Super Mario Bros. (Film)

"This ain’t No Game"

- Tagline

Super Mario Bros. is a 2020 American Computer Animated Action-Adventure Fantasy Comedy film based on the Super Mario Bros Series which is published by Nintendo and is produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. The Film is directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller from a story by Lord & Miller with Alex Hirsch and The Hageman Brothers Cowriting. The Film stars Chris Pratt as the titular role of Mario while John Mulaney plays Luigi. The film also stars Charles Martinet, Gina Rodriguez, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Day, Sarah Silverman, Josh Gad, John Cena, Gabriel Iglesias, JK Simmons as Main Roles with many more supporting cast members. The film features an Origin Story as it follows 2 Brothers, Mario & Luigi, who are Plumbers in New Donk City as they are sent to the Mushroom Kingdom where they have an Adventure of a lifetime in which they are entangled in a battle between the Mushroom Kingdom, led by Princess Peach, and the Koopas, led by Bowser.

Development for a new Mario film began in the early 2010s after the success of Nintendo’s legacy content and the success of Wreck-It Ralph, but did not leave the planning stage due to failed negotiations with Sony until 2016 where DreamWorks managed to pick up the rights for the film with Phil Lord & Chris Miller directing the film. Both wanted it to be both a film that was both enjoyable to newcomers and old-time fans, also wanting this film to set the golden standard for Video Game Movies.

The film released on March 10th 2020 in 2D and Real 3D formats in Cinemas and for Mar10 Day and also temporally released on September 13th on Netflix for Mario’s 35th-anniversary. The film received generally favourable reviews from Critics while receiving universal acclaim from fans and audiences alike, with praise given to it’s faithfulness to the source material, Performances, Animation and Soundtrack. The film however, initially underperformed in the Box Office from Universal’s and Nintendo's expectations due to COVID-19 which lead to mass closures for cinemas, only grossing $380 Million with a budget of $95 Million despite gaining back it’s budget. However it gained a huge Cult following due to it being released on direct to streaming services such as Netflix and Peacock, gaining around triple it’s budget.

The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, being the first Video Game Movie be nominated for an Academy and Golden Globe Award, but lost both awards to Pixar’s Soul.

The Success of Super Mario Bros launched a multimedia franchise, two sequels (Super Mario Bros 2: The Lost Levels & Super Mario Bros 3: Galactic Chaos) and a multitude of Spin-offs (Donkey Kong Country, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker & Wario’s World)

Synopsis
"For the first time, the iconic global entertainment brands Universal and Nintendo join forces to create Super Mario Bros. a new, big-screen adventure starring one of pop culture’s most prominent plumbers of the past 35 Years. Based on the world of Nintendo’s Mario games, the film invites audiences into a vibrant, thrilling new universe. When Two Brothers, The Courageous, Head-strong and Heroic, Mario Mario (Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy) and the Timid, Anxious and Childish Luigi Mario (John Mulaney) go on a Plumbing Job in New Donk City, they are accidently sent to the prestigious & magical Mushroom Kingdom ruled by the Kind-hearted Ruler named Princess Peach (Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin). The Kingdom is then attacked by the childish but ruthless ruler of the Darklands named Bowser (Will Arnett, BoJack Horseman) with his son Bowser Jr (Michael Cera, Scott Pilgrim Vs the World) and his advisor Kamek (Willem Dafoe, Spider-Man (2002)) along with his army declare war. Mario (Who wants to Prove himself as a true Hero) & Luigi (Following Mario to keep him safe) must rise up and become the unlikely heroes that the world desperately needs, With the Guidance of Mushroom residences Toad and Toadette (Charlie Day, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia),(Sarah Silverman, Wreck It Ralph) and training with the leader of the Yoshi Clan (Josh Gad, Frozen), The Two Brothers live up to their true untapped potential and band together a resistance of unlikely allies to stop Bowser’s Plans of World Domination and Marrying the Princess. The film is directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie & Spider-Man: Into Spider-verse) with a story by The Hageman Brothers (The Lego Movie) & Alex Hirsch (Gravity Falls) along with Chris Meledandri (Despicable Me) and Shigeru Miyamoto (Creator of The Super Mario Bros Series.) producing the film after 5 years of a close bond and discussions between the two, Super Mario Bros promises to be a faithful and unforgettable experience"

- Universal Pictures

Plot
The Movie begins with a narration (done by Charles Martinet) about who and what the Super Mario Bros are, the narration states:

'”Do you know who the Super Mario Bros are? Of course you do! They’re are the most popular video game icon in the planet, starring in many Games, TV Shows, Comics, Merchandise and uh, a less than stellar movie I will say. The Super Mario Bros have struck the heart of many with their fun gameplay and with his wacky array of characters, But I will ask you this question, do you know where the Mario Bros came from, their Origins, how they became Super? Well, I know, so strap in folks as today I'll tell you the Story of the Super Mario Bros.”'

Yoshi’s Island
After the narration the title Super Mario Bros appears and it cuts to 65 million years ago, a meteorite crashes into the Earth, but instead of killing the dinosaurs it creates a whole new Island, The Mushroom Kingdom. The dinosaurs cross into this new Island, mysteriously evolving into 2 races depending if they’re a carnivore or herbivore, Koopas (Carnivore) & Yoshi’s (Herbivore), However, this Island was inhabited by alien race of anthropomorphic Fungus named Toads, who excelled the Dinosaurs to the Darklands after they wanted to rule the Kingdom, which lead to the Yoshi’s finding a new home in the Earth.

A few years later, a young Baby Bowser, the King of the Koopas, sets his sights on the Power Star to impress Princess Peach, he sends his army to attack the Island in search of the Power star, the Yoshi chief, aware of this decides to lead a counter attack onto Bowser's Army when they arrive to the Island leading to a brief battle, unfortunately, Bowser fights the Chief when arriving there and finds the Power star, but is warned by the dying Chief that he is not worthy and Bowser will be thwarted by a hero who would lead an army to stop Bowser, Bowser angry by this prospect kills the Chief in cold blood in front of his baby son and leaves the Island in disarray, asking who's foolish enough to stop him cutting to the stork delivery of the two twins, Mario Mario and Luigi Mario. During Mario’s journey he saw the wonderful island filled with giant mushrooms and managed to get one from the ground, little did he know that he was being watched by Kamek while they were returning to the Darklands. They finally make it to their destination, which is called Cranklyn, New Donk City. The Stork Delivers the baby to the Bros parents.

The Wrecking Crew
The 2 Brothers grew up in Cranklyn, New Donk City, which was named after the Kongs living there from the famous circus there which Mario would always visit. Charles says school was rough for the Bros, he tried telling everyone that this weird mushroom land but was bullied and made fun of, mainly by Wario & Waluigi, their cousins. He also looked up to Mighty Plumber, Popeye and Dirk Drain Head, thinking anyone can do anything if they put their mind to it.

Throughout the years Mario did multiple odd jobs while roping Luigi in to them, these include Doctor, Carpenter, Athlete (In Tennis and Golf), Racer, Circus employee as a Juggler, Bartender, Cement Factory Worker, Freelance Artist, Toy Maker, Boxing Referee, A Shop Clerk and A Soldier, Charles says Mario quickly became bored of them and quit, he wanted to know where his place in the world is as all of these jobs felt like he hasn’t lived up to his true destiny, feeling like he hasn’t accomplished anything in life. Despite this, Luigi was always right by him supporting him on whatever zany venture he was going to, He also had a girlfriend, Pauline who he met during his circus job, calling her everything in a great girl you could hope for but feels like he doesn’t deserve them.

A few years later, the 2 Brothers are currently working for their Uncle, Foreman Spike and their Cousins, Wario & Waluigi in a Construction Site, They (and in turn the rest of the workers) don’t like the Brothers and try to purposely screw them up so they can get them fired. They know that they can get a better job, but it barely pays the bills so they have to work with their extended family from wishes from their parents since they’ve seen they aren’t doing so well in life. Mario and Luigi (in Builder Outfits like the Mario Maker Games) looking at the horizon while helping build a tower with red girders while using hammers with a sentimental version of the Wrecking Crew music playing, Spike calls for lunch break as the 2 Bros rest with Luigi eating a Cheese Sandwich while Mario eats a Plate of Spaghetti. Mario wonders if there’s more to life than this, just cruising by and being abused by Spike and the Wario Bros, Mario beckons that he wants to help people in life being inspired by the days of serving in a war. Luigi dismisses this and says they’ve finally settled down, he enjoys doing Construction/Engineering work and that being in a war is way too dangerous. Mario seems sad and Luigi suggests that going to the Circus will cheer him up, Mario cheers up and suggests to take Pauline with them, Luigi takes a ladder to go down to the site before Mario continues to look at the horizon, he takes his hat off to reveal the same Mushroom he had since Yoshi’s Island, vowing to find it’s home, Luigi shouts for Mario as he hastily comes down to the site.

Ape Attack!
The 2 Brother meet with Pauline and walk to the Circus, they wait in anticipation for the attraction to start, the red curtains open and see an ape named Donkey Kong juggling Pineapples while on a Barrel, Mario tells Pauline that the best part is yet to come, the Circus employees then get Barrels of Fire and start to power fire balls onto his hands, Donkey Kong tries to avoid the fireballs but he gets his hands burned, Mario watches in awe and wonder while Luigi and Pauline watch in horror, The Circus employees even then throw his adolescent son Donkey Kong Jr to the mix while juggling. Mario notices that this is new and sees that Donkey Kong steps up his game and manages to miss all the fireballs, seeing that his son is in danger, he steps up his game and manages to not get burned. The Crowd boos that DK managed to not get hurt with the exception of Luigi and Pauline who cheer, Mario says that that Big Stupid Monkey is getting older and wasn’t as amazing as he was back then, Luigi then reminds Mario that they need to get back to the Construction Site or else they’ll get fired, the Brothers walk back while Pauline stays behind and gets some Bananas for DK, hearing that Mario called him a big stupid Monkey, Donkey Kong then grabs Pauline as she screams for her life.

Mario and Luigi get back to the Construction site, before seeing Donkey Kong capturing Pauline and climbing up to the Tower they’re working on, The Workers watch in horror as Donkey Kong throws barrels down onto the ground in a fit of rage, Mario realises what he must do to save Pauline being inspired by the Popeye shorts he watched as a kid. Mario runs up to the Building with a remix of the Donkey Kong theme playing and races to save Pauline as it throws Barrels including ones with fire in them, Mario barely manages to get over them while climbing up the Tower. He sees that Luigi left his hammer on the girder and picks it up and uses it to destroy the barrels, thinking he’s done with the first level Donkey Kong hastily climbs up and goes up to 100 Feet, Mario climbs up while DK throws Barrels down.

After Mario barely manages to climb up the ladders, Donkey Kong sees Mario and charges straight for him, Mario also does, as DK throws a punch Mario slides down and uses his hammer to hit him, pushing him down to the surface, destroying the tower. Mario and Pauline reunite and kiss but realise that the Tower is breaking apart, leading the couple to fall down, Pauline accepts her fate but Mario thinks of a plan, to land on DK, reaching to the ladders falling, Mario uses them while carrying Pauline to slow his descent before landing onto Donkey Kong as he screams in agony with his eyes bulging out.

Mario sees that his entire workforce saw the epic feats and collectively cheer for Mario, all hugging and shaking his hand, with the exception of Spike and the Wario Brothers who finally have a legitimate reason for firing them, on the count of them thinking they’re a “Wrecking Crew”. Spike calls the Brothers in after work, finally firing them and calling them “2 Worthless Good for nothing Jokes.” The 2 Brothers lose their uniforms and end up only with their pants and Vests, Luigi wonders how they’re gonna pay for their rent now, Mario tells them that they don’t need Spike anymore as he has a plan.

Super Mario Brothers Plumbing
The film fades to black as a song plays with the tune of The Super Mario Bros Super Show Song as with the Mario Brothers appearing on a Green Screen showing them trying (and failing) to a fix leak under Pauline’s Sink. It’s revealed that Foreman Spike and The Wario Bros are watching the advertisement while at Dinner with the Bros and their extended family, including the Bros Parents, Their other Uncles, Aunts and a few other cousins, Mario asks if they liked the commercial with everyone in their family saying no, making fun of them apart from their Mother who tells them that their following their dreams. Their father, asks them if they have had any other jobs yet with Mario saying they have had 2 and half jobs, Wario asks what they mean by half a job with Mario arguing that they were about to complete a job but Wario & Waluigi swooped in, the 2 Scapelli Brothers fart and burp while Mario explains why his 2 other jobs went into chaos thanks to a dog for their first job and a bunch of Piranha Plants in the second job. Spike hearing this laughs uncontrollably and calls them the “Stupid Mario Brothers” and nothing close to “Super” with Mario clenching his fist. Antonio, seeming disappointed and wanting to defuse the situation asks the Brothers to go back to work with Spike, since he has seen first hand the amount of Jobs Mario brings Luigi in and quickly quits and how working with Spike gives them a good amount of money, Spike laughs and says he’ll never have these 2 Bozos again and rants leading to Antonio giving him an angry stare with Spike saying he’ll hire them. Mario says that this time he’s landed on something great and Will sick with it. Antonio angry tells him that he’s nuts if he wants to do this, Time and time again he does this jobs bringing down his more intelligent Brother and when one finally goes well he quits due to an Ape mishap that lead to his break-up with Pauline, Wario sniggers and says that he’s gonna go for Pauline now after hearing this. Mario angry jumps over the table and punches Wario with the 2 Siblings holding their Brothers to stop anymore fighting to happen. Antonio shouts for Mario to leave the house and never return to till he agrees to work with Spike, Mario walks away and slams the door. Luigi conflicted, looks at his Spaghetti and plays with it, Wario tells him his Brother is unhinged and crazy while Julie tells everyone to call down, She tells Luigi that he should guide and help his Brother through these tough times no matter as Antonio says it’s a lost cause. Luigi leaves and runs to their house, which is next to their family’s.

It’s revealed that it’s been a few months since the Brothers have been fired by Foreman Spike, they have since opened a Plumbing Business on their own, which is struggling due to rival competition (namely the Wario Brothers) running them out of business. Despite this, Mario remains hopeful, him managing to defeat an ape leading him to become a local hero… for about a month before no one stopped caring. He was awarded a Golden Hammer from the Mayor of New Donk City, along with tons of interviews, royalties and such until everyone moved on, but Mario couldn’t, it was the only thing he thought he had in life and he was never going to let it go, this recently lead to Mario and Pauline breaking up since he always focuses on being “The Ape Killer” rather than his relationship.

Their plumbing business is more unsuccessful than ever, their family (especially their father) disapprove of their Plumbing Business after an heated family dinner and they are nearly facing eviction by their landlord Mr Arnold Segale after finding him trying to change the locks with Stanley. Mario sad playing an SNES after the dinner, tells Luigi that he’s sick and tired of telling him what to do and wants to lead his own life. Luigi tells Mario that they can’t keep going on like this by barely surviving and that they need to reconsider their job if they want to keep living in New Donk City, Mario tells him that he has a plan, since he’s defeated an Ape he can do anything, Luigi tells him he barely defeated an ape and unless they sell Mario’s Golden Hammer, which Mario’s reluctant on doing, then they can pay the bills since they aren’t getting any work, as he’s saying this, the phone plays and their phone rings to tone of the original Mario Bros Arcade Jingle.

Mario says to Luigi “I told you so” and picks up the phone, saying “Hello! Super Mario Brothers Plumbing, You leak it, we’ll tweak it!” Then a deep voice tells them that he has a special job for them, and to meet them in the Sewers near the fortune-telling shop, Mario asks what the job is before the phone cuts out with weird noises following. Mario shrugs this off and is finally happy that they have work, the Bros get their stuff such as their 2 Hammers, a Plunger, a Torch, A wrench ad Mario’s Golden Hammer “Just in Case”, they enter their van and drive to the location and see that the Sewer Hole is already open, The Bros go inside the Sewer hole and wonder where their client is, using a Torch light they explore the robust sewers and soon spell an insatiable Garlic stench and see Onions on the floor, Luigi comes to the conclusion that they’ve been duped/pranked by Wario Brothers, Mario however (ignoring what Luigi was saying) continues to explore the sewers, when suddenly he sees a small shadowy figure who runs away, Mario screams for it to come back, but it continues to run away, Mario gives chase in a side scrolling section while Luigi begrudgingly follows, The shadowy figure runs at rapid speed and platforms through the sewers while avoiding the Piranha Plants, while the Brothers barely manage to catch up with the Shadowy Figure (though Luigi gets bitten by a Piranha Plant on the head and swiftly takes it off). The 2 eventually go near a Giant Green Pipe, the Shadowy Figure jumps up to above the Green Pipe before Mario & Luigi arrive, Mario shouts for the Shadowy Figure to show themselves, the figure seeing no other option decides to unmask themselves, jumps down to the ground and reveals itself to be an anthropomorphic mushroom, the Mushroom talks and says “Hello!” in that deep voice that Mario heard on the Phone.

Mario & Luigi scream which leads to the Mushroom screaming, The Mushroom realises that they’re only humans while Mario adjusts to the whole Talking Mushroom thing, Luigi still screaming realises that talking to a Mushroom is crazy, and thinks he’s dead after the bite with the Piranha Plant. The Mushroom clears his throat and reveals a high pitched scratchy voice, he introduces himself as “Toad” and tells them that he needs their help, he tried the “Extravagant Wario Brothers” but they denied him because of the pay. Toad tells the Brothers that he comes from the Mushroom Kingdom and a problem that endangers that Kingdom will destroy them all and possibly the entire world, they need they’re help to stop it, hearing their incredible feats in New Donk City, It’ll need the strongest most diligent people to tackle this problem, and of course they will be paid handsomely and accordingly. Mario, thinking Toad is talking about how he saved his Girlfriend from an Ape, gladly accepts his offer, Luigi is more wary. He brings Mario aside with him and tells him that if a Talking Mushroom is a thing, then what other horrors could be with him? Toad, hearing what Luigi said, throws a rock at his head. Mario tells Luigi hearing where Toad comes from, (The Mushroom Kingdom), they can finally pay their bills and maybe even have some disposable income of their own, Luigi eye’s turn into Dollar Signs and instantly takes the job.

