Welcome to the world of “Minecraft,” where creativity isn’t just needed to create – it’s needed to survive! Four outsiders – Garrett “Trashman” Harrison, Henry, Natalie and Dawn – find themselves through a mysterious portal into a strange cubic wonderland that holds on to imagination. To return home, the heroes will have to get used to this world, fight evil pigs and zombies and pass a magical quest together with a wizard named Steve. Adventures and challenges await the heroes, which will make all five of them show courage and reveal their creative potential.
“Minecraft in the movie” – an adventure comedy based on the popular video game ‘Minecraft’. The lead roles in “Minecraft at the Movies” were played by Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen and Jennifer Coolidge.
“Minecraft: The Movie“ – an adventure comedy based on the computer game of the same name, directed by Jared Hess (”Napoleon Dynamite”, ‘Super Nacho’), has been released in the global box office. Screen adaptation of video toys is no longer a momentary, but an established trend, but it was difficult to assume that it would come to such a plotless and seemingly non-cinematic story as “Minecraft”. Nevertheless, the producers correctly reasoned – you can not bypass the best-selling game – and, it seems, did not miss. The film is already and hate, calling stupidity, and adore – children and teenagers, the main users of “Minecraft”, arrange at the sessions of a real bacchanalia, exuberantly rejoicing at the appearance on the screen recognizable characters and other “Easter eggs”.
As a child, Steve dreamed of getting into the mine – mining and beckoned the boy with a pickaxe. The road, however, every time blocked by a harsh old man miner. Steve had to grow up into Jack Black, get an office job, but his dream remained cherished – and one day, having gathered courage, he still makes his way into the underground. And from there, with the help of a glowing cube he finds, he falls into a magical land where everything – from houses and trees to animals – is cubic in shape, and anything can be built if you have imagination. Encouraged Steve builds himself houses, one bigger than the other, and even gets a dog named Dennis. If only to live, but the beautiful country is threatened by the neighboring dark state of Nezer, which is inhabited by evil pigs and ruled by a pig wizard. Her goal is to destroy everything good, so she takes Steve prisoner, just in case. At the last moment he manages to give the cube that opens the portal to his faithful four-legged friend, and the latter manages to break through to the real world. From which to help Steve, though without knowing it, will soon arrive gamer-overgrown Garrett (Jason Momoa), smart teenager Henry (Sebastian Eugene Hansen), his guardian sister Natalie (Emma Myers) and realtor Dawn (Daniel Brooks). How these four met is another story, but now the whole gang will have to defend the cubic world from cubic badness.
The uncomplicated narrative – it would be strange if it claimed to be something highly intellectual, so thank the authors for adequacy – consists of crazy battles and no less absurd peaceful scenes. Among the characters in this sense, Jason Momoa’s Garrett stands out unambiguously – managing a gamestore with the symbolic title “Game Over”, he signals with all his behavior and appearance a prolonged puberty, the time when he was a champion in a fictional game and showed promise. Now Garrett is a bankrupt man in a pink fringed jacket, and actor Momoa unleashes the full force of his not-so-often-used (due, again, to his looks – well, superhero!) comedic talent. Their duet with Jack Black – everything is clear about him, he plays the maximally twisted familiar image of a fat man, a ball rolling among the cubes and sometimes voicing compositions in the genre of “what I see, I sing” (for example, about geese and lava) – the main attraction of the picture. The purpose of the rest is not to overshadow these two, which is generally impossible as it is, and to add a bit of human, everyday, family melodrama.
It, by the way, also does not look silly – in general, behind all the hype and tinsel of “Minecraft”, taken from the visuals of the original game and supplemented with movie special effects, there is a simple but charming idea about the importance of creativity, the vitality of creative thinking and the struggle for the right to create, even if it is about building a primitive cubic world. Pigs as a personification of the stupid force that wants to destroy any creation, and boys of different ages who have not given up their dreams – the eternal struggle of light and darkness. The heroines, however, are no less brave and self-sacrificing, responsible for love, making sure that the heroes are not killed. The apotheosis of all these schematic adventures and angular jokes is the insert episodes with Jennifer Coolidge: she plays a school principal, a divorced woman who falls in love with a guest from the cubic world. I think that those who are familiar with the recently experienced renaissance of the actress’ work should understand the specific level of humor.
Those who come to the movie because it is based on their favorite game will not be disappointed – fans of “Minecraft” are waiting not only for recognizable locations, square sheep and geese, but also a lot of other (judging by the reaction of the hall) internal jokes. In general, the game was treated respectfully, its world has acquired recognizable, but brighter and clearer outlines, turning into a field for children’s fooling around, which is not alien to adult aunts and uncles. For the sake of this, perhaps, and worth watching “Minecraft: The Movie”, even if it seems that you are not its target audience for a long time.