The Super Smash Bros. Movie

The Super Smash Bros. Movie is a 2010 computer-animated action-adventure comedy film produced by Nintendo, and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film was directed by John A. Davis and Pierre Coffin from a screenplay that Davis written with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, based on a story by Craig McCracken. As a standalone sequel to The Super Mario Movie (2005), it is the fifth 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.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach!]'' and serves as the third feature-film in the franchise. It is also the seventh film of the Nintendo Cinematic Universe (NCU).

It features the voice cast with Robin Williams reprising his role of Mario, alongside Kel Mitchell, Adam Sandler, Mel Brooks, Kevin Michael Richardson, Sebastian Maniscalco, Natalie Portman, Steve Carell, Kiefer Sutherland 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 after to the release of The Super Mario Movie with production beginning in 2006 under the working title Super Smash.

The Super Smash Bros. Movie held its world premiere at the Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles on May 8, 2010, then opening theatrically in limited release for a few weeks on May 27, 2010 before expanding into a wide release on June 4, 2010, as the final film of Phase One in the NCU, in 3D, RealD 3D, and IMAX formats, and the first Nintendo film using IMAX Technology and released into 3D. 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 $350 million, Smash Bros grossed a worldwide total of $1.504 billion, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2010 and the fifth-highest-grossing animated film of all time. A sequel was conceived and had a planned release date of May 30, 2014.

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


 * Robin Williams as Mario, the main protagonist.
 * Kel Mitchell as Toad, a mushroom-like person and is Peach's attendant.
 * Adam Sandler as Donkey Kong, a gorilla who loves banana.
 * Mel Brooks as Cranky Kong, an old gorilla.
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek, a turtle wizard and Bowser’s right hand man.
 * Sebastian Maniscalco as Foreman Spike, the brother's boss.
 * Natalie Portman as Princess Peach, the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom.
 * Steve Buscemi as Yoshi.
 * Samantha Mathis as Princess Daisy.
 * Steve Carell as Luigi, a cowardly friend and twin brother of Mario.
 * Kiefer Sutherland 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.
 * Ryan Reynolds as Pikachu.
 * Michele Knotz as Pichu, who is the pre-evolved version of Pikachu.
 * Rina Hoshino as Mewtwo.
 * Rachael Lillis as Jigglypuff.
 * Makiko Ohmoto as Kirby.
 * Cameron Boyce as Ness, a young boy who possesses extremely powerful PSI abilities.
 * Ben Schwartz as Sonic the Hedgehog, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog with superhuman speed.
 * Elijah Wood as Link.
 * Fujiko Takimoto as Young Link.
 * Tom Cruise as Fox McCloud, an anthropomorprhic red fox, and is the leader of the Star Fox team.
 * Jake Gyllenhall as Falco Lombardi, an anthropomorphic bird, and is the best friend of Fox McCloud.
 * Billy Bob Thompson as Greninja.
 * Haley Joel Osment as Sora.

Development
Dated back to May of 2004, during the middle of production on the original film, Furukawa stated that the company, Nintendo was interested in producing even more animated films based on its IP, unless the feature was a hit at the box office. In July 2004, Steve Carell, the voice of Luigi expressed his interest starring in a sequel; he would later on return to voiced Luigi in the feature. By the end of 2004, co-director Pierre Coffin pitched an idea for an another feature-film for The Super Mario Movie, but according to him, the project got turned down, mainly since it was "not the right time" to make a second Mario feature and that the original film was not released yet.

Almost four years later in June of 2008, rumors were reported that Nintendo were already working on the next film in the planned franchise, but this was proved to be wrong until on July 19, 2008 when Robin Williams stated in an interview with Deadline that there have been talks about a new sequel or even a spin-off to The Super Mario Movie, despite the film not been green-lit by the studio yet. On November 22, 2007 at the San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced by Nintendo that the yet-untitled sequel, known then as Super Mario II or Super Mario 2 by many people was reported to be in active development. In December of that same year, it was stated that John A. Davis was confirmed as director of the film.

