After a mere two weekends, “A Minecraft Movie” had claimed the top spot of the 2025 domestic box office. It’s not shocking that this franchise piece beat out January fare, but since then we’ve had an MCU entry, and this movie just blew right past it. And, I have to ask: Why?

OK, I know why. It’s because the video game is popular.

However, bad movies based on popular video games flop all the time, so why is this one in particular bucking the trend? Does the video game just have that big of a fanbase that they can turn it into a hit where so many similar attempts have failed? Or, did fans and non-fans alike see the advertising for this movie and think that there might be a good movie here? I’m inclined to believe it’s the former, because I did not see any version of the advertising that made the movie seem like anything more than the hackery that it is.

Jack Black stars as Steve, a lifelong fan........

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