Super Mario Bros.: Sad Man's Special (2025 Film)

Super Mario Bros.: Sad Man's Special is a 2025 upcoming computer animated retro adventure comedy film, and a parody of 1960 children's book Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham based on the 1985's Super Mario Bros. video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System directed by Aaron James Horvath with a screenplay by Joel Crawford, produced by Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Nintendo and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Plot
In Brooklyn, a younger brother named Mario, better known as Mario 1985, breaks into a volcano and liberates a Dragon, a rare and endangered animal. Meanwhile, an older brother named Luigi, better known as Luigi 1985, an inventor, presents his invention, a self-flyer, to Wizard Co. so that he can win a ticket to Newark. His invention explodes while his fellow inventors all get to go. Pauline, a literal bean counter for the company, worries over her daughter Princess Peach, who wants a pet. She learns of the Dragon's escape and plans to catch it. Kevin, James and Mollie, three mysterious kids, interrogate the guard, who claims that he saw a kite, a snorkel, and a Pole vault pole, while Kamek, the head businessman in Newark, wants the Dragon for his rare animal collection and is assisted by Bowser Jr. Luigi, who gives up inventing, stops by a restaurant and encounters Mario, who orders a bowl Oatmeal in Soup aka One Sad Man's Special. Despite voicing his distaste for the dish, Mario orders them for everyone in the restaurant. Luigi ends up leaving, but accidentally takes Mario's identical backpack. After Pauline sees the news of the Dragon's escape, she prevents Peach as they are headed to Newark as well. Luigi heads to the motel for the night. After Mario leaves the restaurant, he sees the cops who are trying to locate the Dragon, causing him to reveal himself as the mastermind of the theft. Luigi attempts to burn Mario's backpack in a severe state of depression, but he takes it out due to faint noises from the backpack. He opens it and the Dragon comes out.

The playful Dragon proceeds to destroy the motel room and Luigi tries to sequester the creature. Mario returns to his home, a run down isolated RV, and discovers that he has the wrong suitcase. After James, and Mollie get a supposed earful from Kamek, she learns that Kevin plans to retire from the K.I.D.S.N.E.X.T.D.O.O.R. business, so they manage to trace it to Mario's home just as Luigi figures out where he lives. Luigi is confronted by the two, but is rescued by Mario, who steals their pipe and flees, causing Kevin to turn his skin from white to red. Mario reveals that he is an animal liberator and that just like Luigi is headed to Newark. Not wanting to put up with him, Luigi gets out in the middle of the desert. Meanwhile, in another pipe, Pauline tells Peach that Newark will be fun. Luigi flags down Pauline's pipe. She turns down picking him up, despite Peach's protests and Luigi ends up hallucinating from the heat. He can even hear the narrator's voice and gone insane of oatmeal and cans and ham. He is rescued by Mario, who once again offers him sad man's special, but Luigi tells him that he will not have them in the pipe or with Piranha Plants. Luigi sleeps, but awakens to see Mario and the Dragon flying beside the pipe, which is heading towards a cliff.

Mario rescues Luigi from the car as it lands in a lake and flattens the house of One Cheep Cheep, Two Cheep Cheep, Red Cheep Cheep, Blue Cheep Cheep, and Bloopers. He reveals that he had to get rid of it so that it cannot be traced. They buy a couple of tickets for a Bullet Bill, forcing Luigi to stay with Mario for a while longer. Pauline and Peach. also take the Bullet Bill flight as they head to Newark. As the car is Cheep Cheeped out of the water, Kevin, James and Mollie find evidence of the Dragon being there and deduce that it is on a Bullet Bill. Mario and Luigi run into Pauline and Peach, where Mario orders them oatmeal and cans and ham. Dragon reveals that he wants the Dragon to impress his cronies. Later at night, Mario sneaks out with the Dragon and runs into Peach. and they sit on top of the Bullet Bill, while the Dragon stays inside. Meanwhile, Luigi heads to the Quiet Car and runs into Pauline, while watching the paint dry. The Bullet Bill is heading towards a loop with Peach.'s friendship bracelet sticking on top of it, only to find another loop, causing her and Mario to fall off, but are rescued by the Dragon, which Peach. learns of the creature's existence. After Luigi and Pauline bond in the Quiet Car, they leave. Peach decides to name the Dragon, Mr. Garris. In the morning, Luigi gets mad at Mario and angrily tells him that he wants nothing to do with him anymore after Peach finds out about the Dragon. As he gets off the Bullet Bill, he is confronted by Kevin, James and Mollie.

