Our movie reviewer Ben O'Shea joined Clairsy & Lisa in the studio because he'd seen A Minecraft Movie. He gave the guys his review but also told them of his new 4D cinema experience which sounds amazing!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great per flick with Benow. It's about mineo games as movies. Yeah, yeah, look,
I can imagine that when I was coming in today
that the idea of a movie based on the Minecraft
computer game is not really I did have a thing,
a bit of a giggle. But I do love both
(00:22):
Jack Black and Jason. Jason what a man, right, and
they don't have box squads. It's one of those films.
It's a combination of live action and a lot of
CG stuff. Okay, so the biggest surprise for me of
this movie called a Minecraft movie, it's pretty good. It's
(00:43):
actually pretty good. I was going I was going in
there last night thinking the chances of this being actually
entertaining is so slim because I haven't played Minecraft. My
daughter plays Minecraft. It seems fun, like creative, put the
blocks and build them up and all that sort of thuf.
That's what I was wondering if for one of those
ones where you build stuff. You build stuff. It's a
world building kind of game. There's different modes, you can
make it a bit different. But but yeah, so basically
(01:05):
that's what the film is about. Creativity. The game is
about creativity. But I'm not emotionally invested in the gaming.
Sometimes you get these adaptations and there's so many fans
of the game, and then they just like stick it
to the movie. I didn't honor the storylines or the characters,
or it's like, come on, it's a computer game, tell
me it. Ignore the little nuances. Yeah, that's right, it's
not Shakespeare. Shakespeare here. Yes, So I went in there
(01:32):
with low expectations, and I saw it at event event
cinemas in Inn lou in their four D cinema. I'd
about it. It's like it's like, you know, like Disneyland,
some of those rides that you have a Disneyland the
four D cinema. So you're sitting in this kind of
seat and rocks and moves, tilts forwards and tilts back,
and it shakes you around like your popcorns go on everywhere.
(01:55):
But it's not only it's not only that. As well
as that, you've got wind that blows into your face,
You've got little somehow it squirts water water. So there's
one there's one moment in the film where there's like
a minecraft lama that spits and like there's a little
bit of water that splashes on your face. It is
quite unsettling, and little little jets in that in the
(02:17):
chair when the well, basically everything but that and so,
and then when the arrows are flying through the air,
like there's little whistles of wind that come past your
ears at the first of It's in price craziest experience.
I would recommend it for this movie in particular. If
(02:39):
you something else, go see The Remains of the Day.
I don't know if it worked that well for that film,
but see Minecraft movie. It's quite amazing. So anyway, the
film itself is a pretty basic plot. Jack Black starts
off as this yeah, yeah, surprise surprise, starts off as
this young boy dreams of working as a minor, so
it could be a story about a kid in w A.
(03:00):
But you know, he forgets those dreams and starts this
unfulfilling career as a doorknob salesman. And then he remembers
then he remembers, hey, I wanted to work in the minds.
So he goes into the minds where he discovers this
magical cube that opens a portal, and then he ends
up in the Minecraft course, which is all CGI block
(03:21):
animals and things like that, and then he kind of
discovers that there's this evil sorceress who wants to take
over the Minecraft world and steal its riches, and so
he ends up teaming up with some other humans that
get sucked into the portal and they have to kind
of go on this sort of quest to save the
Minecraft world, and which is how Jason Momoa comes into it.
(03:43):
He was a former child gamer prodigy called Garrett the
garbage Man Garrison, who's grown up to be a complete
failure as an adult. He sort of lives in this
kind of like you know, sort of glorious memories of
his past, his glory. He's into his eighties. Hair metal
drives are like Corvette Stingray or something like that. Wears
(04:06):
like leather jackets with fringes dangling down, and it just
hilarious character for Jason Momoa to play. Sort of thinks
he's a big hero like he is in all the
hero movies that he stars in. He's a total duce.
He's a total dud though, right because the film is
directed by Jared Hess who's most notable for directing Napoleon Dynamite,
so he very much brings that sort of comedic aesthetic
(04:29):
to the film. So you imagine Jason Momoa as Napoleon Dynamite,
so that's kind of what his character is like, gotcha.
