Jack Black poses on the red carpet for the world premiere of A Minecraft Movie, in London, on March 30.BENJAMIN CREMEL/AFP/Getty Images
Minecraft, with its pixelated landscape, is one of the best-selling video games of all time, and has dominated hours of kids’ time over the past several years, letting their imaginations roam free. So, of course, Hollywood decided to turn it into a movie.
Starring Jack Black, Jason Momoa and Jennifer Coolidge, and helmed by Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess, the film has critics cringing. As The Globe’s Radheyan Simonpillai writes, the film is a “jumbled mess of video-game-to-movie tropes and self-deprecating gags so lazily rehashed they tend to whimper toward the punchline.” Its Rotten Tomatoes score is a stale 51% at the time of writing.
But Simonpillai noted that his own teens were delighted by the film’s many references to their childhood experiences and went so far as declaring A Minecraft Movie “a nine out of 10.”
Children’s movies are often lauded for appealing to the parents taking their kids to the theatre (or the couch) along with the younger audience they’re aiming to reach. Perhaps A Minecraft Movie is truly only made for its target users: the youth – and fans of the video game.
Did you have a similar experience with this movie, where you could barely get through it but your kids were enthralled? We want to hear from you, and them. Share your experiences below.
What did your kids think of the Minecraft movie?
The Minecraft movie has been critically panned by the adults. But what do the kids think? If your children have watched the Minecraft movie, tell us what they thought of the film.
