The story’s framed through the eyes of a seemingly homogenous, not very special and generally ordinary man by the name of Emmet. Voiced by Chris Pratt, Emmet is a construction worker who plans life literally by the rule book. As the film constantly reminds us, there’s nothing special about Emmet, and there’s no reason at all that he should be a threat to the sinister President Business. We’d best address the song actually: Everything Is Awesome will live in your head, ears and lives for long after the film is finished. Doubly so if you have children. The catalyst for change comes in the shape of the prophecy, with Morgan Freeman voicing a character who’s spent equal title reading the Bible and watching the Matrix trilogy. So we learn about Master Builders, the broader world, and get a boatload of cracking gags as we do so. Step forward then the real heroes of the piece: Christopher Miller and Phil Lord. If there are better directors of accessible, funny mainstream comedies currently working in Hollywood, then we’ve no idea who they are. Building on their work with Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street, they’ve written and directed The LEGO Movie, and it’s some achievement. They employ the same effective, borderline brutal editing style they demonstrated in 21 Jump Street at times, but also find comedy in lots of different ways. Furthermore, some of the visuals are such exquisite. One moment where you see the ocean in particular shows the imagination on offer here, and they’ve managed to marry up what makes LEGO so popular with the visuals required for a film extremely well. And be warned: we’re ending the review with more superlatives. The LEGO Movie is a treat. It’s the nerdiest comedy we’ve seen in years, the funniest comedy we’ve seen in years, and one of the most brilliantly bizarre explosions of lots of disparate ingredients we’ve seen in… well, years. If cinema at its core is supposed to be an entertainment media, then the rest of 2014 is going to have to go some to come up with more fun than this. A real triumph. Oh, and one last nerdy tip: stay around for the last song that plays over the end credits. It’s worth it… Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.