The world's most popular toy blocks finally get the
big screen treatment in 'The Lego Movie,' a fun-filled action adventure that
has something for the whole family.
Eschewing the jerky stop-motion technique of 'Robot Chicken' for smoother
CGI animation, 'The Lego Movie' nonetheless managed to retain a vintage
shot-with-real-Legos look. Remarkable,
that.
The story of an ordinary, unassuming construction
Lego named Emmet who ultimately became someone special (so special, cue 'The Pretenders' song please), 'The Lego Movie' is about
rebelling against conformity and discovering your true potential. Sure, we've heard this all-too-familiar story
before. But 'The Lego Movie' tells it
with such humor and a large cast of pop-culture references, from Batman and the Millennium Falcon to a Gandalf-like wizard named 'Vitruvius' and a
T-1000-ish 'bad cop,' that the movie somehow endeared itself to our inner 12-year olds.
Still, if it was only a bunch of hyperkinetic CGI-rendered
Legos moving around in various Legos-constructed locales it wouldn't have been
enough for me to recommend it. What did
it was the movie's heartwarming final act, when the movie shifted from 'Lego world' to the real
world, in which a father-and-son relationship blossoms over their shared affections for
these colorful construction blocks in spite of their marked differences on how they
should be used.
Grade: B+
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