Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!: Difference between revisions

The movie opens with [[Mario]] playing a video game on a [[Family Computer]]. [[Luigi]] (wearing pyjamas and nightcap and holding a candle) goes to bed because it is late, but Mario continues playing the game. Suddenly, the screen changes, and the player character is replaced by a girl in a dress fighting and fleeing various ''Super Mario'' enemies. In a panic, she transports out of the television, to Mario's surprise. After narrowly dodging a mob of enemies, she explains that she is [[Princess Peach]] and she wants Mario to protect her. [[Bowser|King Koopa]] then appears on the TV screen, and Peach explains to Mario that he is quite devilish and is causing havoc on her kingdom. Mario, fast in love with the princess, promises to defend her from danger. King Koopa emerges from the television, and he and Mario have a brief confrontation. He knocks Mario through a hole in the floor and transports back into the TV set with Peach.

The next day, Mario and Luigi go to work at their [[Grocery|grocery store]]. Mario daydreams about Princess Peach, crying over her sudden disappearance. As [[Miss Endless|a customer unsatisfied with Mario's absentmindedness]] leaves, Luigi notices the pendant in Mario's hand, greedily recognizing it as a mystical gem passed down from [[Toad (species)|Toad]] legend that can guide the owner to the [[Mushroom Kingdom]], a land of untold riches. They resolve to seek out the kingdom and Mario calls directory assitance, who immediately knows Mario's name and says he will send for him. Suddenly, a strange blue dog-like creature known as [[Haru-ōji|Kibidango]] enters their store and steals the gem, causing the brothers to chase after it to a field full of [[Warp Pipe|pipe]]s in a desert. After Mario chases the dog into one of the pipes, the other pipes vanish. Luigi stands on the remaining pipe for a better view, but it falls down, causing him to fall in as well.

They land in a cave, and are greeted by [[Kinoko Sennin]], a wise old man in a white robe. He reveals himself as the one who summoned them, and explains that the evil King Koopa of the [[Koopa (species)|Turtle Tribe]] has conquered the Mushroom Kingdom since Princess Peach rejected his proposal. King Koopa used his magic to turn the realm's mushroom-headed citizens into [[Brick Block|brick]]s, [[horsetail]]s, and other things. Princess Peach believed in the legend of kindhearted, fortune-seeking, funny-faced, mustachioed twin brothers in sailor caps and overalls coming to her help from an eastern kingdom, but when she sought Mario she was kidnapped by King Koopa, who plans on marrying her on {{wp|Friday the 13th}}. Mario is furious (even putting on a Mexican bandit's outfit to show off his rage in an anime gag) and vows to defeat King Koopa and rescue Peach. The wise man tells Mario to travel directly east to reach the enemy stronghold, but he will require the assistance of three magic power-ups: the [[Super Mushroom|mushroom]], [[Fire Flower|flower]] and [[Super Star|star]], which were scattered and sealed by King Koopa's minions. Mario goes on ahead, with Luigi inquiring about a reward and being told that he may collect any of the many [[coin|gold coins]] he will come across. Kibidango also accompanies the brothers, encouraged by Kinoko Sennin to help guide them, who then mysteriously vanishes as he wishes them good luck.

They continue walking onward, meeting challenges such as [[Bullet Bill]]s and a [[Big Koopa Troopa|giant Koopa Troopa]], which Mario uses his mushroom's powers to fight against. Finally, they reach a fork in the road. The two Goombas appear again from atop a giant boot. Mario asks for the best path to head eastward, and takes the suggestion of the flower garden course in case they find the flower power-up. While it looks peaceful and has an attractive fragrance, it turns out to be a field of [[Piranha Plant]]s. Once the plants start attacking, the three struggle to escape, narrowly dodging the attacking flowers. Behind them, the plants tangle themselves together, and they all tumble down.

When they finally do manage to escape, they run into an even greater danger. [[Lakitu]] looms overhead, angered that they bullied his so-called cute little flowers, and throws several [[Spiny Egg|Spiny's egg]]s at them. They remain in spiked ball form on the ground, and the brothers laugh at how he "missed" hitting them. Lakitu then pulls a lever on his cloud, thundering rain and sun on them to cause them to grow into full-grown, [[Big Spiny|big-sized Spinies]], which begin to surround Mario, Luigi, and Kibidango. Luckily, a [[beanstalk]] sprouts under Mario, lifting the three into the air along with it as the Spinies collide. Lakitu thinks he has defeated them for a moment and is pleased to feed them to his plants, but in a delayed reaction flees from Mario, who grabs on to his [[Lakitu's cloud|cloud]] and manages to tear off a piece before Lakitu escapes into the sky. Mario fiddles with the controls to save Luigi and Kibidango, causing various weather effects, and finally gets it to snow, causing the large Spinies to hibernate and the cloud piece to disappear. When the snow clears, the Spinies are nowhere to be seen, and the field is filled with normal flowers. A fluff of cloud turns into another Toad subject, who rewards Mario with the flower power-up.

