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A Minecraft Movie (2025)

★★½ — A Minecraft Movie (2025)

Based on the bestselling sandbox video game created by Markus "Notch" Persson and launched by Mojang in 2011, A Minecraft Movie had spent years in various states of development before Warner Bros. and Legendary finally brought it to screens in April 2025. The director, Jared Hess, is best known for Napoleon Dynamite (2004), the low-budget cult oddity that made his name, though his output since had been modest and infrequent (Nacho Libre, Gentlemen Broncos). With a $150 million budget and a property boasting over 300 million registered players, the studio stakes were considerable. Filmed partly in Sweden and leaning on a mix of live-action and CGI to recreate the game's distinctive blocky aesthetic, the production ultimately landed Jack Black as Steve, a piece of casting that proved popular with both fans and the press.

This could ONLY have starred Jack Black Ordered this for my Son who loved it in the cinema. He watched an hour of it at home then got bored. In truth, so did we. The intro is great. The beginning of the story is good. Then it loses steam drastically. I think they probably had too many characters. The two female characters I think added very little to the story, especially as the main "cool stuff" all featured around Henry, Steve and Garrett. I think they could have done so much more witn those characters and in the end they just felt kinda tacked on without much depth. Overall, I expected it to not be great but after the hype I'm a little disappointed. Then again... I'm not the target audience.

Rating: ★★½ | Year: 2025 | Watched: 2025-06-01

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