Listen, I’m not a Minecraft player. I know nothing about Minecraft. The appeal of Minecraft is not foreign to me, but it’s just not something that I ever found myself tempted to play. As such, I have no real interest in the Minecraft movie starring Jack Black as Puppet Steve.
That having been said… this looks like every comedy movie where kids get sucked into another reality and meet a kooky character to try and escape this world or learn to live with it. It’s nothing we haven’t seen done better or worse before. It looks like harmless fare that you take the kids who are more into Minecraft than you are to watch. If this popped up on Netflix somewhere and I had nothing better to do, I’d probably pop this up as background noise or something to keep me occupied or something.
Honestly, this looks like typical kids fare. Not much to say about that. I’ve seen worse video game movie outings. Hell, I’ve seen worse movie outings. This doesn’t look like any of that. It’ll either be a big hit or it’ll be quickly forgotten about save for the couple memes some moron on Twitter might pull out of it, but either way, it’s a thing that’s happening and then everyone moves on.
A Minecraft Movie hits theaters in April of this year.
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