Super Mario (2022)

Cure Black and Cure White Save Starling and the Starlights is a 2022 computer-animated comedy and action film written and directed by Natsuki Futago and Natsumi Futago based on the popular Futari wa Pretty Cure franchise. The movie follows Natsuki and Natsumi, on an adventure to save Starling and the Starlights, Natsuki and Natsumi provide their voices for the film's main characters.

The film was produced by Warner Bros. and distributed by DreamWorks.

Plot
Natsuki and Natsumi are two twin sisters who work as many jobs by themselves. They live in Cardiff. One day, Natsuki and Natsumi go to town to meet the Starlights, but they find out The Starlights are missing. Meanwhile in Their Phones, In Ibis Paint X, All Three Starlights are talking to each other about their "big starry plan" to the Natsuki Twin Sisters, and Natsumi and Natsumi end up learning that they just wants respect from them both. Natsuki and Natsumi both agree and jump into their phones.

Natsuki and Natsumi are then met by a bunch of Mini Stars when they enter the kingdom, then being captured by a mysterious star-like creature. The creature reveals himself as Mini Star, a little Star of The Starlights who wants their respect. Natsuki and Natsumi easily agree with him and continue their journey to the Starlights, meeting against several foes that are shown in an 64-bit sequence. Meanwhile, Mini Star still plans to agree with them. Natsuki and Natsumi go to a secret Minimum village and Chibi people tell them the Legend of the Starman, that makes a person invincible and is currently in a "magical location". However, the People in this village greet Natsuki and Natsumi but they meet up, with Natsuki agreeing with most of them. After Natsuki tells the Chibi People that he defeated all the enemies, Natsumi gets into a discussion with Natsuki, saying that she is "tired of being Player 2" and they part ways.

Meanwhile in Starling's castle, After pulling out lots of things, including a racket, a green mushroom and a frying pan, Starling grabs a yellow parasol and escapes from the cell, defeating several Loop guards. She then goes to Starling's throne room.

After both arrive to the Starlight Kingdom, they agree to stop fighting and join again to defeat Darling and save Starling and the Starlights. They go through a lot of obstacles, including guards, lava bubbles and a very easy puzzle, and then they enter Starling's throne room. Natsuki quickly dashes against Starling, but easily gets touched on the stomach, while Starling is touching Natsuki's Stomach, afterwards, she rubbed Natsuki's Stomach. Then she even touched Natsuki's Belly Button. Natsuki and Natsumi then defeat the guards and tell them to go to the cannon and escape to the Starlight Kingdom while they fight Darling.

Natsuki and Natsumi then try to defeat Darling with some punches and kicks but Natsuki feels the touch of her stomach and her belly button, and touches her stomach and her belly button, with Darling saying that "They will always be my darlings "Natsuki's eyes then focus on the Starman, that was in a cage very close to Darling's throne. She grabs the Starman and quickly dashes against Darling and does a powerful power action, launching Darling upwards who then falls into the water.

The castle begins to break apart and Natsuki and Natsumi quickly goes into two cannons and launch them to Starlight Kingdom, then getting hugged by Starling and the Starlights when they find them. Starling then begins a celebration "to the heroes of the Starlights". The movie ends with a sequence of the day after that, with Natsuki and Natsumi walking to the city alongside Starling, while the Starlights watch them walk away.

Cast

 * Sarah Natochenny as Natsuki/Young Cure Black: A brave girl that works with her partner, Cure White. She begins the adventure to save Starling and the Starlights with Natsumi and helps her overcome her fears. Natsuki is brave, self-confident and energetic.
 * Grey DeLisle as Natsumi/Young Cure White: Cure Black's scaredy sister. She gets scared very easily but loves to make new friends, and take care of everything, such as nature, people, and animals.
 * Makiko Omoto as Starling: The monarch of the Starlight Kingdom. Through at the beginning she seems serious, she's very brave and intelligent.

Ikue Otani as Mini Star: Starling's helper who is perhaps less scaredy than Natsumi. He shouts most of the time but always tries to help Starling.


 * Laura Bailey as Darling: Darling is a scary but lonely person. At the beginning of the movie she explains she only captured Starling because of respect, but becomes more mean-spirited as the movie progresses. She secretly loves singing.
 * Sanae Kobayashi as The Starlights: Three little Girls who want the respect of Natsuki and Natsumi and do very reasonable things.
 * Minami Takayama as Chibis (A.K.A Chibi People): Small Wise People that tell Natsuki and Natsumi about the Legend of the Starman. They then appear at the end of the movie in the Starlight Kingdom and gives Natsuki the Fire Star Element.

Development
Rumors of an animated Super Mario film began in late 2014, with leaked e-mails suggesting that Sony would be producing the film. On November 14, 2017, Universal Pictures and Illumination announced that they would release a computer-animated Mario film. On 2018, Meledandri stated that the movie would be a "priority" for the studio, with a tentative 2022 release date. On 2020, Nintendo stated that the film was "moving along smoothly" for 2022. Animating started in later 2020, and Universal Pictures stated that besides some "little problems" from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the movie was "going well". The movie finished its animating in August 2021 and the first trailer was released on October, with a release date for September 2022, close to the Super Mario Bros. anniversary.

Casting
Several actors were considered for the voices of The Main Characters, including Natsuki, and Natsumi.

Post-production
The film's total cost was $130 million, including advertising, production and prints.

Franchise
After the commercial and critical success of the movie, Lord and Miller announced that the movie would become a franchise, with a sequel (tentatively named Super Mario Bros) on the works, and a television series starring Jones as Princess Peach airing in Cartoon Network with a tentative 2023 release. In an interview, Chris Columbus showed his interest in directing a movie.