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The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a dazzling Super Star of a video game movie

Mario Chris Pratt Jack Black Bowser Luigi Charlie Day Luigi Mansion Anya TaylorJoy Chris Pratt Jack Black KeeganMichael Key Princess Peach Video Game
Mario, Peach, and Toad look out onto the horizon in The Super Mario Bros. Movie
The Super Mario Bros. Movie: key information

- Launches in theaters on April 5
- Produced by Nintendo, Universal, and Illumination
- Stars Chris Pratt, Jack Black, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Seth Rogen, and Keegan-Michael Key
- Written by Matthew Fogel
- Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic
- 92-minute runtime

Since 1993, Super Mario Bros. has been a millstone around the Mario franchise's neck. The roundly vilified live-action movie has long been held up as an example of how not to adapt a game series theatrically. And yet, until recently, film studios continued to repeat the mistakes of Super Mario Bros. whenever they attempted to shepherd video game franchises onto the big screen.

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