Right after Super Smash Bros was green-lit, the team wanted to take the feature to a whole new level where instead of focusing on the comedy and the visuals, unlike their pervious feature-films like the unfunny jokes in Robots (2005) and the forced humor in The Incredibles (2004), but into an Avengers-style and this time, make the film not a spin-off or even a mid-sequel to The Super Mario Movie, but a type-of standalone sequel that was gonna be set in the same world as thxe first one, but now based on Nintendo's other Mario franchises; while they was having a hard time trying to pick which Mario series they can go next, Nintendo eventually decided to go with the popular video games series called Super Smash Bros as it fit the tone that the crew was looking for. In an interview dated from March 2010, Illumination's Chris Meledandri said that "while Super Smash Bros was very early in production, we started to notices that "most people criticize us" for a main reason and that reason is our films play it safe." He went on to say, "So, we decided to take the criticism super seriously this time and wanted to make the tone of the film to be instead focused on a more darker turn." In January, it was revealed that Davis will be coming to serve and penned the script alongside famous-Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Miyamoto explain that "We were trying and trying to find someone who can wrote an amazing screenplay for us because at the time, we had a issue with the script and right after, we found Lord and Miller and he was the perfect choose for us. On February 1, 2008, it was announced that director John A. Davis would be hired while Pierre Coffin will serve as the co-director for the film, replacing Pixar directors John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Pete Docter.

On March 2008, the screenplay were reportedly being worked on by the screenwriters of Davis, Lord and Miller and was planned to end its progress sometimes by the end of spring the next year. Later during the same month at the New York Comic Con, an official release date was revealed for November 22, 2009; this was met with an negative response with the team and audiences working on the film who asked Illumination to change the release date, as the whole production will have to be rushed completely and about two weeks about in November of that same year, it was announced by Nintendo via Twitter that due to the criticism the announcement got, the film will be "removed" from its November 2009 release to a later timing and was due to the fact that it would have released on the same day of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, allowing more time to write the screenplay."'This is Miyamoto. We realizes that lot of you have been not happy with the release date we had announced before and due to that, we decided to removed the global release date from its November 2009 release until we can find a later timing. For now, you have to wait for a while. Hope you understand us and thank you for listening.' - Shigeru Miyamoto"Throughout the rest of the first half of 2009, no news about the upcoming film was given until March of 2009, when it was officially confirmed that the film now have a new release date, this time was set for June 4, 2010.

Casting
At the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con International, Miyamoto stated that Super Smash Bros. would feature an ensemble cast, and that the most important element of the film would be "great characters so that the audience feels they're going on this journey with them". He also noted that the title had a double meaning, referring not only to the superheroes but also to the characters, all of whom are fighters. He and Wedge wanted each of the characters to be well-developed enough to be able to stand alone.

Visual effects and animation
The visual effects and animation was provided by Sony Pictures Imageworks, with additional work done in its Canadian studio, and additional visual effects work was provided by Rhythm & Hues Studios. The style of each character was altered slightly, though kept the same feel as the original games. For characters such as King Dedede, facial motion capture was provided by Weta Digital. At the time of the film's production, Weta had been working with Fox on Avatar, directed by James Cameron. Because of this, Weta had to simultaneously do the motion capture work for Super Smash Bros., while they also had to do motion capture work for Avatar, making a combined total of 10,300 hours.

Music
"Further information: The Super Smash Bros. Movie (soundtrack) and Music of the Nintendo Cinematic Universe"The music for The Super Smash Bros. Movie was composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams. Original music samples from Super Smash Bros. and Super Smash Bros. Melee were re-orchestrated by Gregson-Williams. The score's album was released on Warner Bros. Records on May 18, 2010. The film's soundtrack album was released on June 11, 2010 by Island Records. The album charted at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and received certified triple platinum from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

On May 30, 2010, it was confirmed that the lead single of the soundtrack is a song by English singer and songwriter Taio Cruz called "Dynamite" to be included on the film's soundtrack album, and to be released exclusively on radio and digital download a day later. The second single, "Somebody to Love", is sung by Canadian singer Justin Bieber, featuring American singer Usher, who allowed his label, Island Records, to release the film's soundtrack.

Marketing
The marketing campaign for The Super Smash Bros. Movie reportedly costed around $700-750 million dollars and began with the reveal of the the first photo of the film, alongside the release of the 131-second teaser trailer for the film a day before the Super Bowl XLIV on February 6, 2010 in which gained extremely positive reviews from users with many pointing out the character's design and the backgrounds. This trailer features two different songs from the Sonic and Mario video games, "Endless Possibilities" and a reworked version of "Main Theme".

At the San Diego Comic-Con on January 22, 2010, twenty minutes of footage that was completed was shown to the audiences to even more positive reviews. In March of that year, the second and official trailer was released to the website Youtube to huge praise; in its 5 hours of the trailer being revealed online gained around 70 million views and as of March 2010, it had been viewed nearly 600 million times.

The last and final trailer was released in theaters on May 14, 2010, nearly a month before the world premiere of the film.

Theatrical
The Super Smash Bros. Movie premiered at the Kodak Theatre on May 27, 2010 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and was later theatrically released on June 4, 2010 in the United States by Universal Pictures. Initially, the film was stated for a release in November 22, 2009 or December 4, but got moved up sometime later to June 4, 2010 due to competing films The Twilight Saga: New Moon set to be released on November 24, and Avatar on December 18. The film was rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for violence, rude humor and language. The Super Smash Bros. Movie was the last film released in Phase One of the NCU.

