Well the time has come for the long-awaited Minecraft movie trailer to be released, and safe to say most fans aren’t too pleased with how it looks…

A Minecraft Movie, the title of the upcoming film has shown fans a first teaser of the 2025 film based on the popular game Minecraft. A brief plot of the film has been released along with the trailer, and if you were to go based on what that said you might get pretty excited for what the movie might end up looking like. However that unfortunately is not the case. The animation style mixed with the live action characters just does not mesh well, maybe if they tried a similar approach to the Super Mario movie, which had great success last year, this movie would be received better by fans.

Now if you don’t know a lot about Minecraft, all of this is going to sound confusing to you. But I’m going to try and explain the plot to you as simply as possible. From the sound of things, the four main characters from the real world are going to be sucked into the world of Minecraft through some sort of portal, which looks like a variation of a Nether Portal. These protagonists then begin their journey through ‘the Overworld’ figuring out the ins and outs of how to survive. Again, just hearing this sounds like it could make a good Minecraft movie in theory. There is one redeeming factor for this movie, and that is the star studded cast. Jason Mamoa (Aquaman), Jack Black (Kung Fu Panda), and Danielle Brooks (Orange is the New Black) will all have significant roles in the movie, so hopefully that’s the silver lining.

As someone who has played tons of minecraft and is an avid video game player, I can only hope that this movie works out. Video game adaptations are definitely a big hit or miss in the movie industry. You have huge success like Super Mario Bros and Sonic the Hedgehog, but also huge duds like Borderlands and Uncharted. Sure each of those movies have their supporters but the facts mostly point to them being terrible. It doesn’t help that the Minecraft Movie is being produced by Warner Bros. Given their recent track record with the DCEU, the chances of Minecraft being good are already very low.

So given all that, let’s cross our fingers and make a wish that A Minecraft Movie ends up on the good side of video game movies, regardless how terrible it looks at first glance.