A Minecraft Movie is the biggest meme-riddled movie of all time. It’s an enjoyable watch, but from a critical point of view, it is straight-up a bad movie.
Instead of aspiring to be a serious movie with a coherent plot, the movie feels like it was made to be clipped. Scenes in the movie seem random and jarring, and while it is humorous most of the things that happen do not contribute to the plot of the movie until the fight scene at the very end. Because of this, the movie is slow-paced and if the humor wasn’t the saving factor of the film it could have ended up stale. Running-start student Ireland Ruiz’s first thoughts “[was] that the movie was horrible and [it] just seemed like it was trying too hard.”
The movie is also very much directed towards a younger audience. At face value, this isn’t a bad thing, but when it is inspected further it’s revealed that the movie has added to brain rot by a thousandfold. One of the most prominent examples of this is the viral “chicken jockey” meme, which has resulted in hundreds of trashed movie theaters nationwide. Luckily for Ruiz, her experience was more mild in which “[only] some people said ‘chicken jockey’ but that’s about it.”
But by far one of the main reasons A Minecraft Movie has become a smash hit is because of the subject of the movie itself: Minecraft. Ruiz reminisced on better times, saying that “[she] liked how it was very true to Minecraft and reminded [her] of what it was like to be younger… [playing] it.” This alone shows to be a prevalent reason why audiences have enjoyed this movie exceedingly, despite it’s objectively bad quality story-wise.
A bad story doesn’t mean a terrible movie. One of A Minecraft Movie’s standout features is its impressive animation and CGI, though being uncanny because of its realism fans have still praised the movie for this aspect.
From the reception of the movie, it’s hard to tell whether or not A Minecraft Movie can be classified as “good” or not. For now, it’s safe to say that it isn’t the best thing in the world based on its 47% tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes.
