The LEGO Movie, directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, is the first-ever, full-length LEGO original adventure. This 3D computer-animated story follows Emmet, an average,  rules-following, and ordinary LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as The Special, the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.

Giving life to the minifigures are Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charley Day, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman.

To tell you the truth, I had never laughed so hard at a press conference before. Freeman is ridiculously funny, and in between answering questions, there were long discussions about golf and Christmas gifts.

“My kids were little at one time, and my memory of LEGOs is just little pieces scattered all over the apartment,” Freeman said. Banks remembered how she used to take them from her sister, but now she’s come full circle building LEGO sets with her boys. When asked if their kids are excited about this movie coming out, Freeman blurts out, “my youngest kid is 41-years-old.” After a laugh, Arnett adds, “my youngest keeps referring to the movie, The LEGO Batman Movie. [To the fellow actors] Sorry, guys.”

Taking on a well known character like Batman was an easy job for Arnett. “I had the easiest job in the sense that everyone knows who Batman is, but what was fun was taking an iconic character that’s such a part of the fabric of popular culture and kind of changing the rules to him a little bit,” he said. “I thought he was cool, though,” Freeman added. “Oh, thank you [to Freeman]. I’m never gonna forget you saying that.” Arnett also added, “the more serious Batman took himself, the funnier he was, and that’s where we ended up.”

For Lord, one of the challenges of mixing a live action/CG animated/stop motion movie was “getting a story that made sense and was entertaining, but from a technical standpoint, I think, probably, getting the CG to look real and full of thumbprints, and scratches, and dust, and made you think it was a real LEGO set.” Miller adds that part of the appeal to kids and adults is because “it just so happens that our sense of humor is so juvenile.”

One thing is for sure, you will leave the theater singing. “We apologize to everyone. [Laughs] We did write in the script that there would be a song called “Everything is awesome” and it would be the most insanely catchy, cheesy, pop song of all time,” Lord said. Mission accomplished.

For a toy company that’s been around for 65 years, there is only one question to ask, what took so long to make a LEGO movie? “Two things come to mind immediately: ideas and money,” Freeman said before the directors had a chance to answer and making the whole room burst into laughter.

The LEGO Movie opens nationwide on February 7.