The article discusses Jack Black's new song for A Minecraft Movie, designed to capture the humorous spirit of his viral success with 'Peaches' from The Super Mario Bros. Movie. While the new song, 'I Feel Alive,' is acknowledged as competent and nostalgic, it is criticized for feeling overwritten and as an obvious attempt to appeal to nostalgia. The author notes the song's potential appeal to children and the tendency of game adaptations to cater to younger audiences rather than nostalgic adults, sparking some controversy among gamers.
Following the viral success of 'Peaches,' Black's gloriously silly ditty sung as Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, it looks like A Minecraft Movie is trying to capture some of the same magic.
The song itself is competent, extremely well-performed, and could easily have been a Whitesnake B-side in the mid-80s.
Beyond that, it's very much an '80s movie credits fare, the plot of the film sung to family-friendly rock riffs.
I was in no sense at all expecting to generate any controversy when I pointed out... that the movie wasn't trying to win over an audience of 20 and 30-somethings who played Minecraft in their youths.
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