Super Mario Brothers: Peach-hime Kyuushutsu Daisakusen!

In the film, Mario and Luigi are the owners of a grocery store. One night, Mario was engrossed in his Famicom game. Suddenly, the picture goes out and Princess Peach appears on the TV screen crying for help from the enemies attacking her and jumps out of the TV. Mario falls in love with her and vows to protect her. Soon after, Koopa appears on the TV screen and starts to come out of the TV. He grabs Princess Peach and takes her into the TV. Mario then discovers a small brooch that Peach left on the floor.

The next day, the brooch that Peach dropped becomes a matter of concern for Mario. Luigi immediately notices the brooch and regards it as the "Visionary Jewel from the Country of Treasure". Soon, Kibidango, a small dog-like being, wanders into the store and notices that Mario has Peach's brooch. He takes it away from Mario, enraging him, thus beginning his (and Luigi's) chase with Kibidango into the Mushroom Kingdom.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Mario Main

Furuya, Toru Japanese

Luigi Main

Mizushima, Yuu Japanese

Koopa Main

Wada, Akiko Japanese

Peach Main

Yamase, Mami Japanese

Kuribo Supporting

Maruyama, Hiroko Japanese

Kinopio Supporting

Yamamoto, Yuriko Japanese

Jugem Supporting

Hori, Junko Japanese

Nokonoko Supporting

Mizutori, Tetsuo Japanese

Hata, Masami Director

Urakami, Yasuo Sound Director

Takayashiki, Hideo Script

Miyamoto, Shigeru Original Character Design, Original Creator

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May 19, 2024

Spectremint

Recommended

For being one of the very first video game anime adaptations as well as being based off the original Super Mario Bros., I'd say they did as well as they probably could have in this case. The whole production is very cheesy, very distinctly 80s, but they managed to nail a lot of the character designs right out of the gate and you can see where a lot of this OVA later influenced the games and even the 2023 movie to some extent.

I'd say probably the most oddball thing is that Luigi is a completely different person than he is now. To be fair, Luigi ... at this point in the franchise was no more than just "green Mario" and didn't get his modern personality traits until the American Super Mario Bros. 2, so he was pretty much a blank canvas. That being said, he bears an uncanny resemblance to Wario in this OVA; he dons primarily yellow, not green, and more importantly seems to prioritize riches over his own personal safety.

The animation is a little rough but it's perfectly serviceable, and the music tracks, albeit repetitive since they play so often (especially the opening theme), are good. The use of sound effects from the games is a cute touch too, and there's even some arranged versions of SMB1's music!

If you like the Mario games, it's well worth the roughly hour-long watch, even if at the very least to see how far we've come with the Mario series. Heck, watch it with some of your Mario-enjoying friends, they might get enjoyment out of it too!

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Nov 10, 2023

mollytism

Mixed Feelings

This is lost Nintendo media wrapped in gold, with a little bit of dust on it. Glad it's available on YouTube for free.

While some parts of the movie were expected as if from a typical Mario storyline, I must admit the ending gave me a good chuckle - it was totally a twist. However some parts felt like they were dragging on, and the voice acting was a bit annoying... and you can tell it was made in the 80s just by listening to the soundtrack!

If you're a Mario fan, or just wanna watch something ridiculous, I would recommend this - maybe even under the ... influence for some extra fun. Don't take it seriously or else you're gonna be disappointed. I am not giving it an abysmal rating because 1) I love the Mario franchise and 2) Despite all its flaws, I've seen worse. To me, I was watching for pure nostalgic reasons and I love the corniness of this film.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Apr 20, 2022

literaturenerd

Not Recommended

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Greetings MAL readers! Since today is 4/20, I might as well review something that you would have to be high out of your mind to enjoy or even sit through. This is the Mario movie that Nintendo quickly shat into theaters in 1986 to immediately capitalize on the overnight success of 1985's Super Mario Bros for the Famicom/NES. The live action American film would remain in production Hell until 1993, when it was finally released to less than glowing reviews. Unfortunately, this film makes the live action Mario look like a masterpiece! Don't get me wrong. The American live action Mario is bad. However, it's ... at least charming in how cheesy and misguided it is. It also has a hilarious performance by Dennis Hopper and is quite quotable. The Mario anime from 1986 is just a cheap, soulless cash grab. People worry that's what the upcoming Mario with Chris Pratt will be, but this film did it first!

