The new trailer for A Minecraft Movie is here, and it lines up—with block-like precision, in fact—with what we’ve seen of the movie so far, which not by coincidence resembles the best-selling video game it’s based on.
It also digs into Jack Black‘s character Steve, who channeled his childhood longing to be miner (as kids do) into discovering “a wonderland where anything you can imagine is possible, as long as what you can imagine can be built out of blocks.” Hey, we know a place like that! Check out the trailer here:
There’s some potential fun to be had here—Jason Momoa as “Garrett ‘The Garbage Man’ Garrison, gamer of the year 1989,” with the hair to match—along with some stuff that feels all too familiar, including that overused MGMT song used to background the look at Minecraft‘s adventures. There does appear to be a plot, however, involving a team-up against “dark forces,” with devices both magical and practical to help out our heroes—who do equal amounts of quipping, running, and screaming from what we can tell.
Directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre), A Minecraft Movie also stars Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, and Jennifer Coolidge.
Here’s the official description: “Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn’t just help you craft, it’s essential to one’s survival! Four misfits—Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Hansen), Natalie (Myers), and Dawn (Brooks)—find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination.
To get back home, they’ll have to master this world (and protect it from evil things like Piglins and Zombies, too) while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve (Black). Together, their adventure will challenge all five to be bold and to reconnect with the qualities that make each of them uniquely creative… the very skills they need to thrive back in the real world.”
A Minecraft Movie hits theaters and IMAX in North America April 4, 2025, and internationally beginning April 2, 2025. Will you be, ahem, blocking out time for this one?
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