When “A Minecraft Movie” was initially announced, I thought he was going to undergo the same fate as the film “Borderlands”, which currently has a ten percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Not only was it a box office flop, but it also seemed to land the idea that the public was interested in films based on the video game series. However, “A Minecraft Movie”, which also features Jack Black, has two things that “Borderlands” did not do: a younger audience and a flourishing IP.
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Minecraft is still well alive in today’s world
With a budget of $ 150 million, it is clear that the leaders of Warner Bros. And Universal Pictures transpired a little when the film was published in theaters on April 4. Although he collected criticism of criticism, the youngest audience flocked to the film and gave it an overwhelming boost.
Not only has it grown more than $ 300 million worldwide, more than doubled its budget, but it has also become the fourth highest film of 2025. This number should grow while word of mouth continues to spread. While “Borderlands” was a little adult for the youngest audience, “A Minecraft Movie” was only classified as PG, giving parents somewhere to take their children a rainy weekend.
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Minecraft has a younger audience and flourishing intellectual property
As the film has shown, Minecraft is really what you make of it, which is why it calls on so many people from all different age groups. In other words, it’s a game where you place blocks and create your own adventure. You can make weapons and hunt monsters. You can build houses, cities or even mechanical devices: the choice belongs to you.
The problem is, with such a large sandbox, how could writers tell a story that explained the concept of the game well enough to welcome these new franchises and satisfy fans that have been playing for decades? Currently, it is a mixed bag among critics as to whether they have managed to succeed or not.
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What other stories are waiting to be told?
Since it is an open world game, the studio heads were very aware that their film was only a thousands of possibilities. Director Jared Hess said Variety That “we are not the official story”, adding: “We do not canonize anything. We are only one of the stories zillions. ”
Mary Parent, president of Worldwide Production for Legendary, has echoed that, declaring: “We call it” a Minecraft film “because we respect the fact that there is no story that drives the game.”
That being said, Hess has ideas for more stories. Hess said Game radar“Oh, it would be so fun” if he had asked her to make another film. “I mean, look, there is the infinity of the world, so many mods and incredible characters and biomes that we have not yet explored, so it would be incredible.”
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“A Minecraft film” is it worth watched?
Personally, I like Jack BlackThe sense of humor and I knew the game, so I was just online with the target audience and I enjoyed the film. However, there were elements of the plot which were confusing and which mainly seemed to have passed over in silence in favor of a comic distraction.
The game was perfect, but there seemed to be too much accent on black and Jason Momoain my opinion. The always funny Danielle Brooks Seems almost to be wasted once the story really starts.
Stephen Thompson of NPR seemed to agree. In His reviewhe says, “transforming Minecraft into a film presents a challenge, because the film has a lot of development of characters to catch up. But, as the film Lego and Barbie have demonstrated it, it is possible to be spectacularly. ”
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A critic accused the film of “digging a name brand”
Since the film seems mainly intended for children, it was never going to please everyone. Maxwell RABB of Chicago readergave a particularly severe criticism, writing: “A Minecraft film pretends creativity by digging a name brand and inserting a zombified story that only capitalizes on (or cannibalize) the name.”
Dan Jolin de Empire magazine I also felt that the film fell flat, writing, “a hyperactive hot rose mess of a film, which does not manage to raise its cubic source equipment and revel in this failure as if he was doing something.”
Although “a Minecraft film” may not please all audiences, the endless creativity of video games itself inspires the idea that there are even more films to come. And, if nothing else, its success at the box office confirms that in a world of dying IPS, Minecraft always shines like its coveted diamond armor.
