Jared Hess adapts arguably the best-selling video game of all time.
Jason Momoa - Garrett "The Garbage Man" Garrison
Jack Black - Steve
Emma Myers - Natalie
Danielle Brooks - Dawn
Sebastain Hansen - Henry
Summary
Struggling salesman Steve enters a mine to realise a childhood dream. Inside, he finds two mysterious artefacts (the Orb of Dominance and Earth Crystal) and combines them, opening a portal to the Overworld, where anything imaginable can be created.
After Steve tames a wolf he calls Dennis, they build endless masterpieces together and life is perfect.
That is until they enter the Nether, a dimension solely populated by evil Piglins, ruled by gold-obsessed sorceress Malgosha.
To prevent Malgosha from controlling the Overworld, Steve gives objects to Dennis to stash under his bed back on Earth.
Some time later, former video game champion Garrett Garrison is about to be evicted from his store Game Over World. To earn some much needed cash, he successfully buys an Atari Cosmos at an auction, but box only contains Steve's junk, including the Orb and Crystal.
School misfit Henry ignores written warning to never combine the artefacts, causing his sister Natalie, Garrett and real estate agent Dawn to be led to the mine and sucked into the Overworld.
But have no fear, 'master crafter' Steve is here.
Post-credits
Steve returns to his former home to collect a crate and a woman called Alex answers the door.
We only see her from the back, but voice is provided by Kate McKinnon, with Alice May Connolly as the physical body.
Chicken jockey
Yeah, I said it. But please don't hurl popcorn at your device's screen.
Although spectacularly unremarkable and instantly forgettable, distributor Warner Bros. won't give two shits, as this is on course to take over a billion dollars at the box office.
From the Boots of Swiftness to Ender Pearl, there's enough references to make fans go hysterical and even adds a few of its own weapons - the Tot Launcher and Buck-Chuckets.
Aside from other cameos, a pig wearing a crown pays homage to late YouTuber Technoblade.
Digital world is okay I suppose, but inhabitants and human beings kinda felt unnatural.
Who knows if intentional, but the cabinet artwork and gameplay of fictional arcade Hunk City Rampage appears to be based on Double Dragon and Final Fight respectively.
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