And then you've got a couple of kids, of course,
because it's a kid's movie, so you need some kid characters,
and they're sort of roped in as well. One of
them is the star, one of the stars of the
Wednesday series with General Taker, and so it's basically a
quest movie. But the reason it works so well Jason
(04:52):
Momoa is so hilarious as you're sort of playing against
type as like a guy who thinks he's a hero,
but as a total dues. And of course Jack Black, right,
So this movie would love terrible if it had anybody
other than Jack Black, because he is so unique in
his way to be over the top and so ridiculous
(05:12):
yet somehow also still very cool. Yeah, very funny. So
think about him in School of Rock. Yeah, think about
him in Jumanji, those adaptation of that movie. He is
he's just hilarious, and he's singing a couple of songs
in the film as well. Here's the greatest here, that's right,
that's right, and it's got to it's got a star
(05:33):
of Orange is the new Black in there as well,
and she at one point says, Oh, you know, like,
if I knew you could sing that good, if I
knew you had the voice of an angel, I wouldn't
have been so bothered by your smell. Uh. And there's
there's a there's a moment where Jack Black and Jason
Momoa's character, who don't get on there sort of their
sort of frenemies, I guess where they have to sort
of there in this flying contraption and they have to
(05:54):
squeeze through this this tiny hole in the wall. So
they realize they have to go sort of top and
tail and form a man sandwich. It's like, that's so
that's the sort of humor that we're talking about here.
It's a little puerile, but I think the kiddies will
like it. It's very bright, it's very colorful. There's some
great songs in the soundtrack. And you know, I guess
(06:16):
if you go into this thinking that it's going to
be high brow cinema, you're going to come out thinking
what the hell did I just watch? Who's going to
go into it thinking it's going to be again again?
This is a minecraft movie, and it doesn't pretend to
be anything else, and that's what I respect about it.
It is very, very silly, but if you liked the
Jumanji films, you know this is definitely going to be
(06:38):
up your alley. And for the kiddies, you know, like
they're gonna they're gonna love it. And does it have
Jennifer Coolidge. Oh, I almost finish. Jennifer Coolidge has a
cameo in this as the vice principal of a school
in the real world. And so it goes without saying
that Jennifer Coolidge is the Queen. She is hilarious playing herself.
(06:58):
She has this like she has this principal student meeting
with the main human boy in the film and just
starts talking about her own relationship breakdown instead of talking
about what she's supposed to be disciplining him about as
she separated from her husband. And and then and then
one of the Minecraft villagers, which are these kind of
like NPC characters in the game. They just sort of
(07:20):
wander about aimlessly and they go, oh, they don't really
do anything. Get away. One of those comes through the
portal into the real world, and Jennifer Coolidge, who's just
off this divorce, bumps into this kind of non speaking
Minecraft character. It takes him out for dinner because he
can't kind of fight it, and it's just and that's
just hilarious and and the and the waitress comes up
(07:41):
and goes, oh, you finished, and she goes, no, I
think he's Swedish. And so that's that gives you an
idea of what this film is. Plenty in there for
the adults. If you like a bit of silliness. Lisa
to say, man, where Wells today? How many Stiffler's mums
(08:01):
are giving it? I'm going to give it three
Great per flick with Benow. It's about mineo games as movies. Yeah, yeah, look,
I can imagine that when I was coming in today
that the idea of a movie based on the Minecraft
computer game is not really I did have a thing,
a bit of a giggle. But I do love both
(00:22):
Jack Black and Jason. Jason what a man, right, and
they don't have box squads. It's one of those films.
It's a combination of live action and a lot of
CG stuff. Okay, so the biggest surprise for me of
this movie called a Minecraft movie, it's pretty good. It's
(00:43):
actually pretty good. I was going I was going in
there last night thinking the chances of this being actually
entertaining is so slim because I haven't played Minecraft. My
daughter plays Minecraft. It seems fun, like creative, put the
blocks and build them up and all that sort of thuf.
That's what I was wondering if for one of those
ones where you build stuff. You build stuff. It's a
world building kind of game. There's different modes, you can
make it a bit different. But but yeah, so basically
(01:05):
that's what the film is about. Creativity. The game is
about creativity. But I'm not emotionally invested in the gaming.
Sometimes you get these adaptations and there's so many fans
of the game, and then they just like stick it
to the movie. I didn't honor the storylines or the characters,
or it's like, come on, it's a computer game, tell
me it. Ignore the little nuances. Yeah, that's right, it's
not Shakespeare. Shakespeare here. Yes, So I went in there
(01:32):
with low expectations, and I saw it at event event
cinemas in Inn lou in their four D cinema. I'd
about it. It's like it's like, you know, like Disneyland,
some of those rides that you have a Disneyland the
four D cinema. So you're sitting in this kind of
seat and rocks and moves, tilts forwards and tilts back,
and it shakes you around like your popcorns go on everywhere.
(01:55):
But it's not only it's not only that. As well
as that, you've got wind that blows into your face,
You've got little somehow it squirts water water. So there's
one there's one moment in the film where there's like
a minecraft lama that spits and like there's a little
bit of water that splashes on your face. It is
quite unsettling, and little little jets in that in the
(02:17):
chair when the well, basically everything but that and so,
and then when the arrows are flying through the air,
like there's little whistles of wind that come past your
ears at the first of It's in price craziest experience.
I would recommend it for this movie in particular. If
(02:39):
you something else, go see The Remains of the Day.
