‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Delivers Bare Minimum Delights

Video games may pose an existential threat to film’s cultural dominance. But if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. The second Super Mario Bros. movie understands the shifting movie-going tastes. Down with mid-sized dramas. Up with IP-based mayhem dripping with Easter Eggs and candy-colored glee. On that scale, “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” does what it needs to do, period. Nothing more by any stretch of the imagination. It’s sweet, inoffensive, occasionally funny and always adorable. The film opens with an attack on the palatial estate of Princess Rosalina (Brie Larson). It’s a brisk action sequence with surprising depth as she tries to shield her adopted kids, the Lumas, from both harm and the realization that Momma is in trouble. The sequence sets the story in motion, but it reveals how cha