A Minecraft Movie

The film’s anarchy might reflect a lot of younger players’ first experience with Minecraft, where destruction can be just as fun as creation. Missing on the big screen, meanwhile, is the odd, remote atmosphere that drew me in.

“A Minecraft Movie” is quirky and goofy enough to make one wish it held together better overall, but it’s also a likable venture.

Jack Black and Jason Momoa together, they're okay; so it's perfectly unremarkable.

It’s got enough personality to make me wish that Hess had had a still freer hand... Don’t mistake my curiosity for enthusiasm. I can’t recommend that anyone see A Minecraft Movie, not even a child.

Jared Hess directed Napoleon Dynamite. This movie is as if Napoleon Dynamite directed it, not Jared.

For a wildly imaginative world-building project, the film is mostly ghastly to look at... if the possibilities of this world are endless, why does it all devolve into violent, ugly, boring warfare?

Once our party heads into the Minecraft world, the formula begins to wear thin but the off-kilter humor works well throughout. If nothing else, it's much better than it needed to be and I appreciate the effort rather than just cashing a huge check.

Jack Black is pure pixelated chaos — and I mean that as a compliment.

I admit to laughing out loud several times, at Coolidge’s loony line readings, and the moment when Black starts singing unprompted and Myers rolls her eyes and sighs like, oh god, not this again.

While it might be slightly shrieky, this videogame adaptation, with its bright, buzzy palate and merry band of misfits, is a goofy way to pass time