Review of ‘A Minecraft movie’: Very rare, block by block

From time to time, in the midst of the nostalgic clips exchange cycles that are produced periodically on the Internet, you can run into the Berries and Cream video. Starburst’s viral announcement, in which a pilgrim boy appears with a briefcase, is a concise example of the particular type of humor of the mid and late 2000s that predominated in the early days of the Internet: picturesquely absurd, silly and, above all, Random. When, at the beginning of A Minecraft moviean impromptu rocket package is sent at full speed towards a nearby factory of french fries, destroying its gigantic pet and leaving executives regretting inside, that unlikely announcement genre shines in memory.

That this adaptation of the video game, overwhelmed by Jared HESS, fully compromises to capture that era of stupidly epic, or epic, or epic stupid laugh, should not surprise. After all, HESS laid many of the basis of the first internet humor with his indie comedy of 2004 Napoleon Dynamite. And the star here, Jack Black, was the protagonist of the continuation of HESS in 2006, Nacho Libre.

This retro sensitivity could, in theory, give rise to a outdated comedy, but there is something almost refreshingly bold in the total nonsense of this film, to take a blockbuster budget and embrace the idioc Minecraft movie”

This generous reading is more immediately guided by Black, whose comic character of Bobalicone seriousness has survived our era of irony. He plays Steve, a disappointed officer who decides to pursue her dream of working as a miner. When it clashes against a mysterious magic cube, an Overworld portal opens, the world of Minecraft blocks, with its unlimited potential for creation.