Please confirm you are not a robot by checking the box.Over the last few years, there’s been a certain rule of thumb with movies based on DC Comics superheroes: A solo Batman film is always going to be better than any other adaptation. After all, The Dark Knight Trilogy is the most beloved run of recent DC films while subsequent filmslike Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad have been incredibly divisive. The trend looks like it will continue next year in an unexpected way with the release of The LEGO Batman Movie. Sure, the Wonder Woman trailer looks pretty epic, but the latest LEGO Batman preview is epic, fun, hilarious, action-packed, and incredibly inventive. Will Arnett voices the titular character, a lonely vigilante who is beloved by the public but whose only family is his butler Alfred (Ralph Fiennes). Thankfully, he’s adopted a young orphan, Robin (Michael Cera), and the new police commissioner Barbara Gordon (Rosario Dawson) wants the GCPD to team up with Batman.
Just in time, too, as his archnemesis The Joker (Zach Galifianakis) has rallied some of his greatest advisories and threatens all of Gotham. If the movie is even half as entertaining as the trailer indicates (the jokes about Robin’s costume are spot on), this could be one of best movies of 2017 — and certainly one of the best DC films in years. Check out the trailer above, and catch The LEGO Batman Movie in theaters on February 10th.CGIFeature Film ‘The Lego Batman Movie’ Teaser Is Here Warner Bros. is currently in production or development on at least four Lego Movie spinoffs and sequels. The first of those in line for release, The Lego Batman Movie, inspired by Batman’s cameo in Lego Movie, launched its teaser trailer this morning: Will Arnett voices the Dark Knight, with Michael Cera as Robin, Rosario Dawson as Batgirl, Zach Galifianakis as The Joker, and Mariah Carey as Gotham’s mayor. The Lego Movie animation director Chris McKay will make his feature directorial debut on Batman, though he’s no directing novice, having directed multiple seasons of stop motion TV shows like Robot Chicken and Moral Orel.
McKay explained the film’s setup, written by Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), to USA Today: “Batman is an island onto himself, the only thing he doesn’t have is relationships. We’re making About a Boy as directed by Michael Mann.” Watching the teaser, it’s fascinating to observe the lengths that the makers of Lego Batman have gone to in order to recreate the imperfections of stop motion animation — even though the film was crafted entirely in CGI at Animal Logic. The shifting microwave control panel as Batman punches in digits might be the most blatant throwback to old-school stop motion, though everything from the scratched-up textures on Batman’s shiny surface to the clunky motion are designed to evoke the appearance of physical objects in real space. Ironically, while Animal Logic has to add imperfections into its CGI process to recreate a traditional look, another studio, Laika, has been criticized for making their stop motion features, like The Boxtrolls, appear so slick and perfect that they’ve begun to resemble computer-generated imagery.
Technology, if anything, has added a new layer of artifice to animation filmmaking, successfully misdirecting viewers about the production techniques used to create animation. The Lego Batman Movie The Lego Batman MovieThe Lego MovieLego MovieLego BatmanThe Lego Batman Movie too much Pioneer Place Stadium 6 Thurs 1 pm, 4 pm, 6:45 pm Thurs 1:30 pm, 4:30 pm, 7:30 pm Thurs 1:15 pm, 4 pm Thurs 11:30 am, 2:15 pm, 4:05 pm, 5 pm, 7:45 pm, 10:30 pm Thurs 11:45 am, 2:20 pm, 5 pm, 7:40 pm Thurs 12:15 pm, 4:50 pm, 6:45 pm, 8:55 pm Bridgeport Village Stadium 18 7329 SW Bridgeport Rd., Tigard Thurs 11:20 am, 12:35 pm, 2 pm, 3:20 pm, 7:40 pm 304 East 1st, Newberg Century 16 Cedar Hills Crossing 3200 SW Hocken, Beaverton Thurs 11 am, 1:50 pm, 3:15 pm, 4:40 pm, 7:30 pm, 8:55 pm, 10:20 pm Century Clackamas Town Center Thurs 10:40 am, 12 pm, 1:20 pm, 2:40 pm, 4 pm, 5:20 pm, 6:45 pm, 9:30 pm, 10:40 pm Cinetopia Mill Plain 8
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