SINGAPORE — Just when you thought that every single thing from your childhood had already been ransacked, misused and regurgitated on the big screen, Hollywood shocks you by doing something right.

It’s official: The Lego Movie is a bonafide “block”-buster that is so surprisingly crazy-good and a whole lot of fun. And that is all in spite of the Hollywood machine of big film studios focused on the bottom-line, branding and obvious product placement.

With the vocal talents offered by the likes of A-listers Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Will Arnett and Elizabeth Banks, the pop culture-savvy script is brimming with good quality chuckles, laugh-out-loud self-references and, most importantly, heart. Plus, the perfect amount of nostalgia.

Written and directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who created the pretty awesome Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and gave us the hilarious 21 Jump Street, this live action-animation hybrid that’s set in the world of our favourite building blocks delivers way more laughs than its boring title suggests.

Like the film’s ridiculously catchy theme song, everything is awesome — from the script to the voice casting to the storyline. Simply because it’s perfectly aware that it’s a film about, well, Lego. And boy, do they know how to build a story.

(G, 100 mins)