Line #23 Trivia/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie


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2	* ActingForTwo:
3	** Creator/CharlesMartinet voices the Mario brothers' father, as well as Giuseppe[[note]]The guy playing the ''Jump Man'' arcade game in the pizzeria who praises Mario and Luigi's Italian accents in their Super Mario Bros. Plumbing commercial, and speaks in the exact same voice and accent that Mario uses in the video games[[/note]].
4	** Creator/JessicaDiCicco voices the Mario brothers' mother, the yellow Toad, the woman in the Super Mario Bros. Plumbing commercial, and Pauline; as well as the laughs for Luigi's childhood bully and Baby Peach.
5	** In the Swedish dub, Göran Gillinger voices both Foreman Spike and the Koopa General.
6	** Yuval Yanai voices both Spike and the Penguin King in Hebrew.
7	* ActingInTheDark: According to Creator/CharlieDay, who voices Luigi, many plot details were kept from the film's actors, with him only being given just enough of the script to do his voice role.
8	* ActorSharedBackground:
9	** Aside from Creator/CharlesMartinet, all the actors who voice members of the Mario Bros.' family (Creator/JessicaDiCicco, Creator/JohnDiMaggio, and Creator/RinoRomano) are of Italian descent.
10	** Giacomo Campeotto, who voices Mario and Luigi's father in the Danish dub, is also of partial Italian descent on his own father's side.
11	* ApprovalOfGod: Many of the Creator/{{Rare}} employees who have worked on the original ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' games, including [[https://twitter.com/WinkySteve/status/1645155429176016896?s=20 Steve Mayles]], [[https://twitter.com/Kev_Bayliss/status/1645669562484965377?s=20 Kev Bayliss]], [[https://twitter.com/David_Wise/status/1644115866122854402?s=20 David Wise]], and Grant Kirkhope (though he was dissatisfied about not being credited for the DK Rap), have all shown their approval towards the film's incorporation of the ''Donkey Kong Country'' characters.
12	* AscendedFanNickname: The Koopa General shouts "Blue Shell" as he tucks himself into his spiny shell and flies like a homing missile. "Blue Shell" is a fan nickname used by the ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' community and the wider geek culture, while Nintendo themselves only refer to this infamous item as the Spiny Shell in the official merchandise.
13	* AwesomeDearBoy: Originally, Anya Taylor-Joy had no interest in playing Peach, knowing her infamous role as a DamselInDistress in most games, when she's made a conscious effort not to play [[ValuesDissonance customary roles that would demean women]]. When she found out Peach would instead be a much more proactive character than in most past games, she signed up.
14	* BeamMeUpScotty: A lot of people think Lumalee says, "The only hope is the sweet release of death." It's actually "The only hope is the sweet ''relief'' of death."
15	* TheCastShowoff: Jack Black as Bowser. Owing to Black's extensive experience as a musician and vocalist, he gets to sing multiple times in the movie.
16	* CelebrityVoiceActor:
17	** The original English version has Creator/ChrisPratt, Creator/AnyaTaylorJoy, Creator/CharlieDay, Creator/JackBlack, Creator/KeeganMichaelKey, Creator/SethRogen, Creator/FredArmisen and Sebastian Maniscalco.
18	** In the Italian dub, actor Claudio Santamaria (Carlos in ''Film/{{Casino Royale\|2006}}'') voices Mario.
19	** The Danish dub has Creator/DavidBateson (the voice of Agent 47 from ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'') as Bowser.
20	** In the Swedish dub, Njol Badjie from the music group Panetoz voices Toad.
21	* ContentLeak: The designs for Mario and Peach were leaked via a [=McDonald=]’s promotion before the trailers properly showed them off. A slew of promotional posters were also leaked.
22	* CrossDressingVoices: The male Lumalee is voiced by Juliet Jelenic, daughter of director Michael Jelenic.
23	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Writer Matthew Fogel said the movie was his favorite thing he ever worked on, especally since he's [[AscendedFanboy a fan of the games]].
24	* CreatorsOddball: The film was marketed unlike any other Illumination film, lacking pop songs, having AdvertisingByAssociation in only one tv spot, and not having shorts on the Blu-Ray.
25	* {{Defictionalization}}:
26	** The SMB Plumbing website is real and fully operational -- choosing "book an appointment" will bring you to a website that shows theatres and times to see the movie.
