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. Peach plans to ally with the primate Kongs to help repel Bowser and allows Mario and Toad to travel with her. Mario meets Toad, who takes him to Peach. He imprisons Luigi to threaten Mario, whom he sees as competition for Peach's love.

Bowser seeks to marry Peach and will destroy the Mushroom Kingdom using a Super Star if she refuses. Mario lands in the Mushroom Kingdom, ruled by Princess Peach, while Luigi lands in the Dark Lands, ruled by the evil Koopa king Bowser. 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. Italian-American brothers Mario and Luigi have recently started a plumbing business in Brooklyn, New York to the derision of their ex-employer Spike and the disapproval of their father. It also became the highest-grossing film of 2023, the third-highest-grossing animated film, and the 15th-highest-grossing film of all time. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film was a major commercial success, grossing $1.343 billion worldwide and setting multiple box-office records, including the biggest worldwide opening weekend for an animated film and the highest-grossing film based on a video game.

Movie was released in the United States on April 5, 2023. Production was underway by 2020, and the cast was announced in September 2021. By 2016, the two were discussing a Mario film and, in January 2018, Nintendo announced that it would produce it with Illumination and Universal. Through Nintendo's work with Universal Parks & Resorts to create Super Nintendo World, he met with the Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri. The Mario creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, became interested in developing another film during the development of the Virtual Console service. (1993), Nintendo became reluctant to license its intellectual properties for film adaptations. 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.Īfter the critical and commercial failure of the live-action film Super Mario Bros. The ensemble voice cast includes Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, and Fred Armisen. Produced by Universal Pictures, Illumination, and Nintendo, and distributed by Universal, the film was directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and written by Matthew Fogel. Movie is a 2023 American computer-animated adventure film based on Nintendo's Mario video game franchise.

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