Uh oh. If you work in a movie theater, or weren’t a fan of those A Minecraft Movie watchers going nuts about chicken jockeys, you might want to cover your square ears. The film’s creators are doubling down on the chaos, with some special sing-along screenings.
Yep, apparently Jimmy Fallon hasn’t totally killed the fun of losing your s**t when Jacques Block says any of those iconic trailer lines – you know the ones, ‘chicken jockey’, ‘I am Steve’, ‘Kyle Gass and I still get along just fine, I swear’.
If you love yelling those, you can now book tickets to go to “The Block Party” showings of the movie, which are just like regular ones, aside from that fact that singing along is actively encouraged. Cool for the kids, and also the 15-18 year olds desperate to achieve TikTok fame by lobbing popcorn around.
“Calling all Steves,” reads the blurb about these screenings on AMC Theaters’ website, “Even if you’ve seen A Minecraft Movie (and if you haven’t, now’s the time!), you haven’t seen it like this! Get tickets now for A Minecraft Movie: Block Party Edition! Warm up your vocal chords, it’s time to SING ALONG (and wait for it: 3…2…1… MEME, too!) with Jason Momoa, Jack Black and the entire gang in the beautiful, blocky Overworld (and beyond).”
God, that countdown to the word meme by a corporation trying to shift tix is definitely something. Anyway, these screenings are set to kick off from May 2, and will give you a chance to belt out the lava chicken ditty with Jack Black, as he roasts a creature without even killing it first via an industrial killing machine he’s built using redstone.
Make sure to look directly into your child’s eyes as you sing, with an expression that screams ‘this is a socially acceptable way to treat CGI birds in our society, imagine what might happen to you if the powers that be deem you to have stepped out of line in a fashion that can’t be co-opted to advance their goals’. Then buy them an ice cream on the way home, cos you’ve got to maintain your status as the good parenting cop.
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