Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie pits Mario, Luigi, and their friends against Bowser and his son Bowser Jr. in an outer-space adventure, with Princess Rosalina at the center of the conflict. A sequel to the 2023 film, it reunites the full cast alongside new additions, trading the Mushroom Kingdom for an interstellar stage while keeping family rivalry — both the brothers' bond and a villain's son carrying his father's torch — as its emotional engine.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is a 2026 animated adventure comedy film based on Nintendo's Mario video game franchise. Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and written by Matthew Fogel, it is the sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023). Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black and Keegan-Michael Key reprise their roles, with Benny Safdie, Donald Glover, Glen Powell, and Brie Larson joining the cast. It was produced by Illumination and Nintendo. In the film, Mario and Luigi and their friends adventure into outer space, where they face off against Bowser and his son Bowser Jr. to save Princess Rosalina.
From the Wikipedia article The_Super_Mario_Galaxy_Movie, available under CC BY-SA.
Series
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
Mario, Luigi, and allies defending the Mushroom Kingdom against Bowser and his Koopa Kids is the film's exact setup in animated-series form.
Series
Super Mario World
The gang foiling King Koopa and his Koopa kids on Dinosaur Island shares the same ensemble-vs-villain-family energy.
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Super Giant Robot Brothers
Robot siblings stop squabbling to defend Earth when space monsters attack — brotherly teamwork against a cosmic threat.
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Zoids: Fuzors
A young hero searching for the legendary Alpha Zoid while navigating team loyalties echoes the film's mix of personal quest and inherited stakes.
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Cross Game
A boy's life intertwines with four sisters at a family batting center and cafe in this slice-of-life drama.
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Mega Man Star Force
A grieving boy uses his late father's invention to see and fight radio-wave aliens threatening the world.
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Super Mario Galaxy
Traversing gravity-bending galaxies planet to planet is the direct game origin of the film's interstellar adventure.
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Super Mario Galaxy 2
Mario shelters a lost Luma before a castle crisis, mixing gentle companions and cosmic peril exactly as the film does.
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Super Princess Peach
Peach saves Mario and Luigi from Bowser — directly inverting the film's central captive-and-rescuer dynamic.
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Super mario(itch)
The original brothers-vs-obstacles platforming loop that every Mario film adaptation builds on.
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New Super Mario Bros.
Bowser Jr. kidnapping Princess Peach and forcing Mario across eight worlds is the precise villain setup the film revisits.
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Super Paper Mario
Flipping between 2D and 3D across vibrant worlds with plot-twist-driven stakes mirrors the film's layered adventure structure.
Film
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
The brothers' separation in a magical world drives the same sibling-rescue urgency at the heart of the Galaxy film.
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Super Mario Brothers: Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach
Mario and Luigi journey together to free a kidnapped princess from a monster king — the original template.
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Super Mario Bros.
Brooklyn plumber brothers facing a dimension-hopping dino dictator maps the same cross-world, sibling-team structure.
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Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi's Adventure Land
Mario and Luigi reunite with Princess Peach in a distant land, echoing the film's companions-across-worlds premise.
Film
Mario
Two soccer players caught between the politics of the game and the politics of love.
Film
Super Charlie
A younger sibling's superpowers upend an older brother's world, refracting the film's sibling-rivalry dynamic from a fresh angle.
Start with The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), the direct predecessor that sets up the same characters and world — then dig into the classic The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 animated series for more Bowser and Koopa Kids mayhem.
The film is directly based on Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2, both gravity-bending platformers where Mario hops between planets and collects stars — exactly the space-adventure tone the movie captures.
Super Princess Peach flips the usual dynamic entirely: Bowser has kidnapped Mario and Luigi, and Peach sets off on her own platforming adventure to rescue them.