Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach!
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 Sorry Mario, but the movie itself is in the other castle! - Toad
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Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! (Japanese: スーパーマリオブラザーズ ピーチ姫救出大作戦! Hepburn: Super Mario Bros.: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen!) is a 1986 anime kids film based on the Super Mario Bros. video game by Nintendo. Directed by Masami Hata (who also directed Ringing Bell and Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland) and produced by Masakatsu Suzuki and Tsunemasa Hatano, the plot centers on Mario and his brother Luigi, who go on a quest to save Princess Peach from the evil King Koopa Bowser.
It is notable for being not only the first animated media of the Mario franchise, but also the very first movie to be based on a video game, and was been predating the live-action version by seven years as the first live-action movie ever based on the video game.
Plot
Mario and Luigi go on a quest to save Princess Peach after she's kidnapped by Bowser and taken into Mario's TV.
Why It's A Great Mission
- It is the very first animated movie based off a video game.
- Very creative animation, has a nice and cute art style and backgrounds by 1980's standards.
- There are a lot of Likable characters such as Mario, Luigi, Kibidango, Princess Peach and even Bowser.
- Catchy music numbers, such as "Doki Doki Do It!", which was made specially for this movie and even had it's own single.
- Showed respect to the source material, same can be said in The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), unlike the 1993 film.
- Decent voice acting.
- It was the first time where Bowser tries to marry Princess Peach, second was in Super Paper Mario and third was in the popular Nintendo Switch game Super Mario Odyssey.
- Many funny moments like Luigi tricking the Hammer Brother to escape.
- Lots of call back to the original Super Mario Bros. on the NES.
- Bowser going to marrying Peach on Friday the 13th is very creative (the original game also was released at Friday the 13th, on September 13, 1985).
- The end credits song, while extremely sad and depressing, is not as horrible as the ending. (see BQ#2)
- The post-credits scene with Bowser in real world is hilarious.
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) gets even better.
Bad Qualities
- While the voices of the characters are okay, Peach's voice is incredibly painful to hear, especially in the English dub. Bowser is voiced by a female, despite the game confirming that Bowser is a male, however, Bowser's voice actress does an incredibly good job, and it sounds like Bowser is being voiced by a male.
- The overall pacing of the film, while not at all terrible, is somewhat basic and generic when compare to previous films, Mario and Luigi go to an area, encounter the antagonist of that area, they get that item from that area after dealing with that antagonist, and they repeat it a few more times.
- The ending sucks: To put it briefly, after Peach puts the neck-less back on, Kibidango transforms into a human prince named Haru, who is then revealed that he will always be with Peach no matter what, meaning that not only will Mario never be able to be with Peach like he wanted, but this basically means that both Mario and Luigi went though the entire adventure for nothing. This ending is one of the, if not the, most panned scene of not only the film, but also all of the Mario franchise, and is the main reason why the film doesn't have a lot of extremely positive reviews.
- Thankfully, Haru was removed from any other future Mario media and to never be seen or mention again, and the movie isn't canon, proven by the fact that Mario and Luigi were raised in the Mushroom Kingdom and not outside the game as shown in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, as well as Mario and Peach are actually a couple.
- At least the ending isn't as really infamous as the 1993 film.
- Some moments can have really poor grasp of the source material. Examples are a dog helping Mario on his adventures; and Luigi having a blue cap and yellow shirt, rather than a green cap and green shirt.
- A couple things from the movie are really confusing, how can a sailboat fly in the sky if it can just float in the water?
- The movie somewhat feels a little similar to the 1974 film "Jack and the Beanstalk"', although it's thankfully less scarier.
Trivia
- Mario and Luigi are portrayed as grocery store owners at the start of the movie instead of plumbers, like in the first few games of the franchise, and the three television shows.
- Due to Haru's (and the film's ending in general) negative reception by critics and fans alike, he was removed from the Mario series and is never to be seen or mentioned again in later Mario media, not even in spin-offs.
- This film used to be lost media, but it was later found by Mendinso on February 11, 2007, almost 21 years after its original release.
- In this film, Toads are debuted as females, were as in the games, the Toads at the time were males, female Toads wouldn't be introduced properly until Paper Mario in 2000.
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