Move aside, all the ‘Chicken Jockey’ memes. ‘A Minecraft Movie’ might just be the best thing that happened to the video game movie genre since Sonic the Hedgehog. You might have seen all those clips online of hyped-up crowds going berserk in the theatres throughout the opening weekend. Well, you best believe the hype is real. Because Jack Black and his troupe’s ‘Overworld’-ly escapades have made some serious waves in the real world.

Video game adaptations have fallen flat to the audience’s expectations for decades. The ones that play want the end-product to resemble the game with unrealistic expectations. The ones that don’t need something a little more relatable to help them connect with the original joystick edition. Well, it looks like A Minecraft Movie has finally cracked the code. And it’s raking in the emeralds to prove it.

How ‘A Minecraft Movie’ became the...