Lego Movie

[griffin]

Saw it... liked it... but that annoying song keeps popping into my head.

So I guess the sequel is "The Duplo Invasion"...

[M-bot]

edit And I might as well put this up

You, sir, are an evil evil man.

[Hursticon]

Saw it... liked it... but that annoying song keeps popping into my head.

So I guess the sequel is "The Duplo Invasion"...

Hehe, having Duplo as a VERY young kid, when it turned up at the end I literally internally said: "Oh No!" and I don't know why.

Saw it last night and I've got to say that apart from a slightly slow paced middle-section and a physical appearance by Will Farrell (He's a D*** ), I've gotta say that: "Everything was AWESOME!".
Such a bloody well executed film on so many levels; amazingly animated (By Australians I might add! ) and brilliantly funny throughout.

Benny was the character I was most looking forward to seeing, because as a kid, Spaceship! designs were all I loved building and is primarily why I've been revisiting those late 80s/early-mid 90s themed kits recently - I want his set bad and June bloody-well can't arrive soon enough!

Was hoping Blacktron-fan would've had a speaking role, I'll settle for a screaming one I guess... but man! - So many wicked Lego Robots/Mechas, what Masterbuilder Emmet constructs towards the end was friggin' sweet!
(...subsequently, another kit I'll have to wait until June to acquire! )

I'm really looking forward to the sequel but I definitely hope they steer away from the IRL sequences - have their influence on the story and such, but just leave it as an unspoken nod to the 1st film.

[Paulbot]

I liked the stop motion look they went with. It worked better than the full CGI of the Lego Star Wars/Batman etc games.

I thought that opening sequence (after the prologue, the whole Emmet's regular day) was amazing. There was also one visual joke near the end that was the funniest thing I've seen all year.

Well worth a watch.

[STL]

I appreciated all the nods to Lego fans. Like the cracked helmet, references to old sets and pieces that were sprinkled out. Obvious to the Lego fan it's a nice Easter Egg but to the common viewer they don't have to know it to enjoy it.

Loved the creativity of building different things from pieces lying around through the movie. Really shines with the core value of Lego.

Really looking forward to the cool looking sets that are coming out of the Movie too like the Police Dropship later this year and the Retro Space Ship too.

The movie to me was fine for a kids movie. But that's about as far as I'd take it. To an adult, it feels patronising, forced and childish.

The whole "everybody is special even if they seem ordinary" is complete BS. Stupid message to kids. I'm sure that kid in Africa who hauls 10 litres of water instead of going to school everyday feels special. I can understand the purpose of that feel-good message to kids but to an adult audience? It's pathetically corny and childish. Just no. It took a lot of enjoyment out of the movie for me.

The whole thing with the glue and the real-life sequence was plain stupid. I get the point. But the problem is the kid builds grade A models in his dad's city. That is not what happens IRL. Majority of kids build grade F models. Which is fine. But again, it just makes me feel the whole messaging of the movie is so pretentious and forced. It's so much easier to say creativity is great when the models are high quality. No one though some of those ugly mishmashes of Lego MOCs you see in the Lego magazines.

Not every movie can be a Toy Story but at least with Toy Story the messaging isn't heavy handed and forced. The Lego Movie could learn a lot from the Toy Story movie. A lot of thought provoking ideas but with the pretentiousness that the Lego movie got caught up in.

[Paulbot]

Here's another take on what they were doing: if everyone is special than no one is

[kup]

Here's another take on what they were doing: if everyone is special than no one is

Reds under the bed.

With the whole 'New Cold War' vibe the media is spinning to the Ukraine situation, seems suitable to start up again that sort of old school scare mongering

[Lint]

The whole thing with the glue and the real-life sequence was plain stupid. I get the point. But the problem is the kid builds grade A models in his dad's city. That is not what happens IRL. Majority of kids build grade F models.

I actually loved this bit, it has a good dig at the 'collector' type of AFOL many of which would have been keen to see this film because they love Lego only to have it force them to take a good hard look at themselves

I'd say the majority of people build grade F models. Mostly because they simply don't have the pieces (type & colour) to build beautiful A grade models. I reckon if you supplied most kids any of the pieces they wanted they would eventually build something spectacular. I would also bet that in these circumstances it would be more likely that a regular kid would build something far more impressive than a regular adult.

Not every movie can be a Toy Story but at least with Toy Story the messaging isn't heavy handed and forced. The Lego Movie could learn a lot from the Toy Story movie. A lot of thought provoking ideas but with the pretentiousness that the Lego movie got caught up in.

Toy Story 3's message was very much enforcing the status quo, "give up your toys you're too old for them now, give them to a kid who will take better care of them because you will be too busy getting wasted at frat parties like you should be at your age and girls won't like you if you have toys in your room"

Okay it wasn't that explicit in the film but its still a pretty poor message.

Here's another take on what they were doing: if everyone is special than no one is

My reading of the 'message' is completely opposite to this article. Lord Business values equality, order (following instructions), control and segregation which is traditionally the 'communist' vibe. 'Everyone is special and is free to reach their full potential', 'freedom/anarchy' and 'revolution' are very much 'capitalist' values. I think where the confusion may be is that 'revolution' is something the western world has not experienced in a very very long time and most revolutions have been associated with the developing world, usually resulting in a popular totalitarian regime gaining power.

That said, this movie is pure fantasy. In the real world the 'distribution of pieces' is very unequal and even if everyone is special they don't have the means to 'build their dreams' without tearing down vehicles and buildings around them and most people aren't willing to go that far because they are sane and have morals.

[Paulbot]

I linked that article for it's point that they parodied the movie cliche of the nobody becoming the hero that saves the day by having the hero actually not be that special at all and just as skilled as the average minifig.

[sideswipes brother]

Spaceship! Spaceship! SPACESHIP!!!!!