Mario + Luigi

Mario + Luigi is a 2023 American 3D animated buddy comedy film produced by Illumination, based off of the Japanese video game mascot Super Mario owned by Nintendo. It was released on December 23rd, 2022. 

Summary
Mario and Luigi are two brothers that used to live in Brooklyn. However, after trying to fix a strange looking pipe, they were sucked into the world of the Mushroom Kingdom.

Years later, they have gotten used to living in the Mushroom Kingdom, defending it from crazy villains. During that time, Bowser has figured out that he is a father of 8 children. So he plans on kidnapping Peach to take care of his children.

Cast

 * Charles Martinet as Mario & Luigi: Two Italian brothers who are taken into the Mushroom Kingdom after trying to fix a very strange pipe.
 * Zoe Saldana as Princess Peach Toadstool: The princess of the Mushroom Kingdom who is the damsel in distress who hates being kidnapped. However, she can prove to
 * Adam Sandler as King Bowser: The angry tyrant that wants the girl in pink to be his beloved wife, so he can have a mother for his children.
 * Jacob Tremblay as Bowser Jr.: The middle son of the Koopa family.
 * Kazumi Totaka as Yoshi: A specie that are a mixture between lizards, frogs and dinosaurs. They are great friends of Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach and are usually brought to whatever festival goes on in the town outside of Mushroom Castle.
 * Brenda Song as Princess Daisy: The princess of the Plant Kingdom, otherwise known as Sarrasaland. Daisy is known as being the tough princess around the planet doing everything she can to protect herself.

Trivia

 * This is the second Illumination Entertainment film to have fantasy sequences animated by a different studio, this first film being Minions.
 * The film was originally planned to have the CGI look more like Illumination's other films, however Shigeru Myiamoto requested that the animation should look more faithful to the Mario franchise.

Soundtrack
American composer Thomas Newman was in charge of the musical direction, Koji Kondo, who had scored for many games in the Super Mario franchise, acted as a mentor during the score, telling Newman, to do what he did in Finding Nemo and play with the audience's emotions. Reminding him that Mario is a character, who looks cute, but is cool instead of cute, and that the soundtrack should remind the audience that he's not cute.