27	** To a lesser extent is how fans are recreating segments of the movie using ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker2'' as best as they could.
28	* DelayedReleaseTieIn: The film received a set of UsefulNotes/McDonalds Happy Meal toys in December 2022, around the film's original release date. This ended up being the reason behind Lumalee's appearance being spoiled early before the final trailer made his official reveal.
29	* DeletedScene: They were fully animated and rendered, and then cut from the film. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Mario/comments/16keul2/comment/k0vqzou/?context=3 You can watch it here]]
30	** A shot after Peach tells him about there's a huge universe with lots of the galaxy, Mario says she could visit his world after they defeat Bowser, which Peach responds him with a smile.
31	** Originally, after failling to close the pressure valve and crashing throught a brick wall, Mario would've give up on saving Brooklyn, telling Luigi to go back home, with Luigi looking concerned.
32	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGdq-L4NdVM A deleted storyboard sequence made in early production, would've involed Mario and Peach in a kart race being chased by Bowser's goons]]
33	* ExecutiveMeddling:
34	** 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.)
35	** According to 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.
36	* GodNeverSaidThat:
37	** Soon after the Super Mario Bros. Plumbing commercial was released, fans noticed that the woman's voice sounded very similar to Creator/JeannieElias, the voice of Princess Toadstool in ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''. It didn't take long before people started saying that it was Elias herself making a RemakeCameo. This rumor spread like wildfire on [=YouTube=], Twitter, various media outlets, and even this very wiki as a supposed trivia fact. However, there was never any official confirmation from Elias or Illumination that it was indeed Elias, and [[https://twitter.com/jessicadicicco/status/1648832895153504256 it'd be confirmed]] a week after the film's release that Creator/JessicaDiCicco was the voice, finally disproving the rumor.
38	** Not as widespread as the example above, but there were some rumors that one of the cheering Kongs (specifically the one who yelled "We love you DK!") was voiced by Richard Yearwood (the voice of Donkey Kong) of the ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' cartoon.
39	* InMemoriam: The credits feature Satoru Iwata being credited as the "Former President of Nintendo". Later, a string of text dedicated to Laurent de la Chapelle, a computer graphics supervisor who had been working with Illumination Entertainment since the first ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'', can be seen.
40	* InternationalCoproduction: The film is a collaboration between the American Creator/{{Universal}} and Creator/{{Illumination\|Entertainment}}, and the Japanese Creator/{{Nintendo}}, Creator/{{Toho}}, Dentsu, and Creator/FujiTelevision, with animation handled by Illumination's Paris studio.
41	* KidsMealToy: In December 2022, the movie received toys at UsefulNotes/McDonalds. These include two different versions of Mario, Toad in a kart, Luigi with a flashlight, spinning Peach, Donkey Kong holding a barrel, a fire breathing Bowser, and a spinning Lumalee. The UK/European set are instead papercraft versions of the karts and of the Super Mario Bros. Plumbing van.
42	* MarthDebutedInSmashBros:
43	** In a genre-wise and language-wise basis in Japan; this is the first western-animated ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' production released in Japanese, as none of the previous western animated shows featuring Mario (though, funnily enough, not Donkey Kong, as ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry''[[note]]a production of Canada and France by Creator/{{Nelvana}} rather than an American one like the other ones, which were made by Creator/DiCEntertainment, save for ''Supercade'' which was made by Creator/RubySpears[[/note]] did get an official Japanese dub), ''WesternAnimation/SaturdaySupercade'', ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow, WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' and ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld'', were brought to Japan due to Nintendo's meddling. This is especially relevant, as the film uses some elements from the lore of those shows, including the famous "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu57M7cjSD4 Plumber's Rap]]" from ''Super Show'', which, in turn, was dubbed to Japanese.
44	** Due to many of the ''Mario'' games not being localized in India, the film marks the debuts of characters such as the Yoshis, Foreman Spike, the penguins, Lumalee, and the Biddybuds in India.
45	* 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 sometimes known as the PopCultureHoliday Mario Day ("[=MAR10=]").
46	* MissingTrailerScene:
47	** Mario's infamous "Mushroom Kingdom, here we come!" line from the teaser trailer is nowhere in the actual film.
48	** While the scene where a Cheep Cheep latches onto Mario happens in the film, it cuts away before Peach and Toad can help him as they did in the trailer.