Luigi gets back on the bullet bill with Kevin, James and Mollie in hot pursuit. He makes it back to Mario and Mr. Garris, where Peach inadvertently reveals its existence to Pauline, who gets upset at Luigi for being lied to. Before Luigi try to get to Pauline to talk to her, Kevin, James and Mollie show up. Mario, Luigi and Mr. Garris are forced to jump off of the bullet bill to escape them and end up in a quarry. Peach runs off to see if Mr. Garris managed to escape Kevin, James and Mollie, causing Pauline to take her to the Think About What You've Done Room. As Kevin, James and Mollie try to have the bullet bill turned around, they get kicked off for not having any tickets. Kamek invites his cronies to a met gala for the eventual Dragon. Mario and Luigi learn that Mr. Garris likes to eat hammers and spot a snowy area in the distance. The house has no hammers, but an unnamed hammer bro, who guards the oatmeal, uses a hammer. Back on the bullet bill, Pauline is shock that Peach was riding on top of the bullet bill. Pauline is trying to impress Sandra, one of the green hens, and vent his love for oatmeal and as he meditates, Mario and Luigi break into his porthole to steal his hammer. They are successful, but open a closet full of oatmeal and cans.

The Hammer Bros break down and reveals his hopeless love of oatmeal and his contradictory love for his girlfriend and Mario and Luigi leave with the ties, promising not to say anything, though Pauline mishears and tries to attack them. As the sun sets, Mario, Luigi and Mr. Garris spot a motel sign, but learn that it is actually in the Underground full of Buzzy Beetles and they get stuck. Meanwhile, Pauline and Peach leave the bullet bill and drive to a B&B. Peach becomes bored, especially when Pauline fails to grasp Peach's imaginative side. Mario and Luigi find an exit, but it turns out to be a large tube of toxic sludge and they get trapped on a pile of trash. While Peach goes to watch the grass grow, Pauline decides to draw a picture of the Dragon to make her feel better. Luigi reveals that all of his previous inventions have exploded and he has lost hope. The narrator reveals that Mr. Garris was separated from his mother when he was a little Dragon. With Mario's encouragement, Luigi manages to build a contraption. Peach discovers that Pauline drew a perfect picture of the Dragon as a way to make up for losing it. After building a contraption, Mario, Luigi and Mr. Garris escape. They arrive at a restaurant in McDonald's, but a woman's pet flea scares Mr. Garris and he breaks free from the suitcase and begins running amok in the restaurant.

Mario and Luigi flee with Mr. Garris and they switch hats. Kevin, James and Mollie learn that Mario and Luigi are in McDonald's. Kamek gets upset that the Dragon is in McDonald's. Meanwhile, Pauline takes Peach to see the world's smallest thermometer. When Peach yelled her displeasure about how boring and selfish she can be, Pauline is filled with the gumption to take her to the carnival to prove her wrong. With no money, Mario and Luigi resort to working at the carnival as Jimmy and Jerry. Kevin, James and Mollie arrive at the destroyed diner, where they learn that Mario ordered Sad Man's Special. Pauline and Peach look around in the carnival. While Mr. Garris hides as a prize, Mario works at the Wheel of Insanity ride and Luigi works at the Relaxation Station dunk tank. Kevin, James and Mollie head to the carnival to find Mr. Garris. Pauline and Peach get on the Wheel of Insanity, just as Luigi switches jobs with Mario and finds himself sending the two on a wild ride. Kevin, James and Mollie took Mr. Garris. Luigi speaks with Pauline, who once again gets upset at him for supposedly lying to him. Kevin, James, and Mollie try to make off with Mr. Garris, but Mario and Luigi rescue him. Peach gives the two a bruckle and they ship themselves to Shvizelton with Kevin, James and Mollie in hot pursuit. As Mario and Luigi switch hats back, Mario suddenly gets kidnapped by the Scoutmaster with Luigi wondering what will he do.

Mario manages to get off the bus, but sees Luigi and Mr. Garris leaving by the other bus and he solemnly allows himself to be stay put. Kevin, James and Mollie arrive in Shvizelton. Luigi is hit with guilt over leaving Mario and he decides to go get him at camp. After interrogating, Kevin, James and Mollie learn that Mario was incarcerated while Kamek thinks that the Dragon is being delivered. Mario meets his cell mate, the Goombas and Koopatroopas as scouts, who to themselves speak with a proper Italian accent, but to others communicates in unintelligible squeaking. They were arrested for stealing a small piece of cheese for themselves and his friends. Luigi arrives and allows himself to be arrested. As Kevin, James and Mollie arrive just in time, The Goombas and Koopatroopas Team reveal that they have dug a tunnel to escape. He, Mario and Luigi grab their things and flee through the sewer systems. The group manages to come out far from the prison as it begins to snow. The Goombas and Koopatroopas Team leave to reunite with his friends. Kevin gets upset after Mario and Luigi escaped. Mario, Luigi and Mr. Garris trek before encountering a cabin. However, Pauline is inside and will not let them in because they are fugitives.

