finished watching Minecraft 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
A Minecraft Movie knows what it is, and what it is is a video game movie and nothing more.

A genuinely entertaining watch, the world of the Minecraft movie just "is", which is to say that there's nothing deeper than what viewers already know: Minecraft. The film puts together a story using aspects of the game such as the nether, certain mobs from the game, structures, crafting, building, and more, but it doesn't touch on anything deeper with added lore to the franchise or anything because it knows it doesn't need to. People come to see the game as a movie, and that's it.

Which is honestly endearing in this case, especially for kids and those who grew up playing Minecraft. By no means is the movie the best video game movie out there, but what the movie does is put on display two of the biggest things regular players of Minecraft tend to have: creativity, and imagination.

The action scenes, lovably goofy characters, settings (character-made builds in particular), and straightforward, somewhat wonky plot are all things that bring together audiences young and old in either seeing something they could actively envision in their heads currently, or reminisce on with their childhood self playing the game respectively.

The movie doesn't send out any new ideas that the game doesn't already touch on, and in this case, that's perfectly fine. Why bring depth to a world that "just is"?

Sometimes showcasing what makes something great as it is is all you need, and A Minecraft Movie does that incredibly.