Super Mario Bros. Movie Trailer Shows Off Peach, Donkey Kong, and Mario Kart
The action-comedy, directed by Aaron
Horvath and Michael Jelenic, is the first animated film based on Nintendo’s
wildly popular video game. The movie, written by Matthew Fogel, features a
star-studded ensemble including Christ Pratt, Seth Rogen, Jack Black, Anya
Taylor-Joy, Keegan-Michael Key and Charlie Day.
In the new trailer released Tuesday, the
animated film shows Mario (voiced by Pratt) enter into an arena where he faces
Donkey Kong (voiced by Rogen). It then cuts to Luigi (voiced by Day) being
threatened by Bowser (voiced by Black), also known as King of the Koopa, who is
searching for Mario. The trailer goes on to preview clips of Mario’s journey
with Luigi to rescue captured Princess Peach (voiced by Taylor-Joy).
“Come on, Mario. Our big adventure begins
now,” says Toad (voiced by Key) in the trailer, and an action-packed adventure
is just what Mario goes on. Mario and the crew can be seen in the trailer going
through Mushroom World, down Rainbow Road and jumping through obstacles to face
Bowser and save the princess.
The console game, Super Mario Bros., was
created by Nintendo in 1985 and based on the arcade game Mario Bros. The game
also inspired several game sequels, a television cartoon, a live-action film in
1993 and now, an animated movie.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is set to be
released on April 7.