With The LEGO Batman Movie in cinemas later this week – you can find our review here – there’s now some news on the upcoming sequel to The LEGO Movie. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the film, simply known as The LEGO Movie Sequel, has seen director Rob Schrab depart the project. Schrab, who was actually making his feature directorial debut with the sequel, has left over the ever-familiar creative differences. Not wasting any time, The LEGO Movie Sequel has moved to bring in Mike Mitchell as Scrhab’s replacement. An animation veteran, Mitchell has worked on the likes of Shrek Forever After, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water and Trolls. Phil and Christopher Miller, who wrote and helmed The LEGO Movie, penned the initial draft of The LEGO Movie Sequel, and that has more recently been re-written by BoJack Horseman’s Raphael Bob-Waksberg. At present, The LEGO Movie Sequel is set for a February 8th, 2019 release. Find your local STARBURST stockist HERE, or buy direct from us HERE.
For our digital edition (available to read on your iOS, Android, Amazon, Windows 8, Samsung and/or Huawei device - all for just £1.99), visit MAGZTER DIGITAL NEWSSTAND. MORE FROM AROUND THE WEB: Check Out the Kickstarter for James Moran's BLOOD SHED Bill Paxton 1955 - 2017 Matt Reeves Confirmed to Direct THE BATMAN Prologue Short Introduces ALIEN: COVENANT Cast Diese coolen Jungs haben ein Titanic-Lego-Movie gemacht Fünf der sieben Jungs aus Paderborn, die mit "Hundbrax Lego Movies" für einen Preis nominiert sind. Paderborn - Was diese sieben Jungs aus Paderborn mit Lego-Steinen anstellen, ist wirklich beeindruckend. Jetzt sind sie mit zwei ihrer "Brick-Filme" für den Deutschen Multimediapreis "mb21" nominiert, der am Samstag in Dresden verliehen wird."Hundbrax Lego Movies", das sind die 13 bis 19 Jahre alten Julian, Timo, Luca, Tim, Ben, Moritz und Sebastian. Im März 2013 wurde aus einer Idee Wirklichkeit und seitdem laden sie ihre Kunstwerke auch bei YouTube hoch.
Das erfolgreichste Video aus 2015 handelt vom Untergang der Titanic und wurde mittlerweile fast zwei Millionen Mal geklickt. Über 10.000 Fotos waren nötig, um den elfminütigen Film fertigzustellen. Etwa 15.000 Lego-Steine, 270 Lego-Männchen und eine fünf Kilo schwere Titanic wurden dafür verwendet. Und genau dieser Kurzfilm ist es, der den Jungs die Nominierung beim "mb21" eingebracht hat. Der Preis wird unter anderem vom Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend und der Landeshauptstadt Dresden gefördert. "Unabhängig davon, ob wir einen Preis gewinnen, machen wir natürlich weiter", sagte Sebastian, der an einem "langweiligen Wochenende" die Idee dazu hatte. "Was daraus geworden ist, ist schon krass", gibt er in der Neuen Westfälischen zu.Der YouTube-Channel hat mehr als 3700 Abonnenten, darauf können sie stolz sein. Auch ein Video zum SC Paderborn inklusive Hymne haben die Jungs im Mai 2015 veröffentlicht.Filed under: Uncategorized — 1 Comment I haven’t posted in over six months, making this my longest stretch of silence yet.
The reason is that I have been extremely busy without a lot to blog about. But this is me; if a movie based on the Lego brand can’t get me back here, what could? You may recall that two years ago, I got to see an advance screening of The LEGO Movie (and then got interviewed about it on TV). Well, I got the same invite to go see The LEGO Batman Movie, and I took Intern #2 with me as she lives and breathes Batman. (I exaggerate, but only slightly.) My expectations were higher than what I had for the original film, but here’s the short review: my expectations were still exceeded.This review is spoiler-free. Unlike the first film, this one doesn’t depend heavily on it being about sentient minifigures in a Lego world. That doesn’t mean that it’s just an animated film with oddly-shaped people, just that the storyline doesn’t center around manipulating bricks. It does carry over, however; I was afraid they wouldn’t do much with the Master Builder plot device from The LEGO Movie, but they actually play it straight.
Most of the minifigures are completely unaware of the nature of their world, just like in The LEGO Movie. Batman is one of the few, as is apparently Alfred. Most of the other minifigures take it in stride when Batman manipulates his environment to make a vehicle, but enough is there that I feel like it’s working in-universe as a partial sequel. It’s not a true sequel, though, because it remains in the Batman setting. It ventures out into some larger DC universe elements, and a few things are brought in from other settings (not saying any more about that), but the plot remains centered on Batman. And that plot isn’t revealed in the trailers, either. It’s something I was a bit concerned about, as I’ve seen other movies take a funny secondary character, especially one that was funny due to shock value the way Batman was in the first film, and completely fail at trying to get something good out of making that character the star. But not only did this movie succeed at the comedy, it also succeeded at making it an excellent story.
I’m not going to give away the plot here, but I was able to quiz Intern #2 on it later and turn it into a lesson plan. Er . . . I swear, that’s more fun than I just made it sound. The final thing to mention is that when you see this movie, be prepared for an onslaught of references. You will see references that you may not get. Intern #2 got more than I did, since she’s very knowledgeable about this particular fandom; but I still got a lot, and I could tell there were more that I missed. For one thing, I didn’t even know there was a 1940s live-action Batman to reference in the first place. Intern #2 did, though. She had trouble breathing because she was laughing so hard. Even if you’re not dedicated Batman fan, this movie is worth seeing. If you’re a Batman fan but not into Lego, you owe it to yourself to see this movie. And if you’re worried about going to see a kid’s movie . . . just know I’m silently judging you, and Batman won’t share his lobster thermidor, and Superman won’t put you on his email list either.