A Minecraft Movie
This is bad. Inoffensive, but bad. Geared towards younger audiences, and fans of the game which has been around since 2011, A Minecraft Movie is a train wreck of a film that other than it's design has very little going for it. The story involves people finding their way into this alternate dimension where you can build basically any squarish item you can imagine. We start we Steve (Jack Black) who is the first to find the realm but unintentionally puts it in danger from the equivalent of a failed America's Got Talent contestant turned evil queen.
Others (Jason Momoa, Sebastian Hansen, Emma Myers, and Danielle Brooks) will find the key to the realm leading them to team-up with Steve (sort of) and complete the (now broken) key which Steve wants to trade for his trusty wolf (who isn't even being held captive), the new travelers want to get home, and the evil pig queen wants to control the realm.
Although the game is about mining resources and building design there's actually very little of that in A Minecraft Movie outside of a couple montage sequences. Instead, the film is really devoted to this motley band of humans learning to stay alive in this new realm from various squarish threats long enough to earn a way home. I will admit, when the adventure picks up the film is much more digestible rather than the characters just vamping against computer-generated backgrounds.
The film has raked in cash at the box office but the script is a hard watch for anyone whose age is in the double-digits, and there's nothing here worth going back for (no, not even chicken jockey). If not for the design of the film, really it's only saving feature, it would be largely unwatchable with the constant overacting and scene-chewing that makes you wonder how they still had a greenscreen left by the end of production. At least the Pandas are cool.
Watch the trailer- Title: A Minecraft Movie
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