

In the Jungle Kingdom, King Cranky Kong agrees to help on the condition that Mario defeats his son, Donkey Kong, in a fight.

Peach also reveals that she ended up in the Mushroom Kingdom when she was a baby, where the Toads took her in and eventually became 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, to the derision of their antagonistic ex-employer Spike, and the disapproval of their father. It is also the first film based on a video game to cross the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box-office. It has grossed over $1.02 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 2023 and setting box-office records for the biggest worldwide opening weekend for an animated film and the highest-grossing film based on a video game. The film received mixed reviews from critics, though audience reception was more positive. 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 collaborate with Illumination and Universal to produce it. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto became interested in developing another film when Nintendo was bringing its older games to the Virtual Console service, and through Nintendo's work with Universal Parks & Resorts to create Super Nintendo World, he met with Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri. (1993), Nintendo became reluctant to license its intellectual properties for film adaptations. The film features an origin story for the brothers Mario and Luigi, two 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 computer-animated adventure film based on Nintendo's Mario video game franchise.
