Super Mario Bros. (2022 film)

Super Mario Bros. is the first post-UAS Illumination movie and was released in December 25, 2022. This movie is a CGI remake of Super Mario Bros. (1993). Its story follows the Mario brothers in their quest to rescue Princess Peach from a dystopic parallel universe ruled by the ruthless Foreman Spike.

Plot
About 65 million years ago, a meteorite crashes into the Earth, killing the dinosaurs and splitting the universe into two parallel dimensions. The surviving dinosaurs cross into a new dimension and evolve into a humanoid race.

Twenty years ago, a mysterious woman leaves a large egg, along with a rock, at a Catholic orphanage. As she attempts to leave, she is accosted by Foreman Spike, who demands the location of the rock. Rocks then fall onto the woman, killing her. The egg hatches, containing an infant girl.

In the present, two Italian-American plumber brothers Mario and Luigi live in Brooklyn, New York. They are on the verge of being driven out of business by the mafia-operated Scapelli Construction Company led by Anthony Scapelli. Luigi falls for NYU student Peach, who is digging under the Brooklyn Bridge for dinosaur bones. After a date, Peach takes Luigi back to the bridge only to witness two of Scapelli's men sabotaging it by leaving the water pipes open. Mario and Luigi manage to fix it but are knocked unconscious by the Koopalings, Bowser's henchmen and cousins, who kidnap Peach. Mario and Luigi awaken and pursue them through an interdimensional portal that leads them to Mushroom Kingdom.

Iggy and Morton realize they didn't bring Peach's rock, a meteorite fragment which Foreman Spike is trying to get in order to merge his world with the human world. It is then revealed that Peach is the long-lost princess of the other dimension. When Foreman Spike overthrew Peach's father as king and devolved him into fungus, her mother Daisy took her to Brooklyn. The portal was then sealed, but Scapelli's men inadvertently reopened the portal when they blasted the cave. Foreman Spike sends Ludwig and Roy to find Peach and the rock to merge the dimensions and make him dictator of both worlds. However, after Spike subjects them to one of his experiments to make them more intelligent, the Koopalings realize Spike's evil intentions and side with the Mario Bros. Peach and Daisy is taken to Koopa-Tower, where she meets Yoshi. Spike informs Peach that she descended from the dinosaurs, believing only Peach can merge the worlds because of her royal heritage. Eventually, the Mario Bros. rescue Peach with the help of Toad, a good-natured guitarist who was devolved into a Goomba as punishment.

Eventually, the two worlds merge and Spike devolves Scapelli into a chimpanzee before going after Mario, but Luigi, Peach and Daisy manage to remove the fragment from the meteorite and the worlds separate again. In Mushroom Kingdom, Mario confronts Spike and eventually defeats him when he and Luigi fire their devolution guns at Spike and blast him with a Bob-omb. Spike, now transformed into a ferocious, semi-humanoid Tyrannosaurus, attempts to kill the Mario Bros., but they destroy him once and for all by devolving him into an actual Tyrannosaurus rex, then primeval slime. Peach's father is restored as king after Spike's defeat. The citizens celebrate and immediately destroy anything with Spike's likeness. Luigi professes his love for Peach and wants her to come to Brooklyn with him, but Peach, having found both her home and father, decides to stay in Mushroom Kingdom. Crestfallen, Luigi kisses Peach goodbye as he and Mario return home to Brooklyn, with Peach watching them leave. Three weeks later, the Mario Bros. are getting ready for dinner when their story comes on the news and the anchorman says they should be called the "Super Mario Bros." Peach then arrives and asks the Mario Bros to help her on a new mission.

In a post-credits scene, two Japanese business executives propose making a video game based on Mario and Luigi, now on Earth, who decide on the title Super Mario Bros.

Trivia

 * This is the first Illumination movie to be released after the merge with Illumination and Universal Animation Studios.
 * Universal Animation Studios custom logo: Mario is trying to show Stuart his moves within Ground blocks and Goombas and Stuart enjoys it.
 * In the trailer, Bob hits a question block made from a box, hanging from a wall, but hurts his head after.


 * This is the 2nd movie to use the opening theme on the Illumination/Universal Animation Studios logo. The first is Despicable Me 3.
 * Originally, Sony was doing that movie, but Sony gave up doing this movie and gave it to Universal.
 * Also, this film was going to use the 2017 Illumination logo, but due to the merge, the Universal Animation Studios logo is used instead.

Differences between the 1993 and 2022 films

 * The opening "pixelated" Dinosaur scene is re-pixeled to the Super Mario Bros 1985 color pallete.
 * The movie's villian (Koopa) is replaced by Foreman Spike.
 * The princess is now Peach and only Daisy appears alongside her.
 * This movie is less violent and dark, as this movie is rated "G" rather than "PG-13".

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