The title suggests more movies in the Minecraft universebring em on.
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The studio releasingA Minecraft Moviedecided to screen for critics on a Sunday morning only.
You might think, Who cares?
Jason Momoa in ‘Minecraft’.Credit:Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
You are seeing a movie for free; some of us actually work for a living.
The set-up blazes by during a prologue.
A fella named Steve (Black) is bored with his life in a small town in Idaho.
Jack Black, Jason Momoa, and Sebastian Hansen in ‘A Minecraft Movie’.Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
(Yes, their primary industry is potato-related.)
But its also one of the last major intellectual properties not yet mined (ha!)
for a feature film, so theres a kind of cynical inevitably to this.
Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Hansen, and Jason Momoa in ‘A Minecraft Movie’.Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
(It may have been a financial success, but the most recentSonic the Hedgehogpicture is particularly lifeless.)
(As a non-player myself, I can attest to this.)
Hes doing extremely good work here, seriously.
‘A Minecraft Movie’.Warner Bros. Pictures
Broad comedy is not easy.
The rest of the cast is also quite good.
But the look of the picture is a lot of fun.
As far asMinecraftin-jokes, Im sure there are many.
My audience of kids got very excited (some even shouted Uh-oh!!)
when a walking cactus tree appeared.
(Research tells me that this is aCreeper.)
Maybe seeing it on a Sunday morning was the best idea after all.Grade: B
