A Minecraft Movie (2025) Recap
A Minecraft movie (2025) is based on Mojang Studios with same name, it’s directed by Jared Hess. Minecraft (2025) stars actors Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers and Sebastian Hansen. Also, Jason Momoa is one of the producers of the movie as well. The plot takes place in Chuglass, Idaho with Steve (Jack Black) narrating about exploring mines during his childhood. Once in the mines, Steve finds a Orb of Dominance along with Outerworld. In the Outerworld, Steve meets Dennis along with learning how to build. Steve stumbles upon another world called Nether that’s ruled by Malgoshu (Rachel House) and gets captured. Dennis goes through portal to the real world to hide Orb of Dominance from Malgohsu in Steve’s House.
In modern day Idaho, two siblings Nataile (Emma Myers) and Henry (Sebastian Hansen) move in after mother passed away. Nataile gets hired in a Potato Chip Factory, while Henry goes to school. Garrison the Garbage Man (Jason Momoa) gets an eviction notice and goes to auction. During the auction, he finds orb and Henry gets in trouble at school due to his rocket experiment. Garrison pretends to be Henry’s uncle after a deal to be a part of his mentorship program. As Henry goes back home, siblings meet Dawn (Danielle Brooks), a real estate agent who gives them the house. Henry grabs the Orb and drags him and along with Garrison, Dawn and Nataile. The five arrived at Outerworld and later on were attacked by zombies.
I am Steve
Steve arrives and saves the major characters, he tells him about Outerworld along with how to get home from real world. During their journey, Garrison, Steve, Dawn and siblings go to a village. Meanwhile, Malgoshu sends her minions to seek Orb of Dominance. Garrison, Dawn, Nataile and Henry fight off Malgoshu’s minions but later on get separated. Steve, Garrison and Henry escaped Malgoshu’s minions and enter Woodland Mansion. At the Woodland Mansion, Steve and Garrison get captured, while Henry faces off Enderman to get pearl along with earth crystal. Malgoshu minions arrived at Woodland Mansion, but Garrison sacrifice themselves for Steve and Henry to escape. Steve and Henry regroup with Dawn along with Nataile.
The four get ready to face off against Malgoshu and her minions. Steve, along with others, build golems and craft weapons to face them. During the battle, Henry goes on top of the Nether Portal but falls. Garrison arrives to save Henry and sunrise defeating Malgoshu along her minions. Henry and others leave Outerworld to go back into Idaho. While Steve stays behind and gives audience an update on our main characters. Garrison saves his video game store and creates a game called Battle City: Battle Buddies. Dawn opens a petting zoo and quits being a real estate agent. Henry completed his rocket booster experiment and Nataile starts a self-defense class. The movie ends there with a Jack Black musical number.
A Minecraft Movie (2025)- Worst or Best
A Minecraft Movie (2025) is the worst movie I have ever watched. Let’s talk about animation, it reminds me of low budget Syfy channel movies. It was animated by five production companies Vertigo Entertainment, On the Roam, Warner Bros Pictures, Legendary Pictures and Mojang Studios. I have seen a lot of animation errors such as lip sync in Malgosha along with CGI characters. Blue and green screens are visible in the movie along with jarring cinematography. Best parts of the movie are Chicken Jockey which turned into internet meme later on. Jennifer Coolidge was the principle at Henry school was funny in the movie. Jack Black brings charisma in the movie but can’t save it. There are some cameos and easter eggs in Minecraft Movie.
Technoblade (who passed away in June 2022) appear as Malgosha minions to honor him. There are other YouTubers DanTM, Aphmau, Mumbo Jumbo and LDShadowLady along with lead designers of Minecraft Jens Bergensten. There are references as well like mentor programs that Mojang might have for younger demographics. Also, Nintendo World Champions from 1980s and many more references in the movie. I am not a huge fan of Minecraft franchise, but I loved Legends and original games. The film is creative but in a weak way. I forgot all about creativity in the film and was disappointed with how they brought it up. The film has a musical number like Jack Black’s Lava Chicken, which was funny.
Closing
Double Toasted’s Korey Coleman said it best in his review, “I think Lego Movie did creativity best”. I am sure younger audience would enjoy this film but no hardcore fans. There are plenty of great video game movie adaptations like Sonic the Hedgehog and Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros Movie (2023). I am not going to bash this film entirely, but it needed some work on animation department. This is one of the worst video game adaptations I have watched Mortal Kombat Annihilation. I was not fond of this, but others might enjoy the movie. Although it’s a faithful adaptation but execution was way off, in theater it made $940.6 million at the box office. While the films budget is $150 but there is some nods to the game.
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