The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2D Animated)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a 2D / Traditionally animated musical/comedy film based on the famous videogame franchise “Super Mario Bros.
== Synopsis ==
The Super Mario Brothers are simple plumbers from Brooklyn that after finding a weird pipe in the sewers they end up in another world named “The Mushroom Kingdom”. Now they have to save it from The King of Koopas “Bowser”.
== Plot ==
The movie starts with Bowser arriving to the Kingdom of The Penguins with his ship and team, the gates of both the ship and the Kingdom of The Penguins open instantaneously and both Kings get face to face. The Penguin King orders to attack Bowser but their attacks are weak and don’t do anything to him nor to his team, after making a joke about the penguins Bowser orders to take them away and himself destroys their kingdom with a single flamethrower. The Star reveals itself and Bowser takes it asking ironically that who’s going to stop him.
After that we get to see the commercial of the Super Mario Bros. airing on the TV of a Pizzeria and the brothers are celebrating it but Spike whom had been there all the time tells them that it’s stupid and that their plumbing job will not work. They tell him that it will and Mario dares him to which Spike got mad and yells at Mario telling him that he is a joke. After that the brothers receive their first call for their plumbing job, they go and turns out that it’s a rich family’s house.
Mario and Luigi start taking care of the problem in the bathroom and repairing everything (“It’s Our Duty”), after a little accident with the client’s dog they come back home and their family greets them joking about their commercial, Mario’s Father tells him that he’s dragging his brother with him to the pit of failure so Mario got sad and goes to his room. He then remembers Spike’s words about him being a joke and a failure (“A Joke”) . 
Luigi goes after his brother who ended up in the middle of Brooklyn watching a sealing problem in the sewers caused by their job in the millionaires’ house so they take advantage of their tools to enter in the sewers and go after the leak to seal it, they make it but end up in a maze of pipes, they explore it but Luigi disappears only leaving his wrench in the floor. Mario finds it and then gets sucked by the pipe only to be transported to a fantasy-like cloud world with many other pipes in there until he sees his brother getting sucked into a dark cloud. 
Mario gets out of the pipe aggressively, after getting up he notices the weird mushroom world he’s in, he’s about to touch one but Toadette appears and tell him to not to touch it, after watching Mario getting scared she calls Toad and he comes over, they present themselves to Mario and he tells them what just happened and they tell him that his brother is probably in Bowser’s domains but that there is someone that can help him in their Kingdom, the Princess Peach (“The Mushroom Kingdom”).
Right after the song Luigi appears in Bowser’s lands confused and scared, he explores a bit with his lantern but it starts to fail until he sees a Dry Bones where he starts escaping and hiding from it and a horde of them (“Haunted Man”). After that he enters a mansion where he finds two Shy Guys and screams.
Peach is discussing with the conceal of the Mushroom Kingdom about Bowser’s arrival at the kingdom of the Penguins and they all agree to go to the Kingdom of the Kongs to ask their tropes to defend the Mushroom Kingdom. After that she shows herself from the balcony of her castle and tells him that she’s coming, she opens the gates of her castle greeting him and Mario presents itself telling her about the situation so she tells him that if he can show her ability for fighting she will help him. They get into a practice arena and Peach gets through it till the goal then she gives Mario a mushroom to help him out and he starts practicing (“What Can You Do?”). 
They finish at dawn and Peach tells him that even though he couldn’t get to the goal he has such a brave heart and that he can win to Bowser, Mario asks more info about him and Peach tells him that he is a cold-hearted being but actually pretty naive. After this we see a zoom to Bowser’s ship and a Koopa asking another koopa if he had seen their king and he tells him that Bowser was in his room. After hearing that the Koopa goes there and finds Bowser wearing glasses while presenting to many of his subjects a statue of Princess Peach that he himself made because of his love to her, to which his subjects say that it’s really great but the princess hates him, Bowser tells them that it may be true but that it makes him love her more (“My Own True Love”). Then, Luigi arrives at Bowser's fortress and he imprisons him to threaten Mario, whom he sees as competition for Peach's love. 
