Review of “A Movie Minecraft”: Jack Black, COFILY HANDLE

Millions of people play the Minecraft video game Right now, as in right away While you read this sentence. They build inventions with a hammer. Mix sand and gun powder and snapYou have made a TNT brick. In Overworld pixelated from Minecraft, everything is in the form of a box, bee trees, and the players invent their own adventures – there is no princess imprisoned in a castle. The bizarre aesthetics of the game gave him global recognition; His outdoor exploration on a field of Neptune size won him more than $ 3 billion.

Therefore, Hollywood launching a silver brick to make a “Minecraft film”. Wait: not “THE Minecraft movie “?

Exactly. This humble title recognizes the pride of forcing a story to a popular game exactly because it has no characters or intrigue. It would also be about calling for this “Jared Hess Minecraft film”. Hess, the director, Combines the spirit of its 2004 success “Napoleon Dynamite” with the game and snapHe made a solid comedy built of his own touch stones: Tater Tots, Kitsch and Wannabe Alpha from the 80s in a competition to measure the joystick.

The film begins in Fictional Chuglass, Idaho, the “capital of the potato”, where a giant tuberculum mascot is looming above the city. Before the opening credits, a door handle seller, Steve (Jack Black), enters the world through a magic portal, teaches the public the gameplay and is imprisoned by the villain, a witch pig named Malgosha (expressed by Rachel House) who hates art and innovation. When one of her slave piglets color an image with pencils, she turns it into a pork chop.

Taking Hess on Minecraft is essentially a Meathead version of “The assistant of Oz.” Four knowledge of Ragtag Idaho takes place in the world and put a blow at the door of the black assistant to get help to go home. Yes, Toto, there is also a cubist dog, as well as a young public conduct, Henry (Sebastian Hansen), an intelligent boy with a charming Lisp; her older natalie older sister (Emma Myers); Their real estate agent Dawn (Danielle Brooks); And a second boastful, Garrett (Jason Momo), which was once Great for Arcade Games in the 80s But cannot understand the autonomy without minecraft radius. Upon his arrival, Garrett heads for a sheep and expects him to tell him what to do – a gift that he is a noob. “My wrists are not what they were,” he groans.

Momoa has only one note to play, but he transforms it into Keytar solo. The muscular man is a specific physical actor: with his leather jacket with fringes and his bleached mane, Garrett de Momoa looks like and acts as the hair version of the Cowardly lion. He is so deceived of what seems cool that he nicknamed himself “The Garbage Man”. In a first scene, Garrett leads to sobing Skid Row's ballad “I remember you” and you wonder if Hess himself is deceived on what seems cool for the students of fifth year today. Is Skid Row as picturesque as Benny Goodman?

Similarly, the script (credited with too many writers to name) assumes that the children of the public will care about a romantic sub-contained in which one of the non-verbal and non-verbal characters of Minecraft is accidentally finds in Idaho at an appointment with a divorced played by Jennifer Coolidge. Whenever the action cuts the lonely coolidal heart making goo-gooo eyes on a mute, it looks like an awkward distraction. But these scenes are short and clumsy and forgivable because they do not take too much time of race. Back in the game, there are dozens of these identical villagers standing on the sidelines. With their heavy eyebrows and square jaws, they look like a Fretful phalanx of Martin Scorsses containing with no contribution that the film is quite fun.

Jack Black, however, is an engineering feat: a round ankle that fits perfectly into this country centered on the square. The villain Malgosha replies that he is a “round.”. A ball of human cannon looks more like that. Black drools through the film like The King of the Sandbox, the Lord of the Playground, joining the rest of us to join him in a quest he invented on the spot. He was born to pose backlod by a pyre of inflamed zombies and does it here, with the hot wind tickles perfectly his wicks.

Half of the time, Black's dialogue is just to announce what we are looking at, diamond swords with flying hot air balloons that look like Goth calmars. But it is the light in his eyes, the enthusiasm in its delivery, which makes each zing line. Presenting his personal recipe for roasted chicken with flame-a lava brick, a bird-he separates into a dizzy song: “La-la-la-lava! CH-CH-CH-CHICKEN!” This is the kind of stupid jingle that is stuck in your head for a week. You will be equally annoyed and delighted with its existence, while offering complete congratulations to the production design team which has shaped a Picasso-Esque pestle for Black to signal.

As a child of the 90s, I should be salty that the superstar of the comedy Alt now belongs to schoolchildren who only know him “kung fu panda” films. But if Black hangs children usually go to the movies, I am happy to let a young generation play with my toys.

“Creativity in this world is the key to survival,” insists Steve. Now he's serious. The film, like the game, is based on the thrill of discovery; Whenever he leaves the country of the pixels, the incuuriosity reigns supreme – the jadence is the worst enemy of all. In Henry's School, a teacher won the boy's interest in science in favor of the lack of his dismal salary. “My father says that mathematics have been demystified,” insists a classmate.

The brain, artistic talent, ingenuity – these qualities are important even when they seem un practical and strange. One of the heroes of the real life of Minecraft, a Youtuber named Techobladespent months to determine how to cultivate 500 million pixelic potatoes before dying of cancer at 23 years old. He and Hess share an idiotic, wonderful and memorable commitment to the Sps and, as salvation, technoblade avatar, a pig in a crown penetrates, has a cameo in the film. “A legend”, Black Beams. He is serious about this too.