I wonder why that stat is there. That's 2-4 tickets at most I think. 

I don't think Miyamoto will allow the Mario movies to have plots/stories that are too complex because it would possibly take on a life of its own and then there would undue pressure to incorporate that into the games.

The Mario movies are just there to basically have fun references from the games brought to life on the big screen and not much more. They're James Bond movies for kids in the animated film market and their video game fan parents, the James Bond movies have no character development, some loose variation on the same type of villain (meglomanic madman), all of which is just an excuse to travel to exotic locations with attractive women and then have action set pieces in between. 

That's more or less how I look at it. Story and Mario don't really mix, I've watched every episode of the Super Mario Super Show as a kid (lol), thought the story in Super Mario Sunshine was terrible, and even the stories in the Galaxy games are nothing special. 

Zelda movie they will probably allow more leeway because it's live action and it invites itself to have more of a story, there's also the built in franchise aspect that each iteration of Zelda is kind of like it's own parallel dimension and each version is just a new take on the legend so that will probably apply to the movie too (ie: the Link/Zelda in Legend of Zelda on the NES is not the "same" Link/Zelda as in Ocarina of Time or Breath of the Wild or Wind Waker or etc. etc.). But Mario is just ... Mario all the time. 

watched the movie, it's noticably better than the first one!!
only missing a musical part, but still deserves to do better

Hearing this from a bunch of people, lol, so now I don't know what the think. Critics don't like it, but a lot of general movie goers and people who liked the 1st movie are saying the 2nd one is better. 

The second blows the original out of the water IMO. I didn’t care for the OG, but I thoroughly enjoyed this one. There was like actual character development and story elements which really shift my perspective on the overall Mario universe. Granted, it was mostly surface-level, but that’s a whole lot more than I can say about the OG, which left me feeling next to nothing.

https://www.gonintendo.com/contents/59511-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-sees-best-box-office-opening-of-the-year-biggest

The film has had the biggest box office opening of the year so far, and the biggest Wednesday opening in April ever

Just saw it.

It was really fun, I liked it!

If you loved the first movie, you’ll love the second one.

Whether or not it’s better than the first one or if I found it more enjoyable than the first. I’ can’t say for 100% certain just yet. I’ll need a second viewing to formulate a more solid opinion. But for now? Eh, I’d say they’re about the same level.

From first impressions, I think it did everything better than the first movie except for ONE thing. But that ONE thing, they fucked up so bad that it REALLY brought the whole thing down a notch or two. And if it weren’t for that ONE tjing they got so wrong, I’d be saying that this fipm blows the first one out of the water, easily.

But alas, that’s not the case.

Bottom line:
As a movie in general, it’s not really all that good. Neither was the first one for that matter.

But as a Mario movie? It is absolutely FANTASTIC!
Same as the first one.