Home media
The Super Smash Bros. Movie was released for digital download by Universal Studios Home Entertainment on DVD and Blu-ray on November 23, 2010. It features a behind-the-scenes featurette called "The Making of Super Smash Bros" and deleted scenes that didn't made the final cut. The film was also collected in a 10-disc box set titled "Nintendo Cinematic Universe: Phase One – The Beginning" which includes all of the Phase One films in the Nintendo Cinematic Universe, released on May 10, 2011. Universal also released the film on Ultra HD Blu-ray on December 3, 2019.

Box office
Super Smash Bros. grossed $824.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $780.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $1.504 billion dollars. It was the highest-grossing film of 2010 above Toy Story 3, including the highest-grossing video game film of all time above Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the highest-grossing film that Nintendo released ever and the second highest-grossing animated film of all time.

On July 16, 2010, Super Smash Bros. passed the $1 billion dollars mark at the global box office. Its worldwide total of $374.8 million on its opening weekend-

United States and Canada
In the United States and Canada, Super Smash Bros 's Fandango pre-sales went to the top and became the fasting-selling family film with the tickets being completely sold in about four hours. Early tracking reported that the film was expected to made around $60 - 65 million dollars during its three-day opening weekend with some estimates expecting a debut to be around $80 million and by the time, Super Smash Bros 's release was about 5 days away, analysts reached the projections even as high as $100 million. Nintendo projected the gross to be around $90 million dollars.

The film opened nationwide on Friday, June 4, 2010 in 5,027 theaters across 10,000 screens, 1,052 of which were in IMAX, a new record for an IMAX PG title and making its the widest release ever, surpassing the record of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 's 3,000 theaters, the biggest for an animated film and to top it all off, Super Smash Bros set numerous of notable records in which the film gained a total of $46.4 million on its opening day, including a record-breaking $49.2 million from its Thursday night previews, of which the IMAX screenings gained a record-breaking total of $12 million dollars from 483 screens. It eventually grossed a total of around $116.4 million in its first three day of release, finishing first place at the box office and broke the opening record for a video game movie adaptation that was previously held by F-Zero (2009), becoming the sixth highest opening weekend debut for an animated film of all time after Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ' $90 million; plus, the film already surpass $100 million dollars domestically in just a single weekend. The debut was marked to be 0.6% higher than F-Zero and was also the biggest opening weekend ever for a feature that wasn't even rated PG-13, the best pre-spring/holiday opening, the highest-grossing start to date for an animated movie in the month of December, and the biggest start ever for a PG title. The numbers for that film were considered very impressive, given the fact that it was released just a week and month, plus the budget for this feature was bigger than any films that Nintendo produced with $100 million and plus, an huge snow-blizzard had struck the Southern and North Coast of the United States around four days into the film's theatrical run.

On its second weekend from June 11 - 13, 2010, Smash Bros. made $75.5 million dollars at the box office, in which gained $21 million (a 78% drop) on Friday, $28 million (a 33% drop) on Saturday and $26 million (a 7% drop) on Sunday, sightly less than its results from the opening debut, nevertheless it continue to ranked at first place and became the third-best second weekend ever; around that time, the film had grossed nearly $200 million dollars at the box office. On its seventh day of release, the film experienced a major drop by 66%, making around $39 million dollars; mainly due to people going back to school or work, but the drop continue on as during its third and fourth weekend from June 18 - 20 and June 25 - 27, 2010, the film drop to second place after grossing $37.7 million and $32 million dollars, respectively. On its firth weekend (July 2 - 4), the film made $38 million dollars, a bit higher from the third's weekend results. On its sixth weekend (July 9 - 11), the film experienced a major drop, only making around $5-6 million; this was mainly due to the fact that Smash Bros. was released for digital download on that same day, finishing fourth place and by September 2010, the film had grossed $711.4 million.

On Thursday, October 7, 2010, the film officially finished its box office projections finished with a domestic total of $727.6 million dollars.

Critical response
The Super Smash Bros. Movie received near critical acclaim upon release, with many considering it one of the greatest films of all time, and one of the greatest video game films of all time. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 97% based on 288 critic reviews, with an average rating of 8.55/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Gorgeously animated, heart-pounding, and possibly the greatest action movie from Nintendo yet, Super Smash Bros. can easily hype up any fan of the original video games with its more mature themes compared to other films, and possibly some of the greatest visuals for the beloved characters." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 91 out of 100 based on 28 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore assigned the film a rare grade "A+" on its scale of A+ to F.

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