49	** Numerous voice lines from TV spots are not present, such as Mario saying, "My little brother's lost!" and "I'm not afraid, I'll do anything for my brother," and Toad claiming that Mario may never see Luigi again.
50	* MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: Creator/CharlesMartinet voices Mario's father in English, French (both European and Canadian), European Spanish, Catalan, German, and Italian. He voices Giuseppe in a whopping ''twenty-six'' languages.
51	* TheOtherDarrin: The voice cast from the games has been replaced with Main/{{Celebrity Voice Actor}}s for the movie besides one RoleReprise.
52	** Creator/CharlesMartinet does not voice Mario or Luigi this time around, with Creator/ChrisPratt and Creator/CharlieDay covering for those characters instead. Unlike most examples of this trope, he is still involved in the movie [[PredecessorCastingGag as the brothers' father and Giuseppe]].
53	** Bowser is voiced by Creator/JackBlack as opposed to his usual game voice actor, Kenny James. A clip of James growling as Bowser, however, can be heard when Kamek informs Bowser about Mario, as well as during the fight in Brooklyn.
54	** Peach and Toad are voiced by Creator/AnyaTaylorJoy and Creator/KeeganMichaelKey respectively instead of their shared voice actress in the games, Samantha Kelly.
55	** Instead of Creator/TakashiNagasako, Donkey Kong is voiced by Creator/SethRogen and Cranky Kong is voiced by Creator/FredArmisen. Both Rogen and Armisen also fill in for Richard Yearwood and the late Creator/AronTager from the ''Donkey Kong Country'' cartoon, as this is the first speaking roles for the characters since the show ended in 2000. In a broader sense, Rogen also replaces Grant Kirkhope from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64''.
56	** Creator/EricBauza replaces Creator/KatsumiSuzuki as Diddy Kong. In a broader sense, Bauza also replaces Creator/AndrewSabiston from the ''Donkey Kong Country'' cartoon and Chris Sutherland from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64''.
57	** Creator/JessicaDiCicco replaces Creator/KateHiggins as Pauline and Samantha Kelly as Baby Peach. In a broader sense, [=DiCicco=] also replaces the former's ''WesternAnimation/SaturdaySupercade'' voice actress, Judy Strangis, her ''Donkey Kong Cereal'' voice actress, Jo Belle Yonley, and the uncredited voice actress who voiced her in the ''VideoGame/MarioVSDonkeyKong'' series.
58	** In the "Super Japanese version", aside from the fact that this is the first Japanese voice-acted work featuring Mario outside video games since the 1990s, as all the voice-acting is normally done in English (see above), none of their voice actors from that era returns:
59	*** Creator/MamoruMiyano voices Mario, rather than Creator/ToruFuruya, who had voiced him in ''Anime/TheGreatMissionToSavePrincessPeach'', animated shorts and the Platform/{{Satellaview}} games.
60	*** Creator/TasukuHatanaka does the same with Luigi over either Creator/YuuMizushima (''Anime/TheGreatMissionToSavePrincessPeach''), Creator/NaokiTatsuta (animated shorts), or Ichirōta Miyagawa (Satellaview games).
61	*** Arisa Shida, Creator/KentaMiyake and Creator/TomokazuSeki voices Princess Peach, Bowser and Toad respectively over the ''plethora'' of voice actors who had voiced them across the years in many media in Japan.[[note]]Unlike Mario, Luigi and Wario, those characters had never had established Japanese voice actors, as many of their voice acting in video games is done in English with American voice actors instead.[[/note]]
62	*** Just like the English version, Donkey Kong goes from either Creator/TakashiNagasako (games) or Creator/KoichiYamadera (the ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' cartoon's Japanese) to Kouji Takeda. Likewise, Cranky Kong goes from Creator/RyuseiNakao from the same show to Naomi Kusumi instead, while Diddy Kong goes from Creator/MegumiHayashibara to an unknown male actor.
63	** In the Latin American Spanish dub:
64	*** Mario is voiced by Creator/RaulAnaya instead of Bernardo Ezeta and the late Víctor Mares, who voiced the character in the cartoons, as well as Víctor Delgado, who voiced him in the 1993 film.
65	*** Luigi is voiced by Roberto Salguero instead of Ricardo Hill and Manuel Cabral, who voiced him in the '90s cartoons, and Creator/JoseAntonioMacias, who dubbed him in the 1993 film.
