Relatable Raven Reviews

What’s it about?

A bunch of people get sucked into a weird cube land and have to fight a bunch of pigs. Seriously.

Anyone I know in it?

The overly enthusiastic metal lord himself, Jack Black, plays the lead. If for some reason you’ve been living under a rock for the past 20 years, he’s one half of the mighty band, Tenacious D, and just wholesomely delightful in School of Rock.

Jason Momoa probably best known as the hot Dothraki guy Khaleesi marries in Game of Thrones.

Emma Myers you would only know if you watch the Netflix show, Wednesday.

Danielle Brooks is another Netflix alum. She plays Taystee in Orange is the New Black but she’s also got some HBO cred playing opposite John Cena in Peacemaker.

Jennifer Coolidge, AKA Stifler’s mom, has a small part as a vice principal.

So, is it any good?

Meh. It’s fine, I guess. Keep in mind, I came into this knowing NOTHING about Minecraft. I don’t have kids and I don’t play a lot of video games, sue me. I don’t know if fans of the game get more out of this but as just a film, it’s alright. One of my biggest issues is that they rushed past Steve’s backstory to get to the “real” plot, but I would’ve loved to watch a whole movie of just Jack Black running around doing random karate moves and making up songs with his rectangular dog/wolf. Honestly, I think there’s just too many people in this movie in general. Jason Momoa is so annoying and straight up ruins every scene he’s in and, I hate to say it, the 2 women were almost completely useless. And there’s a random B plot of Jennifer Coolidge falling in love with a Minecraft villager that isn’t funny and goes nowhere. What they should’ve done was stretch out the beginning with just Steve, cut Jason Momoa entirely, have just the kid get sucked into the world and make the B plot revolve around the sister and real estate agent chick running around town doing dumb shit trying to find Henry. Not to say this movie is entirely bad. Jack Black is clearly having a wonderful time frolicking around in green screen land and I’m all for it. Oh, and that Lava Chicken song is a certified bop. All in all, it was an ok movie. I wouldn’t pay to see it but if my nephew wanted to watch it with me, I’d sit through it again.

Anything else like it?

If you want a way better version of a glorified toy commercial, go check out The Lego Movie. If you want to see some actually decent video game movies, you can’t go wrong with the Sonic the Hedgehog movies. If you just want more Jack Black in your life (I don’t blame you), go watch School of Rock or Nacho Libre.