By Kaitlyn Rodriguez
Last weekend, A Minecraft Movie was released in theaters on Friday, April 4, and it has left many viewers with mixed opinions on the film.
A Minecraft Movie is an adaptation of a very popular video game that many of us know, Minecraft, a game made up of blocks in a community, along with many different creatures. The point of the game is to express your creativity and build whatever comes to your imagination.
The film, directed by Jared Hess, aimed to give audiences that nostalgic feel as well as bring a ton of laughs. The film contains many stupid jokes that bring the comedy of the movie into play and contains plenty of internet jokes.
The movie has so far made more than $1.3 billion after its opening weekend, making it the second highest-grossing movie after the Barbie film.
The movie stars Jack Black, who plays Steve, the main character in the game, and Jason Momoa, who plays Garrett Garrison, a previous video game champion.
Steve is your average office worker who decides he is tired of living the regular, boring nine-to-five life and decides to chase his dreams of working as a miner. While he takes his axe and begins the job, he stumbles upon a magic cube, which opens a portal into the Overworld, known as the Minecraft world, where your creativity doesn’t have a limit.
You then have the rest of the crew of outsiders from the real world getting a hold of this magic cube, and they then enter the Overworld, getting caught in a battle to save the universe.
Many people have had mixed opinions on the film; some say they loved it and how it was amazing to see Minecraft almost come to life, while others said that they thought the movie was too stupid and did not enjoy it as much.
“It’s not that often you get a movie that turns into a whole event,” said Tampa Bay resident Nicholas Havener. “The excitement behind it made it better, and it is a really funny movie to go watch with your friends.”
The visuals in the movie were very artificial, but it ended up working out. The Minecraft world was very colorful and fun and had a whole lot of blocks. Even the creatures in the movie, like the wolves, creepers, and villagers, were spot on, making it visually appealing to watch.
The internet jokes played a huge role in this film, which is exactly how it made it stupidly funny to some viewers. This includes one of the more popular memes, “chicken jockey,” when both Black and Momoa were trapped in a boxing ring facing a baby zombie on top of a chicken, which is a rare enemy that you can find in the video game.
This meme was one that most were excited about, as many people in the theaters would scream and start cheering and laughing after the scene was shown.
“It was an absolute cinematic experience from the memes to the interactions with all the fans and the movie itself actually having a pretty well-written plot too,” said Jose Montealegre, a junior cybersecurity major at The University of Tampa.
Most people enjoyed the jokes that were exchanged between both Black and Momoa, probably making both the funniest characters in the movie. Steve and Garrett were the stars of the film, making the other characters seem underwhelming.
Although there were some points where the movie seemed dumb, it was obvious that it was written that way on purpose. However, that’s what most people seemed to enjoy about it, and they loved to embrace the bad humor.
“I loved the movie, and I thought it was really funny,” said Ashley Field, senior marketing major at UTampa. “I appreciate how the theaters around the country have taken pride in it.”
This is a movie you can go to with your kids or with your friends for a nostalgic feel. It is for sure worth the watch if you enjoy stupidly funny internet jokes.
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Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.