66	*** Mark Pokora, Luis Leonardo Suárez and Germán Fabregat respectively voice Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and Cranky Kong instead of their ''Donkey Kong Country'' actors Rubén Cerda, Raúl Carballeda, Ismael Castro, and Creator/ArturoMercado.
67	*** Ale Pilar voices Princess Peach instead of Creator/MariaFernandaMorales, Rocío Robledo and Dulce María Romay, who voiced her in the '90s cartoons.
68	*** Bowser was voiced by José Luis Castañeda, Creator/MiguelAngelGhigliazza, Leonardo Araujo and Jesús Brock in the '90s cartoons, and by Álvaro Tarcicio for the 1993 film. In this film, Bowser is voiced by Héctor Estrada.
69	* TheOtherMarty:
70	** The first European French teaser had Bowser voiced by Creator/ChristopheLemoine (who is a recurring dub actor for Creator/JackBlack) but he was eventually replaced by Creator/JeremieCovillault. Lemoine instead voices Bowser's Koopa underlings and their general.
71	** The first Italian teaser had Creator/MarcoMete voicing Mario and an unknown voice actor as Kamek. The final movie had them played respectively by CelebrityVoiceActor Claudio Santamaria and Creator/FrancoMannella.
72	* PermanentPlaceholder:
73	** Juliet Jelenic, the daughter of co-director Michael Jelenic, provided the scratch voice for Lumalee with the intent to use another actor for the final voice. The crew ultimately kept Juliet's voice because they couldn't find an actor to provide the desired dissonance.
74	** Several pop, rap, and rock songs were used in place of a finished score for the assembly cut of the film. Despite Music/BrianTyler later creating material to replace them with, Nintendo and Illumination elected to include the songs instead. The cues from the OST and the songs that they were replaced with are as follows:
75	*** The Penguin attack excerpt of "King of the Koopas" was swapped with Tomoyasu Hotei's "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" from [[Film/BattlesWithoutHonorAndHumanity the similarly-named film series]].
76	*** Excerpts of "Press Start" that sync up with Mario and Luigi's run through Brooklyn to the plumbing job were swapped with "No Sleep till Brooklyn" by Music/TheBeastieBoys.
77	*** Excerpts of "World 1-1" for Mario's TrainingMontage were swapped with "Music/HoldingOutForAHero" by Music/BonnieTyler.
78	*** "Drivin' Me Bananas" was completely replaced with "Take On Me" by Music/{{aha}}.
79	*** Excerpts of "Karts!" from the kart-building sequence were swapped with "Thunderstruck" by Music/{{ACDC}}. Interestingly, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong Tyler seemingly borrowed the song's]] EpicRiff for his own composition.
80	*** Excerpts from "Bonus Level" meant for the ending scene were swapped with "Mr. Blue Sky" by Music/ElectricLightOrchestra. The first chunk of the composition is still used for TheStinger.
81	* PlayingAgainstType:
82	** With the exception of a guest role on ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'', a henchman in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge1'', and ''[[Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia The NeverEnding Story III]]'', Creator/JackBlack is usually known for characters who are more notably heroic like [[Franchise/KungFuPanda Po]] or characters who are {{jerkass}}es at worst. Bowser marks one of Black's few truly villainous roles.
83	** 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. 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 usual typecast.
84	** Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson has a very deep natural voice, something casting departments usually take advantage of when they need a voice for a character who is [[EvilSoundsDeep evil]], [[AuthoritySoundsDeep authoritative]], and/or [[BaritoneOfStrength exceptionally strong]]. Not only is the gravelly, elderly, [[LorreLookalike Peter Lorre-esque]] voice he gives Kamek completely unrecognizable, but as [[BigBad Bowser's]] [[SycophanticServant tiny, bootlicking yes-man,]] he actually plays a comedic {{foil}} to the ''exact'' type of character he usually plays.
85	** In the Japanese version, Creator/MamoruMiyano is most well-known for being the go-to voice actor for [[PrincelyYoungMan gentlemanly]] and exceptionally beautiful, often highly androgynous {{Bishonen}} characters. While Mario can be gentlemanly at times, he's mustachio'd and rather portly, though [[Film/TopGunMaverick this is not the first time he had voiced or dubbed a guy with a moustache before]]. The same goes double for Creator/TasukuHatanaka as Luigi, as most of his characters are of the same kind of profile.
