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2021 movie #162. Great animation, great cast, great theme song, goofy story. What more do you want? Everything is amazing! 3rd highest grossing movie in the US in 2014. We loved this. ( )

Emmet an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person (the MasterBuilder) and the key to saving his LEGO world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers -- including an old mystic (voiced by Morgan Freeman) and LEGO Batman (voiced by Will Arnett) -- on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the universe together -- a journey for which Emmett is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared. Now the fate of the world is in his tiny yellow hands.

Full of visual cleverness but with a sappy live action bit. There were some funny, not sexual, jokes aimed at adults, the astronaut character's compulsion to make everything grey and spaceship-like, for example. ( )

A generic construction worker is called upon to save the Lego world.

Brilliant. No, seriously. I'm still having trouble believing that this movie getting made is something that actually happened. How did this happen?

Concept: A
Story: C
Characters: B
Dialog: A
Pacing: A
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: A
Acting: B
Music: B

Enjoyment: A

GPA: 3.4/4 ( )