The LEGO Movie is a 3D animated film which follows lead character, Emmet a completely ordinary LEGO mini-figure who is identified as the most "extraordinary person" and the key to saving the Lego universe. Emmet and his friends go on an epic journey to stop the evil tyrant, Lord Business. An ordinary LEGO construction worker, thought to be the prophesied as "special", is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the LEGO universe into eternal stasis. I loved this movie because, as an Animation Major, I took special interest in the combination of visual with stop motion throughout the movie. The voice actors fit the roles perfectly, and it never ceased to make me laugh. The fact that LEGO has come out with so many video games and straight to video films in the past did leave me a little worried at first, because I too afraid they would not take the "motion picture" thing too seriously and just treat as though it were another straight- to-DVD thing. I am so glad I was wrong about my assumption. This movie restored my faith in the fact that just because a company may produce films and games that are sometime less than ideal, does not mean for a second that they are not capable of creating something truly awesome! In the Lego Movie, and evil minifig named Lord Business has decided that he is tired of all of the creative people messing around with his stuff. He is already the most powerful creature in Legoland, but to eliminate the chaos he has decided to end the world by gluing it in place with the Kragle (actually a big tube of Krazy Glue). The masterbuilders can only count on the "Special," a minifig destined to save the world by putting the Piece of Resistance on the Kragle. Emmitt, a regular construction minifig turns out to be the hero.<br/><br/>The Lego Movie is a new twist on an old idea, what some critics would call a dystopian science-fiction piece. These stared with George Orwell's 1984 and have come to full fruition recently in the movies with The Hunger Games. The purpose of these movies is to exaggerate some aspect of our society, usually an oppressive government or capitalist system, in order to "expose" it.<br/><br/>In the case of the Lego Movie, it is entirely peculiar that the villain is "Lord Business." After all, there are barely any better capitalist ventures in the world than Lego, and this movie in particular has already grossed $260 million. Making a boatload of money off of a critique of Capitalism strikes me as a bit disingenuous.<br/><br/>Nonetheless, one of the reasons for the big gross is that this movie is actually pretty good. There's lots of laughs, great animation, even interesting plot twists and some genuinely touching human drama. You have to love a movie that gives prominent cameos to both Abraham Lincoln and Shaquille O'Neal. Fair to say you are likely to be entertained by this movie, and that is better that simply getting a boring infomercial for Legos.<br/><br/>The problem is that these guys are criticizing Lord Business all the way to the bank. For a shot of pure forward-leaping, backward-dreaming animated pleasure, pick brick.
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