A Minecraft Movie (PG)
Cast: Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Jemaine Clement, Jennifer Coolidge, Kate McKinnonGenre: Action
Author(s): Neil Widener, Hubbel Palmer, Gavin James, Chris Galletta, Chris Bowman
Director: Jared Hess
Release Date: 04/04/2025
Running Time: 101mins
Country: Swe/US
Year: 2025
One-time arcade game world champion Garrett "The Garbage Man" Garrison buys the contents of a storage unit and unknowingly acquires the Orb of Dominance, which can open a portal between worlds. A young boy named Henry, who has recently moved to Idaho with his older sister Natalie, unwittingly activates the Orb and is sucked through a portal along with Natalie, Garrett and property agent Dawn. The quartet become stranded in the Overworld with the Orb's protector, Steve.
LondonNet Film Review
A Minecraft Movie (PG) Film Review from LondonNet
To date, I have spent less than an hour playing the best-selling video game of all time. I was so perplexed by the crafting table system in Minecraft that my mentor – my young nephew – rapidly lost patience with my ham-fisted attempts to fashion a sword and suit of armour and he “reappropriated” the controller to do the blacksmithery himself. I wouldn’t last five minutes in director Jared Hess’s rollicking family-friendly adventure based on the game, which reunites the Nacho Libre ringmaster with his gregarious leading man, Jack Black…
A lot can happen in 300 seconds in three-dimensional pixellated worlds populated with creepers, endermen, skeletons, spiders, zombies and a chicken jockey. Each monster wreaks havoc in frenetically paced action sequences, which are the cinematic equivalent of dropping a mint candy into a bottle of cola – noisy, messy and fun in short bursts. A script credited to five writers is laden with Easter eggs for ardent fans but almost all those hidden nuggets passed me by (while people around me in the cinema contributed to a symphony of knowing chuckles).
One disparate plot strand involving a recently divorced high school principal (Jennifer Coolidge), who yearns for extra-curricular activity with an enigmatic new man (voiced by Matt Berry), is hilarious thanks to Coolidge’s impeccable comic timing, but belongs to a different film. One that I would rather watch – marginally – than the dizzying madness of A Minecraft Movie.
Former arcade game world champion Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Jason Momoa), owner of the Game Over World vintage computer and video emporium in Chuglass, Idaho, buys the contents of a storage unit and unknowingly acquires the Orb of Dominance. A young boy named Henry (Sebastian Hansen), who has recently moved to the town with his older sister Natalie (Emma Myers), unwittingly activates the Orb and is sucked through a portal with Natalie, Garrett and sassy real estate agent Dawn (Danielle Brooks).
They are stranded in the Overworld, where they learn the basic mechanics of Minecraft, befriend villagers, outrun exploding creepers and face hordes of angry piglins commanded by evil Malgosha (voiced by Rachel House), who reigns supreme in the fiery Nether. The terrified interlopers join forces with the Orb’s ebullient protector, Steve (Jack Black), to restore peace and find a way back home.
A Minecraft Movie careens between set pieces with gusto but human relationships are short-changed as the filler between outlandish interludes. Black’s high-energy buffoonery is the glue and he unleashes growling Tenacious D vocals in humorous original songs including the rock anthem I Feel Alive featuring Dave Grohl and Mark Ronson. The madcap double-act with Momoa reaches a delirious crescendo with the two actors hastily forming a man sandwich in midair to evade fireball-spewing ghasts. Two generous slices of larger-than-life lunacy.
– Kim Hu
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