A Minecraft Movie
Warner Bros. | Release Date: April 4, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
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Negative:
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80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriApr 5, 2025
It feels like a small miracle that the resulting film is so funny, lively, and light on its feet. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonApr 3, 2025
Half the time, Black’s dialogue is just announcing what we’re looking at, from diamond swords to flying hot air balloons that look like goth squids. But it’s the gleam in his eyes, the gusto in his delivery, that makes every line zing. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyJordan HoffmanApr 2, 2025
Jared Hess, co-creator of Napoleon Dynamite and a string of other small oddball pictures, brings a fresh perspective to what could have been a lumbering IP-pallooza movie. Read full review
75
ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerApr 2, 2025
A relatively accessible, often enjoyable adaptation of the best-selling video game of all time, its family-friendly good heart unencumbered by its overstuffed narrative. Read full review
70
SlashfilmWitney SeiboldApr 5, 2025
Hess and his army of screenwriters (only five are credited) have taken the wisest possible route with their adaptation: A Minecraft Movie is a broad, slapstick farce without a hint of seriousness, reverence, or coolness. The most shocking thing? It's not terrible.  Read full review
70
The New York TimesBrandon YuApr 2, 2025
There’s something almost refreshingly bold in the full-tilt inanity here — in taking a blockbuster budget and embracing idiocy, as if to knowingly say, “I mean, it’s a Minecraft movie.” Read full review
63
Washington PostGene ParkApr 3, 2025
The biggest surprise is that “A Minecraft Movie” ends up feeling more necessary in an era of depreciating art appreciation. Like Garrett, this movie may be tacky and loud, but it also makes a great point. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenApr 2, 2025
Kids will likely be diverted by the colorful excess of A Minecraft Movie, but fans of the game may feel it misses the mark. More creativity, please. Read full review
63
The Associated PressMark KennedyApr 2, 2025
The Jared Hess-directed action-adventure artfully straddles the line between delighting preteen gamers and keeping their parents awake. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoApr 2, 2025
A video game movie that encourages creation instead of just uplifting capitalism? That’s a small victory in 2025. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesTara BradyApr 3, 2025
The moon is square and the action is so daft that it makes the Sonic the Hedgehog sequence feel like the work of Ingmar Bergman. Read full review
60
Total FilmNeil SmithApr 2, 2025
Jared Hess's indie sensibilities help to elevate a video game adaptation that is boosted further by Jack Black's irrepressible star turn. The special effects could be better, as could the female roles. But this remains an entertaining fantasy adventure that makes light work of what might appear to be unpromising source material. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicMeredith G. WhiteApr 2, 2025
A Minecraft Movie is a fun romp that kids, whether they're fans of the game or not, will likely enjoy. The missed opportunity is the older generations of players. There's not enough storytelling or humor to get us invested in Hess' Minecraft world. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanApr 2, 2025
A Minecraft Movie never stops goofing on itself, and that’s appealing. Read full review
60
The GuardianCatherine BrayApr 2, 2025
Full-throttle star turns from Jack Black and Jennifer Coolidge raise laughs but don’t help the perfunctory plotting in this screen take on the game franchise. Read full review
60
IGNJesse HassengerApr 2, 2025
For a big-studio adaptation of a massively popular video-game, A Minecraft Movie lets a surprising amount of its director’s personality shine through. Napoleon Dynamite’s Jared Hess manages to fit some laugh-out-loud silliness into his Overworld saga before surrendering to the obligations of CG-driven fantasy adventure. Thematically, A Minecraft Movie offers a pat world-is-what-you-make-it lesson, but Jack Black and Jason Momoa in particular sell it with a lot of comic enthusiasm. Read full review
55
PolygonCass MarshallApr 2, 2025
Minecraft is a game for absolutely everyone, and the movie gestures at including the same audience, with a few clumsy attempts at meaningful character relationships and personal arcs. But those subtle elements are disconnected and often contradicted by later scenes. Read full review
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ReelViewsJames BerardinelliApr 4, 2025
Some players will enjoy the flashes of familiarity but others will find the production to be lacking. “Cringey” might be too harsh but this is unlikely to become the next video game-to-movie classic. Read full review
50
ABC NewsPeter TraversApr 4, 2025
The comic pairing of Jack Black and Jason Momoa makes this video game-turned-PG-movie pablum seem better than the cash grab it is. But not by much. Still, there’s no shame in being strictly kids’ stuff that knows how to serve and entertain its audience. Read full review
50
ColliderNate RichardApr 4, 2025