Mario, Peach, Toad and Toadette go on the journey to the Kingdom of the Kongs crossing many places of the lands and arriving to a fire flower garden where Mario and Peach start talking about themselves so Peach tells him how she ended up in the Mushroom Kingdom, she was a baby when a group of Toads took her with them and since then she trained and became the Princess of the Kingdom. After the story Peach tells Mario that there’s a big galaxy they’re in and she will protect it at all costs (“Beyond The Night”). 
The next day they arrive at the Kingdom of the Kongs and one of them opens the gates roaring making Toad and Toadette afraid and hiding behind Mario and Peach respectively, Peach asks to see the King and he gets in his motorcycle telling them to get in as well. They arrive at the castle and start walking forward when Peach hears a familiar voice, it was Princess Daisy, who was in a fight with Cranky Kong, Daisy then sees Peach and after greeting her she tells her that Cranky doesn’t want to help her defend her Kingdom from Bowser. After a rough discussion Mario tells Cranky that he’ll do whatever he wants to help Peach and Daisy defend their kingdoms to which Cranky dares him to fight against his son and if Mario wins he would give them his tropes. Daisy and Peach prepare him and warn him about Cranky’s son Donkey Kong as the fight starts (“Donkey Kong”). 
Donkey Kong makes his entrance showing his strength, Cranky mentions that he added question mark blocks all around the arena to make it easy for Mario, the fight goes on and Mario wins by getting a super bell that transformed him into a cat. After the fight, Mario and Peach talk about it and the princess is really surprised because of his way of solving problems during a battle when Daisy interrupts them telling him the same thing and that she'll help them as well. Cranky calls everyone and they go with him to plan their next movement, Peach goes but Daisy stays with Mario some seconds because she wants to give him something, her book of spells, that book was given to her by a friend and now she wants Mario to have it, after that they go where their friends are and they concur that they have to ambush Bowser’s army and in order to do that they'll need karts. 
Right after that, one of Bowser's subjects tells his king what Mario and his friends' plan is about and he goes to the lobby of his fortress to tell his army to be prepared because they'll do the same to them. The gang go to where the karts were and personalize each one of them, they drive back to the Mushroom Kingdom but Bowser's army ambushes them before they could do that on Rainbow Road. Mario uses the book to make spells that could attack them without hurting his friends and tropes while Bowser chases him (“Not This Time”). 
When a blue-shelled Koopa General destroys part of the road in a kamikaze attack, Mario and Donkey Kong plummet to the ocean while the other Kongs are captured. Peach, Daisy, Toad and Toadette return to the Mushroom Kingdom and Daisy urges the citizens to evacuate. Bowser arrives aboard his flying castle and proposes to Peach, who reluctantly accepts after Bowser's advisor Kamek tortures Toad and Toadette. Mario and Donkey Kong, having been eaten by an eel-like Maw-Ray, learn they both want the respect of their fathers. They escape the Maw-Ray by riding a rocket from Donkey Kong's kart and hurry to Bowser and Peach's wedding as it starts ("My Own True Love ‘Reprise’), Bowser intends to execute all of his prisoners in the lava in Peach's honor. 
During the fight against Bowser’s minions Donkey Kong got captured and Mario fell into the forest under the ship leaving him really hurt, Mario starts panicking and uses Daisy’s book as a last resource to save his brother and friends, after remembering them and his family’s words he decides to keep fighting (“Good Intentions”) he finally finds a super leaf and transforms himself into a Tanooki with which he’s able to save his brother and many of the prisoners. 
Meanwhile in Bowser’s ship, Peach uses an ice flower that Daisy managed to hide in her flower row, she freezes Bowser and defeat many of his tropes, after another fight Bowser unfreezes and orders to destroy the mushroom kingdom with a Bullet Bill so Mario goes to stop it, the bill bullet ends up entering the pipe where Mario entered to the kingdom and it exploded in the cloud world. That caused Brooklyn and The Mushroom Kingdom to fuse, sucking everything in. 
Everyone wakes up in this new world and Mario goes where Peach, Luigi. the toads, Daisy and even Donkey Kong are to make sure they were fine, but Bowser, furious, gets up and decides to burn everything and everyone down. His friends say that there is no hope anymore but Mario encourages them, after confronting Bowser face to face together they manage to reach the star, defeat the Koopas, destroy Bowser's fortress and incapacitate him. ("Burning By The Minute"). 
