History Trivia / TheSuperMarioBrosMovie

** Grant Kirkhope is not mentioned in the film's credits as the composer of the DK Rap, which is simply attributed to ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64''.

** Due to most of the cast being regulated to "Additional Voices" status, several roles are also uncredited. These include the couple that hires the Mario Bros at the start of the film (with the wife being voiced by Creator/CreeSummer), the palace guards, the Kong bodyguard who takes the Mushroom Kingdom trio to see Cranky, and the Sledge Bro that Invincible Mario sends flying into several members of Bowser's army during the final battle.

** Apparently according to Matthew Fogel (the writer of the movie), Bowser was originally going to be even ''meaner'' and more cruel than he already was in the movie, but then they decided to give him some more likability (most likely his LaughablyEvil demeanor). He also revealed that the original script could've been 1 hour 45 minutes in lenght in order to haver more emotion and character development, but much of it was cut because executives believed that children couldn't sit through a film that was longer than 90 minutes [[note]]Something that would also happen with WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda4, which also happens to be another animated film made by [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation a studio also owned by Universal]] and that stars Jack Black.[[/note]]; they also considered most of it to be exposition for some reason.

** Apparently according to Matthew Fogel (the writer of the movie), Bowser was originally going to be even ''meaner'' and more cruel than he already was in the movie, but then they decided to give him some more likability (most likely his LaughablyEvil demeanor).

* StuntCasting: When the English voice cast for the movie was first announced, some fans criticized the choice of Creator/ChrisPratt as Mario (over longtime ''Mario'' voice Creator/CharlesMartinet) as an example of this trope. These persisted even after the first teaser trailer was shown, where Pratt had only two brief lines in what sounded like more or less his normal speaking voice. These criticisms did wane somewhat as the marketing continued and more clips were revealed, but only ebbed after the release of the movie, with critics and fans generally agreeing that, while not a highlight of the film, Pratt's performance was appropriate for this more down-to-earth take on Mario, with a subdued but serviceable Brooklyn accent.

* DelayedReleaseTieIn: The film received a set of UsefulNotes/McDonalds Happy Meal toys in December 2022, around the film's original release date.

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Writer Matthew Fogel said the movie was his favorite thing he ever worked on, especally since he's a fan of the games.
* CreatorsOddball: The film was marketed unlike any other Illumination film, lacking pop songs, having AdvertisingByAssociation in only one tv spot, and not having mini-movies(short films that appear in Illumination Blu-Rays).

* CreatorsOddball: The film was marketed unlike any other Illumination film, lacking pop songs, AdvertisingByAssociation in only one tv spot, and not having mini-movies(short films that appear in Illumination Blu-Rays).

* CreatorsOddball: The film was marketed unlike any other Illumination film, lacking pop songs, AdvertisingByAccsociation in only one tv spot, and not having mini-movies(short films that appear in Illumination Blu-Rays).

* YouSoundFamiliar: In the Japanese dub, Creator/YasuhiroMamiya, who voice Spike, previously voiced Rabbid Mario in ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle'', which it's pretty ironic by itself, considering Spike ''hates'' Mario.

** And the Japanese dub averts all this, compared with previous dubs of Illumination's films, since there's ''no single celebrity in the dub'', not even for randoms.

** The licensed pop, rap, and rock songs were originally included in the early cut as temporary tracks by Nintendo and Illumination, but according to Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto, [[PermanentPlaceholder several of those songs were kept because they felt that the music fit the scenes that they were making]]. Before the music was finalized, Music/BrianTyler made scores for those scenes, but unfortunately, much of his work for those scenes ultimately went unused despite his protests to use his material instead, with his musical cues only heard on the official soundtrack. (The only licensed songs that Tyler didn't create a score to replace with in the final cut were in the public domain -- "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (also known as "Habanera") from ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'', which plays when things go awry during the plumbing job, and "The Wedding March" by Music/FelixMendelssohn, which plays exactly where you'd expect it to.) One case where Nintendo and Illumination's veto was actually averted was during the climactic scene where [[spoiler:Mario and Luigi pick up the Power Star and take on Bowser and his armies]]; they wanted to play Music/VanHalen's "Jump" over the action scene, but Tyler successfully pushed back against this to include his original score.
** According with Luis Leonardo Suarez, the movie's ADR director for the Latin American Spanish dub, Nintendo, Illumination and Universal all initially insisted on shoving [[CelebrityVoiceActor local celebrities]] into the roles for the main leads. While the final cut did had celebrities on the cast, he was able to get away with having them only provide work for random background characters instead.

* MeaningfulReleaseDate: The final trailer premiered on March 9, 2023, on 2:00 PM PST, or March 10 in most countries in the Eastern Hemisphere. March 10 is better known as the PopCultureHoliday Mario Day ("[=MAR10=]").

** Creator/ScottMenville is typically known as either heroic characters like [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Lloyd Irving]] or [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 Robin]], or as nerdy characters like [[WesternAnimation/MissionHill Kevin]], or even as a [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs heroic gadgeteer]] like [[VideoGame/DarkChronicle Max]]. While [[WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan his last major villain role]] had some redeeming qualities and fit more to his archetype, here he voices the sadistic Koopa General, who is not only immensely loyal to Bowser and his cause, [[AxCrazy but actively tries to kill Mario and Donkey Kong himself]], as well as sporting a much lower pitch as well. He also voices another Koopa Troopa (specifically the one who questions Bowser and gets turned into a Dry Bones as punishment) that fits more with his archetype.

** Several roles are also uncredited such as the couple that hires the Mario Bros at the start of the film, the palace guards and the Sledge Bro that Invincible Mario sends flying into several members of Bowser's army during the final battle.

*** Creator/MamoruMiyano voices Mario, rather than Creator/ToruFuruya, who had voiced him in ''Anime/TheGreatMissionToSavePrincessPeach'', animated shorts and the UsefulNotes/{{Satellaview}} games.

* ViralMarketing: The [[https://www.smbplumbing.com SMBPlumbing.com]] URL listed in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu57M7cjSD4 TV ad]] for the film takes you to a real website, set up to look like one made by Mario and Luigi for their InUniverse plumbing business. The website also features some easter eggs like a clickable manhole that reveals [[https://dx35vtwkllhj9.cloudfront.net/universalstudios/super-mario-bros-plumbing/images/regions/us/bowser.jpg a new poster]] for the movie, and plenty of icons that play sound effects when clicked, such as the classic Warp Pipe sound, the countdown at the start of a ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' race, and the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube start-up jingle. Additionally, if you click on the broken page image right above the testimonials and click the 2nd, 3rd, and 1st Warp Pipes there in that order, you'll hear an orchestral version of the series main theme; alternatively, clicking the 2nd, 1st, and 3rd pipes in that order will show Mario atop the 2nd pipe and play a remix of the underground theme that ends with a snippet of the ''[=SMB3=]'' Hammer Bros. theme. And if you call the number in the commercial, a prerecorded message from Luigi is played. Subscribing to the cell phone number to receive frequent text messages also periodically gives [[https://community-client-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/28274de6-7f3f-49e8-8d26-789f4e44ae24/images/d5fcf335-6a38-4a99-8b5c-6469e3472b5e.jpg other posters]].