Mario, Luigi and Mr. Garris are forced to sit out on the cloud (including Lakitus and Spinies), where Mario realizes that Luigi has a crush on Pauline. While Kevin, James and Mollie continue their search, Kamek sees the news of Mario and Luigi taking the Dragon and orders Bowser Jr. to look for Bowser. Peach begs Pauline to let Mario, Luigi and Mr. Garris stay inside for the night and she finally caves. Mario has Luigi hang out with Peach to dry up Mr. Garris, while he stays with Pauline to cook a vegan tofu version of sad man's special. Luigi and Peach have trouble using a giant bellows to dry Mr. Garris, so Peach uses Pauline's jar of beans and accidentally launches it out of the roof and into the woods. They jump after it, while Mario distracts Pauline. Meanwhile, Bowser Jr. heads to the bar, where Bowser attacks the people. Peach learns that Luigi likes Pauline and they find Pauline's bean jar with Giroosters (giraffe rooster hybrids), the deadliest judgivores, and get chased by them. Pauline panics when Mario accidentally reveals that he and Luigi were in jail. Luigi orders the Giroosters to give him the jar back. He and Peach return in time to divert suspicion. Meanwhile, Yes-Man calls Kamek and tells him that Bowser is taking the job of hunting the Dragon.

Bowser spots the Dragon's tooth. Mario, Luigi, Pauline, Peach, and Mr. Garris get ready to leave to Newark together. Kamek gets interviewed for a magazine and the interviewer tells him to talk about his love of animals. When Luigi spots Bowser out in the front, Mario explains that he is dangerous and convinces him to let Pauline and Peach leave ahead without them to protect them. Bowser proceeds to attack the cabin as Luigi and Mario distract him and escape with Mr. Garris with Bowser in hot pursuit. Kamek reveals that when he was little, he had a pet Flemur (flamingo lemur hybrids), but when he saw that it was gone and the door was left open, he blames his mother for losing it. Kevin, James, and Mollie are saddened over not finding any leads. Mario, Luigi and Mr. Garris end up climbing a snowy mountain, where Bowser kidnaps Mr. Garris. The interviewer learns that Kamek hadn't called his mother for six years. Meanwhile, Pauline tells Peach that they will never Mario and Luigi again. Seeing Mario and Luigi in danger gives Mr. Garris to snap out of his goofy, playful unaware state and fought back and toss Bowser away up the mountain; allowing them to escape. The interviewer meets with Kamek's mother and learns that Kamek loved his Flemur too much and it wanted to leave which the mother complied. Kamek asks Bowser Jr. if the cuffs are ready for the Dragon. Mario and Luigi use Bowser's credit card to buy bus tickets to Stovepipe Junction, which concerns Luigi. Kevin suddenly realizes Mario's love for sad man's special.

After realizing Mario's love for sad man's special, Kevin, James, and Mollie manage to continue the search. Mario, Luigi and Mr. Garris arrive at Stovepipe Junction. Kevin tells James, and Mollie that they would zero in on Mario. Mario and Luigi try to book a hotel, where everyone seems to recognize Luigi as Bowser survived the avalanche and continues to hunt for the Dragon. It is revealed that Stovepipe Junction is Luigi's birthplace and he was considered most likely to succeed in high school. Kevin, James, and Mollie go to every restaurant, where every waitstaff tells them that Mario ordered sad man's special. Luigi wants to avoid seeing his friends as they consider him a failure and he and Mario try to enter the arcade basement. They get caught, but contrary to Luigi's claim, his friends is fully supportive of his creative endeavors. He announces to them all that he is no longer inventing and that he is going to become a paint watcher and leaves to his arcade basement angrily. Mario goes to talk to Luigi, who admits that he feels insecure around his friends due to their successful achievements. Mario then reveals that he himself never had a friends and lived most of his life in an orphanage (throughout the show he mentions his bizarre past with the Toads, but that was all lies). The reason why he loves sad man's special is because he still remembers how his mother cooks them and he hoped to this day that once he find the right flavor from various diners he visited, he would find her as well. Luigi feels better and apologizes. When Mario enters the arcade, he calls Kamek, revealing that he is actually the one employed by Kamek to take the Dragon to him from the very start.

