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let’s get one thing straight about the Minecraft movie. It cannot be labeled a good or bad movie based on viewing it alone. As anyone who’s been looking at the reviews for it have seen, opinions on the matter are very split. To truly decide if the Minecraft movie was good or not, we need to know intentions.
If the intention of this movie was to use the nature of the inevitable cringe of the movie to not only: enhance comedic jokes that are more childish or poorly written by showing their qualities as purposeful, but also dig deeper into the nostalgic side of people and call out their childhood interactions with Minecraft as cringe but in a good way, yeah I think it was a good movie.
if the intention was to create something well made, complex, and clever while also adhering to modern day movie standards and working for the viewer intelligence points rather than viewer nostalgia points, it is not a good movie.
Yes the Minecraft movie is cringe, and yes the sheep look weird, and yes some of the dialogue is funky, and yes there are a million flaws but that’s the point. Or, it should be. If the Minecraft movie wants to be considered good, it needs to use these things to its advantage. As children, we were cringe and dumb and loved all of the oddities of Minecraft and the fandoms that went with them. By making a movie that's kind of shabby and really cringy, the creators are giving out a reminder that not everything has to be super well made to make an enjoyable movie. As long as it is intentional, all of these details make the Minecraft movie amazing, because it is exactly like us. Imperfect, flawed, cringe as hell.
Enjoy the Minecraft movie. Laugh at the jokes you would have laughed at as a ten year old. Don't think of anyone else in the theater (except for the staff, Jesus guys stop throwing popcorn on the ground) and certainly don't live off of the opinions of professional theatre critics because people can have different opinions.