“I haven’t been to a movie with an audience this hyped since I saw ‘Magic Mike’ on opening night at the old Regal theater in Brooklyn Heights,” a 50-year-old resident from Mamaroneck, New York, who went with his eight and eleven-year-old sons to a Sunday night showing at the Mamaroneck Cinemas, told The Post.

Even a child is unlikely to be entertained by the film’s stream of Minecraft in-jokes—but fans of the director Jared Hess may find something else to excavate.

W hy do people shiver with antici… pation before Jack Black says “Chicken jockey!” in A Minecraft Movie? Black’s much-memed delivery of the line, which was previously teas

After living a mostly low key career after he and wife Jerusha launched with the Sundance sensation Napoleon Dynamite in 2004, director Jared Hess has come roaring back with A Minecraft Movie, a true sleeper from Warner Bros and Legendary that is outpacing the early returns of other WB releases like Barbie and The Dark

A Minecraft Movie follows four regular world humans (Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Hansen, and Emma Myers) as they are pulled into a strange cubic world where their only chance of survival falls down to in-game character Steve (Black). Jennifer Coolidge also stars.