Minecraft Movie: Brain Rot for Kids!

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Stepping into the pixelated world of Minecraft proves to be a blocky disaster as we break down everything wrong with Hollywood's latest video game adaptation. Jack Black brings his signature energy as Steve, but rather than feeling authentic, his performance comes across as a greatest hits compilation played in the wrong venue – a Jack Black impersonator rather than the real deal. Meanwhile, Jason Momoa provides some genuine comedic moments as a saving grace in an otherwise disjointed experience.

The fundamental flaw of this film lies in its jarring visual approach – real actors placed against CGI backdrops create a constant disconnect that prevents full immersion. While the Minecraft world itself looks beautiful with its colorful blocks contrasting nicely against the deliberately sterile real world, the human characters never feel like they belong. This creative choice stands in stark contrast to fully animated successes like The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Wreck-It Ralph, which committed to consistent visual worlds with relatable characters.

What's most frustrating is how the film fails to understand its own audience. The moments that generated the most excitement – faithful recreations of game elements like zombies, skeletons, and other creatures – take a backseat to conventional Hollywood storytelling tropes and bizarre romantic subplots. Critics have largely panned the film with ratings around 4.8/10, while audiences (particularly young fans) have embraced it with scores of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. This disparity reveals the film's identity crisis – trying to please everyone while fully satisfying no one. Whether you're a Minecraft enthusiast or simply curious about video game adaptations, we'd love to hear your thoughts! What video game movies do you think succeeded where this one failed?

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hey everyone, and welcome to another review.
Today we are reviewingMinecraft, minecraft, minecraft,
oh no, a Minecraft movie had tomake that distinction.
Anything you can dream abouthere you can make this place

(00:36):
makes no sense, don't I know it?
Tell us all about this, addy,since I freaking fell asleep
through the whole damn movie.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, gosh, this is.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
What happens when Jack Black is in a video game
movie playing himself and JasonMomoa is playing a douchey
version of himself?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
that's over the top.
What to say?
What to say?
There's a lot to be said aboutthe movie, that's for sure.
We'll say it, Say it.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
A lot.
What is it A lot?
This makes the Mario Brothersmovie look like f***ing Citizen
Kane Look it was a kids movie,gotta take it in that context.
Kids and this is more for kidswith f***ing brain rot.
Just because context kids andthis is more for kids with brain
rot just because it's a kid'smovie doesn't mean it has to be
so stupid.
I feel like there was kids inthe audience that were like this

(01:32):
is cringe well, apparentlythey're all going absolutely
wild for the movie, and nowthey're being banned from
watching it without a parentwell, you know what actually the
best part of this movie waswhen, right when, jack black was
about to make that iconic lineand two people in the theater
that we were in actuallyscreamed along with him, and

(01:54):
they were like I am steve, likeas if it was like I am woman,
hear me roar, or something superpowerful like that who are you?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
I am steve great audience interaction all right,
so let's start from thebeginning, the bit you did see
okay.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
So I saw this massive exposition dump right at the
beginning.
That was all about thismcguffin and this mcguffin and
if you put them together, theycreate another mcguffin and the,
the villain, generic villainnumber 85, with all the film
tropes that you can think of.
A Minecraft movie is theepitome of the most lazy

(02:49):
screenwriting I've ever seen inmy life.
I felt like three AI chatbotswere working together to write
this movie.
It was like that scene in SouthPark when the family guy
writers turn out to be manateesthat just push balls together
and it creates this randomlygenerated scenario family guy is

(03:17):
written by manatees that's whateverything in this movie felt
like.
No rhyme or reason and you justhad jack black yelling all of
his dialogue like putting somuch emphasis on everything he
said it's interesting to seethat the critics the critics are
rating this movie extremely low.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
It is of less than the five out of ten.
It's a 4.8 on rotten tomato 48.
I think it's a six out of tenon imdb too high but okay.
Um.
However, audience reviews onrotten tomato gave an 88.
Have you played minecraft?

Speaker 1 (03:57):
yeah, of course I played minecraft.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Have you played minecraft or have you dabbled in
it?
No, I dabbled in it.
I think the reason why audiencescore is so high is because it
is a movie for the diehard fansand also trying to be a kids
movie no, I was bored becausethe story was absolute ass no,
but it was nothing to keep youattracted and interested in the
film, because you don't know thecharacters, you don't know the

(04:19):
storyline of the, of the wholegame.
It's.
It feels like a spy kids film.
Uh, the whole thing looks likea 70s commercial with with green
screen backdrop the entire time.
That does bring up a good point.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
I think that because the actors are like real life
and everything else is CGI, it'sheaps jarring, whereas in Mario
Bros you can fully immerseyourself in the world because
it's all CGI, which I would muchprefer over seeing these
real-life actors that look likethey would never be together as

(04:52):
a group.
Jason momoa was like the onlything that was keeping me
interested somewhat, because atleast I was enjoying his comedic
timing.
This is junk.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
An ender pearl teleports you to wherever you
throw it.
You're right.
What I really liked is a lot ofthings in the real world were
in a very much of a blocky thing.
Everything was square Verybeginning when Jack Black's
character, steve, got introducedin the real world the way he
was standing in the office.
It was a cubicle, everybodyworks in square tables, the

(05:24):
square copy machine, square tinyoffice with no windows.
Everything was like blocky,which suits the film, but
ironically, the real world wasmeant to be tiny office with no
windows.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Everything was like blocky, which suits the film.
Ironically, the real world wasmeant to be representing like
this very uncreative, sterilewhich it was world yeah but
that's what it was.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Imagine working in a cubicle, what's?
The square little office whichhas no color, no, nothing.
It is sterile, it is blam,there's nothing.
And then you go into theminecraft world, the overworld,
and then everything is stillsquare, but with color.
It's blam, there's nothing.
And then you go into theMinecraft world, the overworld,
and then everything is stillsquare, but with color, but it's
fun and creative.
So from the composition style, Ireally liked that they kept

