Brickin' it

Spending less than an hour playing the best-selling video game of all time, I was so perplexed by the crafting table system in Minecraft, that my nephew rapidly lost patience with my attempts to fashion a sword and suit of armour and "reappropriated" the controller to do the blacksmithery himself.

- DAMON SMITH

I wouldn't last five minutes in director Jared Hess's rollicking family-friendly adventure based on the game, which reunites the Nacho Libre ringmaster with his gregarious leading man, Jack Black.

And a lot can happen in 300 seconds in the three-dimensional, pixellated worlds populated with creepers, endermen, skeletons, spiders, zombies and a chicken jockey.