You don’t need to know anything about Minecraft to love the new Jack Black movie

Let me get this out of the road: Before I see Minecraft movieI didn’t know a little about Minecraft Or the popularity of the video game. How can I leave this information that passes through me? HECK, it will be easy to blame my crowded life as a very sensitive kindergarten father – limited screen time and a dog man’s mania takes most of our time.

But I was only a father for only six years, and Minecraft was a global success for more than a decade, so I assume that the excuse of paternity does not carry any water. However, I went to Minecraft with no expectations at all. Now that I was on the other side, I finally see what this fuss is around.

Minecraft (which is interesting, not called the Minecraft Movie) is from Jard HESS, Exit by Indie Napoleon Dynamite. It is Jack Black Stars – who led the charge of the Hess Libre Wrestling Comedy – as the OG Minecraft Steve. Join the lions on this absurd adventure, the big budget, building the ban Jason Momo As Jarretta “garbage man”, Emma Maires in the role of Natalie, Sebastian Eugene Hansen as her younger brother Henry and Daniel Brooks in real estate broker/animal care provider dawn.

Before I continue, to you Warning spoiler: If you haven’t seen Minecraft and do not want to know some of the plot points, return it now.

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It seems irrational, who is black Good -intention In itself, it was directing the first adaptation on the large screen of world -famous video games. In the film, it works as our possible guide, and explain the Overworld Rules-the name of the crystallized game world-and how to survive and to flourish there. Although things are meaningless, lions confront madness with permanent enthusiasm, which may be tired of adults in the audience.

But this movie is not really for them.

Its energy, along with the performances of the collective actors and everything else occurs throughout the length of the movie for an hour and 40 minutes, is intended for children (children in the heart).

My daughter has never played Minecraft, but she spent time watching “Let’s Play” videos for other players who build things. Her enthusiasm for something that might feel worldly for adults who go to touch is like me. This film embraces that energy.

Although I may not understand the attractiveness of watching videos of another person who plays a video game, I am sincerely hugging what the story aims to teach. Topics such as imagination and creativity, building something from nothing, society and the power of friendship in Minecraft.

The group ends with the participation of a common mission to find the heavenly crime (which is actually cube), which will open a gateway to return it to the ground. Basically, this is the reason for their journey. In fact, the film is an exercise in the phrase “It is the journey, not the destination.”

You may be thin in the story, but this is good. Minecraft is an experience. Vepi.

Thanks to the distinctive comedy of Hess, which fills the film in a way that appears to be a call to laughter lines outside the kalrets in the early twentieth century, and the infectious chemistry of Black with Momoa, a Minecraft movie is a step from the standard family entertainment that I have seen in equality in recent years. The laughs that came out of me were unexpected, loud and repeated.

One of the things I have noticed over the past decade, as I have searched for more and more entertainment for children is the lack of risks that the story involved after the story. I do not mean to look at all like Gen X-EST-DEEP in the middle age crisis here, or anything. But on my day, the risks and danger in the films that I watched with my mother were equal in the course. I mean, they went and killed et, Spook and Better than the first.

Instead of relying on the direction of softening the edges of the movie for the younger viewers, the Minecraft movie gives sufficient concerns and risk to unify the stakes of his story. Zombie is riding on spiders, there are giant blood thirsty pigs, and there is a cute chicken knight of violence (which I learned is completely something in the game) and creatures in the world of Jim Hinson fiery. Dark crystalIn more than one occasion.

One of the important factors in the reason for this film is building the world. If you have a film that is literally revolving around the construction of worlds, it will be a crime if everything on the screen is CGI. it’s not. The groups were built and every element that the gang interacted with zero – or, do I say, forged at a drafting table?

Regardless of the lions, each member of the actors’ team keeps, although some characters lack more development. However, there is a lot that happens in every scene, I can only imagine that the remaining shots on the cutting room floor.

Then there is Jason Momoa. His performance like Garrett is the stereotype of the motion star. Instead of tending to embrace, the masculine roles that adorn his page IMDB, the actor distinguishes his head in the joy of this funny man in life. Going on this trip requires a lack of fear and a sense of comedy adventure. If there is MVP for Minecraft, it is Momo.

It has become clear that paternity has changed how I consume entertainment. It is almost impossible for me to watch movies and television at the present time without my father’s brain constantly intercepting. This happened all the time I watched the Minecraft movie, fortunately, it was an experience full of joy from start to finish.

Like Bluey episodes, which also encourage children to be creative and use their imagination, the Minecraft movie is a window on my child’s imaginary view of her world. I can say in absolute certainty that this is the type of movie that will bring generations together.

The story may not be a complete logical, but this is good. Minecraft has a completely fun atmosphere, and this is a sufficient reason for me to celebrate. I think my child will have the game and the film on my home soon enough. Your days are numbered, the dog’s man.