(06:04):
that rhythm throughout the wholefilm.
Jack Black has so much more tooffer than what he gave in this
movie.
I saw a review that actuallysummarizes it very well.
It doesn't look like Jack Blackhas so much more to offer than
what he gave in this movie.
I saw a review that actuallysummarizes it very well.
It doesn't look like Jack Black.
It looks like a Jack BlackParody Imitator, because it was
literally Jack Black reenactingall his wackiest things he's

(06:24):
ever done in one film.
Yeah, it's his greatest hits.
Yeah, but you know like when youhear the greatest hits
sometimes just not good withoutthe rest of the album around
them or in the wrong setting,jack Black just doesn't suit in
this film.
This one moment was f***ingweird.
Sorry, I have to say this oneyou were asleep and I tried to
wake you up.

(06:44):
My God, I was like they'regoing through this whole journey
to go to this.
Something would mention to getlike this glass case for the
cube right and the kid dropsinto frame, holds it.
Jack looks at him from here.
Do you have it?
Yes, I have it.
It's a frame in front of yourface.

(07:05):
Why the would you have it?
Yes, I have it.
It's a f***ing frame in frontof your face.
Why the f*** would you ask it?
It's right there.
Do you have it?
No, I don't.
I don't have it, but becauseit's Jack Black.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
It's like do you have the orb of the f***ing
MacGuffin in your hand right now?

Speaker 2 (07:23):
That was kind of it actually.
I know, because I know he'sacting.
How did that go unnoticed?

Speaker 1 (07:32):
to so many people.
The other thing that I justcan't stand was how so much
dialogue is used to bludgeon thehead of the audience as if they
don't know what's going on,like what you just said.
People just tell exactly whatthey're feeling in that moment.
It's like the worst dialogueI've ever heard, like, for

(07:52):
example, that woman that fallsin love with the video game
character which is so weird andso out of like tonally just
doesn't work at all, but themovie makes out like it's the
most hilarious thing in theworld.
I recently got divorced from myhusband, clemente, and the main
reason is, you know, he didn'thave any personality, not like

(08:17):
you.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
I got to add to that.
It was a very funny setup,butchered by its delivery.
They could have made that sofunny, but now it was just BG
delivery of adult jokes.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
When I think of Wreck-It Ralph.
Wreck-it Ralph was supercreative, unique and original
because it had to come up withits own character.
And Wreck-It Ralph was such agreat character that we had
fleshed out and understood andwe could see his frustrations
and it was relatable.

(08:57):
It was a simple premise ofsomeone who wanted to be someone
who they told they can't beReally honest with myself.
Sure must be nice being thegood guy bro, you are bad guy,
but this does not mean you'rebad guy.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
I don't want to be the bad guy anymore.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
I'm so creative the way they did it, the way they
jumped into all these differentgames, and it was so fun I would
say racket, rreck-it Ralph, aswell as Super Mario Brothers.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Like you said before, they were pure animation.
They didn't try to mixdifferent worlds, they didn't
try to make stuff funny foradults with children's language.
They were just a film for youngaudiences, without complexities
.
What's that?
A?

Speaker 1 (09:43):
medal.
I earned it in hero's duty.
It's not that kind of duty.
I bet you really gotta watchwhere you step in a game called
hero's duty final rating michael, what do you think of a
minecraft movie?
I hated the minutes I sleptthrough and the minutes I was
awake so it killed me on both,both ends.

(10:06):
Um, look, you know this movieis everything wrong with
hollywood cinema right now and Iwanted to just have fun with it
like it's a shit movie and justlaugh at it a bit.
But I couldn't even do thatbecause it was so safe and
boring at the same time.
I will say that the, the, theCGI, didn't look too bad.

(10:27):
It's just more so like when yousee the people in it it's still
quite jarring and it pulls youout.
The Minecraft world itself didlook very beautiful.
So that's one and a half comesfrom that.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
I would give it three out of five stars.
Firstly, we need to recognizethat we are not the age group
nor the fan base this movie istargeting.
This movie feels like just amoney grab.
They did pretty f***ing wellbecause they doubled their
budget on the opening weekend.

(11:00):
From a film perspective,there's a lot of things
completely wrong with it.
The acting was just.
The style was odd.
Some of the topics that werementioned, such as the romantic
complexities, doesn't suit in amovie like this.
But after watching the trailer,I was expecting, similar to
Snow White, a complete dumpsterfire trash, and I was pleasantly

(11:24):
surprised to see the moviewasn't as bad as I thought.
I gotta give the point for JackBlack just being present.
I f***ing love Jack Black, butmaybe half a point.
The chemistry between JackBlack and Jason Momoa.
It's not something I knew Ineeded.
I thought they had really goodchemistry.
It's just in the wrong setting.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
So you think that they would work really well in
an adult film.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well, you saw that Bromance.
You saw that Bromance moment.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
You laughed at that.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
We knew they were checking each other out.
I think they will do very wellin an adult film, a Minecraft
movie XXX.
No, if you're making a moviethat is for their fan base,

(12:20):
stick to it.
It came to their detrimentbecause they didn't fully commit
to it.
I think it's not a great moviebecause they failed to deliver
for their fan base at the levelthey could have.
The thing that got the mostamount of reaction from the
audience were the zombies, werethe skeletons, were the jockey
on the duck or chicken, whateverit was.
That's what got the most amountof reaction from people and

(12:43):
that's what was true to thestory.
They brought elements from thegame.
That's their fan base, not af***ing romantic storyline
between a villager and Stifle'smum.
And Stifle's mum.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
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