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Minecraft Movie: Brain Rot for Kids!
Stepping into the pixelated world of Minecraft proves to be a blocky disaster as we break down everything wrong with Hollywood's latest video game adaptation. Jack Black brings his signature energy as Steve, but rather than feeling authentic, his performance comes across as a greatest hits compilation played in the wrong venue – a Jack Black impersonator rather than the real deal. Meanwhile, Jason Momoa provides some genuine comedic moments as a saving grace in an otherwise disjointed experience.
The fundamental flaw of this film lies in its jarring visual approach – real actors placed against CGI backdrops create a constant disconnect that prevents full immersion. While the Minecraft world itself looks beautiful with its colorful blocks contrasting nicely against the deliberately sterile real world, the human characters never feel like they belong. This creative choice stands in stark contrast to fully animated successes like The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Wreck-It Ralph, which committed to consistent visual worlds with relatable characters.
What's most frustrating is how the film fails to understand its own audience. The moments that generated the most excitement – faithful recreations of game elements like zombies, skeletons, and other creatures – take a backseat to conventional Hollywood storytelling tropes and bizarre romantic subplots. Critics have largely panned the film with ratings around 4.8/10, while audiences (particularly young fans) have embraced it with scores of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. This disparity reveals the film's identity crisis – trying to please everyone while fully satisfying no one. Whether you're a Minecraft enthusiast or simply curious about video game adaptations, we'd love to hear your thoughts! What video game movies do you think succeeded where this one failed?
Hey everyone, and welcome to another review. Today we are reviewing Minecraft, minecraft, minecraft, oh no, a Minecraft movie had to make that distinction. Anything you can dream about here you can make this place makes no sense, don't I know it? Tell us all about this, addy, since I freaking fell asleep through the whole damn movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, gosh, this is.
Speaker 1:What happens when Jack Black is in a video game movie playing himself and Jason Momoa is playing a douchey version of himself?
Speaker 2:that's over the top. What to say? What to say? There's a lot to be said about the movie, that's for sure. We'll say it, Say it.
Speaker 1:A lot. What is it A lot? This makes the Mario Brothers movie look like f***ing Citizen Kane Look it was a kids movie, gotta take it in that context. Kids and this is more for kids with f***ing brain rot. Just because context kids and this is more for kids with brain rot just because it's a kid's movie doesn't mean it has to be so stupid.
Speaker 1:I feel like there was kids in the audience that were like this is cringe well, apparently they're all going absolutely wild for the movie, and now they're being banned from watching it without a parent well, you know what actually the best part of this movie was when, right when, jack black was about to make that iconic line and two people in the theater that we were in actually screamed along with him, and they were like I am steve, like as if it was like I am woman, hear me roar, or something super powerful like that who are you?
Speaker 2:I am steve great audience interaction all right, so let's start from the beginning, the bit you did see okay.
Speaker 1:So I saw this massive exposition dump right at the beginning. That was all about this mcguffin and this mcguffin and if you put them together, they create another mcguffin and the, the villain, generic villain number 85, with all the film tropes that you can think of. A Minecraft movie is the epitome of the most lazy screenwriting I've ever seen in my life. I felt like three AI chatbots were working together to write this movie. It was like that scene in South Park when the family guy writers turn out to be manatees that just push balls together and it creates this randomly generated scenario family guy is written by manatees that's what everything in this movie felt like.
Speaker 1:No rhyme or reason and you just had jack black yelling all of his dialogue like putting so much emphasis on everything he said it's interesting to see that the critics the critics are rating this movie extremely low.
Speaker 2:It is of less than the five out of ten. It's a 4.8 on rotten tomato 48. I think it's a six out of ten on imdb too high but okay. Um. However, audience reviews on rotten tomato gave an 88. Have you played minecraft?
Speaker 1:yeah, of course I played minecraft.
Speaker 2:Have you played minecraft or have you dabbled in it? No, I dabbled in it. I think the reason why audience score is so high is because it is a movie for the diehard fans and also trying to be a kids movie no, I was bored because the story was absolute ass no, but it was nothing to keep you attracted and interested in the film, because you don't know the characters, you don't know the storyline of the, of the whole game.
Speaker 2:It's. It feels like a spy kids film. Uh, the whole thing looks like a 70s commercial with with green screen backdrop the entire time. That does bring up a good point.
Speaker 1:I think that because the actors are like real life and everything else is CGI, it's heaps jarring, whereas in Mario Bros you can fully immerse yourself in the world because it's all CGI, which I would much prefer over seeing these real-life actors that look like they would never be together as a group. Jason momoa was like the only thing that was keeping me interested somewhat, because at least I was enjoying his comedic timing. This is junk.
Speaker 2:An ender pearl teleports you to wherever you throw it. You're right. What I really liked is a lot of things in the real world were in a very much of a blocky thing. Everything was square Very beginning when Jack Black's character, steve, got introduced in the real world the way he was standing in the office. It was a cubicle, everybody works in square tables, the square copy machine, square tiny office with no windows. Everything was like blocky, which suits the film, but ironically, the real world was meant to be tiny office with no windows.
Speaker 1:Everything was like blocky, which suits the film. Ironically, the real world was meant to be representing like this very uncreative, sterile which it was world yeah but that's what it was.
Speaker 2:Imagine working in a cubicle, what's? The square little office which has no color, no, nothing. It is sterile, it is blam, there's nothing. And then you go into the minecraft world, the overworld, and then everything is still square, but with color. It's blam, there's nothing. And then you go into the Minecraft world, the overworld, and then everything is still square, but with color, but it's fun and creative.
