A Minecraft Movie has dropped its first full-length trailer today, expanding on the blocky world hinted at by the teaser released in September. While the game Minecraft gives players only the barest sense of direction, there will be a traditional story driving A Minecraft Movie.
Jack Black provides a voiceover about how his character, Minecraft mascot and stock avatar Steve, was drawn to the mines as a child and discovered the Overworld. He teams up with four other people, seemingly from the real world we know, to protect the Overworld from “dark forces” with their inventiveness and creativity. This all sounds like pretty standard fare for a video game movie — rag-tag group of misfits band together and learn the power of friendship. It’s unclear whether their foes will be baddies from the Nether or the End, because while those can be a pain, they canonically don’t seem interested in world domination.
But I’m not here for a clever, compelling plot. The trailer is a sizzle reel of familiar in-game experiences, and that’s exactly what I want. Taming a wolf with a bone, making a chicken-roasting redstone machine and nighttime coming way faster than you want it to all get their due. The team certainly did their homework on that front. The art style they’ve chosen doesn’t speak to me, but I’m also willing to admit to some bias after hundreds of hours spent looking at the original source material. I’m also not sure if they’ll stick the landing on the humor and emotion or whether it’ll fall flat like an elytra that’s run out of juice. We’ll find out when A Minecraft Movie releases on April 5, 2025.
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