Episode 2164
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Thu, 2023-Apr-06 04:32 UTC
Length - 2:46
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a 2023 computer-animated adventure film based on Nintendo's Mario video game franchise. Produced by Illumination, Universal Pictures, and Nintendo, and distributed by Universal, it was directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic from a screenplay 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 1993 live-action Mario film, Nintendo became reluctant to license its intellectual properties for film adaptations. 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 Illumination founder Chris Meledandri. 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. Production was underway by 2020, and the cast was announced in September 2021.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie premiered in Los Angeles on April 1, 2023. It was then released in the United States on April 5, 2023, and is scheduled for Japan on April 28, 2023, with both releases distributed by Universal Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for the animation, musical score, faithfulness to the source material, and Black's performance, but criticism for the plot and screenplay.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 04:32 UTC on Thursday, 6 April 2023.
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