The story of a nobody who saved everybody. The directors of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and TV's Robot Chicken bring LEGO to life in this stop-motion-simulating adventure. Emmet (Chris Pratt) - a run of the mill, follow-the-rules, decidedly average little LEGO man - is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person ever and the key to saving the world from the evil President Business (Will Ferrell).... Best Animated Film at the 2015 BAFTA Awards. , ('Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs', '21 Jump Street') , , , , , , , , , , , , , Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Kids & Family Out Now (On-Demand,DVD or Blu-Ray) YOUR RATING & REVIEW Available from 6 providers Reviewed & Rated by Your rating & review Showing 5 of 10 reviews.More reviews on Rotten Tomatoes Parents will dab their eyes while the kids roll theirs. A film that's insane, witty, uneven and almost certain to delight anyone who's ever laid hands on Lego.
A full-throttle, giddily inventive, all-ages joyride that buoyantly boosts the bar for 3D computer-animated movies. Ridiculously funny and meticulously detailed... far better than a toy tie-in movie has any right to be. Despite a couple of dips, you'll be grinning throughout. Time Out New York The script is witty, the satire surprisingly pointed, and the animation tactile and imaginative. Irreverently deconstructs the state of the modern blockbuster... At The Movies (Australia) This is an original and delightful film, perhaps the best animated feature since the last Toy Story... The directors seem so spooked by fears of their young audience's short attention span that some of their best touches go by in a blur.You know what they say: never judge a movie by its poster. They actually don't say that, but looking at the collection we've assembled below, they ought to start.What follows is a bunch of very bad posters for very good movies, all trying their hardest to sell the film, and all of them failing on pretty much every level.
Leaving aside the notion of Bill Murray's head and hands - and only his head and hands - being trapped inside a GIANT alarm clock, it's Andie MacDowell's raised-eyebrows, chin-stroking, utterly inexplicable face slapped on the bottom corner that earns this a thumbs down. Side note: if that clock rings, it's going straight out the window.Ah, the ol' costume-shadow-face manoeuvre. Remember the George Clooney 'n' Ryan Gosling movie Ides Of March? That worked so well, but here, it's just so... unpleasant. The other Spider-movies' posters are much better - even Spider-Man 3's..."Bilious" seems an appropriate word to describe this one-sheet, all purples and greens and horrible yellows. Fix the colour palette and it could have been a contender, but alas, 'twas not to be.That's not Brad Pitt's hand. And is a big pink block of soap really what you want to be focusing on here? Sure, it's important in the story, but important enough to have it shoved in potential cinemagoers' faces? Edward Norton nuzzling into Meat Loaf's bosom may have been a better idea.
Michael Caine himself explained the story behind this totally incongruous poster to Empire a few years ago:"[The poster] was a naked woman and me. And I said, 'This is for kids. There aren't any naked women in it! We're going to get a load of old guys coming in to see naked women and they're going to be pissed off, and mums aren't going to bring their children.'In Yorgos Lathminos’ first English language film there is the expected softening, more audience-friendly approach but fans of Dogtooth and Alps can relax: The Lobster might be funnier and warmer but it is as equally as warped. Despite the Greek writer-director’s claims this is not a social satire it’s hard to ignore The Lobster’s comment on the obsession with and the pressure of finding love, that we’ll never be happy until we find The One. Movies, books, music, history all perpetuate this myth, brainwashing us into thinking life is incomplete unless there is someone to share it with; the eye always finds ‘relationship status’ on Facebook.
Yorgos Lathminos opines that this is preposterous. In stripping of love of its mystique he finds this: love isn’t an admiration of a partner’s qualities but in the physical and psychological shortcomings we might share, that it isn’t some intangible emotion but the result of a series of cold, conscious decisions based on insecurity and a fear of loneliness. And the panic of being turned into a lobster, of course David’s (Farrell) wife has just left him, which means he is forced to book into a hotel (the film was largely shot in Co. Kerry) run by Olivia Colman where residents must find love within forty-five days or they will be turned into an animal (of one’s choosing) before being set free. There are strict rules: no masturbation, guests must be brought to just shy of orgasm every morning, and there is no smoking: “That way you won’t run out of breath during the hunt and it won’t stink when you kiss,” David is warned.Oh yes - there is a possibility of extending one’s stay by stalking and shooting The Loners, a small group of devout celibates (headed up by Léa Seydoux and Michael Smiley) hiding in the nearby woods.