Toad pumps his fist in the air and tells the Brothers to follow him as he jumps into the Pipe with that Pipe sound we all know (Which is also the sound Mario heard on the Phone), Mario readies himself up and shout’s Let’sa Go! Before entering in the Pipe, Luigi thinks that going inside a sewer pipe is crazy and leaves, but realises that money offer seems tempting, he then turns around frantically saying “Face Eviction or Go into a Sewer Pipe into an Unknown World?” While quickly turning around, he takes a deep breath, hits his cheeks, get’s his bag and runs into the Sewer pipe closing his eyes and says “Go into the Unknown world”.

Luigi opens his eyes and ends up floating in a bright pink colourful area filled with multi coloured pipes, some Icy, Some from Volcanoes, Some from Jungles, Some from Deserts along with a heap of species in these other streams of light such as more Toads, Brown Mushrooms with feet and large eyebrows named Goombas, Kongs, A Girl in an Orange Dress, Anthropomorphic Turtles with large shells named Koopas, Bombs with eyes and small feet named Bob-ombs, Small Dinosaurs named Yoshi’s, Penguins and even a Giant Caterpillar with a flower on its head named a Wiggler. While Luigi is screaming his lungs out over all these weird species and animals frantically fawling his arms about calling for his Brother, Mario is screaming in wonder and amazement at what he’s seeing and heads straight for the Green Pipe at the end of the tunnel as a bright flash engulfs the screen with the Pipe sound playing again, ending Act 1.

Mushroom Kingdom Chaos
Act 2 begins right where we left off, Mario lands in a Dark Cavern filled with Piranha Plants, Luigi is soon to follow and the 2 Brothers get up and wonder where Toad is, Luigi thinks this entire thing was a mistake and wants to go home, he tries entering back into the Pipe but it doesn't work and seems like there's an invisible forcefield there. Mario sluggishly walks through the Cave, seeing Piranha Plants and Swoopers populate the area. Mario then sees a few Pipes filled with dirt after the ground stops, seeing that he needs to Jump on them. After he does he sees a bright light and exits out of the cave to see a beautiful land filled with Mushrooms, he hurries Luigi to go follow him which he does though nearly managing to fall to the abyss below and says that They don't think they're in New Donk City anymore, Toad pops out of a Pipe, startling the 2 Brothers and asks them if they like what they see, Luigi wonders if he's dead or dreaming which responds with a giant hiking stick on the head, Toad asks if that hurts which Luigi shouts a loud yes which Toad responds that this is not a dream and he’s in the wonderful Mushroom Kingdom. Mario inaudible sighs at the sheer beauty of it alone.

Meanwhile, in a dark volcanic mountainous gloomy area untouched by Sunlight, a Swooper flies through the Mountains and then gets eaten by a Winged Koopa with no skin with only bones aptly named Dry Bones, then a giant lava monsters eats the Dry Bones and submerges in the lava. The camera quickly zooms into a Castle after going through a packed town filled with Goombas, Koopas, Hammer Bros and Dry Bones. We see a Large Koopa with red hair commanding thousands and thousands of troops for his plans of World Domination, This Large Koopa (named Bowser) sits on his throne and gets a picture of a woman in a Pink Dress and a Crown from his shell with kisses and hearts which is a invitation to a birthday party, he then sighs in sadness. Kamek from the beginning of the film, The Elite Trio, Boom Boom (his commander) and Pom Pom meet up with him and wonders if his plan for World Domination is ready, Bowser says that they have got everything they need (though Kamek knows that Bowser is slightly under prepared but is too afraid to tell him otherwise), he tells him that they will set for flight in a few minutes, while Kamek clears his throat and asks if he's forgetting anything, Bowser asks if it's the Meat, Kamek shakes his head and tells him that his son, Bowser Jr, is not with him and instead chooses to play Video Games all day long.

Bowser bursts into his room and destroys his Game Console he was playing (which looks similar to a Nintendo Wii but with E.gadd's logo on it) and brings Bowser Jr with him to have a talk. The 2 have a discussion outside the Castle, looking at Bowser's solid Gold statue being constructed as they see a Koopa fall into the lava, get burned alive, turn into a Dry Bones and continue building the statue. Bowser tells Jr that all of this and eventually the entire world will be his, Jr says that he doesn't want the entire world, just some Video Games, tons of junk food and maybe a girlfriend, Bowser tells him that that's nonsense and pats him on the back. Jr says that he can never live up to his father and even the Koopalings and Minion School, so what's the point of ever trying? Bowser says that he should never beat himself down no matter what and whenever life punches you in the stomach, you punch back even harder, the world is a cruel horrible place in Bowser's opinion and that's why he's trying to rule it. Jr smirks at his dad's cheesy speech and hugs him, Bowser nonchalantly shrugs it off while visually blushing and tells Jr that they're gonna rule the World together.

The 2 go to Bowser's Airship and leads an entire Armada of Airships with Paratroopers and Paragoombas following behind them as they leave the Kingdom with the crowd from the town below cheering as the classic foreboding Airship music plays, Bowser Jr uses his Koopa Clown Car, Boom Boom gains wings on his shell, while Kamek uses his Broomstick, Bowser's proudly shouts to set course for the Mushroom Kingdom, Kamek seems confused and tells Bowser that he thought they were heading for Yoshi's Island first to get the Power star, Bowser says that he has some unfinished business to do.

Toad Town Turmoil
Back to the Brothers, Mario, Luigi and Toad they walk through the Grassy fields, with colourful hills behind them, Mario is still silently walking through the fields taking everything in while Luigi is frantically asking what was the entire thing he went through, Toad explains that was the Warp zone (the fortune telling shop being a front for one), which was invented by the Toads, a place that allows for quick convenient one way travel through different lands. Luigi still has so many questions to ask about what saw but is ignored as Toad announces that they're here at Toad Town, the busy Town (with the Toad House from Super Mario Bros 3 playing) all collectively stopping to see the 2 Brothers. Mario awkwardly laughs and says "It'sa me, Mario!" while Luigi facepalms, Toad says that they're with then for a special mission to save the world, The Town shrugs it off and continues on with their day as the music keeps on playing, Luigi asks where they're even going as Mario keeps on exploring the Town, buying Power-ups/souvenirs such as a few Fire Flowers, A Cape feather, P-Balloon and a Penguin Suit all while taking selfies with the Toads and fidgeting all with stuff in the Town like the Item Boxes, Bricks, The Pipes and The Toad's heads all while the Bonus Music playing and naturally playing the Toad Town theme from Paper Mario 64, Toad tells Luigi that they need to meet Princess Peach (Who Luigi thinks looks like another Toad but with a crown), Mario hastily joins them and puts everything he bought with all his money and puts it in Luigi's Plumbing bag.

The 3 end up near a blue star gate as the music then goes with a light version of the starman music, Toad knocks on the door with the iconic notes of the Main Mario theme playing in tandem with the music. The door opens with 2 Guards named Buckenberry and Ala-gold as they 3 see the majestic Castle who can't deny how beautiful it is. The 3 enter the Castle as Toad calls for Princess Peach, the door at the top of the stairs opens to see a Woman with a Pink Dress and a Golden Crown along with a Pink Toad with Pigtails and an Older Toad with a Staff walking down. Toad runs up to the Woman and hugs her, he says that the mission has been successful and he has found the 2 Heroes they are in desperate need of. Toad introduces the Brothers to Princess Peach, the sworn protector of the Toads, Toadette, Toad's Childhood friend and Toadsworth, Peach's adoptive guardian. Luigi shakes her hand while Mario has literal hearts in his eyes, Peach wonders who this is and Luigi slaps Mario who snaps out of his love struck phase and introduces himself as Mario Mario, Peach asks if that's Luigi Luigi and Mario shakes his head saying that Mario is both of their last names. Mario thinks it’s stupid that he stuttered while saying this while Peach thinks it’s stupid she thought Luigi had a different last name.

Toad ,before Mario and Peach can speak more, brings the Brothers and Toadette, Toadsworth and Peach to the mission to save the world, Toad walks around the Castle with the iconic Castle Music as they see many Toad chefs carrying Cakes and Vegetables from Super Mario Bros 2, mechanics using Go-Karts, Toads carrying Tennis rackets, Baseball Bats and Golf Clubs and guards walking around the Castle using Power Ups such as Ice Flowers, Tanooki Suits and Catsuits. Mario asks what they're doing and Peach asks if they're getting ready for her birthday today. Mario says Happy Birthday and rushes to Luigi's bag and gives her one of his Fire Flowers. Peach thanks Mario and tells Toadette to put it in the Pile.

Mario Bros Madness
The 5 use a yellow conveyor lift to the basement of the Castle and Toad shows them the mission to save the world! A Plumbing Job to fix a leak in the basement of the Castle. Mario seems confused, since Toad was saying that he thought he'd be saving the world since he thought he heard about his feats of defeating Donkey Kong since he said they heard his incredible feats in New Donk City. Toad laughs and says that he was referring to the advertisement that they had, in the beginning of the film. While Mario gets angry and inaudibly swears uncontrollably, Luigi gets happy at says they'll tweak the leak in record time but before he does, he asks why they couldn't get the Toads to fix the leak and he says that whenever they sent someone done here they've never returned. Toad wishes the Brothers good luck and locks the door.

Luigi looks at where the leak is with a disgruntled Mario following him, seeing what the problem is, Luigi looks at the pipes being in the wrong place, singing the pipe song, Mario tells him to stop singing that song as it annoys him, Luigi asks why since he was the one that introduced Mario to the song, Mario explains distress over always being a Plumber, saying he didn't come to the place of his literal dreams to do the same thing he's been doing for years which leads to Luigi finally snapping, saying that he should shut up about being a Hero as he blew his chance of being one after barely beating an ape, explaining that they're plumbers and are only good at fixing Toilets and can't be Heroes arguably Luigi being the better Plumber, which leads to a heated argument with the 2 Bros butting heads and speaking Italian, Mario walks away in a fit with his arms crossed while Luigi continues doing his Plumbing work, he goes instead the Pipe and gets his neck grabbed by a Giant Crab monster, he screams for Mario's help, as he falls on the floor, Mario throws his Hammer onto the Crab, crushing it.

Luigi thanks Mario but Mario still isn't speaking to him, however the Pipes that Luigi just spent fixing burst open with thousands of Shellcreepers, Sidesteppers, Goombas, Laiktu’s, Buzzy Beetles, Spinys and Fighterfiles coming out as water piles up, Luigi seems completely shocked while Mario has a determined smirk on his face and throws Luigi his Stone Hammer, Luigi confused throws away the Hammer, landing on Mario's head, and runs to Jump on one of the Shellcreepers but gets bitten in the process.

Mario shouts at Luigi that Jumping won't work and tells him he needs to use a Hammer, Luigi disappointed, tells him that what's the point of trying to use a Hammer if Jumping doesn't work, Mario tells Luigi that he has to try at least and teaches his Brother to use a Hammer to bash people, holding him from the behind and hitting the Monsters. Mario wonders if Luigi has got knowing how to hit them and then quickly uses the other Hammer to fight off the monsters. Peach and Toad check on how the Brothers are doing and see half of the basement with water and the Brothers fighting off thousands of monsters, Peach runs to Mario and gets a frying pan and hits some of the monsters, with Toad using his stick following suit.

The 4 are surrounded by Monsters and Peach angrily asks what they do. Luigi tells then that they just came from the Pipes while Mario realises that they can't defeat them all and so comes up with plan seeing that some of the troops are getting drowned by the water and giant POW Block, he first uses the POW Block then destroys some of the pipes creating more Water, Peach asks why he's destroying her Castle while Mario tells them to destroy all the Pipes, flooding the place, eventually the basement is filled with Water and the 4 use the lift to get up to the Castle, Mario decides to not go with them however and deal with the water problem despite nearly drowning, he sees Luigi has left his bag and gets the Penguin Suit, allowing him to breath underwater, he also notices the he can throw Ice Balls thinking he can freeze all the Monsters down there.

The 4 with Toadette and Toadsworth joining them hear the utter chaos that's going down, Toadsworth tells Toad and Peach that they should have gotten the Wario Brothers instead, eventually all the chaos abruptly stops. Peach wants to open the doors and sees what's going on while Toadsworth tells sees it's too dangerous, eventually the lift is activated and rises, Peach tells them to get ready for anything as she gets her Frying Pan, Toad gets his Stick, Toadette gets a Pickaxe, Toadsworth uses his staff and Luigi prepares for a fighting stance but tries to over correct it, The elevator opens an the group instantly attack the thing there revealing it's Mario in the Penguin suit, he pleads for the group to too hitting him which leads to Luigi hitting him repeatedly while running after the group stops. Peach wonders how he managed to survive the troops and Mario tells the group to follow him, seeing the Basement is entirely in ice with the Pipes also fixed as all the troops are Ice Sculptures, Mario tells them that defeating the troops was fairly easy and fixing pipes was the issue. Peach seems impressed and decides to do something she feels that she should do now that Mario has proved himself.

Full Frontal Assault
All of the Toads are gathered at the courtyard and ceremoniously cheer when Peach comes on the balcony of her castle along with Toad, Toadette and Toadsworth as they talk about how before they have the best Birthday in the entire Galaxy with Kart races, Golf and Tennis matches, she will knight 2 Brothers who have helped them and the Kingdom considerable, she introduces Mario & Luigi. the Brothers get ready and take a deep breath, the 2 Brothers open the door and hear the unanimous chants of Mario and Luigi, Peach uses her Parasol as Mario bows down with Luigi abruptly following suit after Mario loudly clears his throat, Princess Peach dubs Mario Mario and Luigi Luigi as the official Mushroom Kingdom Royal Engineers. Mario's eyes widen in bewilderment while Luigi becomes uncontrollably happy hugging Princess Peach telling him that this is his best day of his life while Mario rolls his eyes.

Peach then turns to her subjects and says to get ready for the best Birthday party ever made, the crowd cheers as music from giant loud speakers play and the Toads play sports, dance, eat cake, drive Go-karts and have fun, Peach opens her Presents to see that they've given her a Frog Suit, Propeller Mushroom and a Trophy with two crosses on the bottom.

Toadsworth walks to Peach and gives her a Special Present, being a Green Amulet that was her mother's before she disappeared, saying that he's considering retiring in being the Kingdom's Royal Adviser and even wants to move away from the Mushroom Kingdom. Peach hugs Toadsworth shedding a single tear, thanking Toadsworth for all the years, the Bros see this tender moment, not wanting to interrupt it but does so anyway and says they'll be heading home back to New Donk City and if they need anything they know who to call as Mario gives Peach a number, Luigi notes that's Mario's personal phone number with him saying he knows,

The Brothers nearly leave the party before a Giant Shadow engulfs the entire Kingdom, The audience gasp and stop everything they're doing to see what that Shadow is, Peach tells them that's probably the Balloon float, but multiple other shadows appear. Peach says that's probably multiple Balloon floats before noting that she didn't even make that many Balloons before an Anchor destroys the Cake.

The Toads run for their lives as multiple Anchors drop from Airships bellow, suddenly, Several of Bullet Bills hit the Toads running as well as Bob-ombs, Thousands of Goombas, Koopas, and Hammer Bros drop down and Kidnap the Toads as well as raiding the Kingdom of it's goods. Peach, not knowing what to do, wants to stay and fight but Toadsworth (notably shaken) wants her to stay in the Castle, the 2 with a few of the Toads run inside the Castle boarding it up with the help of the Brothers who are dragged into this. Mario asks what this is and Peach shrugs and doesn't know, she tells the Brothers to stay upstairs as she stays with Toadsworth to see what's going on, they open the doors to see that Toads frozen in stone and Koopas destroying everything.

The largest Airship with an army of Paratroopas and Paragoombas comes to the Castle. The troops lineup for the Airship to land, the doors opens as a Goomba proudly plays a trumphant seeing Bowser, Bowser Jr, The Elite Trio, Boom Boom, Pom Pom and Kamek exit out of it, Bowser sees the Castle doors are closed even though he is widely aware that they know the King of Koopas is here, he shouts to open the doors as Toad, Buckenberry, Al-gold and Toadette along with a few of the Toads run to Bowser as they try to attack Bowser using their weapons but doesn't even give a graze on the Koopa.

Bowser laughs and says he's really hurt from that, not being phased he grabs all of the Toads and throws them into the glass window of the castle shattering it, Bowser says that's their final warning and he won't hold back, The Toads surrender after Bowser's attack and run away, except for Toad who runs for Bowser using his stick calling them Cowards. Bowser smiles and punches Toad onto the ground and then uses his black magic to turn him to Stone. Bowser charges his fire-breath to burst the door open. Peach and Toadsworth hear the chaos going outside nearby the door, not knowing Bowser used his firebreath, an explosion occurs and Peach and Toadsworth are launched to the floor. The troops advance forward with Bowser, but he says this is a job he needs to do for himself.

Bowser advances alone and enters the castle, seeing the door on the floor he pretends to open it normally before throwing it unknowingly on Boom Boom’s head making him pass out all while Bowser Jr watches in inspiration. Bowser sees the frightened Princess and says he means no harm, Bowser shouts for the “old man” to run away leaving the Princess and the King of Koopas alone. Bowser says that it’s been a while since he last saw her, thinking it’s been nearly a decade since he last saw Peach saying he’s had her on his mind for years and struck now due it being her Birthday. Peach, confused, asks who he is, he says he’s King Bowser Koopa The V, the best guy and only you’ll ever meet/need. Peach asks what he means by that and he says that he wants to ask for her hand, where together they will rule the world. She declines, saying that he just destroyed her entire kingdom, on her birthday nonetheless and she doesn’t know a thing or two about her. Bowser angrily tells her that he’s not asking her hand in marriage, he’s forcing her hand in marriage, he grabs her hand, she pleads for anyone to help and for Bowser to take his hand off her. Bowser laughs and says no one will help her, everyone she knows and loves is gone and for people who are still here, he says she’s gonna be in another Castle forever, Peach whispers not everyone as Bowser continues to walk away.

