Super Smash Bros. (2025 film)

Super Smash Bros. (also known as Super Smash Bros.: The Movie) is a 2025 American computer-animated action-adventure film produced by Illumination and Nintendo, and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film is directed by Michael Jelenic (who co-wrote the story) and Chris Renaud from a screenplay written by Matthew Fogel, based on a story by Charles Martinet and Jelenic. It is the fourth feature-film adaptation of Nintendo's Mario video game series, following the 2023 animated film Mario, the 1993 live-action film Super Mario Bros. and the 1986 Japanese-only anime film Super Mario Bros.: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen!

It features an ensemble voice cast with Chris Pratt reprising his role as Mario, alongside Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, Jeff Manning, Yuya Takezawa, Michele Knotz and Deanna Mustard while the score was composed by Hideki Sakamoto. The film follows Mario and Luigi who ended up traveling to a different world where every character are there, also from their universe and they all have to defeat Crazy Hand and Master Hand. At around 119 minutes in length, it is one of Illumination's longest features.

Super Smash Bros. premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on May 21, 2025 before expanding into wide release in the United States on June 17 in IMAX, RealD 3D, D-BOX and Dolby Cinema formats. Upon release, the film received positive reviews from critics with praise for its animation, screenplay and voice acting and grossed a worldwide total of around $1.015 billion against its $100 million production budget, the highest for any Illumination feature, making it the fifth-highest-grossing film as well as the highest-grossing animated film released during the COVID-19 pandemic, behind Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022).

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