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

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The Great Misson to Save Princess Peach was a Mario anime movie that was only released in Japan.

Plot Synopsis

The movie opens with Mario playing a videogame that appears similar to Super Mario Bros., with a few notable differences, such as the hero using a bat. Luigi goes to bed because it's late, but Mario continues playing the game. Suddenly, the screen changes, and Peach is seen fleeing various Mario game enemies. In a panic, she leeps out of the television, to Mario's great surprise. After narrowly dodging a mob of enemies, Peach explains that she is the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. Bowser then apepars on the TV screen, and Peach explains to Mario that he's evil, and trying to take over her kingdom. Bowser emerges from the television, and he and Mario have a brief confrontation. He knocks Mario through a hole in the floor, and escapes back into the TV with Peach. Mario chases after him, but Bowser and Peach vanish, leaving "GAME OVER" on the screen. Mario cries out for Peach, which awakens Luigi, who asks what's going on. Mario explains what happened, and Luigi laughs and tells Mario that he must have been dreaming before going back to bed. Mario thinks that might be the case, but then notices a pendant on the floor- The very pendant that the pricness was wearing just before! He now knows what he saw was definetely real, but has no idea what he can do about it.

The next day, the Mario Bros. go to work at their grocery store. Mario daydreams about Princess Peach, feeling very distressed over her sudden dissapearance. Suddenly, a strange blue dog enters their store and steals Peach's pendant, causing the Bros. to chase after it to a field full of pipes. Chasing the dog into the pipes, they vanish, along with the pipes themselves.

They land in a strange cave, and are greeted by a wise old man. He explains that the evil King Koopa has attacked the Mushroom Kingdom, and kidnapped Princess Peach. The Mushroom citizens have been turned into useless objects, and all seems as though the kingdom is doomed. Mario is furious, and vows to defeat Bowser and rescue Peach. The wise man tells Mario of the three powerful items, Mushroom, Fire Flower, and Starman, saying that he will need them in their quest. The Bros. set out on their adventure, accompanied by the strange blue dog creature.

Walking through a strange field, the team progresses, seeing various new and strange sites. Soon, they're spotted by two Goomba, who sneakily observe them from a distance. Eventually, they find a rest stop, and Mario goes to sleep. Luigi, however, is too hungry to rest, and complains about how hungry he is. The two Goombas arrive, claiming to be mushrooms, and lead Luigi to a field of strange Mushrooms before departing. Mario awakes, and hears Luigi laughing hysterically due to the strange mushrooms the Goombas led him to. Luigi then starts crying, and finally gets angry, but then calms down, when suddenly a giant Paratroopa picks Mario up and takes him to her nest, followed by Luigi and the blue dog. From their odd position, the Bros. spot a Mushroom frozen in a block of ice. Mario climbs up some rocks to reach it, and in addition to getting it, uncovers a hidden rock that starts shooting out Coin. The sudden surprise, however, causes Mario to lose his footing, and he falls, taking Luigi with him.

Upon landing in a nearby field, Luigi picks up one of the coins, which starts shining brightly. After a flash of light, a Toad stands before him. Soon, other coins turn into Toads. One of the Toads explains that Bowser turned them into coins, and thanks the Mario Bros. for rescuing them. The Bros. are presented with a Mushroom as thanks, and they now have one of the three powerful items.

They continue walking onward, meeting challenges such as Bullet Bill and a giant Koopa Troopa, which Mario uses the Mushroom to fight against. Finally, they reach a fork in the road. The two Goombas appear again, and give the Bros. directions- The wrong directions, leading them into a field of Piranha Plant. Once the plants start attacking, the Mario Bros. struggle to escape, narrowly dodging the attacking flowers.

When they finally do manage to escape, they run into an even greater danger. Lakitu looms overhead, and throws several Spiny at them. They remain in spiked ball form on the ground, and the Bros. laugh at how he "missed" hitting them. Lakitu then presses a lever on his cloud, raining on them, causing them to grow into full-grown Spinies, which begin to surround and attack. Luckily, Mario stumbles upon a beanstalk, and is shot into the air along with it. He grabs on to Lakitu's cloud, and manages to tear off a piece before Lakitu escapes into the sky. Mario fiddles with the controls, causing various weather effects, and finally gets it to snow, freezing the Spinies. When the snow clears, the Spinies are nowhere to be seen. The Lakitu cloud that Mario used turns into another Toad, who rewards Mario with a Fire Flower.

