Super Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros. is a 2025 American-Japanese computer-animated action-adventure crossover film produced by Nintendo and Illumination, and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film was directed by Aaron Horvath and Pierre Coffin from a screenplay that Horvath written with Matthew Fogel and Quentin Tarantino, based on a story by Craig McCracken. As a standalone sequel to Super Mario (2023), it is the fourth feature-film adaptation of Nintendo's video game series Mario, following the 1993 live-action film Super Mario Bros. and the 1986 Japanese-only anime film ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.:_Peach-Hime_Kyushutsu_Dai_Sakusen! Super Mario Bros.: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen!]'' and serves as the second feature-film in the franchise.

It features the voice cast with Chris Pratt reprising his role of Mario, alongside Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, Kevin Michael Richardson, Sebastian Maniscalco, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black and Charles Martinet. The film follows the story about Mario and Luigi who travel, including Bowser, Princess Peach and Yoshi to a different world where the leaders named Master Hand and Crazy Hand rules everyone who are also from their universes.

Development of Super Smash Bros. began prior to the release of Super Mario when the creator of Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto expressed interest in doing an another feature-film on their series with production beginning in 2024 under the working title Super Smash. At around 125 minutes in length, it is considered to be Illumination's longest animated film to date.

Super Smash Bros. held its world premiere at the El Capitan Theatre on Thanksgiving - November 27, 2025, then opening theatrically in limited release for a few weeks on December 11, 2025 before expanding into a wide release on December 26, 2025 in 3D, IMAX, RealD 3D, Dolby Cinema formats. Upon release, the film received mostly critical acclaim from critics, audiences and fans of the franchise with praise for its animation, screenplay, voice acting and the entertainment value. Against a production budget of around $100 million, Smash Bros grossed a worldwide total of $1.215 billion, becoming the fourth highest-grossing film of 2025 as well as the highest-grossing animated film released during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Premise
"'Smash Smash Bros.' follow the story about two twin brothers living in the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario (Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day) who unexpectedly traveled along with Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy), Bowser (Jack Black), Yoshi (Frank Welker) and many more into a different universe where everyone from their own world are there and they all must defeat Master Hand and Crazy Hand before chaos broke loose."

Voice cast
Main article: Characters in the Mario franchise. For other uses: List of Pokeman characters and Characters in the Super Smash Bros. series.


 * Chris Pratt as Mario, the main protagonist.
 * Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, a mushroom-like person and is Peach's attendant.
 * Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, a gorilla who loves banana.
 * Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong, an old gorilla.
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek, a turtle wizard and Bowser’s right hand man.
 * Sebastian Maniscalc as Foreman Spike, the brother's boss.
 * Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom.
 * Frank Welker as Yoshi.
 * Samantha Mathis as Princess Daisy.
 * Charlie Day as Luigi, a cowardly friend and twin brother of Mario.
 * Jack Black as Bowser, Mario and Luigi's monstrous creature villain who mostly kidnaps Peach.
 * Charles Martinet as Wario who is a arch-rival of Mario
 * He also voice Waluigi, a friend of Wario, an arch-rival of Luigi and always cause problems.
 * Jacob Tremblay as Bowser. Jr, the son of his father, Bowser.
 * Nami Funashima as Fawful, who is the sidekick of Cackletta.
 * Ikue Ōtani as Pikachu.
 * Sarah Natochenny as Ash Ketchum, a =trainer.
 * Originally, Ash was actually gonna to be called Red.
 * Michele Knotz as Pichu, who is the pre-evolved version of Pikachu.
 * Rina Hoshino as Mewtwo.
 * Rachael Lillis as Jigglypuff.
 * Makiko Ohmoto as Ness, a young boy who possesses extremely powerful PSI abilities.
 * Ben Schwartz as Sonic the Hedgehog, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog with superhuman speed.
 * Akira Sasanuma as Link.
 * Young Link is voiced by Fujiko Takimoto.

Theatrical
Super Smash Bros. was released on December 26, 2025 in the United States, and in Japan on December 29, 2025. Initially, Super Smash Bros. was stated for a release on November 22, 2024, but got moved up to January 18, 2025 due to a competing animated film titled The Powerpuff Girls: The Movie: Generations set to be released that same day. It was then pushed up to April 21, July 19 and November 11 before ultimately going with the current December release.