This film was written by Hideo Takayashiki, who is best known for writing the series composition for Ashita no Joe Part 2, Kaiji, and One Outs. He's one of the best script writers to have ever worked in anime, and yet this movie still sucks because he didn't care. It really seems like nobody who worked on this shit cared. Luigi wears blue in this movie because they couldn't be bothered to research that he's supposed to wear green! This isn't an instance where he was blue in the Famicom version and green in the NES version. He was always green! I've looked at the footage of the Famicom Mario from 85. This movie just cared THAT little! Did I mention the Mario Brothers are Japanese and run a small grocery store? They're supposed to be Italian plumbers. It says so in the first fucking sentence of the game manual! I know the first Mario game didn't exactly have as much story depth as The Witcher 3, but they didn't open the God Damned game manual!

The movie opens with Mario up at 3 AM in the morning playing Paper Boy for the Famicom. I find this hilarious because Nintendo's official mascot is a traitor. Paper Boy is an American made game by Atari that was ported to the Famicom in 1985. This film was made in late 1986, so Mario could have been playing Legend of Zelda, Ghosts and Goblins, Duck Hunt, or Gradius. Instead, he's playing a shitty port of an American Atari game. Luigi comes down wearing a sleeping cap and holding a candle because he thinks he's in a 1930s cartoon, but Mario yells at him and tells him to fuck off. Then Princess Peach comes out of the TV like Sadako and tells Mario to help her before being dragged back into the TV world by Bowser. Luigi tells Mario it was all a dream, but Mario is convinced it happened. Then an obnoxious blue dog that's not in any of the games shows up and the Mario brothers try catch it, which leads to a GOD-AWFUL musical number.

The brothers then climb through a construction pipe at the garbage dump, and this sends them to the Mushroom Kingdom somehow. The God of the video game world, who just looks like the stereotypical Western portrayal of God, tells Mario and Luigi that they must rescue Peach, but Luigi is only interested in money because he's a greedy bastard in this film. This was before the Mario Brothers really had distinct personalities in the games, because the only games out at this time were the arcade game and Mario Bros 85. So, Luigi's personality in this film is that he loves gold coins and he's an asshole. Ironically, this may have inspired the creation of Wario, who didn't show up until 1992.

What we get next is an extremely aimless adventure to try fit in cameo appearances of the basic enemies from the 1985 video game. We also get another awful original song that will make your ears bleed. Thankfully, they only had the budget for 2 original songs, so the rest of the OST and all the sound effects are just ripped directly from the 1985 game. They didn't get an orchestra to play the Mario theme or anything that makes it feel like a film adaptation. It's literally just the NES audio files because this anime is cheap as hell. Did I mention it looks like absolute garbage? Anime movies are supposed to look better than TV series where Toei has to rush out 1 episode a week. Nintendo was swimming in money back in 1986. Yet, this movie looks like a C-tier television anime from the 1970s. This was made by a brand-new studio named Grouper who had never made an anime before. After this movie they went radio silence for 5 years until finally reemerging and redeeming themselves in 1991 with their 2nd anime called "The Sensualist". That film is an arthouse hentai BTW. Then they made a couple shitty children's anime and seemingly liquidated in 1995.

The upcoming Mario film has gotten a lot of flak over its odd casting. However, the original Mario movie from 1986 has it beat. They hired a female K-pop singer to play Bowser and told her to voice him with the most nasally, high pitched, ear grating voice possible. Bowser's voice in this movie is cancer in audio form. Quite possibly the worst casting/ voice direction combo I've ever heard in anime. I will never understand why they thought Bowser should sound like that. This is possibly why Nintendo didn't give Bowser a human voice actor during the N64 period when all the other characters got voices and held off on giving him actual lines until the Game Cube era. Bowser is still mostly a silent character who just roars and growls, quite possibly as the legacy of this bad casting!

In summary, this anime is extremely boring, looks like shit, has terrible audio, and is a complete waste of time. It was made on dirt cheap to make a quick buck and that's about it. Is anything good about this anime? Actually...yes. They decided it was too mean to have Mario cast Bowser down into fiery lava like the games, so they had Mario defeat Bowser by grabbing him by the tail and doing a spinning toss to send him into the sky. Mario 64 then decided to use this as the way to defeat Bowser 10 years later! This movie gave us the gift of "So long, gay Bowser!" At least it finally did something right!

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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