A guilt ridden Mario tries to stall Luigi, who has bought tickets for the ferry to Newark. Just as Luigi is about to try sad man's special, Kevin, James, and Mollie arrive at the Am-I household, but Mario and Luigi manage to escape from the castle. It is at this point that Kevin, James, and Mollie reveal that K.I.D.S.N.E.X.T.D.O.O.R is actually an acronym for Kids in Dragon's Safety Needs Every Xtreme Teem Democratic of Our Reputation, that they had been trying to put the Dragon in a volcano, and that they are enemies with Bowser. Mario, Luigi and Mr. Garris get on the ferry and run into Pauline and Peach again. While Peach is happy to see them, Pauline still is upset with Luigi, even though he apologizes for splitting from them. After Kevin, James, and Mollie get an earful from their king, Kai Quartz, the 1980s's comply with them. As the castle transforms into an airship and flies, Luigi and Pauline finally grow closer. Mario gets over his guilt after speaking with Peach and decides to save Mr. Garris for real. They arrive in Newark and Pauline gives Luigi her phone number. Bowser appears and scares Mario and Luigi back in the Castle. He causes it to capsize and even though they all escape, Bowser grabs the backpack and makes off with Mr. Garris.

Kevin, James, and Mollie catch up with Bowser and manage to capture him. Mario and Luigi arrive to get Mr. Garris back, but Luigi gets caught. He learns about Kevin, James, and Mollie's true purpose and is taken in to be questioned. Peach wants to go to a toy store with a roller coaster inside, but Pauline tells her that they're going somewhere better. Kevin tells Luigi about Mario and his many aliases and his intent to sell Mr. Garris. Pauline takes Peach to the Hall of Walls, an art gallery, and Peach learns that Pauline used to paint for a living, but gave it up once her husband died so that she can take care of her. Mario tries to break Luigi out of holding, but he is still angry at him for lying and is further angered at being offered sad man's special again. Luigi yells and lashes out at Mario, viciously declaring that he doesn't fit in anybody or his mother, but he quickly regrets it. Mario sadly leaves with Mr. Garris. A guilt-ridden and saddened Luigi tells Kevin, James, and Mollie that Kamek is buying the Dragon; letting him go. Kamek puts on his met gala as Pauline and Peach attend. Luigi stops by a diner, before he goes to his paint watching job. Peach spots Mario at the gala and wanders backstage to discover, to her horror, that Mario is selling Mr. Garris to Kamek.

Peach is heartbroken upon seeing Mario sell Mr. Garris to Kamek. Meanwhile, Luigi is watching paint dry on the wall. Peach tries to break Mr. Garris out and gets the attention of both Pauline and Luigi, who go to investigate the noises coming from behind a wall he was watching paint dry from. Pauline sees Kamek's pet collection, and when Luigi walks into the same room, she immediately accuses him of animal abuse, causing them to argue. Kamek tells his cronies to come with him and see the Dragon. Peach realizes that the Dragon is a painted Girooster, relieving Luigi and Pauline. As Kevin, James, and Mollie show up, Peach tells Pauline to spill the beans. They all escape just as Kamek realizes he has been "bamboozled." They find Mario at a cold air balloon port with plans to send Mr. Garris home to Dragon Island. Mario is still upset at Luigi for what he said earlier, and Luigi makes it up to him by finally eating sad man's special, much to his surprised enjoyment. Kevin, James, Mollie, and Kamek arrive and chase the group up the port tower. Luigi, Mario, Pauline, Peach, and Mr. Garris make it to Platform 71, and Kamek gets entrapped. Kevin lets them go upon learning of Mario's mission, finally retires from K.I.D.S N.E.X.T D.O.O.R, and gives James, and Mollie his hat, making them agents. The balloon gets hijacked by Bowser, and Luigi uses his failed invention to save Mr. Garris and finally defeat Bowser, as well as receiving a kiss from Pauline. After that, Mr. Garris returns to Dragon World, Kamek and Bowser are both arrested, and everyone returns to the volcano. One week later, Mario and Luigi are having sad man's special when Mario recognizes the taste as his mother's. He learns that the oatmeal and can of soup come from America and is about to embark on another adventure.

Starring

 * Tom Guiry as Mario
 * Debi Derryberry as Princess Peach Toadstool
 * Tony Sampson as Luigi
 * Eddie Deezen as Bowser
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Toads, and the Dragon
 * Tom Kenny as Donkey Kong
 * Jason Ritter as Cranky Kong
 * Chauncey Leopardi as Foreman Spike
 * Tim Allen as Penguin King
 * Chris Pratt as Giuseppe
 * Grey DeLisle as Kamek, and Pauline

Guest Starring

 * Christine Cavanaugh as Lumalee, and the kids
 * Marty York as Toad General, and the Police Officer
 * Patrick Renna as Diddy Kong
 * Cathy Cavadini as Dixie Kong
 * Chris Rock as Penguin Army