A 'Cavern of Stupidity' - The Minecraft Movie Reviews Are Live

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Releasing in theatres tomorrow, 4th April 2025, the A Minecraft Movie adapts the obscenely popular video game for the big screen. It stars the likes of Jack Black, Jason Momoa, and Emma Myers, with critic reviews now live.

Reviews are mixed overall; the Metacritic rating sits at 49 currently, and the Rotten Tomatoes score is only a bit higher at 56. Below you'll find a selection of reviews from various outlets, including the highest and some of the lowest ratings.

Los Angeles Times​

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.

Entertainment Weekly​

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.

IGN​

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.

GamesRadar+​

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.

Paste Magazine​

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.

The Hollywood Reporter​

We’ve come to expect so little of corporate IP projects that the fact A Minecraft Movie is uninspired won’t matter to many people (whether Minecraft loyalists or uninitiated crafters), but it should. A certain kind of creativity and imaginative thinking is atrophying with the advent of artificial intelligence. Two years ago when I reviewed Barbie, I lamented about a future where all our humanist lessons come from corporate toymakers. That feels truer now than ever.

New York Post​

Mine all you like. You’ll never find any smarts in this cavern of stupidity.

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