The first A Minecraft Movie trailer has some Jumanji vibes

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The first trailer for A Minecraft Movie has dropped, giving us a glimpse of the blocky film adaptation of one of the biggest video games of all time. A Minecraft Movie will be in cinemas from 4th April 2025, for your next dose of video game movie Jack Black.

There’s a lot of things going on this reveal trailer, with four regular world humans pulled into the blocky Minecraft universe. Jason Momoa is the biggest name on the ticket, but there’s also Emma Myers (“Wednesday”), Oscar nominee Danielle Brooks (“The Color Purple”), and Sebastian Eugene Hansen (“Just Mercy, “Lisey’s Story”) who’s definitely channelling some young Paul Rudd, if you ask me.

The four of them will have to figure out how this world works, protect themselves from armies of Piglins and Zombies, get over the weirdly squared-off sheep, and just how high res and detailed all the blocks and lighting are.

But hold on a second. Four people pulled into a twisted video game world? Jumanji called – the newer ones and not the original – and it wants its plot back, please! It would also like one of its acting stars back as well, because Jack Black is back to do more Jack Black things in the role of Steve, an expert crafter who’s presumably been stuck in this world for decades. Come on, film execs. You’re making a movie about using your imagination, and the best you could come up with for you video game movie was to cast an actor who’s literally just been in two other video game movies?!

Looking at the early comments on YouTube, and snap judgment are not especially kind to the film. In particular, there’s a lot of comments about having real actors within the very heavily stylised, over-saturated game world, and comparisons to “Minecraft vs Real Life” videos that were common in the mid 2010s. What do you think?

All involved will be hoping to replicate the rampaging successes of other video game movies – not Borderlands, though. The gold rush was started in earnest by Detective Pikachu, which garnered a whopping $450