The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2017 film)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a 2017 American computer-animated road romantic action-adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Nintendo, and The K Entertainment Company. The 56th Disney animated feature film, loosely based on the video games series by Nintendo, it was directed by Chris Sanders, and Dean DeBlois, produced by Jordan Kerner, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Roy Conli, for a screenplay written by J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Jay Scherick, David Ronn. The ensemble voice cast includes Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Keegan-Michael Key, and Jack Black.

Plot
Italian-American brothers Mario and Luigi have recently started a plumbing business in Brooklyn, to the disdain of their ex-employer Spike and their father’s disapproval, unaware the pair are to relocate to San Francisco.

In the Mushroom Kingdom, ruled by Princess Peach, and in the Dark Lands, ruled by the evil Koopa king Bowser. Bowser seeks to marry Peach and will destroy the Mushroom Kingdom using a Super Star if she refuses. Peach got the vision to plan to ally with someone to help repel Bowser. But, Peach and Toad are sucked into a Warp Pipe and separated.

Peach land in Brooklyn, while Toad landed in nowhere. She reluctantly plans to go to the Mushroom Kingdom, before Bowser will capture her. However, Mario discovers Peach in his shed. He tranquillizes him, causing Peach to accidentally drop his bag of rings through a portal to the Transamerica Pyramid's tower roof, upon reading the writing on Mario's shirt, before passing out. Mario hesitantly agrees to help Peach. The two slowly bond, with Mario relating to Peach's desire for friends. His attempt to save Peach in a public restroom is thwarted by Koopa, who arrives to force Mario. Mario and Peach found Toad in a bar and he created a bucket list Mario helped her complete several entries along their journey. She also tells Mario that she ended up in the Mushroom Kingdom as a baby, where the Toads took her in and eventually made her their leader.

Meanwhile, Bowser, discovers that Mario and Peach are going to San Francisco. As he tracks them down, Mario, Peach and Toad manage to fight off several armies sent by Bowser, but Mario is injured in the battle.

Arriving in San Francisco, Peach brings Mario to Luigi, who treats him at his brother Nigel's home. Peach receives a new pair of pink high heels to replace his ruined ones after the car chase. The group heads to the roof of the tower and recovers the rings as Bowser arrives Bowser arrives aboard his flying castle and proposes to Peach, who reluctantly accepts after Bowser's advisor Kamek tortures Toad and throw Mario and Luigi away. The two escape, sucked into a Warp Pipe and hurry to the Mushroom Kingdom.

At the wedding reception, Bowser intends to execute all of his prisoners in lava. Toad smuggles an Ice Flower into Peach's bouquet, which she uses to freeze Bowser. Mario uses a Tanooki Suit to free the prisoners. At the same time, one of the Koopas tries to kill Bowser and Kamek instead, causing him to drop him through a trapdoor. An enraged Bowser frees himself and summons a nuclear Bomber Bill to destroy the Mushroom Kingdom with his warp rings. Still, Mario knocks it off course and disparate Warp Rings and directs it into the Warp Pipe where it detonates, creating a vacuum that causes everyone and Bowser's hovercraft to be transported to Brooklyn.

As they fight Bowser, Mario and Luigi grab the Super Star, become invincible, and defeat Bowser and Koopas by banishing him into a warp ring portal to the mushroom planet.

Following the incident, Mario and Luigi decide to stay in the Mushroom Kingdom and let Peach, Toad and others live with them. Mario and Luigi are hailed as heroes by Brooklyn's populace, including their parents and Spike. Afterwards, the brothers move to a house in the Mushroom Kingdom and begin a day of plumbing work together. Three months later, Bowser is still in possession of Mario and Peach's power and usable equipment salvaged from the remains of his castle, planning his return and revenge against Mario, Peach, and Luigi.

Voice Cast

 * Chris Pratt as Mario, a struggling Italian-American plumber from Brooklyn, New York.
 * Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, and Mario's love interest, who entered the world of the Mushroom Kingdom as an infant and was raised by the Toads.
 * Charlie Day as Luigi, Mario's timid younger brother and fellow plumber.
 * Jack Black as Bowser, the King of the Koopas, who rules the Dark Lands, steals a powerful Super Star, and plots to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom by marrying Peach.
 * Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, a Mushroom Kingdom resident whose species is also named Toad, who aspires to go on his first real adventure.
 * Michael Peña as Wayne Whipple
 * Jemaine Clement as Nigel, Luigi's best friend.
 * Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike, Mario and Luigi's antagonistic former boss from a company called Wrecking Crew.
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek, a Koopa sorcerer and Bowser's advisor and informant.

Additionally, Charles Martinet, who voices Mario and Luigi in the Mario games, voices the brothers' father and Giuseppe, a Brooklyn citizen who resembles Mario's original appearance in Donkey Kong and speaks in his in-game voice. Jessica DiCicco voices the brothers' mother, the plumbing commercial woman, a yellow Toad, and Luigi's bully. Rino Romano and John DiMaggio voice the brothers' uncles, Tony and Arthur, respectively. Paul Briggs voices the Penguin King, the ruler of the Ice Kingdom descended upon by Bowser's army, while Eric Bauza voices the Toad General. Della Sabha, voices Lumalee, a nihilistic blue Luma held prisoner by Bowser and baby Peach, and Scott Menville voices the Koopa General, the winged, blue-shelled leader of Bowser's army, as well as a red Toad.

Development
The suggestion for a film based on Super Mario Bros. was first put forward by Jordan Kerner during a script meeting. Kerner met Shigeru Miyamoto, founder of Nintendo. Nintendo of America president and Hiroshi Yamauchi's son-in law, Minoru Arakawa. He presented Arakawa with an initial draft of the script. One month after their meeting, Kerner went to Nintendo's headquarters in Kyoto to meet Hiroshi Yamauchi. He pitched to Yamauchi the storyline which led to Nintendo receiving interest in the project. Kerner left with a $2 million contract giving the temporary control of the character of Mario over to Kerner. Nintendo retained merchandising rights for the film through a "creative partnership" with Walt Disney Animation Studios. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, the idea for a new Mario film came from 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.

Through Nintendo's work with Walt Disney World to create Mario-based attractions, later resulting in Super Mario Parks, Miyamoto met John Lasseter, founder of Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Pixar Animation Studios animation division. Miyamoto found Lasseter's creative process similar to his own and felt he would be the proper lead for a Mario film. They had started more earnest discussions by 2011, knowing that if they felt it would not work that they could easily walk away. In January 2013, Nintendo announced that the film would progress with Miyamoto, Roy Conli and Kerner co-producing.

Pedal Pump

 * Mario (1 time Gas Pedal: Plumbing)
 * Princess Peach (2 times Gas Pedal: Car Chase)