The Minecraft movie, released on April 4th, 2025, starring Jack Black as Steve, Jason Momoa as Garrett, Danielle Brooks as Dawn, Emma Myers as Natalie, Sebastian Hansen as Henry, Jennifer Coolidge as Marlene. It is a fantasy adventure comedy based on Minecraft, a well known video game the story begins with a salesman named steve who discovers an orb and a crystal which created a portal to the overworld, a garbage man named Garret who used to be a video game champion and two siblings, Henry and Natalie find the orb and crystal and are pulled through the portal to the overworld and team up with steve to defeat the malgosha, a gold obsessed piglin who rules the nether and plans to control the nether with the orb.
The movie had a lot of mixed reviews but it’s become the highest video game film of all time. The film’s success has sparked a viral “chicken jockey” trend, when the scene comes on in theaters, people are getting rowdy and are shouting, clapping, throwing food, drinks and many other objects, jumping and even bringing live chickens to the theater. This behavior led to warnings from theaters, police calls, movie stopping even some theaters banned groups of unsupervised boys from screenings. Videos of the chaotic behavior have gone viral on social media leading to more incidents in theaters.
How was the minecraft movie? It was really funny. What were your opinions going into it vs after you watched it? I thought it was gonna be cringey but it turned out to be very good. Why do you think it was so popular? Because it is a very big well known game. Who was your favorite character and why? Steve because he is The Main Guy. What was your favorite part of the movie? Chicken jockey because it really spoke around the world and had an influence all over the world in a very positive way for the community, which brought them together. Do you think the Minecraft movie is overhyped? I don’t think it was overhyped because the movie had a lot of hyped moments. What would you rate the movie out of 10 and why? 10 Because it had the chicken jockey scene and Steve, I think Jack black played the character very well and emphasized Steve very accurately. What motivated you to go watch it? It was a very popular movie and I wanted to see chicken jockey because there was a zombie on top of a chicken and it hit the guy.