They continue walking along, meeting more enemies which Mario defeats with his flower (including a [[Big Buzzy Beetle|huge Buzzy Beetle]]). Luigi hits a [[block]] and gets a bunch of coins. Mario hits another block, causing a bunch of "Mario Ramen" boxes to pop out. Excited at seeing food for the first time in awhile, the two take a quick lunch break.

Meanwhile at the castle, Peach sadly waits on the balcony. King Koopa enters the scene, asking what wedding dress she would prefer and trying to convince Peach to love him. Peach sees this as an opportunity and tries to trick him, saying that she would like King Koopa to transform for her amusement. Peach commands him to transform into nonsense words, which he confusedly interprets as a bizarre scarecrow and a portly ballerina. Then she tells him to transform into something petite and cute like a teddy bear, so he finally appeases her by becoming one. Peach picks him up and locks him in a box, thinking she has succeeded in stopping King Koopa. However, King Koopa reverts into his normal form from the box itself, laughing at Peach for thinking it would be that easy to trick him. After gloating at her with the news he heard that Mario had been captured by one of his troops, King Koopa exits the room locking the door behind him leaving Peach captive in her tower.

Back at the castle, King Koopa has his wedding ceremony planned, much to Peach's distress. [[Shisai]] begins the ceremony and King Koopa waits with bated breath over Peach's affirmation, and she finally says she is happy and that she feels like she was waiting a long time for this moment. King Koopa thinks that she is giving her oath, but then hearing her say that Mario has come to the rescue snaps him out of it as he and his minions look in the direction Peach is gazing to spot the heroes rowing the floating ship outside. It soon crumbles onto the cannon that was being readied, taking it out. King Koopa yells at the Goombas and grabs Peach, telling Shisai that they will continue the wedding uninterrupted in a backroom. The entrance seals behind them, so Mario, Luigi and Kibidango hurry to find a way around. Mario and Kibidango go through a hole in the wall and catch a glimpse of King Koopa, so they give chase as they dodge traps such as a vanishing [[Fire Bar|row of flames]] while Luigi digs for more treasure. After moving through some gears, the two arrive in a chamber with a fiery pit and a few doorways on the other side. The two Goombas rest on a control panel, explaining that in order to pass the area, Mario must jump across dangerous elevator-like lifts. They pull a stick (with their arm) on the mechanism they are sitting on, and [[Lava Bubble|rising fireball]] obstacles are added to the mix. Mario is almost burned as things heat up, but Luigi, who was mining for more coins, accidentally causes a water leak in one of the walls, which flushes him out and floods the entire chamber. While this stops the moving platforms, Mario expresses worry for his fallen brother - who is comically shown to be relaxing in the steaming liquid as a hot spring.

The castle starts to collapse due to the flooding, which is observed in the private room where King Koopa is presenting his oversized ring to Peach in front of Shisai. Mario and Kibidango see Peach pushing some rubble over her, but King Koopa also rises from the wreckage and grasps Peach, initiating the climactic battle. Princess Peach knows that Mario does not stand a chance against King Koopa's strength and firepower and pleads for him to flee, but Kibidango barks at Mario, somehow reminding him to use the power-ups. Mario eats the mushroom and flower, but drops the star when he becomes distracted by spontaneously appearing "Mario {{wp|furikake}}" and a bowl of hot rice, sending it falling into a hole in the ground. Mario falls back and King Koopa says that he will take down Mario, but Peach begs King Koopa to stop and tells him that she will do anything if he spares Mario's life - even willingly marry him. This makes King Koopa slow down and ponder for a moment, but he replies that Mario already ate the mushroom and flower, so he has to put an end to the hero before he takes the star someday and becomes a liability to him. Just then, Luigi digs up through the ground, wondering why Mario's laying down on the job as his brother tells him to hurry up and put the star in his mouth. King Koopa seemingly squishes the heroes, but Mario rises from under his foot and begins pummeling King Koopa with his newfound invincibility, finally grabbing him by the tail and throwing him into the horizon. King Koopa is seen waving a white flag on a parachute from far away.