Speaker 2:So from the composition style, I really liked that they kept that rhythm throughout the whole film. Jack Black has so much more to offer than what he gave in this movie. I saw a review that actually summarizes it very well. It doesn't look like Jack Black has so much more to offer than what he gave in this movie. I saw a review that actually summarizes it very well. It doesn't look like Jack Black. It looks like a Jack Black Parody Imitator, because it was literally Jack Black reenacting all his wackiest things he's ever done in one film. Yeah, it's his greatest hits.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you know like when you hear the greatest hits sometimes just not good without the rest of the album around them or in the wrong setting, jack Black just doesn't suit in this film. This one moment was f***ing weird. Sorry, I have to say this one you were asleep and I tried to wake you up. My God, I was like they're going through this whole journey to go to this. Something would mention to get like this glass case for the cube right and the kid drops into frame, holds it. Jack looks at him from here. Do you have it? Yes, I have it. It's a frame in front of your face. Why the would you have it? Yes, I have it. It's a f***ing frame in front of your face. Why the f*** would you ask it? It's right there. Do you have it? No, I don't. I don't have it, but because it's Jack Black.
Speaker 1:It's like do you have the orb of the f***ing MacGuffin in your hand right now?
Speaker 2:That was kind of it actually. I know, because I know he's acting. How did that go unnoticed?
Speaker 1:to so many people. The other thing that I just can't stand was how so much dialogue is used to bludgeon the head of the audience as if they don't know what's going on, like what you just said. People just tell exactly what they're feeling in that moment. It's like the worst dialogue I've ever heard, like, for example, that woman that falls in love with the video game character which is so weird and so out of like tonally just doesn't work at all, but the movie makes out like it's the most hilarious thing in the world. I recently got divorced from my husband, clemente, and the main reason is, you know, he didn't have any personality, not like you.
Speaker 2:I got to add to that. It was a very funny setup, butchered by its delivery. They could have made that so funny, but now it was just BG delivery of adult jokes.
Speaker 1:When I think of Wreck-It Ralph. Wreck-it Ralph was super creative, unique and original because it had to come up with its own character. And Wreck-It Ralph was such a great character that we had fleshed out and understood and we could see his frustrations and it was relatable. It was a simple premise of someone who wanted to be someone who they told they can't be Really honest with myself. Sure must be nice being the good guy bro, you are bad guy, but this does not mean you're bad guy.
Speaker 2:I don't want to be the bad guy anymore.
Speaker 1:I'm so creative the way they did it, the way they jumped into all these different games, and it was so fun I would say racket, rreck-it Ralph, as well as Super Mario Brothers.
Speaker 2:Like you said before, they were pure animation. They didn't try to mix different worlds, they didn't try to make stuff funny for adults with children's language. They were just a film for young audiences, without complexities. What's that? A?
Speaker 1:medal. I earned it in hero's duty. It's not that kind of duty. I bet you really gotta watch where you step in a game called hero's duty final rating michael, what do you think of a minecraft movie?
Speaker 1:I hated the minutes I slept through and the minutes I was awake so it killed me on both, both ends. Um, look, you know this movie is everything wrong with hollywood cinema right now and I wanted to just have fun with it like it's a shit movie and just laugh at it a bit. But I couldn't even do that because it was so safe and boring at the same time. I will say that the, the, the CGI, didn't look too bad. It's just more so like when you see the people in it it's still quite jarring and it pulls you out. The Minecraft world itself did look very beautiful. So that's one and a half comes from that.
Speaker 2:I would give it three out of five stars. Firstly, we need to recognize that we are not the age group nor the fan base this movie is targeting. This movie feels like just a money grab.
Speaker 2:They did pretty f***ing well because they doubled their budget on the opening weekend. From a film perspective, there's a lot of things completely wrong with it. The acting was just. The style was odd. Some of the topics that were mentioned, such as the romantic complexities, doesn't suit in a movie like this. But after watching the trailer, I was expecting, similar to Snow White, a complete dumpster fire trash, and I was pleasantly surprised to see the movie wasn't as bad as I thought. I gotta give the point for Jack Black just being present. I f***ing love Jack Black, but maybe half a point. The chemistry between Jack Black and Jason Momoa. It's not something I knew I needed. I thought they had really good chemistry. It's just in the wrong setting.
Speaker 1:So you think that they would work really well in an adult film.
Speaker 2:Well, you saw that Bromance. You saw that Bromance moment.
Speaker 1:You laughed at that.
Speaker 2:We knew they were checking each other out. I think they will do very well in an adult film, a Minecraft movie XXX. No, if you're making a movie that is for their fan base, stick to it. It came to their detriment because they didn't fully commit to it. I think it's not a great movie because they failed to deliver for their fan base at the level they could have. The thing that got the most amount of reaction from the audience were the zombies, were the skeletons, were the jockey on the duck or chicken, whatever it was. That's what got the most amount of reaction from people and that's what was true to the story. They brought elements from the game. That's their fan base, not a f***ing romantic storyline between a villager and Stifle's mum.
Speaker 2:And Stifle's mum.
Speaker 1:So that's our review of a Minecraft movie. If you enjoyed this video, please like, share and subscribe, and comment below. What are some of your favourite video game movies and what did you think of a Minecraft movie? Let us know in the comments section. Until next time, this is Movies Worth Seeing. Goodbye.