Mario Vs Bowser
Meanwhile, It cuts to the 2 Brothers up on the balcony back when the Toads shatter the window, looking at Bowser’s army from above, seeing the entire battle and invasion up close, they don’t know what to do, Luigi is freaking out and worried they’ll die while Mario assures him that they’ll be okay as long as they stick together. The Bros then hear Peach calling for help, Mario has had enough of hiding and feels he should go do something, Luigi holds Mario by his hand and shouts at him that it’s too dangerous and they thought they needed to stick together. Mario says he has to try to save Peach since he’s defeated an Ape before and sewer monsters before, what could possibly be so bad down there that Mario can’t face? He kicks down the doors without a second of a thought and runs to the Castle, Luigi calls for his name but knows Mario has made up his mind and says he doesn’t want to lose his Brother.

Mario tries to use the lift but doesn’t work and so uses the stairs, as Bowser stomps out of the Castle, Mario runs through the seemingly endless stairs. Nearly getting down the stairs, as Bowser asks how’s gonna help her and Peach whispers. Mario bursts the doors down and tries to run but due to him being tired, trips and falls in the floor, he asks to put Peach down but is obviously tired, Bowser asks if he’s okay and if he needs a minute, Mario breaths in and out and shouts to put Peach down.

Bowser laughs and sees that a Plumber is telling him to stop, he laughs uncontrollably and tells him to run along and fix the pipes, Mario tells him that he will soon but egotistical tells him that he defeated a Giant Ape before and thousands of sewer monsters just a few minutes ago and tells him that he’s gonna beat the Shell out of him. Bowser laughs and says he loves puns, Mario rolling his eyes and ignoring him runs and punches him while Bowser is speaking. Surprisingly, He lands a hit on Bowser as he drops Peach in shock. Peach runs away and lets the 2 men duke it out.

Bowser notably gets angry and tells him that this is his last chance to run and never return where they will inevitably meet again when he enslaves the planet. Mario, not phased by the Koopa, stands still silently with his hands ready to fight Bowser. Bowser, raising his eyebrows in disbelief, laughs and says “Very well then” before his joky demeanour vanishes and his true colours begin to show once again. He dashes towards Mario as he barely manages to dodge, Bowser charges his fire breath to roast the Plumber but he runs away and enters one of the doors in the Kitchen, Bowser follows Mario and nearly trips on the pans and pots left there. The 2 run through the doors and areas of the castle, such as Peach’s Bedroom, the living room and the Bathroom before entering the hallways, Mario’s stamina gives in allowing Bowser to catch up the Plumber, grabs him by his head and slams him on the ground, then proceeds to ram him through the floor which launches him into the lift. Mario, now noticeably weekend, still runs away, Bowser shouts that he can’t run forever.

Mario ends up in the lift which actually works now and goes to the Icy Basement, he rests for a bit slumping on the floor, Bowser knowing this, forcibly opens the elevator doors and ground pounds down. Mario frantically tries to find a place to hide or a way out, he then sees that someone taps his shoulders and sees the King of the Koopas is there, he says:

”Hey Plumber Boy, moustache man, your worst nightmare has arrived”

Bowser punches which launches him onto the Icy Wall, breaking that part of the wall. Bowser monologues that how foolish was he to try and fight King Koopa, it’s almost kinda hilarious but honourable at the same time but now, playtime is over. Mario tries to punch him but uses his black magic to teleport, he punches Mario again before he kicks him, making his hat come of him, he then tells him it’s Game Over before Mario frantically back up on a wall, he hears someone tell him saying to “Trust the Fungus”, seeing it's the Mushroom itself, he grabs it from his hat and holds it up to him before Bowser breathes fire onto Mario, but sees that a Giant Mushroom shield formed with the power up sound effect playing allowing Mario to survive before the Mushroom explodes as the power down sound effect plays, seemingly killing Mario.

Bowser laughs and says that he barely put up a good fight, but was as pathetic as a he expected a Plumber to be and even the Toads put up a better fight, he walks to the Castle entrance and sees that Peach has escaped, he screams/breathes fire and begins punching the walls, vowing to find Princess Peach to the ends of the Earth till the day he dies. Kamek, seeing Bowser get angry, tells him that they need to leave and they can find the Princess later. Bowser accepts defeat, before a Goomba walks past him and stays in the Castle, Bowser tells him that they’ll be coming back to Dark lands shortly whole the Goomba responds that they want to see that Pesky Plumbers Body and wants to walk all the way back to the Kingdom since they want to lose weight, Bowser says very well and tells them he’s in the Basement and that Peach would have been so impressed before he leaves with his Airships.

The Goomba is revealed to be Peach using a Goomba Mask, taking it off and rushing to the Basement, she sees Mario’s dead body and calls for his name, performing CPR and even mouth to mouth resuscitation to get the Plumber backup and wishes not to use the special item, while doing mouth to mouth resuscitation, Peach gives Mario a 1-up Mushroom, which heals someone's injuries. He soon wakes up.

In an awkward scene, Peach hugs Mario and wonders if he is okay, he coughs and says that he may have a punctured lung, a headache, a few broken bones and died but other than that he’s fine. He’s more importantly worried about Bowser and where he is. Peach tells him that he’s gone, Mario in disbelief runs out of the Castle before seeing the once lively Kingdom turned to ruins casted by Dark Grey clouds. Luigi screams for Mario's name and jumps down onto the water, running to Mario and hugging him (crushing Mario’s bones in the process). The group look at the Kingdom before Peach sees Toad’s Stonfied Body, she runs to the Toad and cries, saying that this was all her fault because of rushing to fight. Luigi comforts Peach, telling her that there wasn’t anything she could do. These things happen and we just need to move on and adapt from them. That's what he does for all his life. She holds the Stone Toad to her body, seeing her Amulet glow as the Toad slowly breaks out of his Stone Cocoon. Toad shouts that he’s alive and hugs Peach, wondering how she did that, before seeing the Amulet return to its original state, Peach guesses it was the Amulet and wonders why it’s so powerful.

Adventure Here We Come!
The 4 regroup at the Castle and wonder what to do, Toadsworth opens the door to the Kitchen and is ecstatic that the 4 of them had managed to survive and that he didn’t expect the Koopas to attack so late, Peach raises an eyebrow and wonders that he knew about the Koopas attacking. Toadsworth, nods his head and tells Peach that long ago, Kamek wanted to create an alliance with all of the Kingdoms, they’d agree to unit their forces and would rule the World together, The Council (lead by Peach’s father) declined this offer since they wanted all Kingdoms to be free with Toadsworth making this choice for him. Kamek angry at this, leads an Army to take over the Kingdom by force. The King and Queen of the Mushroom Kingdom managed to escape using a Go Kart on the Rainbow but unfortunately, weren’t so lucky and were killed by Kamek using a Blue Shell and a secret ambush. Toadsworth says that the Amulet was the only remains of the 2, he tells them that he sorry that he would have told her after the party since he felt Kamek and in turn Bowser (who had seemed to have a crush on Peach even they briefly met when they were younger) would attacked. Toadsworth tells her that he has failed her, the Kingdom and her Parents which he will be leaving effective immediately.

Peach hugs Toadsworth and tells him that he did the right thing in a world of wrong and said things would have been much, much, worse if they agreed. Toadsworth, still sad, leaves the Castle. Peach tries to call Toadsworth back but he continues to run away. Peach, determined after hearing the truth about her parents, Kamek’s plan and seeing Bowser, declares to the group that she and Toad will have to stop Bowser from ruling the world and to save their Kingdom. Mario wonders if he and Luigi will join them, Peach pulls Toad aside and tells him that while she likes the Brothers, she thinks their not up for it and could be killed, not wanting more lives be hurt by the Koopas, Toad reminds them that Mario managed to defeat thousands of Sewer Monsters in her Basement, telling them these guys are good, maybe not Louie or whatever his name is but Mario can really help with stopping Bowser, plus with a little training in Yoshi’s Island and possibly even using the Power Star they could defeat Bowser.

Mario buts in and asks about the Power Star, startling the duo. Toad tells him that a story that Toadsworth told them is that once in a Century, comets come to the world, one of these comets landed on Yoshi’s Island and was a Yellow Power Star, some of tried to gain its power but couldn’t due to not being deemed “worthy” of the stars power. They believe that they may have a chance to prove their worth to the Star and use its power to stop Bowser. Luigi asks what its power entails, Toads buts in and tells him that no one knows, some say you get super speed, some say you get unlimited strength, some say you can fly, some say you’ll become into a colourful mess or some say you’ll explode.

Luigi, still wary, tells them that even if they have the Power Star, Bowser seems unstoppable. Mario tells them they shouldn’t put themselves down, they’ve got a team with a person who defeated a 7ft 800lb Ape (Luigi reminds them he’s a person who barely defeated a 7ft 800lb Ape), A Walking Talking excitable Mushroom that has a surprising strong hiking stick (While saying this Toad smiles smugly), A Beautiful Princess with an indomitable spirit and The Slightly Intelligent Brother of a Person who defeated a 7ft 800lb Ape (Luigi again reminds them he’s the very Intelligent Brother of a person who barely defeated a 7ft 800lb Ape), with the 4 of them, they’re gonna save the world with Peach reminding him that provided they prove their worthy of the Star’s Power with Mario adding provided that they prove their worthy of the Star’s Power.

Mario, excited, shouts Let’sa Go and runs out excitedly out of the Castle and through the Kingdom seeing the Dark Cloud has cleared up, Toad says that he doesn’t even know what the way is but Peach stops him to let him have his moment. The 3 follow on with Peach calling Mario’s name, Luigi thinks he sees something on the Castle before Mario shouts for Luigi’s name before he shrugs it off and runs with the group. It’s revealed that Kamek is watching the group and laughs to himself before following them

A Montage sequence of the 4 walking around occurs, they start in Bob-omb Battlefield with that classic music where they try and avoid the Giant Chain Chomp and the Bob-ombs walking there, Mario looks at the mountain above and sees King Bob-omb who looks at him back and nods at Mario, who proceeds to do the same and tips his hat.

The 4 then enter a Yellow Warp Pipe and end up in a Desert (the music playing here would be Dry Dry Desert from Mario Kart Double Dash) with stone structures with eyes that follow them with Pokies, Flying Buzzy Beetles, Spikes, Conkdors and Keplto’s (who steal Luigi’s hat). The 4 walk through the Desert avoiding Sandmarghs and Tornados, Mario feels like the sun is following them and stares at it, Toad tells him to not stare at it since it’s self conscious, The Sun then proceeds to chase the group as they try and find the next Pipe.

The next location leads them to an Winter Wonderland in the night (With the World 3 theme from 3D World), filled with Penguins, giant sentient snowmen and Ice Bros making Ice Sculptures, Mario sees that a Baby Penguin is crying and wonder where it's mother is, Mario picks it up and sees thaw it's mother is dashing towards the group, The 4 run into the next Warp Pipe with the mother penguin stuck inside.

They end up in a Beach Area (with the Beach music playing from NSMB) with a Bridge connecting it to the next Pipe, The group walk and sometimes jump through the Bridge at the Sunrise, seeing Cheeps Cheeps jump over the Bridge, Goombas/Koopas using floats on the sea and Bloopers, Eeels, Porcupuffers and Urchins under the sea. While walking Luigi gets his head stuck a red Cheep Cheap, a Green Cheep Cheep, a Spiky Purple Cheep Cheep and finally a giant Cheep Chomp that engulfs Luigi, the 4 try to the fish off Luigi which leads to the Bridge breaking thanks to the size of the fish. The 4 end up underwater with many Bloopers and get chased by Gooper Blooper, Peach uses her Frog Suit to help the group escape as they go through the next Pipe.

The 4 end up in a Giant Tree Complex that sort of acts as a Hotel for Wigglers, Brambles, Goombas and Paratroops the 4 explore these Trees and end up being ambushed by a Lakitu, to get to the next Pipe they need to use a Spring, all 4 of them use the Spring to get into the Pipe apart from Mario who is too heavy and ends up hitting his head on a branch due to the spring being compressed.

The Ballad of Bowser
The 4 end up in the Mountains, it’s revealed that Kamek has been following the 4 throughout their journey and continues to do so and speeds ahead. Luigi thinks someone has been following them due to the colours in the sky but shrugs it off, they see that the next Pipe is inside a Tower and supposedly leads to Yoshi’s Island. Mario, seeing nothing suspicious runs into the Tower and sees nothing there, the 3follow suit and here a giant thud nearby, revealing it’s a Thwomp, The group run through the castle, avoiding Lava Bubbles and Whomps. The group make it to the top of the tower where they see a red door opening. Revealing it to be King Bowser.

The group proceeds to fight Bowser as the Boss Battle theme from Super Mario Bros 3 plays. Mario is notably shaken and decides to hangback. Bowser (inaudible), launches them to the opposite side of the room, Mario seeing this, runs to Bowser and tries to punch him but Bowser, not phased, grabs Mario and attacks him, punching him before he tries to breathe fire onto Mario possibly about to Kill him. Then a fireball hits his face, melting it and revealing a dry face.

The 3 of them are shown to have changed outfits by using Fire Flowers that Mario bought back in Toad Town. Peach throws him a Fire Flower changing into Fire Mario. Mario wonders what changing clothes will do, as he puts his hand out his hand turns into fire, whole the group get use to the whole Pyrokinesis thing with Luigi turning his whole body into a Green Fire Missile, Peach creates thousands of small Pink fireballs while Toad uses his stick and has two orange fireballs on each side. Mario screams running around while the 3 use their powers to burn Bowser to a crisp, Peach seeing this helps Mario with using his Fire Powers, telling him to breathe in and go with the flow. He breathes in, and uses his Fire Powers and creates a Giant Fireball that fully melts Bowser into Dry Bowser. The Bones fall onto the floor and create a puff revealing a Goomba, The Goomba runs away and opens a Pipe, already knowing what the group wants. The 4 enter the Pipe, The Goomba, seemingly looking worried tries to run away but Kamek, comes to him and says he has failed, The Goomba scared tries to run away but is turned into a Brick, Kamek says that the Kingdom can’t afford for any more failure as the Kingdom is ran by one and follows the group into the Pipe.

Meanwhile, In Bowser’s Castle, a giant Party/Concert ensues as his subjects wait for him to start playing his songs, Bowser Jr walks up to the stage and introduces Bowser as the most awesome guy you’ll ever meet, Bowser opens the curtains with a Axe shaped Guitar talking/rocking about taking over the Mushroom Kingdom, Marrying a Princess and how the world showed him no love so he won’t as well, The crowd cheers for Bowser as Jr looks in awe inspiration. Kamek, tired and angry, walks up to Bowser while he’s singing and shouts for his name, Bowser singing, ignores him with each passing shout being ignored.

Kamek eventually fully shouts for his name making the ground shake, Bowser angry, shouts WHAT? Kamek explains that the Princess has recruited 2 Humans and a Toad (who Kamek refrains from telling Bowser that it was the Plumber who he thinks he killed) to retrieve the Power Star and a Resistance in Yoshi’s Island, defeating the troops he has sent. Bowser, angry, asks who these Humans are as he picks Kamek up from the throat, Kamek pleads that he doesn’t know but Bowser, seeing nothing but pure red, continues to strangle him leading him to say that Peach has recruited the Plumber.

Bowser still seeing red asks if the other Human is a Plumber too, Kamek says no while Bowser continues to strangle Kamek, to the shock of the audience and Bowser Jr, Kamek says that he assumes so since they wear the same outfit, Bowser then throws Kamek down on the floor and laughs, he tells Kamek that his troops were so pathetic that they were defeated by 2 Plumbers, he tells them to ready the Airships with Boom Boom (hearing this he looks disappointed and gathers a few troops) and prepare for an assault on Yoshi's Island. Kamek asks if Bowser is going and Bowser says no, explaining he has better things to do and there would be no point since it’s just 2 Pathetic Plumbers, Kamek tells him that he better not continue rocking, With Bowser replying he won’t. When he leaves, Bowser continues his song.

Return to Yoshi’s Island
The 4 end up in a grass island with a giant door, Luigi tired, says that he doesn't want to go adventuring anymore. Peach assures Luigi that they’re here, Peach knocks on the large door and sees Giant Eyes, the creature moans and Peach (who is fluent in its language) moans to it that she’s the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom and with her loyal subjects, they are here to prove their worth for the Power star to stop Bowser from ruling the world. The large door open to reveal a giant Dinosaur named Plessie, Luigi seems frightened that this will eat him while Mario is in awe that the Dinosaurs still exist.

Plessie grabs the group and puts them out her back where she dashes towards the Kingdom with the Slider theme playing, The group see thousands of Dinosaurs living here including Yoshi’s, Dorrie’s, Dino Piranhas, Reznors, Rexs, Dolphins, Draglets and other types of Dinosaurs in real life made in a Mario style along with enemies from Yoshi’s Island. The high octane tour ends with Plessie going up a mountain and into the Yoshi Council. She knocks onto the small door and it immediately opens, she waves goodbye to the group after that exciting journey (or completely frightening that what Luigi thinks)

The 4 enter a mountainous Jungle and wonder what to do, they then see a White Egg with Green Spots splattered all around it. Hearing the group walking, the Egg hatches into an Adult Yoshi, the group seem in horror at its outcome while Toad sees how cute it is and pets it, before it places it tongue on him and eats him, running away, The 3 give chase through the Jungle and make it to a Mountain where they see a Council of Yoshi’s. The Green Yoshi spits out Toad and sees the Toads from the beginning of the film have made it here, Toad runs to the group and hugs, Toadette tells them that she didn’t know they survived. The Yoshi’s go down to the group and talk to them, but all they hear is the word “Yoshi”, Mario & Luigi seem confused and the Green Yoshi holds his hands up and points to the group, Yoshi’s with tribal armour and Wooden spears with eggs on the top of point to the group and they use their tongues to stick it on the Brothers head which leads to them blacking out after gaining omnibenevolent knowledge.

