The Minecraft Movie

Today we take a look at the teaser trailer for the Minecraft Movie, which has been in progress for basically a decade.

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[brendanrisney]

Jardon, if you _do_ see this in theaters, and he _doesn't_ say aw man with the creeper, you have to stand up, say aw man yourself, and just walk out

[ixeliema]

I wish they'd committed to either pure animation or CGI. You could maybe start with the characters in the real world as real people, and then when they arrive in Minecraft, they could swap to the Minecraft body type and absolutely freak out about it...but honestly this is messy.

ETA: Yes y'all I'm aware it would be a lot like Jumanji. My primary issue is that this movie's plot already *is* a lot like Jumanji, so in doing this, at least the visuals would be more consistent rather than reminding me constantly that these people were greenscreened into places that aren't even a little bit realistic. I can't see them doing this film in this style in any way that is less cursed looking, so I think it'd honestly be really funny if the whole point of doing it in this style would be to poke a bit of fun at how nonsensical Minecraft is as a game. Make the characters massive and weird looking. Make fun of how big blocks are and how big your inventory is. Make a jab at how there's lore but none of it means anything really. But I know that's not going to be what we get. And even if it was, I'd still be asking "who asked for a minecraft movie, especially after Minecraft story mode?"

(I also edited some of the grammar bc I wrote this after a long work day and wasn't braining right.)

[Wignut]

I _LOVE_ how everyone just stops when the pink sheep pops up. It's as if it's just too horrific for the human brain to immediately process and everyone's mind just hangs for a moment like some kind of psychological flashbang

[jmbeats]

The Fallen Kingdom series is a more cinematic and accurate reflection of a Minecraft movie than whatever this is, and the first part came out over 10 years ago.

[Clayinator]

The fact that your old animations with your music videos were way better not in the animation compartment but how Minecraft can look and feel. It’s sad how the actual Minecraft Movie doesn’t even look like anything we ever wanted.

[mongo]

0:55 you can see the exact moment his heart breaks

[chepacorina]

it would have been so easy to have it be fully animated. it would have been pretty, it would have been good

[hydratingh]

idk having irl people in realistic minecraft seems cursed a bit

[seminark]

Trailer reception in a nutshell:

"And the crowd goes mild..."

[cletup]

this animation gives me the same vibe of the model they used in the trailer for the first Sonic movie before they changed it

[starryagent]

I genuinely don’t even know where to start. It’s almost like they were too afraid to go into the hyper-realistic route of something like Detective Pikachu (probably because of the Sonic movie’s initial backlash) but also couldn’t embrace the animation route fully either. It’s like the aesthetic is stuck in limbo between the two and it clashes HARD. Seriously, who thought this was a good idea???

[jakescartoons]

People have been wondering if they can bully Warner Bros the same way they bullied Paramount into changing Sonic’s design, but I don’t think that would work. At least with Sonic, all they had to do was replace one character model with a vastly improved version without changing much of the animation. However, with Minecraft, the main problem is the entire art style of the movie. This movie is doomed to bomb at the box office.

[Basegud]

The fact that Jack Black's Steve costume is just Jack Black in a blue shirt 💀

[rolandshowmantv]

Even the Playmobil movie knew that you should change normal human people to in-universe shaped equal to give a natural but not out of style representation of the actor

[ShocktorGaming]

Your reaction to the sheep initially is gold.

[vlddy]

7:21 "maybe once you're in the theatre-" bro, I ain't going to the theatre for this shit lol

[yuaisnek]

Its crazy how it can look almost exactly like a 4k texture pack and still look so foreign.

[ThinkAgan]

Everything looks like the old “in Minecraft vs. real life” videos we used to watch when we were kids

[phelixmadden]

A animated Minecraft show would be better where every episode would be a different achievement eg: Episode 1 "A new world", Episode 10 "The hunt for diamonds" and Episode 20 "The end".

[ZezoOfficial]

I couldn't be happier that CaptainSparklez *IMMEDIATELY* clocked the subtle callback to Dragonhearted.