There had been whispers of A Minecraft Movie for years, but when actual actors were attached and the film began receiving frequent updates, I was genuinely shocked. Not only would Jack Black play ...

Ten years ago, the idea of a movie based on Minecraft, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, would have sounded like a setup for a joke about the current state of video game films. In 2025, though, ...

Jared Hess' mega-budget video game adaptation works best whenever you can tell that it was made by the director of "Napoleon Dynamite." Unsurprisingly — or, as someone with a fatal allergy to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Jack Black’s character enthuses, “First we mine! Then we craft! Let’s Minecraft!,” you are either pumping your imaginary ...

This has to be the first film where watching it from behind a full row of eight-year-olds elevates the experience immensely; the surround-sound effect of a whole theater mimicking the villager “hrrngh ...

Hear me out. I too rolled my eyes when A Minecraft Movie was announced. We're all tired of seeing Jack Black in video game movies — he was fine in Super Mario Bros., but good god Borderlands was a ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. A Minecraft Movie arrives in theaters this weekend, but the first ...

Running time: 101 minutes. Rated PG (action, language, rude humor, scary images). “This place makes no sense!” yells a character in the imbecilic green-screen gunk that is “A Minecraft Movie.” The ...

I’m a 42-year-old woman who has never played Minecraft. I knew nothing about the popular children’s video game before seeing “A Minecraft Movie.” So to better understand the new fantasy adventure film ...