Rated PG
Opens: April 4, 2025
Kevin says A MINECRAFT MOVIE kinda rocks!
Hoping to capture the success of THE LEGO MOVIE and SUPER MARIO BROS., Hollywood is bringing another game to life.
A MINECRAFT MOVIE brings the viewers into the world of Minecraft, where players can build anything they can imagine. When a trouble teen and a has-been videogame champ stumble upon a portal to the Overworld, they team up with Steve to stop a threat.
Very much like the world of Minecraft, this movie is a scattershot of admittedly cool ideas with forced connective tissue. This makes it schizophrenic, trying to tap into the Minecraft mythos but also tell a coherent story.
A MINECRAFT MOVIE borrows ideas from JUMANJI to BARBIE, and as a grown-up, I felt it was a mess. A fun mess, sure, but a mess none-the-less.
Only the committed performances of Jack Black and Jason Momoa kept the film from completely falling apart.
If you’re a kid, you’re gonna love A MINECRAFT MOVIE. But I am a grown-up, so it only gets three Endermen out of five. I’m Kevin Carr, and that’s the way I see it.
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