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About an hour and a half after WB’s new video Minecraft Movie, in cinemas now, I realized that I was really bored. The movie was happening in front of me on a big screen. I could see Jack Black and others dancing in CG worlds, but at the time he left the screen and entered my eyes, he slid out of my brain. I had to force myself to absorb and understand what was happening. Fortunately for me, it doesn’t really happen in this bad movie.

A Minecraft movie is a (kind of) adaptation in real action of MinecraftBut how does a video game adapt without history or real characters to a 100 -minute movie? The answer is to make, without much hurry, that Minecraft is another world to which real human beings travel and from which they finally leave. In truth, the distinctive seal of any bad video game film is when it can be summarized with “Yes, it is like that of the 80s.” Mario Bros. Film with Dennis Hopper. ”

But well, I can withstand a loose configuration if the rest of the movie convinces me. And at first, things painted well. The first approximately 20 minutes of this movie contain some really great jokes that made me laugh and the rest of the cinema. We know some of the main characters. Characters, such as the young and clumsy Henry and his older sister, Natalie, who has become his maternal figure after his true mother died. The two end in a small town in Idaho because it was his mother’s last wish. Thanks, mom! While this happens, they present us to The professional failure of the video games of Jason Momoa who owns a game store and is a big loser.

In addition, Danielle Brooks is there as Dawn, a character who spends most of the movie without doing anything, saying little and getting drunk. After a fun introduction to the characters, including Marlene, the surprisingly horny and very fun secondary character of Jennifer Coolidge, our four main heroes are thrown into the world of Minecraft And the film collapses because Steve (Jack Black) becomes part of the story.

Can an actor save a movie? Maybe. Can an actor ruin a movie? Yes. And that’s what Jack Black does in A Minecraft movieI’m not sure what hell Jack Black does in this movie. I do not mean why they chose it (it is a fun and popular guy with a solid trajectory), but what is the idea behind its performance in A Minecraft movieTo be fair to Black, Steve is not an important character in the game, just the name of his predetermined Skin. So he, the writers and the director had to create Steve’s personality from scratch. However, what they decided to do was turn Steve into one of the most annoying characters that has ever appeared in a movie.

Jack Black is maximum at all times in this movie.Every time Black appears on the screen, shouts, chilla, dances, makes rare voices or wears jargon. Sometimes, he does all that at the same time. It does not work, and the approximately 20 minutes of appearing in the movie, the children of my cinema stopped laughing at their behavior. His performance in A Minecraft movie It is as if someone made an imitation of Jack Black based entirely on a YouTube compilation of his “more crazy moments.” Not only is it annoying and exhausting; Nor is it funny. It also hinders the connection with Steve, who is one of the main characters of this film and one of the few with a real plot arc.

I almost left the movie ahead of time when, at one time, Jack Black, preparing his new friends for battle, says: “We need to undermine. We need to create.” We need Minecraft.“Go to shit. I only have a few hours in my life and I don’t need to waste them.

As for what really happens in A Minecraft movieIt has the most basic plot that involves an evil person without interesting personality or peculiarities that wants to destroy everything. But to do that, they need a variocolor macgoffin, and guess what? Our intrepid heroes need that same MacGuffin to return home. Resolving this conflict implies an hour to run and walk through computer generated worlds that seem Minecraft If you installed an ugly and realistic textures package. From time to time fights occur or there are conversations between characters, but the film does not stop at any part for enough time so that you care or develop attachment to something.

Technically, computer animation in this film is impressive. The real characters are perfectly integrated in the digital world. And when a Minecraft The character leaves the world of video game and enters the real world, integrates perfectly into the live action scenarios. Excellent! It is a pity that all designs are horrible and do not match the real sound effects extracted from the game, which seem as if the filmmakers try to remind you that, yes, this is still … Minecraft.Promise.

The best part of this film is a subtram that involves the secondary character of Coolidge, who is recently divorced and falls in love with one of the Minecraft Aldeanos who leave their world and enter into ours. Every time the movie was cut to show us more of that story, I was disappointed not to be watching a movie about them. It is also implied that he lies with the villager. Enjoy the movie, children! (And enjoy that incredible voice of voice at the end. Seriously, I was stunned. I’m not going to spoil here. But it’s perfect).

Now, I know some will say that I am too hard. After all, this is a movie for children. And? I have seen many good movies for children. The Lego Batman movie It is one of the best DC movies ever made. It is very funny, has moments with strong characters, a good plot and does not throw slightly light characters to the real world.

A Minecraft movie It is simply not very good. Will children like it? Of course, but in general children are not the most demanding public, and that’s fine. I do not say that children cannot enjoy this movie. I just say that it is a bad movie if you are an adult who seeks something funny that does not contain Jack Black’s worst ever filmed. I recommend that people see her. Rock school and play Minecraft With some friends instead of seeing this garbage.

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