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The Lego Movie
Mar. 2nd, 2014 08:19 amThe genius of The Lego Movie is that you're paying to see a two hour long commercial (with property placement) but the name of the actual product is never mentioned until the very end. Yet at the same time, it’s a ridiculously fun and funny movie, kind of like The Minifig Matrix.
Emmet is a construction worker in a big city where literally everything is awesome until he falls down a hole and touches a strange artifact known as the Piece of Resistance.Neo Emmet is rescued by Trinity Wild Style and they escape the Matrix City in a pretty hair raising chase into The Old West. There they meet Morpheus Vitruvius, where Emmet finds out that he's the One Special/Master Builder who has to battle the nefarious President Business. There are more Matrix references too :D
The plot is pretty thin, and the message about finding what's special about you is a little inconsistent, but the jokes and action make up for it. The CGI is fantastic, with the plastic pieces made to look scuffed, which keeps everything from looking too plastic. I would not be surprised if the producers were inspired by Life in the Dream House, as they take the same approach to toy collector jokes - like Benny, the 1980s space guy with the broken helmet and Vitruvius's staff being an old lollipop. There is going to be a lot of freeze frame fun.
One of the interesting, and perhaps unintended, parts of the movie comes near the end when Wild Style tells Emmet that she wanted to be the Special. Wild Style is a pretty talented builder who gets cheated out of touching the artifact when Emmet startles her. If the message from Lego lately is that it's only for boys, this is terrible. But, by the end of the movie, the message becomes that everyone is a creator. During the plot twist, Emmet tells Wild Style that it's her turn to be the hero, at least.
The movie certainly had an effect on us and it was hard not to impulse buy a bucket of bricks afterwards from Toys R Us, which thankfully never happened.
Emmet is a construction worker in a big city where literally everything is awesome until he falls down a hole and touches a strange artifact known as the Piece of Resistance.
The plot is pretty thin, and the message about finding what's special about you is a little inconsistent, but the jokes and action make up for it. The CGI is fantastic, with the plastic pieces made to look scuffed, which keeps everything from looking too plastic. I would not be surprised if the producers were inspired by Life in the Dream House, as they take the same approach to toy collector jokes - like Benny, the 1980s space guy with the broken helmet and Vitruvius's staff being an old lollipop. There is going to be a lot of freeze frame fun.
One of the interesting, and perhaps unintended, parts of the movie comes near the end when Wild Style tells Emmet that she wanted to be the Special. Wild Style is a pretty talented builder who gets cheated out of touching the artifact when Emmet startles her. If the message from Lego lately is that it's only for boys, this is terrible. But, by the end of the movie, the message becomes that everyone is a creator. During the plot twist, Emmet tells Wild Style that it's her turn to be the hero, at least.
The movie certainly had an effect on us and it was hard not to impulse buy a bucket of bricks afterwards from Toys R Us, which thankfully never happened.