Mario wakes up and hears the Yoshi’s talking in English, Mario wonders how they’re speaking in English as he answers that Human Brains can’t understand Dinosaur language and must be tampered with which he guessed his girlfriend Plessie didn’t do. The Council of Yoshi’s wonder what Humans want with them, and Peach answers that they need to use the Power Star to stop Bowser from ruling the World, she and her subjects have survived an attack from Bowser and have an idea of what is plan will be and need to stop him before he attacks anymore places.

The Yoshi Council tells the group that they need a subject who can prove their worthy of the star’s power, Peach says see has the perfect subjects. The Yoshi Council, seeming impressed, calls a meeting with all of the Yoshi’s. Princess Peach, with thousands of Dinosaurs packed in a small hall, tells the Dinosaurs that an evil monster will destroy their world and need to form a resistance/army to stop him, Peach says that they’ll need the Power Star to ensure that they can truly win. She introduces the 2 Heroes that will lead them to victory, Mario Mario and Luigi Luigi. The 2 walk to the podium and introduce themselves, Mario says “It’sa me Mario” and Luigi follows with a meak “Hello”, Mario says that he and his Brother but mostly him will lead them to victory, he’s beaten an Giant Ape (with Luigi reminded them that he barely defeated an Ape), an army of Sewer Monsters and a Fake version of Bowser, the crowd cheer in excitement, maybe they could be worthy overall.

But, a Reznor asks him an important question, can he Spin Jump? Mario shakes his head and the crowd gasp, A Rex then asks can he Long Jump? Mario doesn't know what that means and the crowd gasp again, multiple Dinosaurs ask if they can Dive, Ground Pound, Backflip, Double Jump, Triple Jump and Wall Jump, with Mario denying no each time.

The group gasps louder each time, getting more doubtful at the ability of the Brother being worthy of the Star’s Power. Toad tells the group that do they have no shame? They may not look like it, especially being Plumbers, with some of the Dinosaurs raising their eyebrows and they may have nearly died from Bowser, or a Giant Fish, a Fat Penguin, or an Angry Sun but they have heart. One of the Yoshi’s asks if he just said they’re Plumbers who were nearly killed by Bowser, Toad says that that was just Mario and he almost got killed by Bowser twice, one being a fake version of Bowser.

At this point, the crowd is in full uproar, who were these people to proclaim that they were worthy of the Star’s Power but couldn’t even do a simple Double Jump (You Literally run and press A twice), The Dinosaurs throw fruits at the group and some rush out of the hall, being scared at that fact that they could all die from Bowser. Mario tries to rationally explain, but is silenced by a Large Melon thrown into his mouth.

Yoshi, angry, calms the dinosaurs down and makes a deal with them. Yoshi will put the group in a lethargic trial and will do it tomorrow under a time limit. If they fail, they will die. Luigi shouts they’ll die while Mario has a determined smirk on his face. The Dinosaurs laugh collectively and say they’ll watch since they know that they’ll die. The Dinosaurs leave except for Yoshi who tells the group that they aren’t gonna die, because he’s gonna train the shell out of them to prove their worth to the Power Star, but first tells the Brothers to lose the pasta.

From here we get a montage of Mario training through the Islands’ many locations playing Don’t Stop Me, which leads to many callbacks to Super Mario World with it’s aesthetics and enemies including running through an herd of reznors, using a skull-boat in a sea of Blarggs, Draggodons, Lava Bubbles and Magmaarghs/Charvaarghs, Running away from a Banzai Bill, Playing American football with a few Chargin Chucks, Wrestling a Sumo Bro, Stealing back an Item from a few Monty Moles, Bench Pressing a few Lava Rocks, Spin-Jumping on a few Piranha Plants and Rexs, Swimming in waters full of Rip Van Fishes and Dolphins, practicing Wall Jumping and a few other manoeuvres. The Montage ends with Mario in a side-scrolling sequence running through Island and mastering those aforementioned skills.

Leveling Up
While camping in a field of Fire Flowers outside of Yoshi's House, Mario looks up at the moon, still awake. Peach exists the camp and wonders why Mario is still awake. He tells her that he's just worried about Luigi, who he feels isn't up for it. Peach gives a confused look and tells him to elaborate.

A flashback occurs, showing a young Luigi build a Toy Mansion, which is then destroyed by Wario and Waluigi, they then proceed to bully Luigi for "being different", Mario then comes in pushes both of them, the Wario bros startled run away, leaving the Mario Brothers alone. Mario helps rebuild Luigi's Mansion and tells him to be proud of himself.

Cutting back to present day, Mario says that he feels like he protected Luigi too much and didn't let him live his on life, contemplating he's bringing him down, saying he should maybe leave him once this is all done. It's revealed Luigi is still awake and is hearing the conversation unfold and then proceeds to go back to sleep.

It’s day later and Mario walks through a hallway, taking a deep breath and gets ready and opens the door, seeing a Giant Arena shaped like an Egg with Peach, Toad and Yoshi on the other side, Luigi follows suit and see the Yoshi’s Cheering for Mario and Luigi. Yoshi announces that the Bros have 350 Seconds to make it to the end of the stage, represented by a Giant Flag with a Yoshi Egg on it. Mario tells Luigi if he’s ready, Luigi nods. Yoshi sees the Bros are ready and starts the countdown (with the same sound effect from Mario Kart) and shouts Go!

Mario runs into action while Luigi follows suit, cardboard cutouts of Goombas appear which Mario punches and jumps on, he after jumping on a few Platforms, Luigi trying to imitate this, falls into the water below, The Crowd laughs at Luigi, Mario seeing this runs away and continued with the course, Yoshi points his staff at Luigi and gets a Laiktu to pick him up and put him to the start of the course again, Mario sees the next challenge which is to avoid tons of Bullet Bills, he runs through the Bullet Bills with ease, Luigi follows Mario however and gets hit by one of the Bullet Bills, launching him to parts unknown.

Mario continued to ace the course, wall-jumping, Double/Triple Jumping through obstacles such as Skewers, P-Switches, Running on Donut Blocks, Actual Fire Bars, Piranha Plants exiting pipes that Mario has to Spin Jump on and more, While Luigi fails each of these segments humorously. The Course ends with a fight between a Sumo Bro, which Mario effortly defeats, he makes it to the Flag Pole where he expects a fanfare both with the Crowd and and a Sound effect but hears that the a Jingle that signifies that Time is running out, Mario wonders why that Jingle was playing, Yoshi tells him that Both Brothers need to finish, with only 90 Seconds left, Mario rushes to help his Brother cross the finish line, carrying Luigi from the beginning while using Brother moves from the Mario and Luigi games, eventually after nearly 1 second on the clock, the Brothers cross the finish line barely. The Game over jingle plays and tells them you failed, Mario slumps on the ground and shrugs while Luigi gets uncontrollable nervous, Yoshi seems confused and says that was mistake, telling the Yoshi to flip the music sheet as the Course Clear Jingle plays from Super Mario Bros 1 as the Obstacle Course closes and the Yoshi’s cheer for Mario, chanting his name as he deemed worthy of the star’s power.

Boss Bout
Luigi, feeling sad walks away and Mario notices this stops him from walking, he wonders why he’s feeling like this as they’re cheering for both of them and Luigi tells him to look at the crowd, shouting and cheering for Mario, Luigi says he’s just a failure compared to him, not even able to complete a simple obstacle course, hearing what he said last night. Mario seeing Luigi distraught, tells him to Never Give Up, trust his instincts, his time to shine will come soon eventually, before long a Giant Bob-Omb lands in the Arena and explodes, they see that Bowser’s Airship lead by Kamek arrive to the Kingdom, using Bullet Bills to destroy the Arena.

The Airships land down to the ground of the Island as The Elite Trio, Boom Boom and Pom Pom walk out, they ask they’re from King Bowser and ask a very simple request, to give them the Power Star and surrender the Yoshi species to them, Yoshi says that he can’t and Boom Boom laughs, clapping his hands which leads to Kamek using his wand to teleport Petey Piranha into the scene. Boom Boom asks the same question again and Yoshi declines again, Boom Boom points his hand and Petey Piranha starts to destroy the Island, spewing goo everywhere and starts eating a few of the Yoshi’s, a group of other bosses such as King Goomboss and Chief Chilly emerge.

Yoshi tells Toad & Toadette to get the other Yoshi’s to safety while Mario, Luigi, Peach and Yoshi attempt to battle Petey, The Elite Trio, Boom Boom and Pom Pom. Petey eats all of the fruit and spits it out onto the group with Luigi taking the biggest hit and having to time out. Peach uses her Frying pan and says she’ll deal with Boom Boom and Pom Pom, leading to Mario and Yoshi facing Petey Piranha, who gets commanded by Kamek that he needs to get the Power Star no matter the cost, he realises that the Star is kept at the top of the Island, and heads up there. Mario wonders how to get up to Petey Piranha which leads to Yoshi tonguing him on his back, removing his tribal gear and putting him on his saddle, riding Yoshi like a horse.

Mario and Yoshi chase Petey through the Island while Kamek gives him the location of the Star, Petey shouts that he doesn’t need directions and spits his weird goop on him. Petey then flies up to the top of the mountain as that’s where he assumes where the star is, which is where it is. Mario asks if there’s a faster way up there, Yoshi shrugs while Mario thinks of a plan, Mario hits Yoshi and makes him use his long tongue to stick on his pants. Petey tries to shake them off but it doesn’t work. The three eventually make it up to the top of the Star Shrine and duke it out, however Petey eventually comes on top and makes a deal with Mario & Yoshi, he either destroys the entire Island and everyone in it if they take the Power Star or he takes the Power Star and leaves them be. Mario initially leans towards using the Power Star for themselves but Yoshi tells him to let Petey take it to save the only species of Yoshi, Mario tells him that Bowser & Kamek will win and destroy the world, just like they did with the Mushroom Kingdom. Yoshi tells him that small sacrifices will have to be made in order for a bigger reward. Mario, in disbelief however, takes the Power Star, Yoshi reprimands Mario for doing this, which leads to Petey laughing and falling down to the ground, telling all troops to capture everything in site.

Meanwhile, Peach defeats the Elite Trio, King Goomboss and Chief Chilly with her pan and Pom Pom fighting (with Pom Pom’s Boss Theme playing), despite Peach using a Frying Pan and Pom Pom being a skilled ninja in terms of teleportation and agility, Peach manages to win against Pom Pom by using his her Frying Pan on her head, but as she’s finished fighting Pom Pom, Boom Boom then grabs her, she tries to get herself freed but Boom Boom is too strong, Boom Boom states that they everything they need and they can return to the Koopa Kingdom.

Mario and Yoshi rush back to the Island to Petey from taking the Yoshi’s but is too late and sees thousands of Troops capturing the Yoshi’s, Mario hears Peach screaming and rushes to see what’s going on, seeing Boom Boom holding her, Mario shouts for her name while Peach does the same, Boom Boom laughs and gains wings to fly away, Peach manages to throw her Amulet on Mario as Boom Boom and the Army flies away to the Koopa Kingdom. At this point, The Island is in complete ruin, what was once the lively Resort was a turned into a destroyed wasteland with little to no Yoshi’s populating the area, Mario says at least it’s can’t any worse, before the 2 Toads take the a few of the Yoshi’s to the Village and see everything in chaos. The Yoshi’s and even Toadette surround Mario and attack him, saying he was the cause of the destruction of Yoshi’s Island and the capture of Princess Peach, calling him unworthy of the Star’s Power, saying that he shouldn’t rely on Yoshi to do his bidding and he’s not the savior of the Mushroom Kingdom.

Before they can do anything worse to him Yoshi stops the crowd from doing more damage to him and tries to explain to the Yoshi’s. Yoshi saying that he may not look like it, but will be capable of saving the entire world in due time and will have to learn to be a Hero, Yoshi also reminds them that their Chief including him and the previous ones wasn’t always perfect and that they’ll and he needed to make sacrifices for a better outcome, he may have overdone it but in order to become a better hero, it takes failures first, telling them that Anyone can do anything if they believe in themseleves. The Yoshi’s and Toadette ease up on Mario, understanding where Yoshi is coming from. Luigi asks if Mario is okay as he looks a bit sombre and says he’s fine, saying that they need to continue their adventure and save the Princess. Yoshi leaves and tells the Yoshi’s to find a leader as Yoshi wants to supervise the group on their journey. Mario, Luigi, Toad, Yoshi and now Toadette into a Pipe to parts unknown.

The Big Bad Koopa
Meanwhile, Boom Boom, an unconscious Pom Pom carried by Petey Piranha, The Elite Trio, Kamek and the entire Airship Army return to Bowser’s Castle, Bowser sitting on his giant throne looks like they have Peach in his presence wrapping her in ropes, Bowser ,intrigued, laughs and walks to her. Boom Boom says that they have nothing but good news, they have captured every Yoshi in Yoshi’s Island and ran into a few Special guests on the way. Bowser is ecstatic, and asks if they’ve gotten the Power Star. Boom Boom, nervously, tries to tell him that someone else has the Power Star. Bowser’s happy expression turns into instant anger, which leads to him breathing fire everywhere. Kamek whispers to Boom Boom that he should have lied and said they had it with them, Boom Boom whispers back he should always be honest with Kamek responding to say he’s not paying for the funeral. Bowser says that he don’t know about anyone else but he feels like throwing the dumbest, largest, most idiotic person in the room from the highest point of the Castle then go down there and beat the ever living shell out of them because he forgot the one thing that would let Bowser fully conquer the world or foil his plans, while saying this he grabs Boom Boom and presses him onto his stained glass window, and nearly breaking it, but he says he won’t do that because he’s sane and instead throws him onto the ground in his throne room, hitting him on his head and knocking him out. While all of this is going on, Bowser Jr is watching from the behind of the throne room, thinking to himself how unnecessarily mean his dad is.

Bowser takes a long deep breath and walks to Princess Peach, who is notably shaken and tells them to remove the ropes from Peach. The 2 walkthrough Bowser’s Castle with the boss fight music from Super Mario 64. Bowser talks about that if he isn’t sure if she notices, but he’s gonna rule the world, Peach says “Hooray for you, I guess” and claps sarcastically, he tells her that he was gonna use the Power star to do so, allowing him to gain unlimited power.

The 2 go into an Elevator themed like a Thwomp, the thwomp hit’s the ground and Bowser goes to the basement, Bowser introduces Peach to the hundreds of De-Evolution Machines, seeing thousands of Stone Toads, Yoshi’s and other creatures piled up. She asks what this is and he says it’s a machine that will allow him to create a massive army, every single living creature in the planet will become a Koopa, he will show no mercy to the world since no one showed any love to him in the world so why bother showing love to anyone else. Peach tells him that it doesn’t have to be this way, she holds his hands and asks what went wrong, Bowser too sad, says he can’t say, he won’t. While watching this, Bowser Jr is watching this again from the back of the chair and wonders what is going on with his father, about if he loves him or not. Bowser then says that they will go on a date immediately before the wedding, Peach politely declines before Bowser gets angry, which leads to the next shot of her being in a cage.

Mario Vs Donkey Kong
Meanwhile, the group walk through the Jungles, Mario and Yoshi keep on talking about the fight while the others look bored at this, especially Luigi who feels like he's been replaced. Up on the trees above, we see a giant ape with a red tie and a small monkey on its back. Nodding and pointing to Mario. First, Toad mysteriously disappears and the group apart from Mario wonder where he is while Toadette is crying her eyes. Mario says he's probably gone to the Toilet, Toadette answering that he never goes to the Toilet. Mario leaves while the rest of the group try to find him with her. Then suddenly, a coconut smoke bomb is used and Toadette is also gone. Luigi and Yoshi quickly run to Mario and say that something weird is going on and that they need to stop to figure out where they've gone. Mario gets angry and says that Toadette has probably left to find him, Luigi and Yoshi looking confused just go along with Mario. Before long Yoshi and Luigi's heads collide and are taken. Mario looks around and says he can finally get some peace and quiet, he sees the weird wonders of the land including a lot of enemies from these types of forest levels including Giant Enemies, small yellow caterpillars named Wiggler, Bramballs, Uproots, Piranha Plants and more.

After a few seconds of walking we see the giant ape right in front of him. Mario asks if he can help him while the Ape silently punches him, knocking him out. Mario, without his hat as a monkey guard stole it, wakes up and is in a cage underground while the rest of the group is tied up on the ceiling. Mario takes his hat back, tells the people to free him and sees the entire place is filled with Ukikis & Kong’s shouting and calling for their leader. We see the giant ape and his smaller monkey walk down to the cage breaking it. The ape grabs Mario by the throat and slams him into the ground, while the monkey tells him that the fight hasn't started. The Ape makes a deal with Mario saying that he'll let Mario and his friends go if he eats the Banana of Doom, a Brownish Green Banana that smells terrible according to Mario or will have a fight to the death, which he then says that he doesn't want to eat it to the dismay of the group on the ceiling thinking that Mario won't win. DK laughs, putting the Banana in his tie and accepts that Mario will have to fight to the death in a wrestling arena.

