It seems one family-friendly movie is causing mayhem in cinemas across Australia.
A Minecraft Movie, which first hit screens on April 3, has inspired multiple mid-show riots over the line ‘chicken jockey’ – and it’s going viral on social media.
In a number of TikTok videos, teenagers can be seen jumping up and down on their seats, taking off their shirts, throwing popcorn and streamers across the cinema and screaming at the top of their lungs as soon as a scene plays showing a zombie riding a chicken in a boxing ring.
So the question on everyone’s lips is: why?
Those familiar with the game, that the film is based off, will know that a ‘chicken jockey’ is a rare occurrence.
It’s a rare mob – Minecraft lingo for monster – that happens when a baby zombie appears to ride a chicken and, according to Minecraft Game wiki, only has a 5 per cent chance of occurring during the game.
A Minecraft Movie, which first hit screens on April 3, has inspired multiple mid-show riots over a little something called ‘chicken jockey’ – and it’s going viral on social media
So, when it plays out in the movie, fans of the game become pretty excited at the rare sighting.
Tthere have even been incidents where security has been called and the movie stopped thanks to the rowdy behaviour the film elicits.
In one video posted to TikTok by Aussie social media user @tahliaclaireg, the cinema was left in a state with popcorn across the seats, toilet paper strewn across the floor and even a ‘wet floor’ sign lying in the mess.
She captioned the post: ‘Aftermath of the Minecraft Movie (security called and movie stopped).’
Fans of the film have taken to social media to respond to the now-viral trend, documenting the chaos that unfolds in the cinemas while empathising with the staff who have to clean up the mess.
‘How I imagine it feels to be a cinema employee rn, hearing people scream “CHICKEN JOCKEY!” all day,’ one person wrote.
‘People at the cinema going crazy over the “Chicken Jockey” scene,’ another noted.
One person chimed in: ‘Asked the poor theatre attendant how many times he heard chicken jockey and he looked at me like this.’
Fans of the film have taken to social media to respond to the now-viral trend, documenting the chaos that unfolds in the cinemas while empathising with the staff who have to clean up the mess
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Hoyts and Event Cinemas for comment.
A Minecraft Movie was the big winner during its debut weekend, earning a shocking US$301million globally.
The film, starring Jack Black, Jason Momoa and Jennifer Coolidge, had a built in audience thanks to the video game which inspired the live action romp.
Moviegoers in the US turned over US$157million, while earning another US$144million internationally.
The Minecraft video game was introduced in 2011 and has sold more than 300 million copies an players young and old due to their ability to use their creativity and create their own worlds, structures, and tools.
The movie includes a lot of slapstick including a fight between Mamoa’s Garrett and a baby zombie on a chicken.
‘I had to use a lot of imagination,’ Momoa told his co-star in an interview for Fandango.
‘But when I saw the movie – hilarious,’ adding, ‘It’s one of the funniest moments.’
The film, starring Jack Black, Jason Momoa and Jennifer Coolidge, had a built in audience thanks to the video game which inspired the live action romp
The movie includes a lot of slapstick including a fight between Mamoa’s Garrett and a baby zombie on a chicken
Black, who stars as Steve in the adventure, has been a longtime player of the game, and contributed to the soundtrack, he said on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
‘They wanted a song at the end of the movie that wraps up the whole… and they got the guys that wrote I’m Just Ken from Barbie, and I was like Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt?
‘And so we jammed on it and wrote it together,’
The film received a low 48-percent score from the critics at Rotten Tomatoes, but an 87-percent approval rating from audiences.
