The director of A Minecraft Movie, Jared Hess, has shared his surpising take on the chaos unfolding in cinema screenings of his latest film.
A number of cinemas have issued statements slamming audiences of A Minecraft Movie for ‘erupting into sheer pandemonium’ during the box office hit, with cinemagoers sharing footage of wild audience reactions from inside cinemas on social media.
In several instances, the police have even allegedly been called.
One moment in particular has seen fans screaming, cheering and even climbing on their friends’ shoulders in a clip that’s gone viral online.
Hess isn’t sharing the concerns of the cinemas – he’s finding the whole thing delightful.
‘It’s been so bananas,’ Hess told Entertainment Weekly.
‘It’s been way too fun. People are sending me these really hilarious speeches that a lot of teenagers are giving right before the movie. It’s so hysterical, man. I’m staying up way too late.’
The film, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, has enjoyed one of the biggest-grossing weekends of 2025 so far.
In A Minecraft Movie, four friends – Garrett ‘The Garbage Man’ Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Sebastian Eugene Hansen), Natalie (Emma Myers) and Dawn (Danielle Brooks) – are struggling to fit in when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld, the land of the popular videogame.
The sequence that is causing problems for cinema staff involves Black and Momoa confronting a cuboid Minecraft chicken being ridden by another character that looks like a baby Frankenstein.
‘Chicken jockey!’ yells Black, in a moment that saw one theatre full of fans start screaming, throwing popcorn, turning on their torches, leaping to their feet and shouting.
‘My theatre clapped every time Jack Black name dropped a Minecraft item that was in the trailers, and when he said Chicken Jockey I s**t you not the entire row in front of me gave a standing ovation,’ shared cinemagoer @Schaffrillas on X.
‘When Jack Black said “Chicken Jockey,” the theatre erupted into sheer pandemonium. Kids were cheering, clapping and jumping onto the tops of seats. Whenever Jack Black sang, the kids would get up and start dancing in the aisles.
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‘I was here and I couldn’t hear anything throughout the movie. Very disappointed in the Minecraft community,’ added LuCha in a reaction to footage of one these incidents on TikTok.
Hess continued to EW: ‘It’s weird when you’re having too much fun and the cops get called. It’s funny because I think it’s just literally cheering and throwing popcorn, which is so funny to me that cops are getting called for popcorn. Yeah, it’s hilarious. I’ve seen so many funny videos. It’s great, especially when people are climbing on their friends’ shoulders and standing up and cheering for those moments.
‘It’s like this crazy anticipation. But, man, I’m just glad people are making memories with their friends and families,’ he concluded.
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