A Minecraft Movie made its big debut a couple of months back with the first official teaser trailer, and it didn't go down very well. While it's obviously aimed at a younger audience, fans of the perpetually popular sandbox game weren't convinced by this live-action adaptation, but this latest trailer shows more promise.
Starring Jack Black as Steve, the character's origin story is revealed here — how, in his youth, he yearned for the mines, and as an adult dug so deep that he found a portal into the Minecraft world. It's all very silly and light-hearted, which is of course the right direction for a family flick.
While the softened edges and pseudo-realistic materials change the look of the overworld, there's plenty of evidence here that shows a commitment to Minecraft's rules and features. If you've ever played the game, there will be objects and references you recognise all over the place.
We don't think this will be a critical smash hit, but it seems to be broadly hitting the right notes in this second trailer, and we expect it'll do very well for itself at the box office regardless. It arrives on 4th April, 2025.
What do you think of the new trailer for A Minecraft Movie? Tell us in the comments section below.
[source youtube.com]
Comments 11
The children, they yearn for the mines. I say send them.
That was pretty good. Glad they listened.
The 2000s called. They want their video game movie back.
This looks hilariously awful. I'd watch it.
Regardless of this movie being good or bad, my children tell me that I am watching it in the cinema.
I still don’t understand the casting of Jack Black to be honest. I like him and definitely won’t be watching this movie, but it’s still an odd choice for Steve.
Yeah, it is "better" but still looks like a stinker.
Gotta admit, the bee at the beginning is pretty adorable.
But yeah, the movie still looks pretty meh.
I have no interest in watching this, but I've kinda been thinking about jumping back into Minecraft seeing as the PS5 version is out. It's been many years for me.
Jason Momoa and Jack Black! 😮 But where is The Rock Dwayne Johnson? Can't be a cool movie without him and these other people who appear in everything! 🙄
We didn't need a Steve origin story, the visuals are still eh. You have an IP that is creativity open ended and yet make the most eh story possible.
I don't need story/characters to care about, if Steve or Mario (put into anything) can have the bare minimum and still be likeable or understood by people, why do we need back story to justify them. Sometimes we don't care and just want an adventure. We don't need to hear/see everything they do either.
A spawned in the world, a dev side to things even besides a 'I Twilight Zone got stuck in the game'. Or Coded Arms jumped in due to a bug to solve it thing. Like getting used to the world is one thing but why does Steve need to age? Do we really need human concepts for casuals so dumb and emotionally/social stupid to really care when it's Minecraft a world for any creativity.
How much reality do we need in a world with survival that can be altered in any way possible with commands/mods and like when playing Sims with no aging is more fun to do the things we want to do in them to get done. Sure in Sims the survival mood/other aspects are tedious sometimes but when can get the skills or other things it's good enough.
I mean even if it was just wow a war of piglins then sure whatever even though more possibilities to work with. But even still. This is just so basic and unexciting.
Better things to do playing other games or Minecraft itself and making my own story instead with survival worlds of the past 10 years. Modded or not.
The fan trailers were still better for the first trailer.
The annoying kids with annoying 'we think they are hit with the way they are' like this movie is just going to be terrible.
Then again making a Sonic movie with a Santa Clause/ET/other boring family drama nonsense for the adults to listen to film with a cool character doing antics was a great idea........
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