86	** In the Latin American Spanish dub, Mario's voice actor, Creator/RaulAnaya, is normally typecasted on voicing stoic characters like [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Master Chief]] or dark anti-heroes like [[Series/TheBoys2019 Billy Butcher]]. Voicing a hyperactive, cheerful character like Mario is quite a departure on such roles.
87	** Swedish voice actor Joakim Tidermark usually plays heroic characters like [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse He-Man]] in ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'' or Franchise/SpyroTheDragon in ''WesternAnimation/SkylandersAcademy'', or pretty optimistic characters. In this movie he voices CowardlyLion Luigi, who tries to act heroic but is held back by his fears and inability to stand up for himself.
88	* PosthumousCredit: Former Nintendo president Creator/SatoruIwata, who died in 2015, is given an honorary credit in the film as the "former President of Nintendo", despite passing away before development on the film began. However, he was involved in the early negotiations with Creator/SonyPicturesAnimation back in 2014.
89	* ProductionPosse: Directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelanic reunite with three of their ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' cast members, Creator/KharyPayton, Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson, and Creator/ScottMenville.
90	* PromotedFanboy:
91	** Creator/ChrisPratt himself is very enthusiastic about voicing Mario, [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CUL3-fFJ0KK/ considering it a childhood wish come true]].
92	** Creator/JackBlack said much of the same during the direct revealing the first trailer, claiming that playing Bowser was a childhood dream.
93	** Creator/SethRogen stated during the [[https://youtu.be/ohJrpHUoZ10 second trailer]] that he's a lifelong Nintendo fan, and his dream was that if Mario ever got a film adaptation, he wanted a role in it. His pet dog is even named [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]].
94	** "Peaches" music video director Cole Bennett expressed during a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9vCadTowVs "behind the scenes" video]] that it was a "dream come true" to work with Jack Black, and the director of photography, Franklin Ricart, called it a "childhood moment" to be doing a piece used for the ''Mario'' movie.
95	* RealLifeRelative: In the film's European Spanish dub, Mario and Luigi are played by real life brothers, Guillermo and Rafa Romero, respectively.
96	* ReleaseDateChange: Originally scheduled for December 21, 2022, it was [[https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1518756878251089921 announced]] on April 25, 2022 that the film would instead be released on April 7, 2023. However, Universal later moved the release date up to two days earlier in the US and in over 60 international territories.
97	* RoleReprise:
98	** Via archive audio, Kenny James returns to voice Bowser's grunts and roars.
99	** Kazumi Totaka provides [[spoiler:Yoshi's cry]] in TheStinger, as recycled audio from the games.
100	** Shy Guys still make sounds provided by Nate Bihldorff.
101	** In the European Spanish dub, Rafa Romero reprises his role as Luigi from the European Spanish dub of [[Film/SuperMarioBros1993 the 1993 live action film]].
102	* SelfAdaptation: Hoping to avoid a repeat of the infamous [[Film/SuperMarioBros1993 1993 live-action film]], Nintendo was directly involved in producing this movie with Illumination, with Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto himself being a producer on it.
103	* ShortRunInPeru: The film was scheduled to be released in most of the world such as the UK, Ireland, Australia, France, Belgium, Germany, Mexico, and most of Latin America during March 2023. However, the release dates were later changed a few months before they were scheduled to be released due to unknown reasons.
104	* 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 talking 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, and he does in fact change his voice with a subdued but serviceable Brooklyn accent rather than just using his normal talking voice.
105	* ThrowItIn:
106	** According to [[https://www.ign.com/articles/jack-black-was-hesitant-to-sing-in-the-super-mario-bros-movie-but-couldnt-pass-up-a-love-song Jack Black]], the idea of Bowser crooning a love song wasn't thought up "until halfway through the recording process". When Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic first pitched the idea to Black, he was initially hesitant, but after they impressed him with a short demo of "Peaches", he agreed to turn it into a full song (with the help of his fellow collaborator, John Spiker).
107	** Toad sings a short, improvised song as he joins Mario and Princess Peach on their journey.
108	* TwoVoicesOneCharacter: While Creator/JackBlack provides his spoken dialogue, Bowser's grunts and roars are still supplied by Kenny James, his voice actor from the games (though they are archived audio rather than new recordings).
