Today’s the day The LEGO Movie comes to DVD, Blu-ray, and combinations of the two therein. This film was released in its digital format earlier this month to web-based storefronts like Google Play and iTunes, and starting today you’ll be able to pick it up in physical format. This film comes in packages of many sizes, from most basic to a rather strange combo-pack. The LEGO Movie was released earlier this year with a surprise amount of fanfare, earning top marks from reviewers young and old. SlashGear reviewed The LEGO Movie as well, turning out a wholly positive reaction as the film summoned our long-dormant love for the toy brand. Headed to stores today, the Target Exclusive version of the film will include the Blu-Ray and the DVD as well as a Digital HD format of the film along with a 24-page activity book with stickers. This version will cost you $27.99 USD online – and likely the same price in-stores. Another packaging of The LEGO Movie is the DVD 2-disc special edition, costing you anywhere from $14.99 (at Target) to $28.98 USD in video stores throughout the USA.
This version brings you a wide-screen presentation of the film on one disc and a collection of special features on the other. A third edition includes Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD formats of the film with a price range between $19.99 and $29.99 USD. You’ll find this version most prevalent as the DVD to Blu-ray format change over rages on. Note here that wherever you find the Blu-ray or DVD versions of the film, you’ll also find “over 2 hours of bonus content.” The biggest, most powerful version of the movie brings you three different discs in one box. You’ll get the 3D Blu-ray of the film, a standard 2D Blu-ray of the film, a DVD disc, and a 3D bust of the LEGO character Emmet made of plastic. This is also the one and only place (for now) that you’ll be able to get the LEGO mini-fig of Old-School Vitruvius. When you get Vitruvius with sets like MetalBeard’s Sea Cow, he is as he appears through most of the movie – Hippie Vitruvius. This Old-School Vitruvius still has a pendant, more of an old-Roman look, and real human (LEGO human) eyes!
Make sure to have a peek at our MetalBeard’s Sea Cow LEGO set Review right this minute and get your Hearty Crew party on!We're currently undergoing some scheduled maintenance. Please check back soon!There is a new Batman movie coming out in theaters this weekend, and it’s easily the best Batman movie yet. It’s also a great sci-fi movie, and a great Western, and a great Matrix remake, and it’s especially a great comedy. But first and foremost, it’s a Lego movie. And it’s the Lego movie. It does everything you want a Lego movie to do. The Lego Movie is two things. First it’s the big screen debut of a staggeringly successful 65-year-old line of Danish construction toys that form the foundation of an empire of play sets, animations, theme parks, and video games. Second, it’s the latest work from directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the collaborators behind Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, 21 Jump Street, Brooklyn Nine Nine, and the cult classic cartoon series Clone High.
Impressively, The Lego Movie is a perfect addition to both the Lego empire and to Lord and Miller’s body of work. The Lego Group has done an astonishing job creating a brand that thrives on creativity and charm. Miller and Lord have established themselves as two of the funniest storytellers working today, and always on projects that surprise with how funny they are. (At this point we should actually expect it. Somehow it’s still always a surprise.) The Lego Movie is creative, charming, and funnier than you think it will be. The star of the movie is Emmet Brickowski (Chris Pratt), a Lego construction worker in a Lego town where everything is awesome thanks to the controlling oversight of President Business (Will Ferrell). Emmet is a shockingly ordinary man — generic, even — until an encounter with a mysterious black-clad female martial artist and her wise old black guy mentor teaches him that not only does he have the untapped power to rewrite the world around him, but he is also “the special,” the only one who can save them all from the villain’s nefarious plan to enforce universal conformity.
It is The Matrix. It’s also storytelling at its most formulaic, and it’s by knowing and embracing formulas the movie taps into the first of its several rich veins of humor. The Lego Movie is a riff on the hero’s journey, but one that pokes at it and subverts it at every step. The more pages you’ve read of TV Tropes, the more fun you’re likely to have. Yet no opportunity for a good joke is left unexplored, from slapstick to satire. The movie made me laugh out loud both in moments of sly political commentary and in moments of gleeful absurdity. (The roll-call scene in “The Dog” was a personal highpoint.) The Lego Movie is lavishly generous with laughter. A lot of the humor is visual, and it’s the sort of movie that you’ll re-watch to catch all the background details. That (almost) everything is made of Lego provides the world with not just a distinctive look (and some breathtaking vistas), but a distinctive set of physics. The Lego video games often animate their figures with an un-Lego-like elasticity.
That’s not the case here. These minifigs move like minifigs, with all the limitations you’d expect, even when they’re involved in elaborate fast-paced fight scenes. That makes the movement in the movie as unusual as the design. A lot of humor also comes from cameos. Lego does a lot of licensing work, and that gives this movie an unusual, Who Framed Roger Rabbit-like ability to bring together characters from different franchises. Sadly not everyone could come to the party — this is a Warner Bros. joint, so all but one Disney-owned franchise is excluded. There are no Marvel heroes here. Yet Warner Bros.’ own DC Comics heroes are used to great effect, most notably Batman, voiced by Will Arnett as an arrogant, macho, posturing adolescent bro who wallows in his own darkness. Purists may baulk a little at such — ahem — non-standard presentation, but it feels spiritually true. Will Arnett is now easily my favourite movie Batman, and it’s an unfamiliar experience to go see a movie with DC heroes in it and come out smiling.
(If that remark made you super-mad, this movie’s version of Batman is going to make you super-mad, and you should stay away. I just did you a solid. You’re welcome, super-mad guy.) Somewhere under all the jokes, there’s a moral, a message for kids of all ages. This is Lego, after all, and Lego has a sacred gospel; That’s an idea that goes through some twists and turns as the movie tries to decide just what to do with the idea of “being special” and who gets to call themselves that, and I left the movie not entirely clear what I was meant to believe. On reflection, the film’s thesis seems to be; “no one style of play should exclude any other.” But even that message is overshadowed by another. There is a song that Emmet loves, a song that everyone in the Lego world loves, which will worm itself into your brain and stay there forever. The song tells us that everything is awesome. Everything is cool when you’re part of a team. It’s not a lesson you’re meant to take entirely at face value.