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The Lego Movie (2014)
Topic Started: Dec 22 2014, 08:41 AM (314 Views)
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The Lego Movie (2014) Dir. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

Lego toys are enslaved by a big, stupid, mean Lego toy voiced by Will Ferrell; the Obi-Wan like Morgan Freeman toy foretells of a toy so strikingly average that it will defeat the creative geniuses of the evil toy makers, and so along comes Chris Pratt, who is as average as you get: even his best friends barely know him. Chris teams with Elizabeth Banks, a kick-ass girl Lego toy, and several DC Comics super-heroes (this being a Warner Bros. film) toys to save the day, kind of. It has a weird ending.

Did you find that boring? I kind of did. I mean, considering this is 100 solid minutes of stuff happening all over the place, it sure has its dull spots, and they outnumber the interesting scenes, like, 25 to 1.

Million-dollar Dialog:
Batman toy to his girlfriend: "If this relationship is going to work out between us I need to feel free to party with a bunch of strangers whenever I feel like it."

What I really didn't like about this movie (besides the fact that it's dull 25 times for every 1 time it isn't) is the muddled message, which seems to be that nobody is special, we're ALL average and we should stop congratulating people who show up and do their job every day. Since most people show up and do their job every day for way less money than they should be paid while guys who move money around get richer and richer by the second, I am not sure that we working stiffs don't deserve a little recognition for the crap we put up with while we attempt to pay off our student loans and maybe save up enough to take the kids to Disneyland before they're forty.

On the other hand, the Superman toy is WAY more fun and entertaining than any Superman live-action film has given us in decades. I really enjoyed the super-hero (and a few other well-known characters) appearances in this. Those were the "1" to the "25" I was talking about.

I guess I'm too old for stuff like this, maybe.
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There are a lot of busy but formulaic movies made for kids these days, and they bore me silly. My problem is that they don't have characters -- just wise-ass comments in last year's slang. A movie has to be funny or sad or SOMETHING to get my attention, and you have to care what happens. Who cares what happens to Legos?
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It was mindless dopey fun. I knew zip going in and laughed at how silly the whole thing was. Lot of great little in-jokes, the superhero nobody likes and I agree the best live action version of Superman in a generation--maybe even two.

I wanted to hate this-- I'm sick of Will Ferrell and want him to quickly follow the career path of like styled comedians Jim Carrey, Jack Black and Adam Sandler-- guys who can't seem to turn it off until we make them. Hell, even a publicity stunt terrorism attempt can't stop Seth Rogan from making garbage-- but I ended up liking this. I'm not sure I would have had I even known the most minor plot detail going in. The "where is this going" was part of the fun for me.

We were the only two adults in the theater without kids too.
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Didn't see it, of course, but the papers this week have been saying that this has been one of WB's few hits this year.

Draw your own conclusions.
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I can sure draw a few conclusions about Warner management.
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