The Super Mario Bros. Movie
2023 film directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a 2023 American 3D computer-animated surreal comedy-adventure film produced by Nintendo and Illumination. Based on the video game franchise of the same name, the plot follows Mario and Luigi, two Italian-American plumber brothers 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.
- Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic. Written by Matthew Fogel.
Dialogue
edit- Foreman Spike: Well, well, well, if it isn't Brooklyn's favorite failures, the Stupid Mario Brothers.
- [The brothers march to Spike's seat, annoyed]
- Luigi: [sarcastically] Oh, great. Spike's here.
- Mario: Hey, Spike.
- Spike: Yeah. [mockingly] "It's-a me!" [laughs] Ooh, yeah. [seriously] Tell me, have you even gotten one call since you two have left me to start your dumb company?
- Luigi: As a matter of fact, Spike, we have. [raises and points at his phone]
- Mario: Wow. Really?
- Luigi: Uh, yeah. Our mom called, and she said, "Oh, boys, that's the best commercial I've ever seen!" And I said, "Thank you very much, mother, we're very proud of it." So, boom! [slams his phone, cracking the screen]
- Spike: [laughs] Good luck running a business with this idiot. [throws a balled-up napkin at Luigi]
- Mario: [catches the balled-up napkin; in tranquil fury] Say that again about my brother, and you're gonna regret it. [throws ball back at Spike's head]
- Spike: Oh, yeah? [grabs Mario by the overall] Get this through your tiny brain, Mario: You're a joke, and you always will be. [throws Mario on the ground, leaves the money on the table, and walks out of the building]
- Luigi: Are you insane? He's three times than your size.
- Mario: Luigi, c'mon. Y'know, you can't be scared all the time.
- Luigi: Mmm, you'd be surprised.
- [In Peach's Castle, the Toad Council holds a meeting following Bowser's attack on the Snow Kingdom.]
- Toad General: Council, your attention. Bowser has found the Super Star and is headed toward our kingdom. Its power will make him invincible. We will be destroyed.
- [The Toads gasp]
- Yellow Council Toad: Princess, what are we gonna do?!
- Peach: [rising from her throne] I will not let him hurt you. We are going to stop Bowser!
- Yellow Council Toad: How?! Look at us. [he and the others make puppy-dog eyes] We're adorable!
- Peach: I'm going to convince the Great Kong Army to help us. Together, we'll annihilate that monster!
- Toad General: Their mad king doesn't make alliances! The Kongs will never agree!
- Peach: I can convince him. I'll leave for the Jungle Kingdom in the morning. [leaves]
- Toad General: Good luck, Princess. For all our sakes.
- [After Mario semi-successfully completes the training course]
- Peach: Well, we have a long journey ahead of us, mustache.
- Mario: But I didn't make it.
- Peach: You almost did. No one gets it right away.
- Mario: How many tries did it take you?
- Peach: [her eyes widen] Oh, so many. I was not good at it. Worse than you. [flashes a guilty grin]
- Mario: [not buying it] You got it right away, didn't you?
- Peach: I got it right away, but I grew up here.
- Mario: Okay, now you're just trying to make me feel better.
- Peach: No. No. [pause] Is it working?
- Mario: A little bit, yeah.
- Mario: You don't seem like you're from here.
- Fire Peach: I don't know where I'm from.
- Mario: Really?
- Fire Peach: Yep. My earliest memory is arriving. [flashback to Baby Peach entering the Mushroom Kingdom pipe and meeting the Toads] I was so lucky they found me. [as Peach grows up, shots of her fishing Cheep Cheeps and training with the Toads are shown] They took me in and raised me like one of their own. And when I was ready... [cut to Peach being coronated as the Toads cheer for her] they made me their princess.
- [Flashback ends]
- Mario: And maybe you're from my world.
- Fire Peach: [looking up at the sky] There's a huge universe out there...with a lot of galaxies.
- Bowser: What is your name?
- Luigi: Uh,... Luigi.
- Bowser: Not sure if you know who I am, but I'm about to marry a princess and rule the world.
- Luigi: [smiles nervously] Wow. Uh, yay.
- Bowser: But there's one problem, Luigi. There's a human traveling with my fiancé; has a mustache, just like you. Do you know him?
