He’s a little bit heavy metal, a little bit Tasmanian devil, and the style of high-energy comedy he has 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, while their kids love him for his voice roles in the “Kung Fu Panda” and “Super Mario Bros.” movies.

Now, with the launch of his latest video game crossover, “A Minecraft Movie,” Black says he’s eyeing the finish line of his career.

“I can see retirement,” says Black, in a recent phone interview. “Dude, honestly, I’ve been feeling like this is my last movie. But I’ve been feeling like that for years! Because it’s been such an inside ride, it’s been such an incredible journey, and I feel like my cup runneth over. I’ve been way too fortunate, and I feel like it can’t continue. It’s gotta stop sometime.

“But I just keep on going,” he says. “As long as people keep on calling me up with cool things that I can’t say no to, I’m like (expletive) it, I’m doing it. And this was one of those.”

“A Minecraft Movie,” in theaters now, is the film version of the massively popular video game.

Black stars as Steve, an expert gamer who lives inside the world of the block- building video game, who helps a team of misfits — including a washed-up video game prodigy (Jason Momoa) and a brother- sister duo (Sebastian Hansen and Emma Myers) — escape the confines of the Minecraft realm in which they find themselves trapped.

It lets Black do his manic, wide-eyed physical humor, and it reteams him with Jared Hess, who directed him in the oddball wrestling comedy “Nacho Libre” nearly 20 years ago.

“It’s one of those where you have to say yes, you have to do it,” says Black. “I’m at the level in my career where I only do it if I have to do it.”

It’s a level Black has been building toward his whole life.

Although he doesn’t come from a showbiz family — both his parents were satellite engineers living in the greater Los Angeles area — Black was a born performer.

“I liked putting on a show early on,” says the 55-year-old. “I remember when I was very little, I would put on shows for my parents. I remember I had a one-man show that I did for them that was just the life of a human. I started from my birth, and I went through all the way until I was an old man and died. And that all took place in the course of, like, three minutes.”

He remembers his parents’ laughter while he was performing, “and I got such a thrill from that,” he says. It’s a reaction he’d chase his entire career.

Black says his performance style was influenced by John Belushi and Chris Farley, fellow big comedic actors who used their size to become over-the-top, larger-than-life figures.

He developed the manic persona we most closely associate with Jack Black while he was writing for his heavy metal folk rock project Tenacious D, which came after his Hollywood breakthrough didn’t come as quickly as he’d hoped.

Black made his big- screen debut in “Bob Roberts,” after director Tim Robbins cast him in “a great little part” in his 1992 political comedy, “not enough to be a ‘big break,’ but I did get a little hand-hold,” he says.

He then did a series of small roles — “Demolition Man,” “The NeverEnding Story III,” a part in “True Romance” that was cut from the final film — but when Bob Odenkirk and David Cross saw Tenacious D perform, they remembered Black from “Bob Roberts,” and asked him to appear on their HBO sketch comedy series, “Mr. Show,” which launched in 1995.

Tenacious D — “kind of like a Smothers Brothers vibe, but more rockin’,” is how Black describes the long-running project with his comic partner Kyle Gass — became its own HBO series in 1997, and quickly became a cult hit.

It was another step toward truly breaking through in the mainstream, which Black finally did with 2000’s “High Fidelity,” the romantic comedy where he played sidekick to John Cusack. He was cast in the movie after Cusack and director Stephen Frears saw his work in Tenacious D and thought he’d be a good fit for the role of snarky record store clerk Barry Judd.

“That was the part that put me on the map,” says Black, who was 30 when “High Fidelity” hit theaters. “I remember going to that premiere and the party afterwards, I was there with my mom, and George Clooney came up and said, ‘Hey, you’re (expletive) great in this movie.’ I was like, ‘Oh, (expletive), something’s different now!’ And then the world was never the same.”

Black graduated to leading man status with 2001’s “Shallow Hal,” and he hit a career high in Richard Linklater’s “School of Rock,” the 2003 comedy in which he led a classroom full of elementary school kids to their rock and roll dreams.

For Black, “School of Rock” endures even outside of movie circles. “My favorite is the kids who started playing music from watching ‘School of Rock,’ ” Black says. “That’s better than any kind of award.”

The two decades since “School of Rock” have seen Black star in blockbusters (“King Kong,” the “Jumanji” movies), indies (“Bernie,” “Margot at the Wedding”), rom-coms (“The Holiday”) and movies for kids (the “Kung Fu Panda” series, “Goosebumps”). His films have grossed more than $9 billion at the worldwide box office.

Black is married to Tanya Haden, with whom he has two teenage children. He says he’d love to one day do Broadway, either writing something new or reviving an old show, possibly playing a part that Zero Mostel brought to the stage.

He certainly doesn’t sound like he’s got retirement on his mind — he just wrapped “Anaconda,” which reteams him with his “Saving Silverman” co-star Steve Zahn, and is due out later this year — and that performer bug is still driving him.

“The only ingredient that really matters is how much you love it,” Black says. “If you love acting, then it doesn’t really matter if you are a star, you just love the process. You have to love it, because it’s so terrifying. You have to love it or else you’re never going to survive it. Because you have to get up in front of a crowd, or you have to get up in front of a camera and a crew, and it’s so hard to behave naturally and normally and be relaxed and still have fun in the face of that kind of pressure.

“But that’s the whole game. If you can love it and have fun while the pressure’s on, then you’re already there,” he says. “You gotta ask yourself, ‘How much do you love actually doing it?’ And if you do love it, you have to remind yourself to go all the (expletive) way.”