A Minecraft Movie

 Saturday night movie night with Noshi, and while I settled down at the big table for some glueing of figures, we opted for A Minecraft Movie.

 

This movie was rather well received when it came out, and seeing Jason Momoa so far out of his regular roles seemed like fun.

 

And fun it was in this visually stunningly made movie.  Steve, played by Jack Black, lives in the Minecraft world, after hiding a cubical orb in our world to prevent pig-queen Malgosha take over the world.  Years later, gamer of the year 1989 and now washed out game store owner Garett "the Garbage Man" Garrison gets Steve's old possessions including the orb at a garage sale.  In his store, a boy named Henry discover and unlocks the orb's power. 

 

Together with Garrett, his sister Natalie and Dawn, a friend of the house, they are pulled in the world of Minecraft where they must find a replacement orb to both get home and stop Malgosha.  This results in a lot of very fun made battles and events, and in the end they manage to overcome the evil overlord.  Here they pick up their lives and make it more succesful then before.

 

So yeah, of course this hasn't has Shakespeare level of story, but never the less it is a good fun movie.  I laughed quite a bit, something in recent movies is hard with all it's "correct" humour in the industry (aka bland and boring jokes), while this has some good old 90s vibe dad jokes humour.  Which is of course right up my personality. 

 

So yeah, there are worse things to waste your time at for sure!