To qualify: I do not understand Minecraft. It feels like the ultimate sandbox, like MS Paint but 3D. I'm happy to put this down to my own ignorance, but nevertheless I had misgivings about this flick before we stepped into the theatre.
There's a subtle difference between this, "A Minecraft Movie" and another hypothetical film called "Minecraft: The Movie". It's almost like that producers of this film knew that their source of inspiration was as shallow as the film they were going to make. That's a long paragraph to say "I was right". This wasn't a painful film, but it was pretty shallow. No, worse, it was devoid of much substance at all.
I guess everyone turned up and played their part, and if I'm being charitable some of the effects were pretty cool and cutesy. It wasn't enough to save it for me though... but then again this wasn't a film for me. You'll know if you'll have to take someone to watch this or not. If you're lucky you'll get to catch a nap or two during its runtime.
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