The small monkey provides commentary for the match and introduces himself as Diddy Kong and the Ape as Donkey Kong the III, calling him the giant, brown, bongo loving yet somewhat dumb ape who is DK's Cousin, everyone cheers for DK as we see DK waving and getting ready for the fight, he also pulls out a picture of Candy Kong saying this is for you. Then Diddy introduces Mario as a fat, Italian 20-something nobody who moved the apes away from the City all those months ago who the Ukikis and Kong’s boo. Mario asks Everyone for help apart from Luigi who he forgets, Toad tells him good luck and he was the one who got himself into this mess and he's the one who should get out of it. Mario then realises that he was the one who made this happen and tries to explain that this was all a big mistake. But DK isn't having none of that and punches him, starting the fight. Throughout the fight we see Mario trying different methods of fighting but DK prevails, he then uses his hammer to beat DK but he manages to break it, Mario gets so angry he decides to pull him from his tie and everything in it of which DK appropriately responds to by a headbutt, DK talks about how he hates Mario for making him leave New Donk City away from his banana hoard which hasn't been found and losing everything, also saying that he'll will restore honour to the Kong Family from the Ape Killer as he's been training for this moment for his entire life.

We see Mario battered up with his clothes being partially ripped but he decides not to give up despite all the odds being against him which his friends tell him to just eat TBOD. Mario and DK jump and make a loud collision in the middle which catches the attention of Cranky Kong who's watching a show run by Swanky Kong, he runs downstairs and shouts at them to stop the noise, which everyone does. Cranky Kong waddles to DK and tells him what is going on, DK's tough demeanour is stopped as he meekly tells Cranky that he's fighting the person who sent them to his house. Cranky looks at Mario with a face of pure anger, hitting him with his cane and tells DK that he's finally made him proud, DK smiles and Cranky tells them to wait as he gets a bucket of bananas and he then tells them to carry on. The fight is one sided as normal with Cranky crudely and proudly shouting that his grandson.

Mario realises that his normal Power isn't enough and uses one of one of the Power Ups from Luigi’s Bag to power him up. He then has a Blue shell, Cranky laughs uncontrollably and wonders what having a giant blue shell will do saying something about how dumb humans are, before Mario can shrug, DK nearly punches him, the shell makes him dodge the attack. After that we see DK chasing Mario but dodges each time, now the tables have turned, DK getting angry and agitated while Mario gets Cocky, a little too cocky that is as DK talks to Diddy giving him a Orange grenade which hits Mario, weakening him.

Luigi and Toad talk about Mario and how this is embarrassing while Yoshi is sleeping, Toad saying that this is the saviour of the Mushroom Kingdom. Toadette, meanwhile, is silent and wonders for a way for Mario to defeat DK, she then gets the idea to make Mario use TBOD and get it into DK's mouth. She tells this to Mario and Mario thinks it's impossible while Toadette says that nothing is impossible you just need to put your mind to it, so Mario grabs TBOD and shell-dashes on DK's Stomach and shoots TBOD in his mouth, DK about to punch Mario before his stomach gets upset and needs to vomit, so he steals Diddy's hat and pukes in it and also farts a bit.

After that Mario, despite all odds, is named the winner of this gruelling battle. Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong returns and the Ukikis and Kong’s are all disappointed and leave, but the most disappointed seems to be Cranky Kong saying that he showed promise in that fight but as always he was just a steaming pile of disappointment like he always is and tells him to leave his house and pack his things as he has further disgraced the Kong name. DK tells Diddy to free the hostages, the group congratulate Mario on his surprising win, Mario begrudgingly says thank you to Toadette before he sees DK crying with Diddy trying to make him feel better. Mario walks to the Kongs and asks if he's okay with DK's Quick response of a loud no, Mario asks why with Diddy telling Mario that this was his chance to prove himself to Cranky Kong, and blew it, Mario, seeming sad knowing how it feels to disappoint his father, apologises for his actions which leads to Mario and DK shake hands which leads to DK crushing his hand Cranky Kong sees this and shakes his head and leaves, Mario asks if they want to crash at his place for a while and they accept with Luigi saying at this rate they don't even have a place to live in.

Mario and the gang go out of the cavern and see it's the evening, they walk through the Jungle and to get to the Mountains and see there's a giant lake of "soda" as DK puts it which can put the end of Mario's quest to save Peach right? Well DK thinks of a plan as from stories of Cranky Kong of these Giant Caterpillars who would roam the land and were immune to Soda, they would always come when loud noises would be heard, so the gang makes the loudest noises to make a Caterpillar herd come. And it works with DK having the idea to tame the giant caterpillars and ride them to the Mountains, everyone hops on a different Wiggler as Diddy likes to call and ride through the sunset, everyone's Wiggler seems fine, Toadette even gets a Flutter. Apart from Mario, which wiggler's is red and the leader and is really fast and uncontrollable due to Mario making it angry, nearly falling into the Soda and causing chaos to each of the group members.

Luigi’s Mansion
Meanwhile, Peach wakes up in the Castle and ends up in a cage above lava, Bowser greets her and makes a deal. They’ll go on one date and will fall in love with each other and will let all of her people go, or if she declines she’ll burn in lava and all of the Toads will be stones and in captivity forever. Bowser gives her an Hour before making a decision. Peach accepts the first choice in order to let her people go. Bowser leaves the room before realising that Bowser Jr overhears this and tells Bowser that was a bad thing that he did, Bowser laughs this off, saying that’s what villains do, forcing Princesses to marry them. Bowser Jr says that True Love comes in time, before he can finish, Bowser cuts him off saying that when you’ve lived as long as he has and the life that he has lived, you need to make drastic decisions. Bowser Jr tries to argue with him before Bowser yells at him to go to his room. Kamek overhears and goes to Bowser and asks what’s wrong, Bowser screams and answers that he feels like that he will disappoint everyone around him, no matter what he does. He knows that Peach won’t fall in love with him and that true love won’t come to him. Kamek tells Bowser that no matter what he faces, his parents and Kamek will always be proud of him, despite the hardships he faced during his life. Bowser hugs Kamek, crushing his bones. Bowser walks off leaving Kamek alone, he goes into his room and uses his cauldron, to see who has the Power Star before seeing Mario and the group venturing through the Clouds, Kamek has a flashback and remembers of the babies in Yoshi’s Island he bumped into to many years ago, he uses his broom and rushes to warn Bowser.

Meanwhile, the group end up in the Jungle of Illusion, a Magical Jungle, it’s revealed the group have been following the lead of Mario for most of the trip which has led them to be lost for a whole day so much so it’s night. Luigi wonders if they’re lost since he’s seen the same exact Wiggler in the same exact spot 5 times now. After seeing the Wiggler once again, Luigi walks expecting a Bramball to appear now and hits his head on the door of the Mansion. Seeing the Mansion, Luigi asks if they can rest in the Mansion, Mario denies the request and tells the group to keep finding out as the Princess is possibly going to be married in only a matter of time before the world is plunged into chaos. The others look for a place to rest while Mario wants to focus but decides to call the group to go ahead, they enter a giant Mansion which is said to be an Hotel and say that they’ll stay there for the night, which Luigi seems scared at as he apparently sees 2 Boos but everyone dismisses this. Mario reluctantly follows as we see the 2 Boos laugh. The group walk through the mansion and see a whole host of Portraits from Luigi’s Mansion, we see many different types of Boo enemies from the series including Broozers, Dry Bones and Peepas evading the group’s attention.

They eventually make it to the dinning hall, Luigi says he’ll cook but says he isn’t as good as Mario, Toad says he’s not good at anything to Toadette but Luigi hears this and throws a plunger at him. After that, we see Mario getting angry at the group being so lax about the quest to save the world, while walking through the Mansion he sees Bowser, Mario kicks him which does nothing, Bowser laughs which leads to Mario running away before long he’s captured by something and turned into a Portrait.

Not long after hearing Mario scream in horror the gang finds out the house it haunted, they see thousands of Boo’s appearing right in front of them and one who Proclaims to be their King, aptly named King Boo. King Boo takes out the group using their worst nightmares, Toad’s fear being just always the same as his Toad Breathen and tries to delude himself to be different, Toadette's fear of Toad never liking him, Yoshi not living up to the original Chief, Donkey Kong’s fear of losing his Bananas, Diddy Kong’s fear of DK not liking him and finally when it comes to Luigi, his fear being ghosts, King Boo torments him with every type of Ghost imaginable that he has in his army. Luigi breaks down before thinking about Mario and how heroic he’s been, being fearless and courageous not matter what the situation, Luigi inspired by Mario’s actions and words in Yoshi’s Island goes in and faces his fears and knows that he doesn’t need to be afraid of the world anymore and uses his power and inspiration to save his friends from King Boo. After that, everyone is freed from the curses of King Boo. Mario asks if they’re happy now and responds with a positive response, saying that being turned into a Portrait helped them rest and recharge their batteries. Mario, frustrated, takes Luigi’s bag so he can be in charge and continues on with their quest and up in the land of the sky, near Bowser’s domain.

Speaking of Bowser we see how his date is going in the Poison Mushroom and it’s going really badly. Bowser, eating 5 big hams loudly and unpleasantly, tries getting advice from Boom Boom, who is sitting at a table right next to him with Pom Pom, which Peach catches onto and thinks is really weird. Bowser tries to make small talk and ignite true love, but miserably fails as Peach will never forgive him for the destruction of the Kingdom, accepting that he has unfortunately failed this time and finally thinks to resort to Kamek’s idea for hypnosis. Before he decides the one last action before Kamek’s Plan can come to fruition, he says that he has a big, long…

Before we can hear the last word, Kamek with Bowser Jr bursts in and shouts his name as he finishes his sentence and the word is Baguette, Bowser can apparently make a big, long and tasty Baguette, as Peach looks disgusted Bowser asks that he’s ruining his date and that he was finally getting through to her, Kamek saying that he will never get through to her and that they should give up legitimately trying and use hypnosis, but makes a point that fruitless dating isn’t important now, A super human and his friends are coming this way. Bowser laughs and tells him that he doesn’t care, they will fail when they come here, he leaves Kamek before seeing Peach trying to escape, Bowser grabs her and tells her that she can’t leave, she won’t leave. She pleads to let her go, she doesn’t love him, she loves someone else. Bowser says he knew it, he knew she was just like everyone else.

She asks what he means by that and Bowser tells her what happened in his past. As a Baby, Bowser was slightly destructive than most babies, a lot more angry, whiner and can breathe fire just like any other baby. The stigma to Koopas was that they were all evil, good for nothing creatures who hate everyone and everything and destroyed anything in their way. Bowser’s parents died at when he was at a young age, leaving Kamek to take care of him, safe to assume these bad habits die hard, but despite this there was always a side to Bowser that was nice, caring and thoughtful but it was overshadowed by everyone knowing the reputation that Koopas had and so no one talked to him and the people who did, hated him. One day in a meeting, all of the rulers of the kingdoms came together to talk about a committee with their children in a separate room. Bowser was one of these children, trying to play with the other kids, but they declined and abused him. Bowser was left all alone in the corner of the room, crying, all alone, no one to love, That was until a young girl in a pink dress came along and lent her hand to him, this was of course, Princess Peach. The 2 played for seemingly hours on end, until however, Toadsworth came to pick up Peach, leading the 2 to never see each other again, due to political circumstances surrounding both Kingdoms.

Bowser said she was the only person that showed him actual love, and the only person he loved back and did everything in his power to meet her again. Peach ,near the brink of tears, said it doesn’t have to be this way, she may not love him and sorta hates what he’s done with her Kingdom but they can start over, forget what has happened with the Koopa Kingdom in the past and present and move on, and be friends while holding his hand. She tells Bowser that she needs to go home and that he doesn’t need to be like this, and plus other people actually like him, The Elite Trio, Boom Boom, Pom Pom, Petey Piranha, and his own son, the legacy he will leave behind will be undeniable great.

Bowser is moved by tears and is thinking about change, a rare site for the Koopa King and says if she thinks he should change, before she can answer Kamek tells him enough of this farce, he tells Bowser that the entire world will still be against, what will one hippy dippy speech from a Princess do to the world, Kamek persuades him that someone who says this to him, absolutely loves him and both shall be married without hypnotism, Peach tells Bowser she’s lying that someone who them would want them to change, no matter what. Kamek laughs, and tells Bowser that someone who wants him to change, hates Bowser. Peach sees that Kamek himself was hurt for many years but is too far gone.

Bowser changes his attitude, he takes a deep breath and decides to go with the Wedding effective immediately, he grabs Peach out of her own will who then tells him that he can change, he should change. Bowser leaves to the Castle leaving Kamek and Bowser Jr together near the Poison Mushroom. Kamek sighs and tells Bowser Jr to get ready for the mission he’s been waiting for his entire life, to take over the Koopa throne, Jr intrigued wonders how and why as Kamek tells him that they need to overcome their failures, the 2 walk to the Castle, ending Act 2

Cloudy with a Chance of Chain-Chomps
Act 3 begins with the group going through the Clouds, which is home to the village of Lakitus, Chain-Chomps, Ty-foos and the hardest platforming challenges yet, Luigi seeing a giant Beanstalk that cuts most of all the Platforming challenges and leads to a straight path, but, Mario hardened by Luigi taking charge, says this is better. Before walking on a straight path, the group see thousands of Airships emerge, a strong deep voice tells them that they must surrender or they will die, Mario smiling tells them they will fight with the group looking, The deep voice tell them that he’s gonna leave the Airship, which makes Mario further his stance, the voice says very well then before a small ship emerges, revealing it’s Bowser’s Jr in the Koopa Clown Car.

Mario laughs uncontrollably, thinking that Bowser was too lazy and potentially scared of him so he sends his son, he walks to him while laughing and bonks his head three times which makes him fall down with his Clown Car. He keeps on laughing with the group looking confused then slowly gets concerned and scared while Mario laughs, he turns around and sees Mega Hammer. Mario says “Mamma Mia” before he runs, which leads to the group being crushed by the Hammer, Mario continues to run but falls into the abyss, Bowser Jr remarks how easy that was and puts the group onto an Airship, and tells them to to tie the group up, Everyone is then tied with ropes and imprisoned by Boom Boom, they wonder if Mario will come back for them with Luigi remaining hopeful that he has to, he’s Mario after all. Boom Boom tells him that no one survives the deadly drop of the clouds, as he’s saying this, Mario using the Cape Feather flies up and says, “Hello It‘sa me Mario!”. Bowser Jr, seeing this, tells everyone to attack.

The Airships blast Bullet Bills, Bob-ombs and Wrenches with Winged Hammer, Fire, Ice and Boomerang Bros charging on, Mario avoids the projectiles and defeat the Bros by Spinning like a torpedo and making and charges straight through an Airship, destroying it, Luigi seeing Mario calls for his name and wants him to help save, seeing this, he throws the bag which he’s had from his Cape and flies away, fighting more Soldiers in the Air. The Group get frustrated and wonder why he’s acting like this, Luigi gets so angry over what Mario is doing that he uses his sheer strength to break the ropes, the others look confused as they didn’t know Luigi had that in him, Boom Boom while playing a DS with E.gadd’s logo, see that the group have escaped and preps his troops to attack, the 4 charge forward while Mario flies through more Airships and eventually runs straight into Megahammer, who then turns it’s hammer into a hand and throws Mario to a mountain, Bowser Jr then uses it’s fists, bombs, Big Steelies and Mecha Koopas to fight of Mario. Meanwhile, as the group try to fight using with Toad using a Cat Suit, Donkey Kong using the Fire Flower, Diddy Kong using a Super Mushroom and Toadette using an Ice Flower.

Luigi faces Boom Boom on his own, he gets beat up at first with Luigi then accidentally hitting on the head in retaliation which slows down Boom Boom, then realising that his head is the weakness, he tries getting the most height in the Airship then proceeds to ground pound on Boom Boom, permanently passing him out. He has a sigh of relief as everyone manages to hold their own before seeing that the Airship has suspiciously split in half, making Luigi realise that Mario has cut the airship in half. Which then leads to the group and everyone falling down, Yoshi seeing a ledge uses his tongue to stick onto it and manages to save the 5 but is too far to save Luigi.

Mario, having enough of Bowser Jr beating him up, uses a giant Bob-omb from the Airship and throws it at Megahammer, which then destroys it. Reverting back to the Clown Car state, Bowser Jr cries and retreats, with one more Airship, all the troops drop down to save the others which leads Yoshi and the Toads to use it. Mario thinks he’s once again done but he hears Luigi screaming to save him, Mario flies down while Luigi thinks that he’s gonna die as he is near the ground but he is saved by Mario in the last millisecond by his red and white sock. Mario files up to the Airship and saves Luigi, Mario wonders why Luigi is so mad in turn the rest of the group, Luigi calls out Mario out for his actions, for leaving the group when they need his help the most and his attitude to them, Luigi would allow of this if he knew why he did all this. Mario says that he didn’t want to hurt anyone and wanted to prove his worth so he can use the Power star. Luigi blows back at him saying to look at the group, tired, battered, scared, frightened.

Mario says that means that he wouldn’t be a Hero and that he therefore wouldn’t be worthy as he needs to do it alone, and then says Yoshi’s words of Small Sacrifices to make a big reward. Luigi realises that he’s a lost cause, He then asks a question, if they should go with Mario to save the Princess, Mario doesn’t answer and Luigi asks the question again and louder, Mario says no, Luigi wonders why and tells them that he's bringing down everyone, especially Luigi.

Luigi's angry expression turns to sadness, he says that he isn't bringing him down. Mario tells him he is, he saw Luigi in the Mansion and just now doing great, because he wasn't there. Luigi says that he isn't and in fact, the only thing he was thinking of, was making Mario proud. The two exchange a hug. Mario says that he finally had a purpose in life and accomplished something meaningful in life again and he didn’t want to lose it like what happened with him being the Ape Killer. He knew that the star deemed him as worthy but he himself felt like he failed when he let Peach be captured and destroyed his island and especially when the group got captured twice. He needed to push himself further and further to feel he was worthy not only to himself but the world and the expectations that they put on him and wanted to protect his friends. Yoshi hugs Mario and tells him he was always worthy but pushing himself to the point of destroying his character and the people around him was when the star deemed him unworthy. Yoshi tells him that he didn’t need to push himself as he was fine but even if he felt like he wasn’t worthy enough, his friends could help him also telling him that no matter your flaws and failures, you are worthy of anything and that anyone can do anything if they work hard enough for it. Anyone can use the Power Star, they just need to believe their Worthy of the best versions of themselves, and Mario didn’t believe this. Mario understands what he has to do now and wants to save the world now.