I don't know if it worked that well for that film,
but see Minecraft movie. It's quite amazing. So anyway, the
film itself is a pretty basic plot. Jack Black starts
off as this yeah, yeah, surprise surprise, starts off as
this young boy dreams of working as a minor, so
it could be a story about a kid in w A.
(03:00):
But you know, he forgets those dreams and starts this
unfulfilling career as a doorknob salesman. And then he remembers
then he remembers, hey, I wanted to work in the minds.
So he goes into the minds where he discovers this
magical cube that opens a portal, and then he ends
up in the Minecraft course, which is all CGI block
(03:21):
animals and things like that, and then he kind of
discovers that there's this evil sorceress who wants to take
over the Minecraft world and steal its riches, and so
he ends up teaming up with some other humans that
get sucked into the portal and they have to kind
of go on this sort of quest to save the
Minecraft world, and which is how Jason Momoa comes into it.
(03:43):
He was a former child gamer prodigy called Garrett the
garbage Man Garrison, who's grown up to be a complete
failure as an adult. He sort of lives in this
kind of like you know, sort of glorious memories of
his past, his glory. He's into his eighties. Hair metal
drives are like Corvette Stingray or something like that. Wears
(04:06):
like leather jackets with fringes dangling down, and it just
hilarious character for Jason Momoa to play. Sort of thinks
he's a big hero like he is in all the
hero movies that he stars in. He's a total duce.
He's a total dud though, right because the film is
directed by Jared Hess who's most notable for directing Napoleon Dynamite,
so he very much brings that sort of comedic aesthetic
(04:29):
to the film. So you imagine Jason Momoa as Napoleon Dynamite,
so that's kind of what his character is like, gotcha.
And then you've got a couple of kids, of course,
because it's a kid's movie, so you need some kid characters,
and they're sort of roped in as well. One of
them is the star, one of the stars of the
Wednesday series with General Taker, and so it's basically a
quest movie. But the reason it works so well Jason
(04:52):
Momoa is so hilarious as you're sort of playing against
type as like a guy who thinks he's a hero,
but as a total dues. And of course Jack Black, right,
So this movie would love terrible if it had anybody
other than Jack Black, because he is so unique in
his way to be over the top and so ridiculous
(05:12):
yet somehow also still very cool. Yeah, very funny. So
think about him in School of Rock. Yeah, think about
him in Jumanji, those adaptation of that movie. He is
he's just hilarious, and he's singing a couple of songs
in the film as well. Here's the greatest here, that's right,
that's right, and it's got to it's got a star
(05:33):
of Orange is the new Black in there as well,
and she at one point says, Oh, you know, like,
if I knew you could sing that good, if I
knew you had the voice of an angel, I wouldn't
have been so bothered by your smell. Uh. And there's
there's a there's a moment where Jack Black and Jason
Momoa's character, who don't get on there sort of their
sort of frenemies, I guess where they have to sort
of there in this flying contraption and they have to
(05:54):
squeeze through this this tiny hole in the wall. So
they realize they have to go sort of top and
tail and form a man sandwich. It's like, that's so
that's the sort of humor that we're talking about here.
It's a little puerile, but I think the kiddies will
like it. It's very bright, it's very colorful. There's some
great songs in the soundtrack. And you know, I guess
(06:16):
if you go into this thinking that it's going to
be high brow cinema, you're going to come out thinking
what the hell did I just watch? Who's going to
go into it thinking it's going to be again again?
This is a minecraft movie, and it doesn't pretend to
be anything else, and that's what I respect about it.
It is very, very silly, but if you liked the
Jumanji films, you know this is definitely going to be
(06:38):
up your alley. And for the kiddies, you know, like
they're gonna they're gonna love it. And does it have
Jennifer Coolidge. Oh, I almost finish. Jennifer Coolidge has a
cameo in this as the vice principal of a school
in the real world. And so it goes without saying
that Jennifer Coolidge is the Queen. She is hilarious playing herself.
(06:58):
She has this like she has this principal student meeting
with the main human boy in the film and just
starts talking about her own relationship breakdown instead of talking
about what she's supposed to be disciplining him about as
she separated from her husband. And and then and then
one of the Minecraft villagers, which are these kind of
like NPC characters in the game. They just sort of
(07:20):
wander about aimlessly and they go, oh, they don't really
do anything. Get away. One of those comes through the
portal into the real world, and Jennifer Coolidge, who's just
off this divorce, bumps into this kind of non speaking
Minecraft character. It takes him out for dinner because he
can't kind of fight it, and it's just and that's
just hilarious and and the and the waitress comes up
(07:41):
and goes, oh, you finished, and she goes, no, I
think he's Swedish. And so that's that gives you an
idea of what this film is. Plenty in there for
the adults. If you like a bit of silliness. Lisa
to say, man, where Wells today? How many Stiffler's mums
(08:01):
are giving it? I'm going to give it three
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