to merge the dimensions to reign supreme after the "red demon" stopped his first plan, while this is going on Sarasaland is under attack by Tatanga, Wart's second in command and best friend who goes to marry Princess Daisy (who is having her birthday party), The 2 Bros are quickly separated and must work with a few unlikely allies to stop an new inter dimensional scheme before it's too late.

The film was scheduled for a holiday 2023 release but was delayed to April 5th 2024 since the film was supposedly “unfinished”, despite this, the film received critical acclaim for it’s writing, performances and animation with particular praise on how it tackled themes such as death, family trauma, honour and change leading to many considering it to be better than it’s predecessor, Additionally the film earned $1.2 Billion in the Box Office, making it one the highest grossing films of all time and the highest grossing video game movie.

Third Film
In February 2023, a third and final film was confirmed to be in development and was to be based on the Super Mario Galaxy games, it is scheduled to be released in the summer of 2028.

Spin-offs
A multitude of Spin-offs were green-lit based on the 3 characters from the first film, these were Spin-offs were Donkey Kong Country, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker & Wario’s World, along with this a Halloween special, Luigi’s Mansion airing in October 2021. Only Donkey Kong Country got a theatrical release while the other 2 films were released on Netflix despite being planned for theatrical releases.