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?

In a world where movies based on video games do not often land, this one at least manages to level up.

The whole thing is so aggressively ridiculous, so proud of its own nonsense, it makes American economic policy look coherent by comparison.And yet … it works but only, only, if you embrace the chaos.

Overall, this is not a bad movie since the characters are all engaging. The actors turn in solid performances in this nonsensical story and make this movie tolerable. Art direction and production design are top notch. It's good looking harmless nonsense.

Minecraft, the movie, is a completely derivative product, a commercial with a stunning lack of imagination and whose sole objective is to make the most money... [Full review in Spanish]