Moviesblack, Jackmomoa, Jassonhes, Jareda Minecraft Movie (Movie)
Jack Black and Jason Momoa star in this adaptation of the successful video game that evokes the non -sense nonsense of the comedies of the early 21st century.
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 movie, an impromptu rocket package is sent at full speed towards a nearby French fried factory, destroying their gigantic pet and leaving executives lamenting inside, that genre of unlikely announcement 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 stupid laughs, should not surprise. After all, HESS laid many of the bases 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This retro sensitivity could, in theory, give rise to a outdated comedy, but there is something almost refreshingly bold in the total nonsense of this film, in taking a blockbuster budget and hugging the idiocy, as if I knew knowing: “That is, it is a 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.
But when a group of outsiders, led by a videogame champion finish called Garrett (Jason Momoa), they appropriate unintentionally from the cube and enter the Overworld, they are trapped in a battle for the survival of the universe.
Most of the story is developed with a “es-tanto-that-diverted” camp style. The visual effects often seem intentionally and even atrociously artificial, something that only works in part. HESS’s initial success was based on a deliberately crooked visual grammar that worked in an indie medium, but with an extravagance of study, it often translates simply as … well, a commercial of sweets.
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However, who is carried away by the sensitivity of HESS, will love nostalgia: Momoa, which is sometimes genuinely fun and other times it is limited to creating comic scenes with skill, is essentially making an interpretation of Rex, a secondary character of Napoleon Dynamite. (In addition, for fans of that film, there is more than one bite of potato croquettes).
The nonsense of a Minecraft movie will like children who worship the video game, adults who recall this era of comedy, and perhaps a few more. But the film could have followed a more polished and predictable path, as another of the Black films related to games, Jumanji. In a world of adaptations so made in series, there is some more identity here, even if it is a meaningless identity.
A Minecraft movie classified PG. Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes. In cinemas.
