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Top Movies - The LEGO Movie Review - Movie Reviews Sites
articleAnimated Films, articleFilm Favourites,The first march for these yellow happy faces on too the silver screen ended in a big success! LEGO hasn’t been this much fun since I was a child and yes, “everything IS awesome!”
Genre: Animation/Adventure/Comedy
Directors: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
Cast: Will Ferrell, Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, David Burrows, Billy Dee Williams, Channing Tatum, Cobie Smulders, Jonah Hill & Dave Franco.
Run Time: 100 min.
US Release: 07 February 2014
UK Release: 14 February 2014
German Release: 10 April 2014
Since 2017 seems to be the year that LEGO and Warner Brothers decided to create an animation franchise, I decided to start my review of the LEGO movies with 2014th The LEGO Movie. Like everyone I know, I grew up with the building bricks and yellow faces. One of my closest friends is still a huge LEGO fan and collector, going as far as buying their advent calendar each year. He and I even made a three-second short film with some of the figures a few years back. Compared to him, though, I pretty much gave up on LEGO once I turned 14, but found my love for them again later on in form of video games!
Since 2017 seems to be the year that LEGO and Warner Brothers decided to create an animation franchise, I decided to start my review of the LEGO movies with 2014th The LEGO Movie. Like everyone I know, I grew up with the building bricks and yellow faces. One of my closest friends is still a huge LEGO fan and collector, going as far as buying their advent calendar each year. He and I even made a three-second short film with some of the figures a few years back. Compared to him, though, I pretty much gave up on LEGO once I turned 14, but found my love for them again later on in form of video games!
That being said, I did not have big hopes for this movie back then, even after watching all the trailers. For me, and pretty much everyone else I talked too, it sounded as if LEGO and Warner Bros. were simply trying to make a few quick bucks with a couple of mediocre animations aimed at kids. Well, guess what... utterly surprised and with a warm happy feeling in my heart, because this little flick not only managed to impress me but actually is genuinely good.
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When Lord Business (Ferrell) breaks into a LEGO temple and steals an artefact known as the ‘Kragle’ and robbing the artefacts safe-keeper Vitruvius (Freeman) of his eyesight, a prophecy is foretold by the blinded wizard, where a person called “The Special” will find the Piece of Resistance to stop Lord Business.
Eight-and-a-half years later, Emmet Brickowski (Pratt), who is an ordinary construction worker with no special skills, accidentally finds the Piece of Resistance, while following Wildstyle (Banks). He is immediately taken into custody by Lord Business’ henchman Bad Cop (Neeson). Wildstyle breaks him out but is extremely disappointed when she finds out that Emmet is no master-builder but a simple-minded fellow, who follows Lord Business’ everyday rules. Nevertheless, she takes him to Vitruvius, who sees more in Emmet than a simple LEGO figurine.
Eight-and-a-half years later, Emmet Brickowski (Pratt), who is an ordinary construction worker with no special skills, accidentally finds the Piece of Resistance, while following Wildstyle (Banks). He is immediately taken into custody by Lord Business’ henchman Bad Cop (Neeson). Wildstyle breaks him out but is extremely disappointed when she finds out that Emmet is no master-builder but a simple-minded fellow, who follows Lord Business’ everyday rules. Nevertheless, she takes him to Vitruvius, who sees more in Emmet than a simple LEGO figurine.
While mean, Lord Business moves on with his plans to glue everybody and every brick in the different LEGO realms, on Taco Tuesday. When Vitruvius, Emmet, Wildstyle and Batman (Arnett) break into Business Tower to terminate the ‘Kragle’, Emmet is thrown into the big abyss of nothingness where he learns that their lives are being controlled by a young boys imagination, as well that his father (also Ferrell) is the physical manifestation of Lord Business.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who not only directed but also co-wrote the script for this animation, managed to intertwine quite a few story elements from other films and created a parody of the movie business, and to some point corporate life itself. It predominantly borrows plot aspects from The Matrix, including bits of Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars and a few DC comic book stories, thus creating an effective but highly entertaining one-and-a-half hour long advertisement. The humour is great, containing a variety of different types, from sarcasm to slapstick and plain silly jokes. The story is very well written and can be enjoyed by both, children as well as adults.
At the core of this immense product placement, though, is a sweet message about how it is important to not grow up too fast, or let go completely of one's inner child since it is exactly that part of us that sparks our fantasy and creativity. After all, LEGO is a product for both adults and children that thrive on the creativity of its consumers, offering the possibility to let the imagination run wild.
The voice work for this movie is simply fantastic and contains rich and interesting characters. Emmet is a spoof version of Matrix’s Neo. He is a subpar regular guy who simply wants to be viewed by his neighbours and co-workers as a special guy. It hurts him once he finds out that nobody really knows who he is, nor care for him. When he becomes that “special one” the prophecy talked about he finally feels needed, even though unsure of his potential. It takes a growing relationship with Wildstyle, who goes through some trust and self-doubt issues herself, to finally find his true potential and become the hero he was meant to be.
Lord Business is actually a LEGO reflection of the “Man Upstairs”, played as well by Will Ferrell. He is not doing evil things for fun, he is doing them because he did let go of his imagination and is confused and enraged when the bricks aren’t connected as shown in the instruction manuals. So he sets off to glue the different worlds permanently, to prevent from master-builders from taking bricks apart again. It takes Emmett and the son of the “Man Upstairs”, to open up their eyes and let their fantasy back in.
As I said, every actor that voiced a character did an amazing job! But it was the voice work of Liam Neeson, who surprised the hell out of me as Bad Cop, and Morgan Freeman that I loved the most. Both were incredibly funny and had some of the best lines.
The animation for this film is astonishing. While it made use of actual LEGO brick sets, most of the film was created using computer effects and adding those beautiful and realistic looking stop-motion effects virtually. The computer animation was taken with such loving care, to ensure that what we see on screen actually looks and feels like the products we cherished so much as children. The soundtrack of the movie included a lot of original pop songs that were created only for this movie and also included some darker, hardcore guitar riffs for the Batman scenes.
Verdict: This film surprised the heck out of me back in 2014. I didn’t expect much from it but it is now one of my favourite animation movies. It poked fun at several movie clichés and at Hollywood as a corporate business, it spoofed some of Warner’s movies and DC’s heroes but it also had a heart-warming message about containing one’s inner child. The characters were likeable and you could understand their dreams and motivations, and the effects were gorgeous. The LEGO Movie was more than just a simple cash-grab, people actually sat down and thought this through in detail, which is why it is so beautiful to look at. I will, therefore, give this yellow-tastic flick an 8.0 out of 10.
Thank you for reading this review. You can leave a comment below and give your opinion about The LEGO Movie. My next review will discuss this year’s Lego Batman Movie.
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