I have stated that I am a huge fan of Tenacious D. I love that movie, The Pick of Destiny, and I have bought all of their mainline albums. I have listened to their first two albums countless times. I also hated Gulliver's Travels, as well as Borderlands and now I have to say I am completely unimpressed with A Minecraft Movie. Jack Black just bursting into song, going crazy while he cranks everything up to 11, just doesn't make this a watchable film.
Jason Momoa also puts on a terrible performance, along with everyone else in this film! Where was the direction here? Did the director seriously just go to every single actor in this film and tell them to not try? Jason is an outright insufferable bully and chews the scenery every chance he gets. The characters either add too much to the film, or nothing at all.
The green screen and the effects in this movie are ATROCIOUS! I could see the green screen in every scene and I just keep asking myself, why? Why did they not make it completely animated? The fact that it is a Minecraft world seems to add nothing but memes and references. This could have been a completely original cartoon in a completely different world and all of it could have been the same, storywise. That's considering it even has a story.
Like the game itself, the story is all about being creative. Minecraft being a creative center for kids and adults would be a great part of the story, but it is not so great as ALL of the story. Having random scenes being tied together all in the name of saving "creativity" is like Bowser going to save Mario. This movie is nothing but a Minecraft movie to advertise Minecraft. In that sense, it succeeds.
It's an ad, plain and simple. This movie makes you want to play Minecraft. As in, get up out of the theater and walk out, get in your car and go home to play it. This game is a great source off creativity for so many people, but they couldn't put an ounce of creativity in the movie itself? The villain just outright hates creativity because her creativity was taken away. It's pretty much just as simple as that. It was a cookie cutter plot put in place to serve all of the random BS they wanted to shove into each and every scene.
There was hardly a joke that landed in this film. It's really hard to get involved with a world that just looks so fake, has Jack Black going 200% and all of the other random kids just can't get up the energy to put in any sort of performance. They were there for wallpaper, you could take them out of the film and it would probably benefit. Their sad past, their chemistry, none of it works.
We're still on the lookout for some actual work put into an actual good movie. Even the subplot with the woman dating the villager did not get any real good laughs. This was not a laugh-out-loud movie, this was a chuckle or two at best. This is just another dead flop of a movie that will get some people to watch it and then it will be long forgotten because I can't even remember a single character's name, save for Steve. Even the Minecraft Stories made by Telltale Games was better written and had better characters than this. It looked better because it had actual Minecraft characters in it and it used the mechanics of the game in its storytelling. Go play that game, it's far better than anything you'll get from this. Jack, please, you won us over with Bowser in the Mario Bros movie, but this is just sad. Take a breather and get back on tour with Kyle! Virtua Rock on!!
_theatrical_poster.jpg)
