‘A Minecraft Movie’ Review: Sandbox game successfully reborn as a movie

Alfred Hitchcock had blondes, MacGuffins and director camera cells. Spike Lee has Dolly Shots, New York Settings and Fourth Wall Breaks. And Jared Hess has tots, lamas and frequently use “friggin”.

I’m not saying this Napoleon Dynamite The director is at these two auteur levels. However, despite the adaptation of a video game of a video game, A Minecraft Movie It still sounds like a Jared Hess movie in its essence (even in its environment in Idaho ( Minecraftwell).

A Minecraft Movie Only mammoth video game origins, reducing jokes and references for those who do not dive for play Minecraft And enjoyable for those who have. This would be a safe route – and most of the IP adaptation to get – but strangely, Warner Bros. And the game studio Mojang looks good when Hess puts this universe’s own interesting stamp.

Maybe it’s not that weird. The game is very limited from my limited understanding (as a childless adult with google “Minecraft I am going to the explanatory ”theater), creativity and transforming the world to yourself Minecraft game. And even if I didn’t do research before five minutes of screening, A Minecraft Movie It is clear in adopting as the key to achieving imagination. Minecraft World country.

Plot A Minecraft Movie Very – and at the same time it does not mean.

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It is difficult to explain the plan of this family -friendly adventure in a concise way; This is my mistake Minecraft Noob or five -credit writers (Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer, Neil Wudier, Gavin James and Chris Galletta) ready to argue. Mine obsessed Steve (Jack Black) accidentally discovers a portal (naturally) that leads to Overworld, an animated universe full of block animals, trees and structures. The Steve Masters building and the superior world decides to stay after establishing a connection with a cube -shaped dog he calls Dennis.

Later, the same World Portal Old Video Game Champion Garrett Garbage Man ”garrison (Jason Momoa), Real Estate/Mobile Zoo entrepreneur Dawn (Danielle Brooks) and two young brothers, Henry (Sebastian Hansen) and Natalie (Emma Myers) sucks. Through trial and error, they learn how to create daytime structures and vehicles, and try to survive only at night, making buildings and workmanship in the midst of zombies, spiders and reptiles. Their experiences basically reflect the modes of the game: in Creat, players focus on building their own worlds, while Survive tries not to die every night from creepy creatures. They continue to quest for the sphere of dominance in the Macguffin-Kupup-shaped sphere of the film, where they encounter more creation that allows children in my scanning to lose their little minds with excitement. Meanwhile, they are trying to avoid unemployed armies from a hell-like underground world, filled with meat, block pigs and managed by magician Malgosha (Taika Waititi-Favorite Rachel House).

Beyond all of them… He, A Minecraft Movie It also offers a completely unnecessary sub -graph about an extreme world citizen who stumbles to our world and encountered Henry’s Assistant Director Daffy, who is portrayed by Jennifer Coolidge. These scenes may have been completely cut without affecting anything else on the screen, but a credit sequence offers a return. It is hard to be very angry in the inclusion because it is a tool for Coolidge, where HESS is also involved. Guys broncosAnd on the same comedy page as the filmmaker.

Jason Momoa and Jack Black are the best.

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Momoa and Black leaders are also Hess’s strange wavelength. With a wardrobe of fringed jackets and a magnificent curly hairy haircut, has-been video Game King and its sliding delivery is the funniest one. Aquaman The actor was never. Garrett, who loves the hair metal, desperately tries to capture his previous glory again and Momoa speaks in a cadense that is so serious but who knows oh-Oh-that. Napoleon Dynamite Again.

Similarly, Black has the enthusiastic energy of the trademark limited to disgust, and this is the perfect choice for the perfect stupid film and young audience. Some adults may not find black fun, but they are old and boring. For the second round with HESS Nacho LibreBlack takes the director does not want natural performances in Stanislavski. A Minecraft Movie does not try to be thin; He understood the larger, better and black homework.

The first film of the 2023s is nominated after Oscar Purple colorBrooks is not given a ton. However, if everyone in the cast is working at Momoa, Black and Coolidge at the top level, A Minecraft Movie It would be overwhelming and exhausting, a fate here somehow skirts in spite of everything. Hansen and Myers, the male and sister duo Henry and Natalie’yi two young actors playing, enough fascinating and funny when it should be, but larger performances and blocked animated sheep is easy to get lost.

All these strange upright angles and the strange inorganic forms of the organic things of the extreme world do not have to convince the audience that the animation and special effects are real. Minecraft He looks quite low, and the images of Hess’ film work well in this built -in style. Still, it doesn’t look cheap; It was as if Warner Bros. didn’t care to spend some money in the expectation of a pile of money that the film would probably earn.

Napoleon DynamiteJared Hess signature brings his stupid style.

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Although I don’t like the IP to manage the box office, Hess’s Tater-Totic Fingerprints are all over, everything is over A Minecraft Movie. Instead of being shaken by a studio or Media Holding to take advantage of their properties, it seems to be made by a human – and a wonderful strange person. It is fun and funny, completely busy with the spirit of the game in the rule of creativity and imagination. They didn’t feel like a panthering to the children, but they enjoyed them as proved by the cartilage in my scan. However, mileage may change for adult viewers who require logic in storytelling.

“This place doesn’t make sense, Nat Natalie says at some point with anger and for all of us for all of us. Although it is largely consistent, A Minecraft Movie everywhere. But no one in the audience is here for the land. Or they watch A Minecraft Movie For their love Minecraft Because the world or someone who loves it and is not old enough to take themselves to the cinema. Video game adaptations and children’s movies are increasingly, A Minecraft Movie much better than it should be.

Parents will probably find this film more fun than listening to their children’s conversation about Minecraft for a equivalent time (101 minutes for registration). A Minecraft Movie It can also provide a deeper understanding of the universe (Minecraft‘S, not real) for those who have not experienced first hand before. A good primer who never feels like homework for the game.

A Minecraft Movie It opens in theaters on April 4th and in theaters in IMIMAX.