The Super Mario Bros. Movie

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

The Super Mario Bros. Movie premiered at Regal LA Live in Los Angeles on April 1, 2023, and was released in the United States on April 5, to mixed reviews from critics. The film grossed $1.36 billion worldwide and broke multiple box-office records, including the biggest worldwide opening weekend for an animated film and the highest-grossing film based on a video game. It also became the second-highest-grossing film of 2023, the third-highest-grossing animated film, and the highest-grossing film produced by Illumination.

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Trivia

 * Charles Martinet voices Giuseppe (a man who speaks with the exact same accent and voice that Martinet used for Mario in the Mario games) not just in the original English version, but also in a very large amount of official foreign-language dubs (though strangely not in the Arabic, Indonesian, Russian, or Putonghua Mandarin dubs). He also reprises his role as Mario and Luigi's father in a smaller number of dubs—namely European Spanish, Catalan, European French, Canadian French, Italian and German.
 * While Giuseppe is still voiced by Charles Martinet in the Japanese dub, his line is for some reason retained in English from the original English version—presumably a nod to his voice being retained in all language versions of Mario games where he voices his characters. This is unlike all other dubs where Martinet still voices the character; in those, Martinet recorded his line to be in the same language as the dub.
 * Interestingly, the film would be one of the very last times he voiced characters in something Mario-related, alongside him recording a voice clip for "Mario (Black Suit)" for Mario Kart Tour, as on August 21, 2023, it was announced that Charles Martinet would be stepping down from his voice-acting roles in the series for currently unspecified reasons in favor of serving as a Mario ambassador for Nintendo.
 * In most official dubs, the "Mario Brothers Rap" and "Peaches" are dubbed into the target language. However, both of the aforementioned songs remain in undubbed English in the Vietnamese dub, while only the former of the two songs remains in undubbed English in the Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Putonghua Mandarin dubs.
 * This is the first piece of Super Mario-related media to be dubbed into Estonian, Flemish, Canadian French, Georgian, Hindi, Central Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Slovak, Uyghur, Uzbek and Vietnamese; the other American-produced televised adaptations of the franchise, as well as the 1993 live-action film, were not dubbed into said languages.