A Minecraft Movie has arrived as one of the biggest hit films of the year, and a lot of its funniest scenes and quotes are already going viral. Although adapting Minecraft for the screen presented all kinds of challenges, the filmmakers behind A Minecraft Movie have managed to deliver a rollicking viewing experience that moviegoers around the world are having a ball with. In some cases, they’re enjoying it a bit too much. Audience reactions to A Minecraft Movie have been so intense that police have had to be called to remove rowdy viewers from screenings.
Clearly, these reports haven’t deterred audiences from going to see it. A Minecraft Movie has mᴀssively overperformed at the box office, breaking records left and right. After a slow couple of months that even Marvel superheroes and a Disney princess couldn’t save, A Minecraft Movie has arrived as the theatrical business’ unlikely savior. For any movie to be a hit of this magnitude, it needs to have a few iconic moments that galvanize audiences. There are a few lines and scenes from A Minecraft Movie that are already the stuff of legend.
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“I Am Steve”
One of A Minecraft Movie’s most viral moments already appeared in the first trailer. When night falls for the first time after the human characters’ arrival, they hide in a castle and frantically fight off monsters. Just when it looks like their luck is about to run out, Steve comes along to save them. He effortlessly wipes out the remaining monsters just in time for the break of dawn.
The other Earthling characters ask who he is and the camera swoops in on Jack Black’s face as he tells them, “I… am Steve.” Black’s delivery of this simple but iconic line perfectly encapsulates the grandiose overacting that makes his Minecraft Movie performance so much fun. Steve is a pretty standard avatar character in the game, but Black gave him a boatload of personality.
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Jack Black Rides A Flying Jason Momoa
Arguably the funniest scene in A Minecraft Movie is when Steve rides Jason Momoa’s Garrett. While Steve, Garrett, and Henry are fleeing from the Zombie Pigmen, Steve reveals he picked up some wingsuits that will allow them to fly to safety. But he only got two, so he has to ride on Garrett’s back. The sight of Black riding a flying Momoa, holding onto his long, wavy hair like reins, is worth the price of admission on its own.
As if that wasn’t absurd enough, the scene just keeps getting sillier. When they have to fit through a tiny hole in a wall, Steve and Garrett wedge their faces in between each other’s legs. This scene was actually written by Momoa, inspired by the classic Saturday Night Live sketch “Ambiguously Gay Duo: Fortress of Privacy.”
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“They LOVE Crushing A Loaf”
While Steve is giving the other humans a tour of the Overworld, he takes them to Midport Village and introduces them to the villagers. The movie gets a lot of comedic mileage out of the inherent ridiculousness of the square-headed vegetarian pacifists. Steve says the villagers like to “chill, trade, and eat ʙuттloads of bread.” The one-liner, “They love crushing a loaf,” has gotten a big reaction from audiences.
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Jack Black’s Lava Chicken Song
In the past couple of years, Black has been recording original songs for the soundtracks of his movies. He recorded the ridiculously catchy love ballad “Peaches” in character as Bowser for The Super Mario Bros. Movie. With his band Tenacious D, Black recorded a cover version of “…Baby One More Time” by Britney Spears to play over the end credits of Kung Fu Panda 4. And for A Minecraft Movie’s soundtrack, Black recorded a bunch of original songs.
“I Feel Alive,” which Black recorded with Dave Grohl, Troy Van Leeuwen, Roger Joseph Manning, Jr., and Mark Ronson, was released as a single before the film’s release and appears as its big closing musical number in the final scene. But the song that audiences have latched onto is “Steve’s Lava Chicken.” It’s a pointless jingle based on an obscure piece of Minecraft lore, but it’s an earworm.
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Chicken Jockey
No moment from A Minecraft Movie has become more viral than the second a chicken jockey shows up. Garrett is forced into a fight against a baby zombie riding a chicken like a horse. It’s such a delightfully silly sight that everyone can get a kick out of it, whether they’re diehard Minecraft fans or they’ve never played Minecraft in their lives. The slapstick comedy of the fight, paired with Steve’s exasperated commentary (“That baby’s got the heart of a demon!”), makes this one of A Minecraft Movie’s funniest scenes.