I do believe that there was a scenario where A Minecraft Movie could have been the next Lego Movie. That's clearly what Warner Bros. likely wanted out of this, but instead, we're left with a mostly disposable live-action family movie that will certainly please the young ones in the audience and will be tolerated by the parents. Read full review
50
TheWrapMichael OrdoñaApr 3, 2025
The most accurate summation of A Minecraft Movie is probably “It is what it is.” It’s what it’s supposed to be. It probably won’t dig up many new converts to the game, but should strike box-office silver, at least. (And fans, be sure to stick around for two credits scenes – especially the second one.) Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichApr 2, 2025
It’s a real credit to Black’s irrepressibly unique comic energy that “A Minecraft Movie” never feels quite as hypocritical as it should. Read full review
45
The Daily BeastNick SchagerApr 2, 2025
Block-headed from start to finish, it’s cinema in service of nothing more than IP exploitation. Read full review
45
Paste MagazineJarrod JonesApr 2, 2025
A Minecraft Movie‘s fan-pleasing salvation is knowing when to Do The Thing; it understands why its audience pulled themselves away from their consoles and PCs to spend an afternoon in the theater and delivers it to them with diamond-pickaxe precision. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerApr 2, 2025
A mix of blatant formula and complete oddity, the film is a failed recipe with plenty of seasoning. Read full review
40
The New YorkerRichard BrodyApr 9, 2025
It’s no “Barbie”; the action is blatantly promotional and brazenly conventional. Nonetheless, it’s got enough personality to make me wish that Hess had had a still freer hand. Read full review
40
EmpireDan JolinApr 4, 2025
A hyperactive hot-pink mess of a movie, which fails to elevate its cubic source material and revels in that failure like it’s achieving something. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinApr 2, 2025
The placid, open-ended charm of its video game source material is nowhere to be found in this grindingly generic brand extension. Read full review
40
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyApr 2, 2025
There’s a through line, buried in here somewhere, about how it’s harder to be creative, easier to destroy. Unfortunately, A Minecraft Movie proves its own point. Creativity took too much effort. Easier to destroy the spirit of the video game instead. Read full review
40
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiApr 2, 2025
Some of the best game movies have adventure, heart, humor & good characters. I wish I could say A Minecraft Movie had these things besides adventure. Read full review
38
Slant MagazinePat BrownApr 4, 2025
There’s a self-reflexivity to the game’s artifact-y textures that’s lost in this film adaptation, where the finely detailed look of just about everything says nothing in itself about the endless possibilities of a digital world’s malleability. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 4, 2025
Harmless nonsense this may be, but if you’re under the impression it does a wildly popular, award-winning “creativity” game justice, you’d have to be right on the demographic money in terms of who the picture is pitched to — 12 years-old. Read full review
35
The AtlanticDavid SimsApr 17, 2025
Although Momoa does his best to inject some brash personality, it collides with Black’s more authentic brand of chaos; if either of them is on-screen at any time, rest assured that most of the dialogue is getting yelled. The visuals are similarly obnoxious. Read full review
30
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Radheyan SimonpillaiApr 15, 2025
If Minecraft is the game where kids exercise their creativity by building new digital worlds full of tunnels and fortresses, A Minecraft Movie is where that creativity goes to die. Read full review
30
Rolling StoneDavid FearApr 3, 2025
Regardless of whether you’ve ever played Minecraft or not, you’ll recognize the kind of endless ribbing, nudging, winking knowingness on display here; this is steeped in the self-aware absurdism of, say, those Old Spice commercials that aim to confuse and confound in the name of moving products off store shelves. A Minecraft Movie is essentially a 101-minute version of that. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeApr 2, 2025
What makes A Minecraft Movie so dispiriting is how it fails to spark the imagination, betraying a core tenet of the game on which it’s based. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleZaki HasanApr 2, 2025
Once the fleeting novelty wears off, what remains is a movie caught in tonal limbo. It’s too convoluted for kids, too slight for adults and too self-aware to be taken seriously. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiApr 2, 2025
Mine all you like. You’ll never find any smarts in this cavern of stupidty. Read full review
20
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeApr 5, 2025
Perhaps there’s an alternative out there, a sharper, smarter, funnier version of a Minecraft movie. One with actual jokes. Or, God forbid, there may even be a worse iteration, although that’s hard to imagine. Read full review
20
Film ThreatBobby LePireApr 4, 2025
A Minecraft Movie is not funny, exciting, or clever. Read full review
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