{"id":39415,"date":"2023-04-07T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T18:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=39415"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:25:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T18:25:18","slug":"super-mario-bros-the-great-rescue-of-princess-peach-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/07\/super-mario-bros-the-great-rescue-of-princess-peach-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Mario Bros. – The Great Rescue of Princess Peach! (Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Ky\u016bshutsu Dai Sakusen!) (1986)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By 1986, the world had only gotten so far as \u201cSuper Mario Bros.\u201d on the Nintendo\/Famicom, so Masami Hata\u2019s \u201cThe Great Rescue of Princess Peach!\u201d as a movie stretches as far as it can on very little source material. With the original NES game, they only gave you so much about the lore, and motivations of the villains, so the anime movie itself relies on a bizarre, anemic plot that, I can assume, is not at all canonical.<\/p>\n

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One night while Mario is playing video games on his Famicom, Princess Peach and all of the Mario World creatures come pouring out of the screen. Chasing after is King Koopa who is anxious to kidnap her and marry her before the next full moon. Intent on rescuing her, Mario and Luigi enter in to their realm to find her and keep her from becoming his bride. They also have to find the three magical weapons, the Flower, The Mushroom, and the Star. Or something to that effect. There\u2019s also something involving a gem.<\/p>\n

Hey, no one ever accused the Mario games of having a complex plot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Great Rescue of Princess Peach!\u201d obviously doesn\u2019t have a lot to work with, based on one game, so there are some elements that seem made up out of nowhere. There\u2019s a prophesizing hermit with a white beard, and a weird blue dog named Kibidango that assists Mario and Luigi along their quest. The Toad people are turned in to these creepy anthropomorphic human hybrids that teach the brothers about the intricacies of the mushrooms. There\u2019s not much else that really happens during \u201cThe Great Rescue of Princess Peach!,\u201d as the running time is mercifully short.<\/p>\n

Mario and Luigi spend literal minutes walking side by side through various landscapes, and are occasionally interrupted by nasty, scheming Koopas. There are some more bizarre moments including Luigi tripping out on mushrooms, and Princess Peach trying to trick Koopa in to turning in to a woman. For the most part the movie does offer up a soundtrack based around songs from the game, and we do get glances at other Mario villains, but that\u2019s all considerably hindered by the cheap animation, and paper thin plot. It\u2019s a perfectly fine–albeit weird–diversion, and I guess if you fancy yourself a completist, you can track this down and try it on for size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By 1986, the world had only gotten so far as \u201cSuper Mario Bros.\u201d on the Nintendo\/Famicom, so Masami Hata\u2019s \u201cThe Great Rescue of Princess Peach!\u201d as a movie stretches as far as it can on very little source material. With the original NES game, they only gave you so much about the lore, and motivations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,71,99,100,219,349,580,1264,1002],"class_list":["post-39415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-anime","tag-comedy","tag-fantasy","tag-kids","tag-nintendo","tag-super-mario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39418,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39415\/revisions\/39418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}