Jared Hess

2 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Graham Mirmina |Jared Hess

★ Needless to say, this abomination of a movie should have never seen the light of day.

2 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Jonathan Lack |Jared Hess

Well that was pretty dire. I actually kind of liked the first 20 minutes. The Jack Black-narrated opening is a fun intro to the world, and the stuff in “reality” lets Jared Hess’ quirky voice come through loud and clear. It’s charming. But then they get to the Minecraft world and the movie gets so unbelievably loud and hyperactive and directionless. It’s occasionally funny, but it’s mostly just grating, a giant dose of weapons-grade cinematic sugar with no complex calories.

2 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Matthew Yglesias |Jared Hess

★★★ This movie has five credit screenwriters and nineteen (!) writers cited for "additional literary material" (this is like minor re-write work as I understand it) and amazingly it all worked out pretty well. We did not really need the Jennifer Coolidge plot and I wouldn't have cried at the movie being shorter, but I did laugh at a couple of the jokes there. Jason Momoa and Jack Black are really good! Something that those of you who are not parents of kids who love to read Minecraft fan...

2 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Jeff Lowe |Jared Hess

★★ 48/100 - I enjoyed this a little more on a second trip to the theater, and that might have been because I viewed it through the "irony" lens that seems to be fueling its great opening at the box office. This is an incredibly dumb movie, but I can't ignore how heavily the filmmakers and cast lean into it all. They don't just paycheck collect, they commit, and give it their all, even if it results in a fairly large steaming pile of crap. It's loud, obnoxious, entirely too much... but, there...

3 weeks ago | latestly.com | Sreeju Sudhakaran |Jared Hess |Jason Momoa |Jack Black

A Minecraft Movie Review: Somehow, Jack Black was the best thing about the Jumanji reboot movies. Somehow, Jack Black was fun voicing Bowser in The Super Mario Bros Movie while giving us the entertaining "Peaches" song. Well, the law of averages has finally caught up with how much my patience can tolerate Jack Black being Jack Black, and A Minecraft Movie has become a victim of that. Or is it the other way around, and A Minecraft Movie has made a victim of me?