A Minecraft Movie Review
The time has finally come, A Minecraft Movie is here, and it is…bad. However, not in the ways you may think from the trailer. It suggested it would be an CGI mess with not much else to complain. However, the movie has many underdevelopments.
As someone who has played the game since the early days of Pocket Edition, this was not the right style between live action and animation. For over a decade, a significant amount of Minecraft fan projects are 100% animated. That was needed despite the strong set design and mixed bag of CGI mobs. Some mobs are good looking, but the Sheep, Zombie, and Skeleton were not. The music and fights however are strong and the post credits scene teases what may come.
As for characters, it is generally not favorable. Steve (Jack Black) isn’t a good enough mentor to them. They find a Maleficent clone in Malgosha (Rachel House), except she has no real reason to go against Steve and the others. Malgosha, while not Jar-Jar Binks from The Phantom Menace bad, just didn’t feel needed.
Henry (Sebastian Eugene Hansen) is thought out as a character who wants to explore the Overworld where Steve is from, more than any of them, which you’d think Steve mostly be with Henry. Instead, he’s with the comic relief, Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Jason Momoa), leaving Henry and Steve with a weak dynamic. Then there is Natalie (Emma Myers) who it doesn’t add anything, despite being shown as a main character as well as Dawn (Danielle Brooks), who doesn’t get enough screen time to showcase her character. The biggest flaw is that there doesn’t feel like a true main character, something even worse movies like Cars 2 (2011) did. Even the storyline with Vice Principal Marlene (Jennifer Coolidge) and the Villager was an unnecessary plot break from the journey. Overall, this movie gets a 2/10.
