This Comedy Star’s Top Secret ‘Minecraft’ Role Was a Real Letdown

This article contains spoilers for A Minecraft Movie.

The recently-released A Minecraft Movie is currently the number one movie in the world. It’s been setting records for the biggest opening weekend of 2025, the biggest opening weekend for a video-game adaptation and the most successful movie ever made in which Jason Momoa has bangs.

A lot was written about the candy-colored blockbuster in the years leading up to its release. And although the movie is obviously a huge hit with its target audience (dedicated video-game fans, young children and exhausted parents who need a 100-minute break), in retrospect, one piece of Minecraft news that was reported in the trades turned out to be quite the disappointment. 

Back in 2023, Deadline exclusively revealed that Matt Berry was “in talks” to join the movie, although his role was still being kept “under wraps,” which was no doubt exciting news for anyone who loves both the Minecraft game and 300-year-old vampires who have a distinctly unique way of pronouncing “New York City.”

This news was then interpreted by many social media accounts and online outlets as an indication that the always hilarious What We Do in the Shadows star would, in fact, be starring in the Minecraft movie alongside Momoa. 

Hopefully nobody bought a ticket to see A Minecraft Movie this weekend purely to catch the comedic stylings of Berry, because he sure isn’t in it very much. In fact, Berry’s participation was limited to just one scene, which played during the credits.

Berry voices the previously-unintelligible “Nitwit,” a villager from the fantastical “Overworld” who inadvertently wanders into our universe via a magical portal. But he’s soon hit by a Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by Jennifer Coolidge’s character, Marlene. She then takes him out to dinner, and immediately falls in love. 

In the mid-credit scene, Marlene’s ex-husband barges into Marlene’s office and harasses the couple, only to be told off by the blocky extra-dimensional stranger, who suddenly sounds like Berry. The surprisingly verbose Nitwit explains that the couple was “struck by a love so powerful, it transcended the barriers of conventional speech,” at which point he proposes marriage and she accepts. 

It’s a funny moment, sure. And people do seem to be enjoying it. But the scene works best as a fun surprise for kids who weren’t expecting to hear that character talk, and for adults who are aware of Berry’s work. The fact that we got entire articles about the contract negotiations that went into this 10-second-long cameo two whole years ago kind of kills the joke, at least on that second level. 

So far, though, there are no reports of angry patrons asking for refunds because they were expecting to see Matt Berry fighting Creepers alongside Aquaman.