Jared Hess' mega-budget video game adaptation works best whenever you can tell that it was made by the director of "Napoleon Dynamite."

Sebastian Hansen, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks and Jennifer Coolidge also star in the story of four strangers who must find their way back home after being pulled into a cubic wonderland created by a doorknob salesman.

Movie" was pure mutating eyeball-tickling fun - a fantastic video-game movie that was also a nicely rounded kids' fairy tale. It demonstrated that animation was probably always going to be the key to bringing video games to life onscreen.