A Minecraft Movie Review – Exactly What You Think It Is, For Better Or Worse
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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, it’s not only reality but the right choice for the franchise’s expansion to the big screen.
A Minecraft Movie is exactly what you think it is based on its trailers. It’s a big, cartoony live-action movie, filled with silly jokes, Minecraft references, and an oddly surreal Minecraft world, complete with the game’s various creatures and our human heroes. And while this might not be the film those who have grown up with Minecraft and are now adults would want, it’s a great service to younger audiences who are closer to the beginning of their own Minecraft journeys.
The Minecraft movie follows a pretty simple premise. Many years ago, a man named Steve (Black) somehow wound up in the Minecraft Overworld via a portal from Earth. It was his dream come true, as he loved to build, and he made it his new home. Some years later, he’s become a prisoner of Malgosha (Rachel House), a piglin witch who commands the hordes of gold-hungry pig characters in an effort to take the Overworld as her own, gobbling up all of its gold. Fast-forward to modern day, when four other humans wind up in the Overworld, leading to an adventure to help an escaped Steve save the cubic paradise he loves.