Mario apologises to everyone and tells them that they don’t have to go with him if he wants to as he doesn’t blame them but everyone has the potential of being a Hero and can do anything if they put their mind to it. Luigi hugs Mario and says there’s the Brother he knew and loved, Mario also remarks that he did barely defeat that Ape. Yoshi asks how they’re gonna save the Princess while Mario & Luigi think of a plan to save the Princess.

He calls this plan, Operation: Re-Kidnap the Princess, which Toad takes issue with since it sounds malicious, Mario tries to come up with other names like re-capture, re-save, re-take but all of these sound wrong to the Toads and are too vague, Mario comes up with the plan named (while saying this)

“Operation Let’sa Go into Bowser Castle and try and easily persuade Princess Peach into coming with us and stopping Bowser’s Plans for World Domination”
Mario tells the group to follow them in the Airship and sees what they can do as a lot of the which includes a map of the Castle, a few hammer suits and invite lists to the wedding leading to a montage playing, showing each segment of the plan and how it’s executed, Mario, Luigi, The Kong’s & Yoshi use Hammer Suits to infiltrate the Castle in secret while Toad & Toadette go inside the Pipe that Mario did and try to revive the stone Toads with Peach’s Amulet and get chased by Thwomps and Whomps, Mario’s goal is to switch the Princess with Luigi and catch Bowser off guard then take Luigi and run from Bowser where they will trap Bowser. Luigi initially declines but after Mario persuades him into wanting to wear the dress Luigi does so begrudgingly. Everyone likes the plan apart from Toad who asks how they’re gonna get there. Everyone looks at Mario and it cuts to Mario using a P-Balloon to drag the Airship to the Castle.

After that, The Kong’s serve as distractions while Mario, Luigi and Yoshi using Hammer Bros suits make it into the Castle and to the elevator as Peach’s room is in the Spike shell thingy of the Castle, they get into the elevator and more people go into the elevator, Luigi bumps into an Hammer Bro and thinks that they’re not a real Hammer Bro, they say that they’re transfers from another Castle, the Hammer Bro gets his weapon and said he should have been de-evolved by now, Luigi gets worried before Mario beats boxes the Super Mario Bros 1 theme, with Yoshi following suit, Luigi shrugs and does the same thing. This leads to a dance scene where all the troops in the elevator are dancing to the music, which includes the SMB1 Overworld, Underground and NSMB themes, which then acts as a front to the 3 to the escape on the top.

As the many enemies dance to the tunes, Kamek, The Elite Trio and Boom Boom walk there talking about giving all of them a promotion as he has managed to properly discipline the troops well and see the dancing enemies and look embarrassed and angry at them as they’re dancing at nothing. Kamek tells Boom Boom to forget about any promotion as he can’t even run his troops right. The Trio makes it to the Peach’s room and breaks the vent in there, Yoshi uses his tongue to stick it on Mario’s back and elevate him down to the room. Mario says hi and Peach screams and gets a frying pan to hit him but sees it’s the Plumber, she runs to him and hugs him the 2 drop down and tells her that they have a plan to stop Bowser.

Decoy Time
Mario then asks Peach and Luigi to change clothes. Peach slaps Mario with the frying pan. Luigi and Yoshi tries to explain his plan before she does anything worse. Peach understands as the scene sees Mario, Yoshi and Peach with Luigi’s clothes leave the room while Luigi puts on the dress and says that this is the stupidest thing he’s ever done and that this won’t work. Yoshi sees a nearby Goomba Mask and makes Luigi put it on telling that if anyone asks that he’s putting on make-up and it needs to dry, Peach says that’s not how it works Yoshi dismisses this saying most people here are boys and wouldn’t know anyway.

Mario, Yoshi, Peach, The Kong’s, Toad and Toadette meet up in the main lobby and tell them that the decoy has been deployed. They celebrate as they eagerly await for the wedding to go shambles. Kamek sees that Bowser and Bowser Jr are ready and goes up to Peach’s room and tells “her” that they’re ready and asks why “she’s” wearing the Goomba Mask. Luigi, taking Yoshi’s advice, says that her make-up isn’t ready. Kamek says that’s not how it works as he has a wife at home and knows from experience after raising 7 Children.

Kamek then tries to take off the mask but Luigi tries to tell him not to but he manages to and gets angry when he sees that it isn’t obviously Peach. He mutters to his breath “he’s here”. A fight starts and Luigi manages to come on top temporarily but Kamek whacks him with his wand, but Luigi decides to not give up and kicks him under his feet and runs away with the Goomba Mask, Kamek immediately chases him using his broom. Luigi goes into the elevator as Kamek shouts to get back here, the elevator closes right when Kamek tries to go in it.

Meanwhile, the group waits for Luigi to walk down as the wedding march is playing. Bowser Jr takes place as the marriage officiant as Kamek has had an accident. Mario pumps his fist in the air and thinks they’ve got this in the bag. But to their surprise, Luigi doesn’t signal them and instead goes with the wedding as normal, the group wonder why and Mario immediately comes to the conclusion that it isn’t Luigi.

The wedding guests are sitting and getting ready for the Wedding. Bowser Jr says the wedding and goes to asks the couple if they want to marry each other and all that stuff, Bowser keeps on saying yes while Kamek asks Peach if they want to marry Bowser, and she nods. Kamek ignores her and says if anyone has any objections they can say them now, a random Goomba says he objects and Bowser breathes fire on him. He then asks if anyone else wants to object and they decline. Jr tells Bowser to now kiss the bride.

Before Mario can do anything, “Peach”, agrees and Bowser kisses the Goomba Mask. “Peach” laughs and unmasks “herself” into Kamek, Bowser gets angry and the group look confused, Kamek asks for the Plumber and his ensemble to surrender themselves or else his Brother will be killed, knowing there’s nothing to do in the situation. Mario and the gang surrender as Bowser sees that he’s the red plumber and laughs that he’s the one with the Power Star but Kamek tells him not to mess with him, Toad asks if he has any plan and Mario doesn’t answer. Kamek brings down Luigi (who is wearing Kamek’s clothes). Kamek grins as he finally won. Kamek says that the Koopaline has had failure after failure after failure of taking over the world, when he finally had a chance to rectify their mistakes with Bowser, he trained him to be best soldier, the best ruler, the best Koopa there was in his opinion, no room for failure or change to compromise the mission, but he was just another failure in a long line of failure. And now he has finally won and has gotten everyone right where he wants. Mario asks if he needed to dress up like that while Kamek says that he needed to fool everyone that he was a Princess, plus he likes dressing up as a Princess.

Kamek calls the VIP’s to beat everyone as they gang up to the group leading to one giant fight sequence of Heroes vs Villains, all of the guests watch in awe as Mario, Luigi Peach, Yoshi, Toad and Toadette are up against King Goomboss, Petey Piranha, Chief Chilly, King Bob-Omb and King Boo. Before that, Luigi asks if they can all switch back into all their respective clothes, while Peach agrees Kamek says that he likes how comfy they are, despite this Luigi forces him to change so that the battle of the ages can begin. During the fight when the Heroes are losing, Toad and Toadette come with an army of Toads similar to the Ralph Monster in Wreck it Ralph 2, which help the Heroes close the gap as they beat up the Goomba Hoard. Each of the VIPs get defeated one by one, Peach throws King Bob-omb, Toad and Goomboss lead their armies to chaos, Mario, Luigi & The Kong’s team up to defeat King Boo & Petey Piranha and Yoshi sticks his tongue on Chief Chilly.

Grapple in the Big Apple
Eventually the Heroes come on top and win this grueling battle, the crowd applauds our heroes, However Kamek is losing his mind and wonders how they won against a team of some of the most powerful opponents in the kingdom. Mario says that they needed to be a team in order to defeat them, they are the Super Mario Brothers and nothing can stop them.

Bowser slowly claps and has had enough of this shappy speech stuff, Bowser snaps his fingers, more troops emerge and surround the group, Bowser alongside Kamek laughs and tells Mario that he's has had enough of him and sends an invasion to Cranklyn, Mario's home. The group see thousands of Airships. Mario not being deterred tells him he has a Power Star, and he can stop him no matter. Bowser smirks and snaps his fingers once again, inducing magic on Luigi, Peach, the Toads, and Donkey Kong. He then laughs manically he tells Mario to give him the Power Star. Mario, seeing the odds, decides to use the star for himself. He emerges levitates into a rainbow aura, before dropping down as the Star turns into a Ztar. Bowser laughs, and tells him he isn't worthy. Bowser then takes the star, Stomps Mario (Thinking he's killed him) and capture his friends. Kamek, using the star's power to create a portal to Cranklyn, and gets a De Evolution Machine attached with Bowser's Airship.

The City is under siege by thousands of troops lead by Bowser Jr, The Elite Trio, Boom Boom and Pom Pom, capturing everyone and destroying the city. Bowser then proceeds to torture the group, Toads and Yoshi's by De evolving them except for Peach, whom he wants to marry still. Peach having enough decides to fight back, freeing all of the Toads, Yoshi's and group herself and escaping the Airship. She then rallies up the citizens of New Donk City, who are terrorized, to fight back, saying they were all inspired by someone who never gave up no matter what who is no longer with them, his name was Mario Mario. His Parents both cry as the hear of his death. This message helps the citizens of New Donk City to fight back in honour of Mario, using anything they can to fight of the troops.

Meanwhile, Mario still in Bowser's Castle, wakes up, despite being beaten. He tries to get up but falls down immediately, he then remembers past interactions, with his brother, Peach, Toad his parents, etc. Wanting to fight for all of them, Mario musters all his power and courage to stand up. Seeing the giant portal. Mario figures a way to get out. Seeing Luigi's bag and a bullet bill, he uses a fire flower to reignite the Bullet Bill, grabs his Golden Hammer and blasts of into the portal.

Riding through Cranklyn and fighting troops, he sees his friends and everyone fighting of Bowser's Troops, using power ups or any weapons they can find, Peach sees Mario and cheers, with everyone looking up. They all cheer, especially Mario's Parents, proudly proclaiming that's their son. He tells them that he's going inside Bowser's Airship, Luigi and Yoshi seeing this calls for Mario, Mario goes for them grabbing him. Going full speed ahead, The trio enter the Airship. Bowser and Kamek, confused and angry tells every troop to kill the three of them, which the three effortlessly defeats using teamwork and Mario's Golden Hammer. Disappointed and now even angrier, Bowser charges for the trio, seeing the star in the ship, Luigi throws Mario up to get the Star while Luigi distracts Bowser. Kamek seeing Mario wants to get the star, steals it for himself and leaves the Airship. Mario, wondering what to do, seeing Bowser chase him looks back right and left rapidly seeing Luigi successfully distracting Bowser, Luigi gives him the thumbs up as Mario along with Yoshi decide to leave the Airship and go for Kamek. Barely jumping on his broom using Yoshi's tongue. Kamek tries to shake duo off, leading for Yoshi and the Power star to fall off, Mario screams, punches Kamek and uses the broom, he tries catching Yoshi, but he's too fast for Mario to catch, even with his Tongue he keeps on slipping. As this is going on, the fight between Bowser and Luigi manages to make the Airship move down as Bowser keeps destroying it to fight and kill Luigi, Luigi seeing the water below and sees an angry Bowser contemplates his choice, quickly saying "Land in the water or fight a giant turtle?". He then shakes his head and jumps, shouting landing in the water while shouting it and climbs up to the Cranklyn Bridge. Bowser roars and calls him a coward, before he sees the Airship colliding with the Cranklyn Bridge. The others fighting see the explosion nearby decide to go to the bridge.

Yoshi also falls onto the Cranklyn Bridge, which leads Mario to go to him, unfortunately he is about to die due to Kamek's Actions. Mario thinks he’s failed as he basically killed him and that he shouldn't have let Yoshi go with him, but Yoshi tells him that he did the best he could in that situation, he hopefully managed to save the world and save the Princess he was only a small sacrifice in a big reward. He tells them that in life, failures will always happen, and you just have to adapt to it. He should live it to the fullest, that he should decide what he does, not anyone else and to never, ever give up. Yoshi says goodbye to everyone and then turns into an Egg. Mario takes the Egg and puts it away saying he’ll never forget him.

The Final Battle
Mario, not deterred in the slightest, walks through the bridge, seeing the destruction caused by the Airship crashing and Bowser's troops. He then sees the Power Star right in the middle and dashes for it. Bowser, managing to survive from the crash jumps infront of the Power Star and clearly deranged, maniac over the repeated failures, angrily asks if he wants the Star. Bowser grabs Mario and punches him across the bridge, Bowser tells him that he was finally going to be happy, finally going to have someone love him, finally have a purpose in life, and now he's lost all of that because of him, and now he will suffer because of it, like him. Bowser keeps on kicking, punching and scratching him, Luigi scared seeing his Brother being beaten, hides in a car, Diddy Kong remarks how much of a coward he is while Donkey Kong and everyone are shaken in fear. He soon then stomps on him, seeing him not move, speak or do anything, he feels he's finally dead. Everyone seeing this, are speechless, Bowser laughs, and jokingly tells him to get up, but to no avail, Donkey Kong goes forward and punches Bowser, with Peach, Toad and Diddy Kong following suit. Bowser roars and tail swipes. Luigi seeing Mario's condition hiding in a car, whispers to get up. Mario, beaten up, battered and tired despite all odds, gets up, and lumbers towards Bowser. Luigi in awe excitedly cheers. Mario shouts to leave them alone, Bowser who's holding DK by his throat widens his eyes in surprise and a slight hint of fear and tells him he never knows when to quit, Mario tells him so does he. The two prepare to battle, then Mario runs the other way, to everyone's confusion and to Bowser's pleasure, but soon realises he's getting the Power star, his happiness soon erupts, and charges straight for him, Mario seeing this continues run faster and faster jumps between the cars, Bowser close enough to Mario charges his fire breath. Mario ducks and thinks he was literally caught in the fire, before seeing he's not near the fire at all and that Luigi pushed him aside. Luigi tells him that his mother told him to that he should keep Mario safe, no matter what, and this was good time to do that. Mario laughs and brings Luigi with him to his confusion, and dashes for the Star.

Bowser, once again thinks that he's finally defeated Mario, before seeing flashing images in the clouds, quickly running towards him, he squints his eyes, the score plays the epic rendition of the Starman theme as Mario and Luigi run towards Bowser and uppercuts him, launching him across the bridge. Bowser, the maddest he's been, tells his remaining troops to rip them to pieces, the Brothers nod as they dash towards the troops effortlessly.

The final fight is set on the Cranklyn Bridge, Bowser tells The Bros that even if their somehow worthy of the star's power, he is way, way stronger. The Bros don’t speak and the fight begins, the theme here would be the final boss theme from Super Mario Galaxy 2 as it sets the stage for the epic finale here. After breathing Fire balls and throwing Hammers, Bowser grabs the bros stomps on the Bros but they aren't hurt by the stomp and punch him. Despite Bowser’s efforts, The Bros catch up and comes on top, they take his tail and throw him Super Mario 64 Style and waves goodbye, The Bros jump and then punches Bowser, making him land onto the bridge. Bowser charges his largest fire breath, but the Bros not dettered stomp on him, ending the battle. The Bros seeing everyone congratulating The Bros on their win as they transform back into normal while the Star turns Blue, Peach thanks Mario & Luigi for their actions but stops her regal attitude and says that was the epicest, awesomest and coolest thing she has seen in her life and hugs The Bros, saying that though they may not have looked it, shattered expectations as Heroes, the parents run up to Mario Brothers and hug him, telling them that they were amazing. Bowser Jr, seeing his father down, carries him and vows revenge flying away using a Koopa Clown Kart. The rest of the citizens cheer their names, including Pauline (Giving Mario a kiss on a cheek), their parents, Mr Segale Spike, Wario and Waluigi. New Donk City carry the Bros across the bridge.

The End?
It cuts to a day later in the morning and Peach goes back to her Castle and sees Toadsworth is packing his things, she tells them that it’s over, the Koopas are gone, Toadsworth hugs Peach with Peach telling him that he allowed this to happen and helped pave the way for a brighter future, despite her parents death. Toadsworth tells her that her parents would have been proud of her before Plessie loudly roars, Toadsworth waves Peach goodbye as he goes on an Vacation around the world, The Kong’s then join Toadsworth to the dismay of the Toad. Peach smiles before hearing a knock on the doors. To the surprise and happiness of Peach, It's the Mario Bros with a few bags, she hugs the 2 of them and wonders why they’re back as she isn’t in danger, Mario says who needs Cranklyn as they permanently want to live here. Peach with a happy expression on her face decides she wants to do something that she should know that they have proven themselves.

The Toads gather once again to see what Peach is doing, with her new royal advisors, Captain Toad and Toadette, she announces that Mario Mario and Luigi Luigi (who Luigi corrects his last name as Mario) as the official Royal Knights of the Mushroom Kingdom. The Crowd and the Brothers hug each other as both of them get medals for their efforts with 8-Bit versions of their faces on them, ending the film as Charles narrates:

'“So, You finally know how the regular Mario Bros became the Super Mario Brothers! Mario has finally found his place in the world while strengthening the bonds he already had with his Brother, his ex-girlfriend and his extended family, plus the many new & wonderful friends he met along the way, it was a fun & wild ride but it’s not the only story i have to tell with the magnificent Brothers, Oh no, we are far from done, there are many more stories I have to tell! but it’ll be a while before I tell another Super Mario Super Story, but for now. Thank you so much for watching our Movie!”'

