The previous weekend, “A Minecraft Movie” was released to theaters worldwide and made $301 million globally on its opening weekend, causing it to become the biggest opening for a video game adaptation. Despite the financial success, Cinemascore rated the movie a B+, lower than the recent Super Mario Bros. movie that scored an A.
The Minecraft Movie deserves so much more than a B+. Its story was super fast-paced, but for a movie made for kids it will keep a child’s attention, and even mine, for a full hour and a half. It starts with Steve, the protagonist of Minecraft, as he shows the audience around the blocky world. It later shows how he stumbles upon a portal to the nether, which introduces the villain of this story, a Piglin named Malgosha.
Malgosha locks Steve up in an attempt to take over the “Overworld,” the Minecraft world. Steve’s dog, Dennis, takes the orb that Malgosha wants to use to rid the world of creativity and hides it under Steve’s bed in the real world. We then meet Jason Momoa’s character, Garrett the Garbage Man, a loser video game champion who can’t let go of the ’80s. He is being evicted from his store, and to gain money, he tries to buy a storage shed. This storage shed, which belonged to Steve, holds the orb that the Garbage Man takes.
Lastly, we meet Henry and Natalie, two siblings who move to Chuglass, a fictional town, after the passing of their mom. Henry goes to school, where two bullies tell him to become a rocket scientist as an act of bullying, which he takes literally and builds a jetpack that blows up a part of the building his sister works at. Saddened, he walks to Garrett’s video game store, where the orb leads them to the portal that leads to the Overworld. His sister and Dawn (honestly, she serves no purpose; I don’t know what her character is for) follow Garret and Henry, where our crew is thrown into the Overworld.
Throughout the Movie, they meet with Steve, who shows them around the Overworld. They learn that they must find the orb’s container and keep it away from Malgosha and defeat her Piglin army to save the Overworld. This movie might be one the funniest kids movies I’ve ever watched. I saw it three times and had a smile on my face the entire film. The theater I was in clapped and cheered at every scene that was meme’d before the movie. This movie achieved all it set out to be: a fun movie for everyone to enjoy and a nod of appreciation to the Minecraft community. Despite the rushed story, I believe this to be movie of the year.