109	* UncreditedRole:
110	** Grant Kirkhope is not mentioned in the film's credits as the composer of the DK Rap, which is simply attributed to ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64''.[[note]]Possibly because the game ''itself'' doesn't actually credit Kirkhope as composer, having been produced during a time period when Creator/{{Rare}} were eschewing specific credits in favor of a simple alphabetical list of everyone who had worked on the game.[[/note]]
111	** 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, the Sledge Bro that Invincible Mario sends flying into several members of Bowser's army during the final battle, and Diddy Kong (Creator/EricBauza).
112	* 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 Platform/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]].
113	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
114	** Shortly before Nintendo went with Universal, an animated ''Mario'' movie was [[https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adambvary/sony-nintendo-mario-bros-movie originally planned]] to be made by Creator/SonyPictures. Sony came close to finalizing a deal with Nintendo back in 2014, with a plan for Creator/GenndyTartakovsky to direct and Avi Arad to produce for [[https://twitter.com/dfffaz/status/1651786772223778817 a planned July 2019 release]]. Unfortunately for them, this happened shortly before the infamous Sony Pictures breach that same year, which not only [[ContentLeak leaked those plans]], but would cause the deal to fall off and for the film to get QuietlyCancelled shortly afterwards. However, talks evidently continued between the two parties at some point, seeing as Avi Arad and Sony Pictures eventually collaborated with Nintendo to adapt ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' into a live-action film.
115	** Video game composer Grant Kirkhope had tried to get involved with the film's production, [[https://twitter.com/grantkirkhope/status/1640768519934709762 but to no avail]]. The movie does use the "[[VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 DK Rap]]", but doesn't credit him for it.
116	** According to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9vCadTowVs behind the scenes]] of the "Peaches" music video, the original concept pitched by director Cole Bennett involved Jack Black out in a backyard actually singing to [[VisualPun a real peach]]. However, the concept was changed for, as Cole put it, "reasons out of my control", though he also noted he was still really excited about the final version.
117	** Bits in Brian Tyler's score, such as moments in "World 1-1" and "Karts!", were removed in the final version in favor of licensed music. Most notably, an entire song, "Driving Me Bananas", went unused in favor of Music/{{Aha}}'s "Take On Me." This also almost happened to the track "Superstars", which was going to be replaced with ''Jump'' by Music/VanHalen, [[https://twitter.com/MinnMaxShow/status/1648065437773582349 but Brian Tyler fought and eventually won for the usage of it instead]].
118	** Sebastian Maniscalco auditioned for the role of Mario before the casting of Chris Pratt. He went on to play Foreman Spike.
119	** Early concept art shows that Fire Mario, Captain Toad, Toadette, Toadsworth, Yoshi, Lakitu, Thwomp, Boos, Boom Boom, Toadies, Monty Moles, Rocky Wrenches, Boomerang Bros. Fire Bros., and Squawks were planned to be in the film. Another concept art also shows Luigi escaping from his cage and using his wrench to rescue Cranky and the other prisoners. In the movie, however, he lost his tools after getting attacked by the Dry Bones, is always in his cage and no escape attempts were shown. It was probably part of a subplot for Luigi that didn't make the final cut. Yoshi doesn't appear, though his species has a brief cameo and he's alluded to in the post-credit scene, the Blue Toad in Peach's Castle has a similar role to Toadsworth and Mario couldn't use the Fire Flower against DK during their battle because the gorilla blew on it. There's also an image of Mario in the plumber's van which is labeled ''Luigi'' Bros and Cranky would have looked how he did in the games.
120	** A fully rendered shot of Super Mario beating more of Bowser's goons in the climax was originally included, then cut from the final film. [[https://vimeo.com/850513484 You can see it here]]
121	** 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).
122	** 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.
123	** The reason why the typical green Yoshi doesn't have a main role in the film was due to not fitting in the story; thus, the story didn't want to include too many characters.
124	** According to [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIZhlXGXUAAjC9t?format=jpg&name=900x900 concept]] [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIZiD2bWEAAqcR4?format=jpg&name=medium art]] by story artist Jeff Diffenderfer, Princess Daisy was originally planned to appear in the film as a supporting character.
125	* WordOfGod: The directors [[https://www.polygon.com/23673074/mario-movie-family-members-dad-mom-uncles-aunt discussed]] how Nintendo was heavily involved with the designs of Mario and Luigi's family, and listed some details about them. Uncles Tony and Arthur are both the brothers of their dad, and Arthur's wife is named Aunt Marie.

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