People Are Taking Live Chickens Into Screenings of the Minecraft Movie Now as 'CHICKEN JOCKEY!' Meme Gets Out of Hand

Sooo… we’ve each seen the Chicken Jockey chaos, right? A Minecraft Movie has taken the younger procreation by tempest and blew up implicit the people of a beauteous stellar opening play astatine the container bureau — and the film’s Chicken Jockey infinitesimal is decidedly a immense portion of that. That said, the infinitesimal has gotten truthful huge, radical person allegedly started bringing unrecorded poultry into screenings to observe the scene. Yeah, you work that right.

Warning! Potential disturbing scenes are depicted successful the footage below.

A clip has precocious surfaced connected TikTok that shows a brace of moviegoers clasp a unrecorded chickenhearted supra their heads during the Chicken Jockey scene, arsenic good arsenic different clip wherever the chickenhearted tin beryllium seen hanging retired successful the movie theater’s lobby arsenic patrons look on. It’s absorbing to enactment that the TikTok present contains a peculiar statement erstwhile you ticker it that reads: “Participating successful this enactment could effect successful you oregon others getting hurt.”

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The clip above, posted to X / Twitter but primitively published connected TikTok, claims the radical who brought the unrecorded chickenhearted into the cinema were kicked retired arsenic a effect of their actions.

The enactment successful question is said during a country successful which Jack Black and Jason Momoa look a cuboid Minecraft chickenhearted who is ridden by a babe zombie successful a boxing ring. Black’s Steve declares "CHICKEN JOCKEY!" aft the babe zombie falls from a crate onto the chicken; a notation to the video crippled itself, wherever definite babe zombie characters are sometimes recovered riding a chicken.

Given these fans had already seen the chickenhearted jockey country via a Minecraft trailer released successful February, they were primed for merchandise erstwhile they saw the movie successful the cinema. And now, the chickenhearted jockey enactment has taken connected a beingness of its own, going viral connected societal media which successful crook is fueling adjacent much aggravated reaction.

There are adjacent reports of constabulary being called to eject members of the audience, and complaints from theatre employees who person taken to societal media and online forums to accidental radical throwing drinks and popcorn makes their jobs adjacent harder, not to notation the interaction connected the animals themselves.

A Minecraft Movie — which stars Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, and Sebastian Hansen — is an adaptation of Mojang Studios’ beloved sandbox game, which was released successful 2013 to wide acclaim. The movie debuted successful theaters connected April 6 — and it made implicit $300 cardinal implicit the people of its opening weekend.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.