Meet Emmett. He’s an everyday man who blends in so well that
most people don’t even know he’s there. But that all changes when he falls down
a hole in his construction site attempting to follow a beautiful girl and then
finds himself attached to a strange rectangle and being questioned by police.
After a rescue happens, Emmett learns that he is in the fact the most
important, interesting, and special person in the universe and it’s up to him
to combine the rectangle: the Piece of Resistance with the Kragle and save the
universe from the evil and controlling President/Lord Business.
At the risk of
sounding lame, everything in this movie is awesome, even the repetitive and
monumentally infectious and annoying song ‘Everything is Awesome”.
Writer/directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller prove that no person can repress
their inner child and this computer-animated adventure is the ultimate game of
Lego, complete with a raw and typically ‘bad’ script, all levels of
predictability and sappy moral messages, and an avalanche of ridiculousness. A
film that’s not meant to be taken seriously, but have its obviousness and
humour embraced with the most childish of demeanours, The Lego Movie is really something different and special in the
modern cinema.
Meet Emmett. He’s an everyday man who blends in so well that
most people don’t even know he’s there. But that all changes when he falls down
a hole in his construction site attempting to follow a beautiful girl and then
finds himself attached to a strange rectangle and being questioned by police.
After a rescue happens, Emmett learns that he is in the fact the most
important, interesting, and special person in the universe and it’s up to him
to combine the rectangle: the Piece of Resistance with the Kragle and save the
universe from the evil and controlling President/Lord Business.
It is; this
movie is the ultimate child’s game. The enjoyment that stems from the film’s
random plot-points of randomness and critically ‘uninspired’ writing speak to
the child that lives within all of us. I mean come on, the character list
features Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, a metal-transformer-esque pirate,
Lincoln, Michelangelo, and the Green Lantern amongst others and the script and
story could really be believable as coming directly from the imagination of a
child. And that is what makes this movie so
brilliant!
The computer wizards must have had so much fun with this flick!
The animation is really quite stunning. Not in a Pixar or Disney-esque type of
way, but in a way that plays to that creative and novelty bone in everyone’s
body. Everything is Lego and watching giant Lego fires, explosions, dust
clouds, waves, and sea ripples is really an experience in itself and something
that I recommend you indulge in. It can quite successfully be argued that the
success of this movie will come down to the novelty factor, but right at this
moment in time, this movie and the animation that has been achieved is a step
forward in cinema. Granted that it’s not a Snow White that established Disney as a major studio, or a Toy Story that pioneered Pixar’s brand of animation, or even a
Gollum that blended the art of motion capture and animation simultaneously, but
The Lego Movie does stand on that
same rising escalator that transported those films somewhere special. This is special.
Featuring the voice talents
of Chris Pratt, Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Alison Brie, Anthony Daniels,
Charlie Day, Will Ferrell, Dave Franco, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Nick
Offerman, Billy Dee Williams, Liam Neeson, and Morgan Freeman, The Lego Movie is just a laugh-out-loud
jetpack of fun that’s filled with action, adventure, great animation, fantastic
characters, romance, and all types of humour. It’s a film that plays to
everyone’s inner child and more importantly; it’s a real surprise of a movie. I
found it a complete delight!
"Everything is awesome!"
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