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A Minecraft Movie review
Lovely performances elevate a movie that captures Minecraft's many bits and pieces but not its creative spirit.
All of these people have one thing in common - they all get thrown into the world of Minecraft, where they must find the doodad they need to escape, fighting evil piglins, navigating the nether, learning to both mine and craft and work as a team. People make stuff from Minecraft, mine blocks and fight zombies when night falls, but by sticking so closely to this kind of ultra-traditional three-act adventure film structure - the very thing that teams like Naughty Dog have made a business of translating into big-budget cinematic games - the film throws in with the kind of standard campaign narrative that Minecraft the actual game exists in contrast to. | Image credit: Warner Bros I know - making a film that truly captures the spirit of Minecraft as it's actually played sounds incredibly difficult, and the solution that this movie lands on offers a lot of moments of recognition and some wonderful actors elevating the basic material.
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