Got a purchase in mind? We have a range of purchase credit cards to choose from. Brought to you by Tesco Bank. Free deliveries for a month - Start your Free Trial Tesco Partners - Our guarantee to you Find out more about shopping with our Tesco Partners - protected by the Tesco Partner Guarantee Could we improve this page? Only one week until The LEGO Movie is available for digital download and soon on DVD! To celebrate, I made this giant mosaic of The LEGO Movie “Everything is Awesome” Edition DVD Blu-Ray and Digital Copy box cover. Warner Brothers will display this mosaic along with several of my other sculptures at their DVD screening party at Angels Stadium in Anaheim CA on May 20 2014. Hanging in my studio … (See ladder, right, for scale.)Making two great films in the same year is already an unusual feat – doing so from two categories as unprepossessing as "children's retail tie-in" and "TV spinoff sequel" is special indeed. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller might be the most anarchic creative team currently thriving in big-studio Hollywood.
Multiplex audiences are still laughing along to the dude-ish dadaism of 22 Jump Street, while The Lego Movie (Warner, U), which hits DVD shelves tomorrow, is 2014's highest grosser so far. Rarely have the masses grooved to something so peculiarly ingenious. Ostensibly a breakneck romp, in which an empty-headed construction worker (voiced by the ever-endearing Chris Pratt) must embrace his inner rebel to save his orderly society from permanent paralysis, the film announces itself as a fizzy, fiendishly self-aware paean to individual thinking long before its final, foxy reveal. The essential gimmick, of course, is that it's all acrobatically animated in Lego-brick format, placing the aesthetic halfway between Pixar's polish and Michel Gondry's experimentalism: it's a family film as endlessly rewarding and instruction-free as the toy that inspired it. (The Blu-ray package, as you'd expect, is packed with amusing extras, the best being a hilarious music video that extends the film's wry takedown of the Batman mystique.)
So good is The Lego Movie, in fact, that it effectively covers the bases of two contrastingly inferior releases this week. As a breathless action extravaganza based on an existing leisure franchise, it's certainly a lot more fun than Need for Speed (Entertainment One, 12), a functional knockoff of the Fast and Furious films that has the fast cars in place, but misses out on the knowing absurdity. Aaron Paul bids warily for post-Breaking Bad stardom; director Scott Waugh's hands never leave the 10 and two o'clock position. Meanwhile, if it's a geeky wallow in surreal postmodern fantasy you're after, stick with the Lego men over Terry Gilliam's dismaying The Zero Theorem (Sony, 15), in which the one-time iconoclast tries manically to re-conjure the dizzy dystopian satire of Brazil for the online age. The result, starring Christoph Waltz as an anaemic programmer assigned by a sinister corporation to prove the eponymous, unprovable theorem, is barely watchable: smugly circuitous economy sci-fi, the tin-foil futurism of which appears fixed in 1995.
There's melodic relief from that migraine-inducing chaos in 20 Feet from Stardom (Spirit Entertainment, 12), a smashing popular documentary that took unnecessary flak from critics for the cardinal sin of beating The Act of Killing to the Oscar. True, Morgan Neville's considered, compassionate and beautifully constructed tribute to the backing singers who helped shape the sound of the last half-century of soul music is no mould-breaker. But its modesty of form feels appropriate to a film that ultimately celebrates the sidelines, inviting us to look closer at artistry taken for granted: the vast-voiced women at its centre, irresistible former Phil Spector collaborator Darlene Love among them, are as magnetic as many of the stars they've served over the years. There's more feelgood fare in The Stag (Arrow, 15), a rather gentle Irish attempt at Hangover-style lad farce – as the title suggests, it's about a predictably disastrous bachelor weekend in the sticks – that charms almost entirely on the strength of a nuanced, heartsore portrayal by Andrew Scott – Moriarty in Sherlock – of a best man with a doleful crush on the bride.
An under-the-radar American gem, unseen in the UK since its Edinburgh festival premiere two years ago, is available on the reliably discerning Mubi menu until the end of the month. Nathan Silver's Exit Elena is a reserved but incisive character study about a shy young nursing assistant enduring an ill-fitting placement with a well-meaning family in upstate New York; imagine the solemn domestic specificity of Joanna Hogg shot through with Lena Dunham's gangly comedy of embarrassment.Skip to main content area The LEGO Movie DVD and Blu-ray release date Few films so far this year have been such a geeky treasure trove of joy as Chris Miller and Phil Lord's The LEGO Movie. Featuring a song that lives in your ears seemingly for the rest of time - that'd be Everything Is Awesome - the film is set to be watched lots and lots of times when the DVD and Blu-ray release comes around. That's in addition to the many times it's already been seen at the cinema - its worldwide box office haul to date stands at $424m.
A date, at least in the US, for the DVD and Blu-ray has now been revealed too. And The LEGO Movie will be arriving on home formats on June 17th 2014. We don't have a UK release date yet, but would imagine that it'll be around the same time. Amazon US also lists an 'Everything Is Awesome Blu-ray Edition', which comes with a Vitruvius minifigure, a 3D photo of Emmet, and a bonus 3D movie. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.“The LEGO Movie” has been one of the highest-grossing movies of the year. The surprise hit from directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord has taken in $467 million worldwide. The animated picture came out on DVD and Blu-Ray last week. First, if you haven’t seen the movie, you should check it out. If you have seen it, you’ve probably missed a lot of references or cameos by actors. We watched the DVD commentary for the film over the weekend where the directors revealed a lot of Easter Eggs you may not have noticed the first time around.
Here are the ones they mentioned along with a few we’ve picked up on while watching. Let’s start with an easy one. 1. President Business’ horns are made out of coffee cups. His entire wardrobe is a play off of his business persona. His cape is a tie. You can see a ruler stand in for a bridge in the opening scene. 3. The card in the beginning is a hint at the movie’s twist later on. Early in the film there’s a title card that reads, “8½ Years Later.” That’s the age of Finn, the boy we see later in the movie. 4. Emmet’s soap suds are Lego pieces. The bubbles in the early shower scene are ice cream scoops. 5. Look closely at the posters in Emmet’s house. They’re nods to Lord and Miller’s previous movie, “21 Jump Street.” The directors mention “Macho and the Nerd” is actually the Russian title for the film starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill. 6. Octan, the company run by Lord Business in the film, is the fictional gas company from Lego.
7. Batman’s license plate reads “BAT2DBONE.” Keep your eyes focused on the back of Batman’s ride right before he flies into the sun and you may be able to make out his clever license plate. 8. There’s a pig that explodes into a pile of sausages. 9. Vitruvius’ staff is a lollipop stick. 10. A Ninjago ninja makes an appearance in the film. The Lego property is getting its own movie will be released next year. 11. There are a lot of celebrity cameos. Shaquille O’Neal actually voices the Shaq Lego. The stars of “21 Jump Street,” Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill voice Superman and Green Lantern, respectively. Directors Lord and Miller said they told Hill to be as annoying as possible to Superman’s character. Dave Franco, who also appeared in “21 Jump Street,” and Jack Johnson play construction workers. Cobie Smulders voices Wonder Woman. Actual “Star Wars” castmembers Anthony Daniels and Billy Dee Williams reprise their roles as C-3PO and Lando Calrissian.