H18 x W50 x D25cm Model name / number Not suitable for children under 3 years. The LEGO Movie article UPDATE (Feb 7): Per Deluxe Digital Cinema, the trailer has been sent to U.S. cinemas targeted for The Lego Batman Movie which opens this Friday. WB have also released an official announcement clip which you can see below: We will have the trailer here as soon as it’s online. While we’re still waiting for Warner Bros. to drop the first official trailer for Justice League, the studio is gearing up to promote another franchise release of the autumn. Conveniently timed ahead of The Lego Batman Movie‘s UK-wide preview screenings this weekend, the BBFC have rated the first (and full-length) trailer for Charlie Bean’s The LEGO Ninjago Movie. We expect the trailer to drop online sometime in the next two weeks (before LEGO Batman‘s wide release) and we will have it right here as soon as it does. In this big-screen Ninjago adventure, the battle for Ninjago City calls to action young Lloyd, aka the Green Ninja, along with his friends, who are all secret warriors and LEGO Master Builders.
Led by kung fu master Wu, as wise-cracking as he is wise, they must defeat evil warlord Garmadon, the Worst Guy Ever, who also happens to be Lloyd’s dad. Pitting mech against mech and father against son, the epic showdown will test this fierce but undisciplined team of modern-day ninjas who must learn to check their egos and pull together to unleash their true power. Featuring the voices of Dave Franco, Justin Theroux, Olivia Munn and Jackie Chan, The Lego Ninjago Movie is released in the U.S. on September 22, followed by the UK on October 13.For people who love movie scores -- these are real people, we assure you -- last year was a peak time. From Steven Price's Oscar-winning "Gravity" score to smaller ones from Joel P. West ("Short Term 12") and Graham Reynolds ("Before Midnight"), 2013's movie scores had a cue for every mood. Not so this year. The most memorable moments in "Wild," "Boyhood," "Whiplash," "Obvious Child," "Selma," "Guardians of the Galaxy," "The Fault in Our Stars," "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," "The LEGO Movie," "The Interview" and "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1," to name a few, came accompanied with either an existing track or original song (everything is awesome, you crazy "LEGO Movie").
Which is great for people who also love movie soundtracks -- guilty! -- but less so for score fans. Sure, Antonio Sanchez's "Birdman" score is fantastic within the framework of the film, but would anyone want to listen to it during a random Tuesday commute? With that in mind, here are the eight movie scores released this year that profile as having longevity -- aka each will have a permanent home on our HuffPost Entertainment Spotify playlist of movie scores. No one had a better year than Alexandre Desplat, who wrote three of the year's most memorable scores (and also the ones for "The Monuments Men" and "Unbroken"). His "Godzilla" theme was so damn loud that even the title has an exclamation mark. Alexandre Desplat, "The Imitation Game" Desplat's score for "The Imitation Game" isn't necessarily deep, but the main theme is as Oscar-friendly as the film itself. It's the type of track you'd expect to hear play as Benedict Cumberbatch walks up to accept his Academy Award.
Alexandre Desplat, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" There's that news van again. Desplat's score for Wes Anderson's latest film is gave millennials their very own "Third Man" theme. Hans Zimmer's "Interstellar" score was no "Inception" (or even "Rush" or "Man of Steel"), but it was haunting and big. If we ever fall into a wormhole, this is what we'll be thinking about. Johann Johannsson, "The Theory of Everything" Similar to "The Imitation Game," Johann Johannsson's score for "The Theory of Everything" feels expressly written to win Oscars. But who cares when the theme is as beautiful as this? Alex Ebert, "A Most Violent Year" Alex Ebert, he of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros fame, wrote 1981's best John Carpenter score. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, "Gone Girl" The year's best onscreen moment? We'll take the Cool Girl montage in "Gone Girl" over many other worthy contenders for one reason alone: this above track, written by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
Working with Paul Thomas Anderson again after "There Will Be Blood" and "The Master," Jonny Greenwood's noir-y "Inherent Vice" score sounds like something Bernard Herrmann would like. But then it's also beautiful and wistful. The above track, "Amethyst," which plays during the film's sweetest scene, being a prime example of its power. It wasn't a movie, but in addition to being one of the year's most satisfying stories, "Serial" had the most infectious theme. Like a miniature universe made entirely of millions of tiny plastic bricks, “The Lego Batman Movie” looks and feels like it could only have been put together by a roomful of mad geniuses, moving in a ballet of well-choreographed creativity: It’s simultaneously epic and humble. From the pew-pew-pew that accompanies the animated movie’s make-believe gunfire — the same serviceable but phony-as-heck sound effect that your 6-year-old might use when firing his (or her) finger at bad guys — to the roster of deliriously ecumenical villains recruited from every corner of pop-culture literature for this clever mash-up of comic books and construction toys, the new animated film is the definition of fantastic.
What’s more, it is that rare sequel that outdoes the original (no small feat, considering that the 2014 “The Lego Movie” has a 96 percent “fresh” rating on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer). Give credit where credit is due: The movie was directed by Chris McKay (known for his work on TV’s subversive “Robot Chicken” and “Morel Orel”), from a screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jared Stern and John Whittington that is simultaneously snarky, sweet and encyclopedically quick-witted. The screenplay they have devised — one that punctures the tired pretensions of superhero movies even as it celebrates their guilty pleasures — is characterized by the satirical gaze of the slightly superior outsider and the irony-free devotion of the true believer. 1 × The movie features big-name actors voicing the characters, including, from top left, Ralph Fiennes as Alfred the butler, Rosario Dawson as Batgirl, Will Arnett as Batman and Michael Cera as Robin.
Michael O’Sullivan writes, “Like a miniature universe made entirely of millions of tiny plastic bricks, “The Lego Batman Movie” looks and feels like it could only have been put together by a roomful of mad geniuses, moving in a ballet of well-choreographed creativity: It’s simultaneously epic and humble.” Read the full review. Buy Photo Although the movie opens with the voice of Batman (Will Arnett), riffing on the tropes of Batman movies — black screen; the solitary, brooding hero; and a last-minute rescue — it is not all archly self-aware deflation of cliche. There is a plot, too, and a point, having something to do with Batman’s unhealthy tendency to work alone and the efforts of the Joker (Zach Galifianakis) to get under his skin. It’s also something of an origin story, with Robin (Michael Cera) just establishing himself as the Caped Crusader’s earnest Boy Wonder, protege and thorn in the side of his pompous mentor. Other members of the excellent voice cast include Rosario Dawson as new Police Commissioner Barbara Gordon/Batgirl and Ralph Fiennes as Alfred the butler.
Additional villains — and what is a Batman movie without an army of them? — include such franchise favorites as Riddler (Conan O’Brien) and Two-Face (Billy Dee Williams), along with such extracanonical reinforcements as Voldemort (Eddie Izzard) of “Harry Potter” and the Daleks from “Doctor Who.” Never heard of them? “Ask your nerd friends,” cracks Batman in one of the movie’s frequent asides addressed to the audience. Like a bratty child, “Lego Batman” keeps setting up a structure of bricks, only to kick down the fourth wall with destructive delight. Other crossover cameos feature Dracula, the Gremlins from “Gremlins,” a flying monkey from “The Wizard of Oz,” King Kong and Sauron from “The Lord of the Rings.” (“Ow, my eye!” he cries, when he takes a hit in his giant glowing peeper.) There are explicit allusions to every “Batman” movie, as well as to the 1960s television series with Adam West. You may not catch every one — they fly by as fast as throwaway jokes in a “Simpsons” episode — but it’s not necessary.