They continue walking along, meeting more enemies, such as giant Buzzy Beetle, which Mario defeats with his Fire Flower(Despite them being one of the few enemies who absolutely couldn't be defeated with fireballs in the games). Luigi hits a block and gets a bunch of coins. Mario hits another box, causing a bunch of ramen boxes to pop out. Excited at seeing food for the first time in awhile, the two take a quick lunch break.

The Goombas realize the Mario Bros. are getting dangerously close to Bowser's Castle, so they attempt to trap by planting a trail of coins leading up to a cave. Once inside, rocks fall and block the exit. The Goombas arrive on the other side of a barred window, and taunt them, explaining that they're trapped. They leave them at this point, and a lone Hammer Bro. gaurds the exit to prevent their escape.

Meanwhile at Bowser's Castle, Peach sadly waits on the balcony. Bowser enters the scene, trying to convince Peach to love him. Peach sees this as an opportunity and tries to trick him, saying that she'd like Bowser if he were cute. Bowser uses his magic to turn into a bizzare scarecrow, a dancer, and finally a teddy bear. Peach picks it up and locks it in a box, thinking she's succeeded in defeating Bowser. However, Bowser simply reverts back to his normal form, laughing at Peach for thinking it would be that easy to defeat him. Bowser then leaves, locking Peach in her room.

Back in their cave prison, Mario thinks about Peach, and has a brief daydream in which he- dressed in a suit- dances with Peach in a garden. Luigi interrupts this by digging through the floor, explaining that he's found a way to escape. They leave, and then have a brief battle with the Hammer Bro. Once they get away, Luigi sees that the gold he got from the cave was fake, and angrily throws it into the ocean. Mario notices that among the fake coins was a Starman, which also falls into the water. He quickly jumps in after it.

Underwater, they get attacked by a giant Cheep Cheep, and finally find the Starman in a big clam. They manage to get it back, and then escape from the persuing fish by going to an old sunken ship. The ship is home to a giant Blooper, however, and they frantically try to pilot the ship up to the surface to escape.

They escape the ocean and take to the skies in their ship, and manage to shake off the Blooper, dropping it back into the ocean. They press onward to Bowser's Castle...

Back at the castle, Bowser has his wedding ceremony planned. A turtle minister begins the ceremony, but it gets interrupted by the Mario Bros. arriving in the flying ship, which crashes into the castle. Bowser grabs Peach and escapes, with the minister following them. The Mario Bros. and the blue dog give chase, and soon Mario arrives in a room filled with fire and elevator platforms. The two Goombas rest on a control panel, explaining that in order to clear the area, Mario must jump across the dangerous platforms. Mario jumps onto one, and is almost burned, but Luigi, who was mining for coins, accidentally causes a water leak in one of the walls, which floods the entire room.

They finally reach Bowser, and the final battle begins. Mario doesn't stand a chance at first, and then thinks to use the Starman, but accidentally drops it, sending it falling into a hole in the floor. Mario takes a severe beating, and Peach begs Bowser to stop, saying that she'll marry him if he spares Mario's life. However, Luigi digs up through the ground, retrieving the Starman, and gives it to Mario. Mario, now with super strength, begins pummeling Bowser, finally grabbing him by the tail and tossing him into the horizon. With Bowser's evil magic broken, the Koopa Castle reverts to Peach's Castle, and the dark landscape turns into a green lush field. The blue dog turns into a human, revealing himself to be Prince of the Mushroom Kingdom. Peach thanks Mario and Luigi for saving them, and the two heroes go home to the Mushroom Kingdom. The movie ends with a scene in their grocery store, where Bowser and some Koopa Troopas now work as employees of the Mario Bros.

Cast

• Toru Furuya — Mario
• Yuu Mizushima — Luigi
• Mami Yamase — Peach
• Yuuko Maruyama — Toad
• Hiroko Emori — Toad
• Akiko Wada — King Bowser

Clips

Opening
Bowser and Peach