Minecraft, Movie Review
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The latest IP to be mined into a Hollywood blockbuster is appropriately a video game that celebrates digging: “A Minecraft Movie.”
From Associated Press News
In its first few days in theaters, the movie earned a staggering $157 million in ticket sales from theaters in the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates Sunday.
From Seattle Times
Reviews were mixed. Hollywood in general, and Warner Bros. in particular, badly needed a hit.
From The New York Times
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Jared Hess, the director of "Napoleon Dynamite," brings his indie-camp absurdist cred to this adaptation of the blockbuster sandbox video game.
If anyone were to play two men deeply invested in the Overworld of A Minecraft Movie, Jack Black and Jason Momoa were good choices. Where video game adaptations with planned-out paths such as the fully animated A Super Mario Bros Movie or those like the Tron films that have an organization to the world-building and
The title suggests more movies in the Minecraft universe—bring ‘em on.The studio releasing A Minecraft Movie decided to screen for critics on a Sunday morning only. You might think, “Who cares? You are seeing a movie for free;
Jason Momoa plays Garrett Garrison, a washed-up former video game prodigy known as The Garbage Man due to his proficiency playing Hunk City Rampage, a Bad Dudes-like arcade fighting game.
A Minecraft Movie has the best intentions when it comes to being entertaining, funny, and having a great message, but it underwhelms a bit in the character department.
After the first trailer for A Minecraft Movie appeared, certain quarters of the internet reacted deeply unpleasantly. Certainly the trailer was widely disliked, enough that the studio responded with a different approach in future trailers in an attempt to calm concerns,
“This place makes no sense!” yells Natalie (Emma Myers) in A Minecraft Movie, the balmy new big-screen take on the hugely popular world-building video game. After watching it – assuming you ...
A Minecraft Movie is expected to earn between $53 million and $63 million at the box office in North America on its opening weekend.
For a gaming enterprise that prides itself on its emphasis on creativity, the Dwayne Johnson-Jack Black hardly has any time for those aspects of Minecraft.