Credits
The end card plays and the screen turns to black, Yoshi watching the film from a cinema remarks how great a movie that was and is sad that it's all over, he then says that he wants to go around one more, leading into a credit sequence. The First Credit sequence would be an 8-Bit retelling of the entire Film, the characters would use their Modern Colours with the artstyle from the first game, this would also include a cast call, After that the mid-credits scene will play.

We see someone is watching the events of the final battle unfold in a crystal ball, they stop it as Bowser is being defeated. The Person says that “the red demon” has been defeating people from other dimensions as well. He then comes out of the Shadows revealing it’s Wart from Super Mario Bros 2 and calls his assistant and 2nd in command, Tatanga to prepare merging the dimensions.

The Other credits sequence will play after this with music being remixes of the staff roll from Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario 64, having 2D Pictures illustrated by Yoichi Kotabe showing how and what the characters are doing after the film shows us:


 * Mario & Luigi opening a General service company in the Mushroom Kingdom as they build a new Wooden House


 * Peach makes adjustments to her castle and has her actual Birthday. She then has a wild party with Mario to the dismay of Toadsworth


 * Captain Toad gets Married to Toadette which wedding gets crashed by Wingo, (Mario has a irrational fear of Birds and runs away)


 * The Bros and Captain Toad visit Yoshi’s Island to see how it’s going without a leader


 * Pauline is new Mayor of New Donk City


 * Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong move into Mario’s House, to the dismay of the Bros

In the next Post Credit Scene, Bowser and Bowser Jr take a vacation to Isle Deflino, vowing their revenge while eating a few hams.

Heroes

 * Chris Pratt as Mario Mario, A Kind, optimistic, outgoing, adventurous, courageous yet unknowingly somewhat cocky & Childish Plumber. When presented with a challenge Mario would try his best to overcome it yet can get frustrated easily when it’s not so straight forward, he will always look for the best in the worst of situations and will try to help people at all costs, no matter what. He also loves food, especially Spaghetti
 * Pratt was chosen as Mario as this was to be a new interpretation of Mario with a new character & personality seen in the games, Pratt was also chosen as a homage to Bob Hoskins & Lou Albano’s role as the plumber while still giving his own spin on things.
 * John Mulaney as Luigi Mario, Mario’s Younger Brother who is timid, cowardly and childish (more than Mario) yet would still have the same Heroic ideology and is optimistic as Mario. He is more of the straight man and more down to earth compared to Mario.
 * Mulaney was chosen as Luigi due to his straight yet goofy/comedic nature of many of his roles. Originally, Charlie Day, Andy Samberg & Paul Rudd were considered for the role but Mulaney was seen as the best fit.
 * Gina Rodriguez as Princess Peach, The ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom who isn’t that posh and fair like most people would expect but rather is more tomboyish and independent despite what the prophecy says as the Star Hero will save her from evil. Peach has always longed for adventure as she has been stuck in the Mushroom Kingdom all her life due to fears of evil forces being interested in her beauty/status as her parents disappear at her birth. Due to this, Peach is very naive about the world and is always wanting independence despite her status in life.
 * Josh Gad as Yoshi, Mario’s Pet Best Friend, The Yoshi Chief and a Young Wizard who is extroverted, friendly, playful and caring.
 * Charlie Day as Toad, a Mushroom Kingdom resident whose species is also named Toad, who aspires to go on his first real adventure. He is a Musician, Toadworth’s nephew and Peach’s Number 1 supporter
 * Sarah Silverman as Toadette, Toad’s Best Friend who is a smart archeologist and is somewhat overactive, adventurous, intelligent and would help Captain Toad in his various antics despite how dumb they are or if Captain Toad doesn't want even her there.
 * John Cena as Donkey Kong The III, A dimwitted, childish yet strong ape who is an environmentalist and is obsessed with Food (especially Bananas).
 * Gabriel Iglesias as Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong’s Small Monkey best friend who is laidback, somewhat lazy and sarcastic, he also acts as the wisecracker of the group who will frequently tell jokes and break the 4th wall yet would know when not to have a joke in some instances and would be the person to talk to in the worst of situations.

Villains

 * Will Arnett as Bowser, The Main Villain of the Film who is the Ruler of The Dark Lands, while not the strongest thinker and is pretty childish but would be a monster of a Villain, doing absolutely everything to complete his plan to rule over the entire world
 * Michael Cera as Bowser Jr, The Nerdy, 12-Year Old Heir to the throne of the Dark Kingdom and wants to impress his father due to being pressured by the entire Koopa Kingdom. He & his father are on bad terms due to his situation with his mother, who left him when he was Born.
 * Willem Dafoe as Kamek, The legal guardian of Bowser & the godfather of Bowser Jr who is the overlooking threat of the film, wanting unlimited power/control.
 * JK Simmons as Cranky Kong, DK’s rude and abrasive Grandfather

The Elite Trio

 * David Spade as Corporal Paraplonk, The self-proclaimed leader of The Elite Trio, a group of higher-ups in Bowser’s Army. Paraplonk is obsessed with getting a Promotion/Money and is completed devoted to Bowser, gladly dying for him at points.
 * Kevin James as Private Goomp, a member of the Elite Trio who is somewhat childish, dense, gluttonous and cowardly.
 * Steve Buscemi as Sergeant Guy,The most competent out of the Trio, he is a spell expert, quiet and always on task, yet he has a superiority complex, and is selfish & cruel

Bosses

 * Nick Kroll as Petey Piranha, A Mutant Plant Moster who terrorises the Yoshi’s in Yoshi’s Island
 * James Woods as King Boo, The Cruel King of the Undead
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as King Bob-omb, Leader of a clan of miners in the Rock Candy Mines
 * He also voices Boom Boom, Bowser’s Dimwitted Commander.

Misc

 * John Goodman as The Yoshi Chief, The late and great leader of Yoshi’s Island
 * Bobcat Goldthwait as Spike Scapelli, The anger riddled abusive Boss/Uncle of Mario & Luigi and the caring father of Wario & Waluigi
 * Kate Higgins as Pauline, an up & coming singer who was Mario’s Girlfriend

Cameo Roles
Additionally, Charles Martinet narrates the film and Voices Antonio Mario (Mario’s father),Toadsworth (Peach’s adoptive father figure and Guardian), Wario & Waluigi (The Greedy & Malicious Cousins of the Bros and the sons of Spike) and Stanley (The Leader of an Exterminator/Animal Control group).

Shigeru Miyamoto (who produces the film and is the creator of the series) voices as a fictionalised version of himself, who runs the Super Nintendo Entertainment Stall, Reggie Fils-Aimé (Former President of Nintendo of America) voices a fictionalised version of himself as the Previous President of New Donk City. Samantha Kelly (The Current Voice Actress of Princess Peach) Voices  Julie “Zelda” Scapelli, The Bros Mother. Peter Cullen and Marc Graue, Previous Voice Actors for Mario voice the brothers' uncles, Tony Mario and Arthur Mario, respectively. Chris Meledandri, another producer of the film, voices Mr Arnold Segale, being the Bros Landlord and is a fictionalized version of the late the landlord of Nintendo of America called Mario Segale.

In the Post Credit Scene, Wart is voiced by Mick Wingert who acts as a stand-in for Jack Black in the sequel, he remains uncredited in the movie.

Development
After the critical and commercial failure of the 1993 Super Mario Bros film. Nintendo became wary of licensing its properties for film adaptations despite many companies including Disney & Don-Bluth asking for the right to create a Mario & Zelda Movies. According to Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, the idea for a new Mario film came from 2 reasons, from the success of Wreck-it Ralph and how the video game characters were portrayed there and more importantly, 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.

Following the November 2014 hack of Sony Pictures, emails between producer Avi Arad, studio chief Amy Pascal, TriStar Pictures head Tom Rothman, and Sony Pictures Animation president of production Michelle Raimo Kouyate were released revealing that Sony had been attempting to secure the film rights to the Mario franchise for several years. Arad visited Nintendo in Tokyo in February and July 2014 in an attempt to secure a deal. In October, Arad emailed Pascal and said he had closed the deal with Nintendo. Pascal suggested recruiting Hotel Transylvania director Genndy Tartakovsky to help develop the project, while Kouyate said she could "think of 3–4 movies right out of the gate" and expressed hope in "building a Mario empire." However, after the emails leaked, Arad denied that a deal had been made, stating that negotiations had only begun. BuzzFeed News noted that the emails did not take into account potential conflicts with Sony Pictures' corporate sibling Sony Interactive Entertainment, one of Nintendo's chief competitors.

Through Nintendo's work with Universal Parks & Resorts to create Mario-based attractions, Miyamoto met Chris Meledandri & Jeffrey Katzenberg, founders of Universal Pictures' Illumination & DreamWorks animation divisions. Miyamoto found both of their creative process similar to his own, and felt they both would be proper to lead a Mario film. They had started more earnest discussions by 2016, knowing that if they felt it would not work that they could easily walk away. In November 2017, reports emerged that Nintendo was collaborating with Universal to make & produce an animated Mario film. Then Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima clarified that a deal had not been finalized, but that an announcement would come soon. Kimishima hoped that if the deal was successful, a 2019 release date would be possible.

In January 2018, it was officially announced that DreamWorks would be making the film as Illumination were busy on other projects and were going through a major restructure, Nintendo announced that the film would progress with Miyamoto, Meledandri and Katzenberg. Meledandri said the film was a "priority" for DreamWorks and that it will most likely come out in late 2019 to mid 2020. He added that Miyamoto would be "front and center" during production. In January 2019, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa stated that the film was "moving along smoothly" with an expected 2019 release date. Furukawa also said Nintendo would own the rights to the film and both Nintendo and Universal would fund the production. In August 2018, It was announced that The Lego Movie & Into The Spiderverse directors/producers Phill Lord & Chirs Miller would direct and create the story of the film and that Dan Lin & Roy Lee would produce the film instead of Jeffery Katzenberg who dropped out from the project to focus on other endeavours, in the announcement it was stated the film would be “the standard for Video Game Movies, being a film both fans and casual viewers can enjoy”. In the same month, it was also announced that Alex Hirsch would write the screenplay while The Hageman Brothers would co-write the film. Shortly thereafter, Ed Skudder, who previously worked with the Duo on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikitty! Unikitty!], confirmed that he worked as head of story on the film.

According to Chris Pratt who had collaborated with the duo with The Lego Movie, the duo were writing and discussing the first few drafts of the Mario Movie and would have fully written the film after the release of The Lego Movie 2.

Casting
For the film, they decided to recast the characters due to this being a new interpretation of Mario and also wanting to make audiences not feel alienated from their short-form vocal performances.

Many Castings of who should play Mario and Luigi were considered, including Nicholas Cage, Danny Devito, Seth Rogen, Danny McBride, Jack Black, Adam Sandler and John C.Reilly for Mario. Charlie Day, James Franco, Andy Samberg, Patton Oswalt, Kevin James, Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell for Luigi. They either decided to save some of these actors for other characters, were not available they turned down the role or saw them as unfitting for the role. They went for Chris Pratt as Mario who would later collaborated with the duo for The Lego Movie. Pratt was chosen as Mario as this was to be a new interpretation of Mario with a new character & personality seen in the games, Pratt was also chosen as a homage to Bob Hoskins & Lou Albono’s role as the plumber while still giving his own spin on things.

John Mulaney was chosen as Luigi due to his straight yet goofy/comedic nature of many of his roles. Originally, Charlie Day, Andy Samberg & John Mulaney were considered for the role but Mulaney was seen as the best fit.

Both of them announced that they would be playing Mario & Luigi in December 2018. This marked a rare occasion were the characters would not be voiced by Charles Martinet who had been voicing Mario & Luigi in most incarnations since 1992, which drew some backlash however most were open to the 2 Cast members. In Nintendo’s E3 direct, the full cast was announced (Mostly notably Gina Rodriguez as Princess Peach, Will Arnett as Bowser, Michael Cera as Bowser Jr, Willem Dafoe as Kamek, Charlie Day as Toad, Sarah Silverman as Toadette, John Cena as Donkey Kong and Gaberial Iglesias as Diddy Kong) which was met with a generally positive reception, with most welcoming the idea of celebrity actors voicing the characters since this was openly stated to be a new interpretation, however, some criticised it for not using the original voice cast but it was stated that they would have some cameo roles. Voice actress Tara Strong, criticised Pratt‘s casting and expressed preference for Martinet to voice Mario instead, lamenting on Twitter what she described to be Hollywood's disregard of professional voice actors. Martinet himself spoke positively of the film, saying, "I think it's gonna be a lot of fun".

Plot details were kept secret to the actors during recording, according to Mulaney & Arnett, who noted they had to record their dialogue in many different ways, after which the directors selected the version they believed would be best suited for the scene.

Animation
The company that worked on the film was DWA Glendale with Jellyfish Pictures, who then worked with DreamWorks on The Boss Baby: Family Business, How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming and Spirit Untamed, handled the additional asset production services using proprietary softwares like Premo and Moonray, alongside with a new tool called Doodle created for the 2D effects and for allowing the animators to move the lines around the character rigs which would then be used more extensively & effectively in The Bad Guys. Lord stated that DreamWorks updated their lighting, cel shading and rendering technology for the film, with Meledandri claiming that it "pushed the technical and artistic capabilities of [the] studio to new heights."

Originally, the film would have had a much different artstyle from the games however Nintendo wanted it to be close to the source material without too much deviation, despite this Nintendo allowed creative freedom with the property in terms of allowing alterations to original characters, having opposite gender, different sized, Younger and older species. Most characters were close to their original counterparts but have small changes such as making Mario being more tubby, Luigi having a more pronounced chin, Peach being slightly shorter, Bowser being significantly larger than most of the cast with a redesigned mouth, Kamek having swirly glasses and sleeves too long for him and Spike being fatter and having a bigger beard.

Most characters designs were changed for the first time since their debut 3D appearances in the GameCube era. For their new designs, artists incorporated elements of both their modern designs, new additions making their designs more stylised/realistic and pieces of their original designs from debut appearances. For Mario's family, Lord & Miller were given early designs of Mario, Pauline, Luigi and Peach by Nintendo to use as reference; they ended up using slightly altered versions of those designs in the final film.

Lord & Miller wanted the animation to juggle stylized animation akin to Spiderverse but with realism, with Miller claiming that "there are moments of cartoony stylised fun, but […] we wanted it to feel like a big adventure film and that there are stakes and maybe you believe that these characters can die, so they're not super-squashy and super-stretchy, and we used consistent volume on the characters to make them feel a little more grounded.

In an interview with GameSpot, Miller said that he and a lord took a "blockbuster approach" when making The Movie. He stated: "To me, this is a movie that's been like 35 years in the making, you know, and I've always considered Mario more of an action game. The characters look comedic, but the story is always high stakes, you gotta save the princess or save the world or whatever in the game. So we wanted to reflect that action sensibility." According to Lord & Miller, Hirsch & Skudder spent months working the action sequences, specifically any fights between Mario Vs Bowser to sell both their rivalry, Bowser’s Strength, and how Mario could potentially defeat Bowser.

Writing
Various story ideas were explored and discarded during the development of the film, the story in the final draft was moulded from many Mario games such as Super Mario Bros (1985), Yoshi’s Island, Donkey Kong (1981), Mario Bros and Super Mario Adventures, being the main base for the film’s characters and some plot details. The film's main goal was to be a film both enjoyed by fans and casuals of which they had many references and cameos for the fans to look for and had many in-depth themes and character arcs which people could relate to. The perfect opportunity was to have the film be an origin story in an alternate universe for the Bros and how they came to the Mushroom Kingdom, meet most of the characters and defeated Bowser and saved Princess Peach. Originally planned was a story to take place at the end of the original timeline and put the Bros to the ultimate challenge, finally defeating Bowser once and for all using a Golden Mushroom, which was a homage to the Theme Park’s plot.

According to Alex Hirsch, the biggest challenge was giving Mario a character and arc, since he was made perfectly flexible and simple to suit every situation. The writers decided to take traits from many different forms of media such as his love for food and his more dense attitude from the DIC Cartoons, his more heroic, determined and optimistic personality from the Adventure comics & the RPGs and took some of his more selfish, hot-headed, close-minded, distracted and gullible personality from the Super Mario Kun comics though toned it down in the Final Cut of the film.

They also decided to add a Jack of all cards persona with all of the countless jobs he has done throughout the franchise but was trying to look for his calling in life, seeking for accomplishing something in life & fulfilment, though being a plumber was still front and centre. Hirsch finally landed on something and gave him the arc of overcoming failure, realising anyone can become a Hero despite their failures if they believe they have enough confidence in themselves.

For Luigi, Lord & Miller wanted to make him just as important as Mario saying “This journey is just as important as to Mario as to Luigi, both Brothers effect each other in both positive and negative ways and represent the ideologies of playing the games, these ideas of overcoming failure no matter the adversity in the games or players building the confidence that they may never knew they had in them while playing the game.”

The duo created an arc about Luigi building the confidence to be both a Hero and a better person, “Usually, Luigi as a character is portrayed as timid, cowardly and is very much slightly annoying when he’s out of his confront zone, In Our Movie, we wanted to portray as a foil to Mario, where as Mario is calm, confident, optimistic and courageous, always wanting to help people and do good, Luigi is not that, and will take any opportunity to save his own and his brother hide at any cost but Mario beloved he has it in his heart to help people just like him […] “he’s sorta insecure and socially anxious about his own self image, feeling like he’s a disappointment compared to his Brother, which is his reason as to why he acts the way he does but over the course of the movie, he becomes more akin to his Heroic Brother”

The duo drew inspiration from Super Mario 3D World and its portrayal of Peach as a playable character, stating they wanted to focus on her role as the Mushroom Kingdom's monarch and "how strong that person would need to be to protect [the Toads.]" while making her both naive & comedic. The duo planned on her not being captured for the duration of the film, but decided upon it in the middle so that it can tie into an arc of her living up to the expectations as a Monarch and maturing into a better person after spending time with Bowser “We felt Peach is a type of character who has lived a simple life, she’s a Princess in a beautiful Castle where she alone rules over hundreds of Toads, her character because of that wants to explore the world, get to know more people and in our movie, she’s taken out of her comfort zone and matures into a better Ruler as she goes on an Adventure of a lifetime with her childhood friend and Two Very Interesting Brothers”.

