Super Mario (2022)

Three Little Starlights is a 2022 computer-animated comedy and action film written and directed by Natsuki Futago and Natsumi Futago based on the popular The Three of Us franchise. The movie follows The Sailor Starlights, on an adventure to meet up with Misaki, 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 are then met by a bunch of Sailor Starlights when they exit 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 Mario and Luigi 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 tells 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 punch, 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 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. Mario is brave, self-confident and energetic.
 * Grey DeLisle as Cure White: Cure Black's scaredy sister. She gets scared very easily but loves to make new friends, and take care of anything, 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 : The Koopa King, Bowser is a scary but lonely person. At the beginning of the movie he explains he only captured Peach because of respect, but becomes more mean-spirited as the movie progresses. He secretly loves singing.
 * Sanae Kobayashi as The Starlights: A little Goomba who wants the respect of Bowser and does very dangerous things for that such as capturing Mario and Luigi or try to use the Starman to become invincible.
 * Morgan Freeman as the Old Koopa: A wise Koopa Troopa with a beard that tells Mario and Luigi about the Legend of the Starman. He then appears at the end of the movie in the Mushroom Kingdom and gives Mario the Fire Flower.

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 voice of Mario, including Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis and Ed Helms. However, Lord and Miller decided Gad as the voice of Mario. The role of Luigi was offered to Adam Sandler, who was filming Grown Ups 3 at that time, but he declined it due to his busy schedule. Wilson was revealed to be the voice of Luigi in the first trailer. Illumination had worked with Jones some years ago in The Grinch, and she was revealed to be considered as the voice of Peach in a leaked list in 2021. Other names also included Amy Poehler, Taylor Swift and Anne Hathaway. Jones was cast as Peach in 2021, and was revealed alongside Hader and Wilson in the first trailer. Although Lord and Miller wanted Idris Elba as Bowser, Clement was cast as Bowser after Miller saw his performances in Rio and Moana.

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 Luigi's Mansion movie.