Where were you when the first trailer for A Minecraft Movie dropped online? As we find ourselves just a couple of days from the latest of video game adaptations hitting theaters, Jack Black has reflected on the negative reaction the movie was greeted with when its first look was revealed.

If there’s an acting task Jack Black is most qualified for, it’s probably playing a video game character. One of the first jobs the funnyman booked was starring in an ad for Activision’s Pitfall! game in the 1980s.

Movie" was pure mutating eyeball-tickling fun - a fantastic video-game movie that was also a nicely rounded kids' fairy tale. It demonstrated that animation was probably always going to be the key to bringing video games to life onscreen.

He's a little bit heavy metal, a little bit Tasmanian devil, and the style of high-energy comedy he's perfected over the last 30-plus years has made Jack Black one of Hollywood's biggest stars. Gen-Xers and Millennials love him for his roles in "High Fidelity" and "School of Rock" and as the front man for comic rock band Tenacious D,

Jack Black leads the merry way in “A Minecraft Movie,” the first film adapted from the world’s bestselling video game which opens globally Friday.