Emmet Brickowski a normal, everyday normal minifigure goes on a adventure with the master builders Wyldstyle, Benny, Unikitty, and even Batman. The master builders have to defeat the evil Lord/ President Business from Kragling (gluing) the world of lego. An ordinary LEGO construction worker, thought to be the prophesied as "special", is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the LEGO universe into eternal stasis. Lego Movie in my opinion could go down as one the biggest surprises ever in cinema history. I know the Lego franchise has gone waayy beyond expectations with the toys, models and gaming industry (Lego Harry Potter, Lego Star Wars etc etc), but a Lego film I never thought would work, and if one was released, it would be so childish I would never lay eyes on it…… How wrong could I be, as this film could easily have just made it in AT LEAST my top 50 of all time.<br/><br/>First of all, this film will probably only appeal to so many friends, unless you're all super perfectly in sync with another. I saw this tonight with 3 other people, and only 1, as well as myself were laughing throughout, the other 2, didn't get any of the humour at all. The humour is witty, very immature in places, but perfectly timed. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE QUOTE THE FILM FOREVER FILMS!<br/><br/>However as funny as this film is, and as much as I have already quoted Batman in the past 2 hours since seeing the film, it's not the humour that has pushed this film waaaaay beyond expectations. Without giving too much away, this film has a really deep back story, and a massive surprise towards the end with the story entering a world that I never thought would exist in the film, and it really did help explain why the film was as random as it was, and just brought everything together. Kudos Lego Movie, Kudos.<br/><br/>Can not wait to add this to my blu ray collection (the film is stunning). Everything is awesome in the new film, The Lego Movie. The film is exactly as it sounds, it's a film about Legos, set in a world made entirely of Legos. It's quite simple in all honesty, but it's in the satire and the surprising depth that this film has that makes it awesome.<br/><br/>The Lego Movie follows Lego construction worker, Emmett, who is as normal as anyone can be. Emmett always follows the instructions, until one night he comes across this thing known as the relic, and the relic is the only thing that can stop the evil Lord Business from using Krazy Glue and gluing all of the Lego pieces of the world together.<br/><br/>The film is a very witty satire in the way that it pokes fun at just about every movie convention you've seen in major Hollywood blockbusters over the past 10-20 years. There are pointless prophecies, chosen ones, evil world-ending machines, even a character who is Good Cop and Bad Cop. When Good Cop-Bad Cop spins his head, the back of his head has a different face, and depending on which side he is showing, he is either good or he is bad. There is a lot of ingenious humor in the film, even if every joke doesn't always land because there are just so many packed in there. However, what really impressed me with this film was the thematic depth it has.<br/><br/>Anyone going to see The Lego Movie is expecting a comedy, and the film is that, even in its more serious moments, but there is a very clever twist in the final third of the film that really makes this a unique, one-of-a-kind animated film. It is this twist that really gives the film weight. While the traditional idea of being an individual and not always following the traditional flow seems to be the big idea that the filmmakers are wanting you to believe in at first, once this twist occurs, you realize that the film is saying something even deeper than that. I'll say no more, other than the fact that Will Ferrell, who voices Lord Business, really shines in the final act of the film, shedding his man-child persona to adopt one of seriousness.<br/><br/>Overall, The Lego Movie is about as good of a time as you can have with any movie out there. It's like a weird blend of Pixar meets Monty Python and Mel Brooks. The CG animation replicates the look of those stop motion Lego cartoons you can find on YouTube, but better. I am not gonna lie and say my jaw didn't drop a few times at the technical perfection on display here, but it's the humor and the heart that really makes The Lego Movie an awesome experience. Even when the film has a slight case of ADD, you are still charmed.<br/><br/>I give The Lego Movie a 9 out of 10! Ridiculously funny and meticulously detailed, The LEGO Movie is far better than a toy tie-in movie has any right to be. Despite a couple of dips, you’ll be grinning throughout.
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