Just got back from an 8:30 showing. Whole family went. My Mario super fan never stopped smiling the whole movie. We all died laughing at the Peaches song and pretty much everything Jack Black brought to the Bowser role as well as Rogen and Kong.
My bizarre comparison for this movie is the original Taken. No sub-plot, no learn a moral lesson, just Liam Neeson kicking ass for 2 hours. This was the same thing. No new character that we DGAF about, no Mario learns the true meaning of Christmas, short and sweet and full of Nintendo fun.
Life is better with a beagle