{"id":273978,"date":"2025-04-04T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/a-minecraft-movie-review-dwayne-johnson-jack-black-keep-the-jokes-going-in-predictable-film\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T11:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:51:19","slug":"a-minecraft-movie-review-dwayne-johnson-jack-black-keep-the-jokes-going-in-predictable-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/a-minecraft-movie-review-dwayne-johnson-jack-black-keep-the-jokes-going-in-predictable-film\/","title":{"rendered":"A Minecraft Movie review: Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black keep the jokes going in predictable film"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guess when you are \u201cthe best-selling video game of all time\u201d, \u201cwith over 300 million copies sold\u201d as per Wikipedia, you don\u2019t have to stress more than calling yourself \u2018A Minecraft Movie\u2019.<\/p>\n

Guess when you have signed Momoa and Black on, you may also think you don\u2019t need to stress more than throwing them together. A Minecraft Movie does that, again and again \u2013 having the two actors with a fairly good comic presence go at each other head to head. It\u2019s not funny, particularly when you can\u2019t escape the quantities of unwashed hair on their heads.<\/p>\n

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Still, Momoa and Black, who hold little of themselves back in this video game enterprise, are the best part of A Minecraft Movie.<\/p>\n

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Strangely, for a gaming enterprise that prides itself on its emphasis on creativity \u2013 differentiating it from the others \u2013 the film hardly has any time for those aspects of Minecraft. Henry (Hansen) is the sort of child genius who can get there, under the guidance of Steve (Black), but there is no method to his madness in hurling blocks around to \u201ccreate\u201d things \u2013 nor is the film interested in showing you the method.<\/p>\n

We have fights, flights, swines, wolves, orbs, crystals, red minerals, diamonds, castles, towers, lava<\/a>-cooked chicken, good people, bad people, real world, Overworld, and lots and lots of screaming.<\/p>\n

And then we have Jennifer Coolidge, doing her thing. As a waiter at a hotel asks her and her partner, \u201cAre you finished?\u201d She replies, \u201cNo, I think he is Swedish.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s injury to insult.<\/p>\n

A Minecraft Movie cast:<\/strong>\u00a0Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Sebastian Hansen, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Jennifer Coolidge<\/p>\n

A Minecraft Movie director:<\/strong> Jared Hess<\/p>\n

A Minecraft Movie rating:<\/strong> 1.5 stars<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n