Mario and his friends are going for gold in the Super Bowl trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic serve as directors for the animated sequel feature that Universal Pictures is set to release theatrically April 1. Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Benny Safdie, Kevin Michael Richardson and Brie Larson round out the voice cast.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie centers on Mario (Pratt) and Luigi (Day) getting to know dinosaur pal Yoshi as they accompany Princess Peach (Taylor-Joy) and Toad (Key) on a voyage to outer space.
This latest trailer teases the heroes butting heads with Bowser Jr. (Safdie), who declares, “The great battle of my life draws near!” A later moment features Yoshi eating Kamek (Richardson).
Horvath and Jelenic, the directors of 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie, return to helm the sequel from a script by Matthew Fogel, who also penned the original. Hailing from Illumination and Nintendo, the new movie counts Chris Meledandri and Shigeru Miyamoto as producers.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie surpassed $1.3 billion at the global box office, becoming the year’s second-highest-grossing title (behind Warner Bros.’ Barbie). The films adapt Nintendo’s long-running Mario video game franchise.
In his review of The Super Mario Bros. Movie for The Hollywood Reporter, critic Frank Scheck wrote that it “feels like a labor of love that should easily weather any nitpicking from purists.” He added that the film “features one jam-packed sequence after another.”
The NFL’s 2026 Super Bowl between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots aired Sunday on NBC and Peacock.