For Bowser, they "decided to make that character scary, ruthless and somewhat unhinged but the other side of Bowser is somebody who vulnerable, immature and is resistant to change." “We felt we wanted to make Bowser into a character who was ruthless and cruel but understandable in terms of why he is that way and his motivations due to a rough past, for all of his life unlike Peach where Toadsworth is a bit overprotective and tells Peach not to do these things, Everyone allows Bowser to do whatever he wants without consequence which is sorta like the nature Vs nurture argument which we intended to do, so when there’s a person like Peach, his own son or even Mario who challenges his ideologies he’s been raised with as far as he can remember, he has a inner conflict about betraying everything he knows or doing the same thing he has done for years supposedly pleasing himself and his father figure”

The themes of the films were ones that were simple but effective and could provide complexity according to The Hageman Brothers, “We wanted to have themes of self-worth, self-esteem, redemption, destiny, fulfilment, and the idea, Anyone can do anything if they put their mind to it.” Conversely, the themes of the film were to mirror how anyone can play the games and can feel all these feelings playing Mario games.

Soundtrack
Main Article: /Soundtrack

The film featured Michael Giacchino composing the original tracks of the score and Koji Kondo would supervise the ost and do the rearranged tracks of the film. The theme, Be Super play by Post Malone at the credit sequence.

Songs for John Mulaney, Charlie Day, Will Arnett and John Cena where improvised and in the film though were cut short in the actual film due to time constraints. Black Hydra composed the music for its official trailer, called "Super Mushroom", based on the Super Mario Bros. theme. The instrumental was released on November 30, 2019, on YouTube.

Additionally, No Sleep Till Brooklyn by The Beastie Boys,Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen,What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong and Mr Blue Sky by ELO are featured in the movie.

Theatrical
The film released on March 10th 2020 in the United States and Japan on Mar10 Day, March 5th 2020 on Europe and April 7th for other countries. The film was originally planned for a September 2019 to coincide with the release of the first Mario Game but was rescheduled to 2020. It was temporarily released on Netflix on the 13th of September in the same year, it was taken down on the 31st of March and came back on September 13th 2021, exclusively on Peacock.

Home Media
Super Mario Bros. was released on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD on September 13th 2020 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Among the special features included 2 short films:


 * Elite Beat Agents: The Elite Trio make there way through the dangerous temple of Tostarena to steal the Binding Band
 * Welcome to Yoshi’s Island!: A Mockumentary short showing us a dangerous Tour though Yoshi’s Island, lead by Yoshi and the Yoshi Chief
 * Doggone Trouble: Mario and Luigi have their first plumbing job as a newly opened company, but soon run into trouble with an viscous dog.

The DVD release also includes an audio commentary, deleted scenes, in-Universe Bloopers and making of featurettes

Deleted Scenes and Scrapped Concepts
The deleted scenes of the film include:


 * The Original Opening for the film, it includes a different exposition sequence with No Yoshi’s Island sequence and instead details Mario & Luigi’s relationship, it follows Mario & Luigi fixing Pauline’s leak before to a high-octane chase with Wario & Waluigi using Donkey Kong, Mario & Luigi are fired prior to the events of the film and there’s no relationship between Mario & Pauline, The Opening also starts with Bowser integrating a Koopa about a prophecy stating that 2 Brothers will defeat him no matter what
 * Peach in the Construction Site: This sequence is Mario & Luigi finding Princess Peach hiding from Bowser as they do sewer work, which leads to Captain Toad and Toadette finding them
 * Date of Fate, a cut musical number where Bowser and Peach argue about what love means, replacing the date in the dinner
 * Training Time!: This Sequence shows Mario training in the Mushroom Kingdom after Bowser Invades
 * Original Ending, The Original Ending shows that Mario & Luigi decide to return back home to New Donk City after saving Peach from Bowser, a time skip happens 3 weeks later where the Bros are world renowned Heroes after saving the world (Giving them the Name Super Mario Bros) as they reopen a new Plumbing business along with Mario restarting his relationship with Pauline and creating a birthday party inviting everyone from their previous work, realising they were wrong about Mario, leading to Mario realising he should be happy and accept what he should have in Life while Luigi accepts Mario is his only family and he can never change that, all of that is disrupted when Princess Peach and Captain Toad burst into their house, with ripped clothes and scars, wanting the Bros help once again, Pauline kisses Mario, as the 2 Bros wear their iconic overalls and head into the pipe to parts unknown, as they see the Mushroom Kingdom in complete chaos as Mario utters a more serious "Let'sa Go!" as the group jump towards the camera
 * The Ending was a homage towards the 1993 film, and also implied Wart and the 8-Bits were behind the attack though it's not outwardly stated, because of this the Post Credit scene has changed, instead of the 8-bits attacking, it's now more comedic with the Elite Trio pitch a game called "Super Trio Guys" to Miyamoto and Reggie

Marketing
Universal and Nintendo had spent $10 million on television advertisements to promote the film, generating 2.85 billion impressions.

The film's marketing campaign began when a short teaser trailer released in the February 2019 direct where an Rough Uncut clip of Mario & Luigi first arriving to the Mushroom Kingdom was shown, after the clip, the title of the film (SUPER MARIO BROS) was revealed with an orchestral remix of the main theme, with a short clip of Bowser laughing and fighting Mario in Bowser’s Castle at the end of the teaser, the trailer garnered a generally positive reception, with praise given to the Animation, Tone and Dialogue but earned a more polarising reaction to the Voice Acting, calling them too different from the games and sound disinterested in voicing the characters.



In Nintendo’s 2019 E3 Presentation, the first full trailer was released showing off Mario & Luigi in New Donk City, them arriving to the Mushroom Kingdom, Meeting Princess Peach & Toad, Mario fighting Bowser at the start of the film and various scenes of Mario & Luigi through the Mushroom Kingdom. Other details about the movie such as a teaser poster with Mario & Luigi from the behind looking at the Mushroom Kingdom, a few screenshots of the film (showing Yoshi’s Island, Mario & Luigi at work seeing Donkey Kong attacking, fighting Koopas and Fight-files in the sewers, them first arriving to the Mushroom Kingdom and the first fight between Mario & Bowser in Peach’s Castle), a clip of Mario & Bowser fighting exclusive to E3 and a cast reveal character posters (comprising of Mario & Luigi in New Donk City, Peach in her Castle, Bowser & Bowser Jr riding their Airship, Kamek in a Cauldron Room, Donkey Kong & Diddy Kong in a Jungle and Toad & Toadette exploring a forest) where also revealed around E3. The first trailer was shown earlier during theatre screenings of The Secret Life of Pets 2,Toy Story 4 and Lion King 2019. The trailer generated 220 thousand conversations across social media platforms within a day of its release, and in three days had been viewed 100 million times across all platforms, making the film one of Universal’s most viral films. It had a positive fan reaction, with particular praise being given to the faithful to the source material and Pratt's and Arnett's acting which was seen as an improvement over the teaser with the Visuals, comedy, Music and Tone also being given praise.

DreamWorks released a second trailer for the film in October 2019 after the announcement of the delay, the trailer showed later parts of the film such as the fight between DK and Mario in the Jungle and the fight in the Sky along with scenes of Peach and Bowser, the trailer was released ahead of a promotional panel at New York Comic-Con where the first 20 minutes of the film, in which were most of the New Donk City scenes were shown. Lord and Miller explained that they chose not to show clips from throughout the film because they would lack context for the audience and didn't want to spoil details that would be big surprises for the audience, so instead aired an extended sequence for the presentation, even though it had some unfinished animation, deleted/altered scenes and music from the games as the Score of the film was not yet completed.

Critics noted the darker tone of the movie than expected which was praised, along with the visuals, voice acting and action scenes, the director's noted how Mario’s character & personality will drive the entire film and the people around him In 2020, Several clips of the film where released, including the first completed 15 Minutes of the film, The Musical Number with Bowser and the fight between Donkey Kong and Mario in the 2nd Act. All 3 clips managed to amass nearly 30 Million Views in only 3 days.

Box Office
Super Mario Bros. grossed $85.6 million in the United States and Canada, and grossed $294.4 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $380 Million. The gross of the film was significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic despite the film doing strongly originally, which first reduced movie theater attendance, then forced most to shut down within two weeks of the film's release, which lead to Super Mario Bros being a Box Office disappointment compared to other DreamWorks and Universal films along with expectations set by Nintendo & Universal, however despite this, it is one of the highest-grossing video game movies of all time only recently being beaten by Sonic the Hedgehog

However despite bombing in the Box Office, it got a huge commercial success after being released on a multitude of streaming services, topping charts as one of the most-streamed animated film, kids films, & films in general of both 2020 & 2021 and is speculated it made triple it’s budget through home release.

Critical Response
On Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 360 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes reads, "Wahoo! Super Mario Bros is a fun thrilling video game adventure for everyone that is just as a thrilling as stomping your way through Koopas” Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a 75 out of 100 based on 65 Critics indicating “Generally favourable Reviews”. The film garnered a "near-perfect" audience score of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A on an A+ to F scale with 92% saying that they would recommend it

IGN gave the film a 8/10 and called it both a great film for everyone and a outstanding film for Video Game and Mario Fans alike, “Super Mario Bros boasts an amazing comedic, high-octane, charming and a surprisingly mature story that respects the audience which is elevated by it’s beautiful animation and incredible voice cast.” The Verge gave it a positive review, praising the Animation, Characters and the Performances but criticized how long the runtime was, feeling the story was clustered. “Despite being clustered around the 3rd Act putting so much in so little time, Super Mario Bros manages to remain incredibly enjoyable due to the mature yet comedic story, endearing cast of characters, outstanding performances and the breathtaking yet faithful Animation/Score.”

The Guardian gave the film a 4 out of 5 star rating, stating that, "The frantic, anything-goes nature of their films (though somewhat reeled back in this film), both in tone and visuals, is present with a tight focus on storytelling and dialogue with sight gags and set pieces used to supplement rather than distract" and "It’s also genuinely funny, a credit not only to the hit-a-minute script but also to a finely picked cast of comic actors, of unusually high caliber that springy work well for the characters we all know and love," while also praising the animation, calling it "part of the energetic oeuvre of Phil Lord and Chris Miller." They also praised how well of an adaptation it is, “The film is not only just a good Mario film, but a great film that both knows what it wants to be for Mario Fans and is a film that is genuinely one of the best-animated adaptations there is.”

The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, stating that "Ultimately, this is an good video-game based adventure that feels stitched together out of a hundred familiar film plots, often freely acknowledging the tropes & cliches that kill many animated films but manages to make it both unique, slightly meta, a breath of fresh air and surprisingly emotional (I didn't expect to get this emotional developed at a Mario Movie) But for audiences content with rapid-fire action and jokes and not really caring about the emotional stuff, the story or the well-written characters, the busy patchwork of prefab elements will be entertaining enough" although he said that "While the film’s Voice Cast, Action & comedy is superb, the film needed a tighter script & story so it could match the quality of those elements and be in one of the greats as it feels like the Story was a haphazard excuse for all of these to happen and thrive, despite how high quality they are”.

Collider gave a positive review, writing, "Obviously, Super Mario Bros is in many ways a feature-length advertisement for Nintendo as a brand. However, Lord, Miller and Hirsch make this feel more like a labor of love along with a genuinely tight and mature script, as they've been given the keys to the (Mushroom) kingdom, and are allowed to go all-in with what any fan would want to see in a film like this. In many ways, Super Mario Bros. reminds of Wreck-It Ralph and the glee that came from seeing these characters on screen."

The Washington Post gave the film a positive review, calling it a “high action-adventure comedic Video Game film that uses it’s airtight casting and animation as its biggest strength but was critical of the plot, calling it too big for its own good. The New York reporter gave a mixed response to the film however, saying: “There’s some genuine effort here with it’s surprisingly fun cast, amazing action scenes and funny jokes at times, however it’s slow and fast pacing at points, odd story beats, characters not being fully developed, the other bland and annoying comedy and overall bland story leaves a lot to be desired.

Netflix & Peacock reported in September 2020 and July 2021 from their quarterly earnings report that Super Mario Bros. had become the service's most-viewed animated work, with 95 million households having watched the film in the first 30 days of availability, with Mitchells Vs The Machines & Soul rivaling how well the film did streaming wise.

Industry Response
Chris Pratt, who worked with Lord and Miller on the The Lego Movie Films described it as an "emotionally moving, cutting edge, progressive, diverse, funny, meta, action-packed, silly, visually stunning masterpiece”, Pratt also noted how much of a huge fan he was of the series since the original Mario Bros on Arcade and how well it brought the Magic of playing the game for the first time as a kid to him.

Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, who worked with Lord and Miller on 22 Jump Street and Voices as Remy in Ratatouille called the film "masterful," and continued, "This has been a non-stop year for me and I'm glad I'm ending it in such a cinematic high-note. Not only is it the best Video-Game film ever made, Not only is it one of the best animated film ever made, it's flat-out a game-changing (pun intended) MOVIE. Seeing it again tomorrow!"

John Leguizamo (Original Actor for Luigi in the 1993 film) called it infinitely better to the original 1993 film in every way in spite of the lack of Latino representation and was also joking about how he wanted to voice Luigi again due to how better of a production cycle it seemed.

Geoff Keighley, host of the Game Awards called the film a huge step forward for Video-Game Movies and noted how much it juxtaposed to the 1993 film. Hideo Kojima, most known for their Metal Gear Series called the film “amazing” and continued, "It just goes to show you that any character in the right hands can be a transformative and mature experience."

Nintendo, despite some initial hesitation and doubts about the film considered it to be a true success and attributed higher sales of Mario games on the Nintendo Switch to the movie’s success and reception.

Accolades
Super Mario Bros. was both nominated for Best Animated feature for both the Golden Globe Awards and the Academy Awards but lost to Pixar’s Soul. Additionally The film's other nominations include 5 Annie Awards (winning 2), 3 British Academy Film Awards (winning 1), a Critics' Choice Movie Award (which it lost to Soul), and 2 Golden Globe Awards (winning 1). It was named one of the ten best films of 2020 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. It is also noted to be the first film based on a Video Game series to win any of these rewards.

Sequel
Main Article: Super Mario Bros 2: The Lost Levels

In August 2020, the directors acknowledged that the origin story set and completed in the film could create the potential for many different stories to be told from the Mario universe, By the end of November, both Dreamworks and Nintendo had decided to greenlit multiple sequels and a spin-off films due to the "incredible buzz" surrounding it, planning for a holiday 2022 release. It was established that Phil Lord & Chris Miller however would not return for the sequel and would only give advice if needed, instead the film would be directed by Alex Hirch, who headlined the screenplay of the first film would direct the 2nd Film along with creating the story of the film with Matthew Fogel and Jeff Rowe co writing. The film was said to continue the Mario Bros story as Kingdom-renowned heroes along with exploring a new and unfamiliar world with fan favourite characters and forgotten characters being in the film.

The film was officially revealed in Winter 2020 for a tentative Fall 2023 release window, the film was named Super Mario Bros 2 The Lost Levels and would feature all cast members from the previous film returning along with newcomers such as Jack Black as Wart, Zach Galifianakis as Tatanga and Stephanie Beatriz as Daisy, it was said that the film would be a “Crazy, Off the wall Transformative experience” from people who worked on it.

The film is set shortly after the events of the first film and follows Mario & Luigi who are now living their best running a successful General Engineering Company in The Mushroom Kingdom. Mario is also starting a relationship with the ruler of the land, Princess Peach to the dismay of Toadsworth. Luigi on the other hand is raising a pet Yoshi as his own son and is trying to get with Peach's best friend, Princess Daisy (who rules Sarasaland). However, the Bros life is frequently hindered by the ruler of the Darklands, Bowser, alongside his son, Bowser Jr, his commando team the Elite Trio, Boom Boom, Pom Pom and his new advisor Kammy Koopa who try to capture the Princess, rule the world and to have vengeance with Mario after he brought the Koopa Kingdom down, since then they've had many fights but after Bowser losses to Mario while the Bros are on vacation, he sets his biggest plan in motion to take Peach's Castle into space but is abruptly halted when a race of people from a banished dimension called Subcon lead by an Evil Frog named Wart, has devised a plan to merge the dimensions to reign supreme, while this is going on Sarasaland is under attack by Tatanga, Wart's second in command and best friend who goes to marry Princess Daisy (who is having her birthday party), The 2 Bros are quickly separated and must work with a few unlikely allies to stop an new inter dimensional scheme before it's too late.

The film was scheduled for a holiday 2023 release but was delayed to April 5th 2024 since the film was supposedly “unfinished”, despite this, the film received critical acclaim for it’s writing, performances and animation with particular praise on how it tackled themes such as death, family trauma, honour and change leading to many considering it to be better than it’s predecessor despite a similar plot/structure. Additionally the film earned $1.2 Billion in the Box Office, making it one the highest grossing films of all time and the highest grossing video game movie.

Third Film
Main Article: Super Mario Bros 3: Galactic Chaos

In February 2023, a third and final film was confirmed to be in development and was to be based on the Super Mario Galaxy games featuring Anya Taylor Joy as Rosalina and Maya Rudolph as The Shroob Princess. It is scheduled to be released in the summer of 2028. The film received mixed to positive reviews, with critics deeming it a worthy conclusion to the franchise.

Spin-offs
A multitude of Spin-offs were green-lit based on the 3 characters from the first film, these were Spin-offs were Donkey Kong Country, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker & Wario’s World, along with this a Halloween special, Luigi’s Mansion airing in October 2021. Only Donkey Kong Country got a theatrical release while the other 2 films were released on Netflix despite being planned for theatrical releases.