Peach then shrinks Bowser with a Blue Mushroom and imprisons him. Mario and Luigi are hailed as heroes by Brooklyn's populace, including their parents and Spike. Mario goes to where his advert was and thanks everyone for this adventure as him and Luigi move to a house in the Mushroom Kingdom and begin a day of plumbing work together. ("On The Way").
== Cast ==
* Charles Martinet (Speaking) Paul Nolan (Singing) as Mario
* Kevin Afghani (Speaking) Chris Pratt (Singing) as Luigi
* Kate Higgins (Speaking) Amy Adams (Singing) as Peach
* Paul St. Peter (Speaking) Ramin Karimloo (Singing) as Bowser
* Keegan-Michael Key as Toad
* Samantha Kelly as Toadette
* Deanna Mustard (Speaking) Ashley Tisdale (Singing) as Daisy
* Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek
* Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong
* Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong
* Charles Martinet as Mario’s Father
* Jessica DiCicco as Mario’s Mother
* Sebastien Maniscalco as Spike
* Khary Payton as Penguin King
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== Songs ==
* “It’s Our Duty” - Mario, Luigi
* “A Joke” - Mario
* “The Mushroom Kingdom” - Toad, Toadette, Cast
* “Haunted Man” - Luigi, Cast
* “What Can You Do?” - Peach, Mario
* “My Own True Love” - Bowser, Cast
* “Beyond The Night” - Mario, Peach
* “Donkey Kong” - Daisy, Peach, Toad, Toadette
* “Not This Time” - Bowser, Mario
* “My Own True Love (Reprise)” - Bowser
* “Good Intentions” - Mario
* “Burning By The Minute” - Mario, Bowser, Peach, Luigi, Cast
* “On The Way” - Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Toadette, Daisy, Donkey Kong, Cast
== Trivia ==
* Each of the characters have their own themes for their scenes and when the characters interact their themes combine.
* Many Disney films inspired the look of this movie, especifically Tangled and The Lion King.
* Many voice actors from the games were chosen for the dialogues of their characters in order to have a better acting while still having Hollywood stars in the movie in the songs.
* Many dubs like the Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, Cantonese and Japanese did the same with professional voice actors in the dialogues and startalents / singers in the songs.
* The only actor / actress from the games that reprises their role Speaking and Singing is Samantha Kelly as Toadette.
* Charles Martinet reprises his role in the Japanese dub.
== Autor’s Notes ==
* The songs are based in many other franchises’ songs, for example, “My Own True Love” is based on the song from Enchanted “True Love’s Kiss”, “Beyond The Night” is based on the song from Rebecca: Das Musical “Jenseits der Nacht”, “Good Intentions” is based on the song from Wicked “No Good Deed”, etc.
* I made the lyrics of the song “Good Intentions” using the melody of “No Good Deed”. You can add or change some of it since I’m not an expert in songwriting.
Eleka nahmen nahmen, ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen
Eleka nahmen nahmen, ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen
Let their flesh not be torn, let their blood leave no stain
Though they beat them, let them feel no pain!
Let their bones never break and however they try
To destroy them, let them never die, let them never die!
Eleka nahmen nahmen, ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen
Eleka nahmen nahmen, ah tum ah tum eleka… eleka…
Ugh! Why isn’t it working? I guess I’m not reading correctly?
I don’t even know what trick I ought to try
Peaches, you’re stronger! I know you fight already
Though for me it’s one disaster more to my generous supply
Good intentions are punished…
And now my friends and brother are imprisoned
Good intentions are punished
That’s my new creed, my circle of good deeds led where such roads always lead
Good intentions are punished!
Toads?
Princess Daisy?
Peaches?
Luigi?…
LUIGI!
One question haunts and hurts too much, too much to mention
Was I really seeking his good or just seeking attention?
Is that what kindness is when looked at with an ice-cold eye?
If that’s what good deeds are, maybe that’s the reason why…
Good intentions are punished!
But no bad deed ever gets circumvented
Good intentions are punished…
Sure, I meant well, but look at what well-meant did
If this is the price, so be it, so be it then…
Just let Bowser know me…
I’m determined!, I don’t care what I have to go through nor what I have to do
If this’s my last good deed I promise it won’t be in vain, ever again! 
I can’t fail, I won’t fail again!