- Luigi: No. No!
- Bowser: Ah, tough one, I see. Maybe this'll get you to talk. [pulls at a strand of Luigi's mustache with his claws]
- Luigi: Do you think I know every human being with a mustache wearing an identical outfit with a hat with the letter of his first name on it?! Because I don't!
- [Bowser impatiently plucks the strand off, then plucks at more of Luigi's mustache]
- Bowser: Do you know him?!
- Luigi: Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop, stop! I know him! Yes, I know him! Yeah, he's my brother, Mario, and he's the best guy in the world!
- Bowser: Do princesses find him attractive?!
- Luigi: They do if they have good taste!
- [Bowser rips part of Luigi's mustache, making him scream; Bowser tosses him to the ground]
- Bowser: GET HIM OUTTA MY SIGHT!! We'll see how tough this Mario is when he watches me KILL HIS BROTHER!!
- [Donkey Kong enters The Great Ring of Kong; he dances to the DK Rap from "Donkey Kong 64", with the crowd cheering wildly]
- Donkey Kong: [raps along] I'm D.K.! I'm Donkey Kong!
- Young Kong: Yeah! We love you!
- Donkey Kong: Oh, yeah! [waves at his father] Hi, Dad! Hi!
- Cranky Kong: No. No! Don't do that!
- Donkey Kong: [continues dancing] Dad, wave back!
- Cranky Kong: Enough with the showboating!
- Donkey Kong: Whattaya mean?! They like it! It's what they came here for! Dancin' pecs! [flexes his pecs]
- Cranky Kong: [to crowd] Okay, simmer down! [the crowd still cheers] I said, "Simmer down!" [the crowd stops cheering, and the song stops, but Diddy Kong still chants "D.K.!"] That means you, Diddy Kong!
- Diddy Kong: D.-- [stops chanting and sits down] Sorry.
- Cranky Kong: Now, since I want this fight to last more than five seconds, I put power-ups around the arena. You're welcome, Mario!
- Donkey Kong: [smugly turns to Mario] I don't anything special to break every bone in your tiny body!
- Mario: [after defeating Donkey Kong] Had enough?
- Donkey Kong: [weakly] Not... even... close.
- [he almost falls off the platform, until Mario grabs him by his tie]
- Mario: I'll take that as a "Yes."
- [Donkey Kong falls forward, and Mario jumps on him; the Kongs in the crowd cheer and chant "Mario!"]
- Toad: YES! That's my best friend!
- Donkey Kong: So, this is the end; being slowly digested by an eel next to an idiot in overalls.
- Mario: Well, at least your brother isn't gonna die because of you.
- Donkey Kong: [crossing his eyes] At least you're not gonna die with your dad thinking you're a joke.
- Mario: [sullen] Yeah, well, my dad thinks I'm a joke, too.
- Donkey Kong: [sadly] Yeah? Well... [angrily] Your dad's right!
- Mario: You know what? I feel bad enough. Just- just leave me alone.
- Donkey Kong: I've never met your dad, but he sounds "brilliant".
- Mario: Just go in a corner and smash some stuff, smash monkey!
- Donkey Kong: I... am... MORE... THAN A GUY... WHO SMASHES THINGS!!
Cast
edit- Chris Pratt — Mario
- Anya Taylor-Joy — Princess Peach
- Charlie Day — Luigi
- Jack Black — Bowser
- Keegan-Michael Key — Toad
- Seth Rogen — Donkey Kong
- Fred Armisen — Cranky Kong
- Sebastian Maniscalco — Foreman Spike
- Charles Martinet — Mario's Dad, Giuseppe
- Kevin Michael Richardson — Kamek
- Rino Romano — Uncle Tony
- John DiMaggio — Uncle Arthur
- Juliet Jelenic — Lumalee
- Jessica DiCicco — Mario's Mom, Plumbing Commercial Woman, Mayor Pauline, Yellow Toad, Luigi's Bully, Baby Peach
- Khary Payton — The Penguin King
- Eric Bauza — Diddy Kong, Toad General
- Scott Menville — Koopa General, Red Toad
External Links
edit- Media related to The Super Mario Bros. Movie on Wikimedia Commons
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie quotes at the Internet Movie Database