Super Mario Bros. (2024 film)

Super Mario Bros. is a 2024 American adventure comedy film based on Nintendo's Mario video game franchise and adaptation of The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2017) and The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2 (2023) by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Nintendo, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it was directed by Michael Bay and written by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller (who both also produce) and Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the film features an ensemble cast includes Will Smith, Jayma Mays, Tom Holland, Dwayne Johnson, Eddie Murphy, Vin Diesel, Zac Efron, Martin Lawrence, John Cusack, Tyrese Gibson, Patrick Warburton, Helen Mirren, Brie Larson, Zendaya, Jason Statham, Jackie Chan and George Lopez. The film features an origin story for the brothers Mario and Luigi, Italian-American plumbers who are transported to an alternate world and become entangled in a battle between the Mushroom Kingdom, led by Princess Peach, and the Koopas, led by Bowser.

After the critical and commercial success of the animated film The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2017) and The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2 (2023). Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto became interested in developing another film of the live-action adaptation between two films. Production was underway by 2021, and the cast was announced in April 2022. The principal filming took place between May and October that year in Brooklyn, Hawaii,  Montreal, Laval, Vancouver and Vancouver Island.

Plot
Italian-American brothers Mario and Luigi have recently started a plumbing business in Brooklyn, to the derision of their ex-employer Spike and the disapproval of their father. After seeing a significant water main leak on the news, Mario and Luigi go underground to fix it but are sucked into a Warp Pipe and separated.

Mario lands in the Mushroom Kingdom, ruled by Princess Peach, while Luigi lands in the Dark Lands, ruled by the evil Koopa king Bowser. Bowser seeks to marry Peach and will destroy the Mushroom Kingdom using a Super Star if she refuses. He imprisons Luigi to threaten Mario, whom he sees as competition for Peach's love. Mario meets Toad, who takes him to Peach. Peach plans to ally with the primate Kongs to help repel Bowser and allows Mario and Toad to travel with her. She also tells Mario that she ended up in the Mushroom Kingdom as a baby, where the Toads took her in and eventually made her their leader. In the Jungle Kingdom, King Cranky Kong agrees to help if Mario defeats his son, Donkey Kong, in a fight. Despite Donkey Kong's immense strength, Mario defeats him using a Cat Suit.

Mario, Peach, Toad, and the Kongs use karts to drive back to the Mushroom Kingdom, but Bowser's army ambushes them on Rainbow Road. When a blue-shelled Koopa General destroys part of the road in a kamikaze attack, Mario and Donkey Kong plummet to the ocean while the other Kongs are captured. Peach and Toad return to the Mushroom Kingdom and urge the citizens to evacuate. Bowser arrives aboard his flying castle and proposes to Peach, who reluctantly accepts after Bowser's advisor Kamek tortures Toad. Mario and Donkey Kong, having been eaten by an eel-like Maw-Ray, learn they both want the respect of their fathers. They escape the Maw-Ray by riding a rocket from Donkey Kong's kart and hurry to Bowser and Peach's wedding.

At the wedding ceremony, Bowser intends to execute all of his prisoners in lava in Peach's honor. Toad smuggles an Ice Flower into Peach's bouquet, which she uses to freeze Bowser. Mario and Donkey Kong arrive and free the prisoners, with Mario using a Tanooki Suit to save Luigi. An enraged Bowser frees himself and summons a Bomber Bill to destroy the Mushroom Kingdom, but Mario knocks it off course and directs it into the Warp Pipe where it detonates, creating a vacuum that causes everyone and Bowser's castle to be transported to Brooklyn. As they fight Bowser, Mario and Luigi grab the Super Star, become invincible, and defeat the Koopas. Peach then shrinks Bowser with a Blue Mushroom and imprisons him. Mario and Luigi are hailed as heroes by Brooklyn's populace, including their parents and Spike. Afterwards, the brothers move to a house in the Mushroom Kingdom and begin a day of plumbing work together.