Releasing in theatres tomorrow, 4th April 2025, the A Minecraft Movie adapts the obscenely popular video game for the big screen. It stars the likes of Jack Black, Jason Momoa, and Emma Myers, with critic reviews now live.
Reviews are mixed overall; the Metacritic rating sits at 49 currently, and the Rotten Tomatoes score is only a bit higher at 56. Below you'll find a selection of reviews from various outlets, including the highest and some of the lowest ratings.
Los Angeles Times - 8/10
Half the time, Black’s dialogue is just announcing what we’re looking at, from diamond swords to flying hot air balloons that look like goth squids. But it’s the gleam in his eyes, the gusto in his delivery, that makes every line zing.
Entertainment Weekly - Grade: B
Jared Hess, co-creator of Napoleon Dynamite and a string of other small oddball pictures, brings a fresh perspective to what could have been a lumbering IP-pallooza movie.
IGN - 6/10
For a big-studio adaptation of a massively popular video-game, A Minecraft Movie lets a surprising amount of its director’s personality shine through. Napoleon Dynamite’s Jared Hess manages to fit some laugh-out-loud silliness into his Overworld saga before surrendering to the obligations of CG-driven fantasy adventure. Thematically, A Minecraft Movie offers a pat world-is-what-you-make-it lesson, but Jack Black and Jason Momoa in particular sell it with a lot of comic enthusiasm.
GamesRadar+ - 6/10
Jared Hess's indie sensibilities help to elevate a video game adaptation that is boosted further by Jack Black's irrepressible star turn. The special effects could be better, as could the female roles. But this remains an entertaining fantasy adventure that makes light work of what might appear to be unpromising source material.
Paste Magazine - 4.5/10
A Minecraft Movie‘s fan-pleasing salvation is knowing when to Do The Thing; it understands why its audience pulled themselves away from their consoles and PCs to spend an afternoon in the theater and delivers it to them with diamond-pickaxe precision.
The Hollywood Reporter - 3/10
We’ve come to expect so little of corporate IP projects that the fact A Minecraft Movie is uninspired won’t matter to many people (whether Minecraft loyalists or uninitiated crafters), but it should. A certain kind of creativity and imaginative thinking is atrophying with the advent of artificial intelligence. Two years ago when I reviewed Barbie, I lamented about a future where all our humanist lessons come from corporate toymakers. That feels truer now than ever.
New York Post - 2.5/10
Mine all you like. You’ll never find any smarts in this cavern of stupidity.
Are you planning to see the A Minecraft Movie? Let us know in the comments below.
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If anyone was expecting a Minecraft movie to be a masterwork of cinema, I have a bridge in London I’d like to sell you.
It’ll make incredible money because Minecraft, and that’s what will matter.
Where's my Bloodborne movie directed by Ari Aster?
Well I am shocked, shocked at how this isn't a cinematic masterpiece!
"Mine all you like. You’ll never find any smarts in this cavern of stupidity."
That's actually a pretty good line 😂
I’m sure this movie is Marmite to most people.
I’m going to watch it with my two Minecraft mad children who are already hyped for it thanks to the McDonald’s toys.
Based on the reviews above though I have no idea if we will enjoy this or not.
The game sucks so…
This is interesting. I had absolutely no interest in this movie, but then the trailer ran in front of another movie I saw recently, and I chuckled at a few things and found the Momoa/Black energy enticing. So I booked a ticket for this coming Saturday, thinking that maybe it can give me a few chuckles and some levity amidst the constant horrorshow that is real life these days.
The LA Times review seemed to echo this, but then I read the Hollywood Reporter excerpt and there is so much truth in that that I'm now considering cancelling my ticket.
Sure, there is nothing wrong with wanting some light fun and easy escape from the flaming hellscape that consumes every waking moment, but is it worth sacrificing imagination and creativity on the altar of corporate greed in order to do so?
Annoyingly, I'm unsure
My daughter is a Minecraft fan but once she saw the trailer she was horrified and said nope lol
No supporting beams?! They only had eyes for the opal
It's pretty awful honestly, maybe a 4/10. I went to the London premiere last week and almost left before it ended. I did leave half way into Borderlands. I like 90's cheesy videogame movies, they had a lot of redeeming qualities but some of the more recent game to movie flops have been outright criminal. I went into it expecting nothing special, and that's exactly what I got. I feel for all the parents who will have to sit through it especially if they don't actually play the game with their children.
Regardless of if the movie has any merit or not, "cavern of stupidity" is 100% entering my lexicon!
The NY Post giving it a 2.5 has me thinking I'll give it like an 8, they are such a rag. 😂
I'm planning on watching this some day along w/ the Borderlands movie to see if either is worse than the Monster Hunter movie. 😩
The sycopha-I MEAN "influencer" reviews hit early, and were pretty glowing. Weird, that. Huh. Anyway, it's all getting so predictable. I don't understand how those useful idiots still have an audience after things like that.
@rjejr Borderlands was playing on repeat opposite Trap on the cruise we just went on. Trap was hilariously awful. I watched it more than once, just because it was so unbelievably stupid. Unfortunately, Borderlands is just boring.
I don't even know what I'd want from a Minecraft movie?
I think something Lego Movie / Barbie movie esque - about creativity and the way people interact with each other in Minecraft.
But it's not like the Mario movie where just seeing the visuals of Mario is pleasant enough, or Sonic where you have actual characters to tell stories about
If I had to pay to see "A MineCraft Movie", I'd never watch it.
Thankfully I still have Regal Unlimited, so I'll probably watch it for dumb laughs this weekend.
Either that or wait for it to land on a streaming app for "free".
@FuriousMachine what were you watching when you saw the trailer?
Did you end up watching the movie?
If you did what did you think?
@Dr-M I was watching "Spermageddon", a Norwegian animated comedy for adults (in the vein of "Sausage Party"). Infantile humour, much of which didn't land, but there was enough that did for me to enjoy it.
I skipped "A Minecraft Movie" this weekend, as there were other things I rather spent my time on (I've taken up hobby-coding again).
I haven't completely ruled out going in the future, but there are quite a few new interesting releases here in April, so it's doubtful I'll find the time for it.
I hate seeing scores with a .5
Like somehow a scale of 10 (already too much in many ways) isn't enough.
No no no it obviously needs to be a 20 point scale.
So so so dumb.
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