Sign in or Become a MemberGet access to amazing benefits like free refills on large popcorn & up to $5 off tickets every Tuesday. Join for free now, or upgrade and get even more great perks.‘The LEGO Movie: The Special Special Edition’ Now Available on Blu-ray A Maverick in the Making A Candid Talk with Scratch Film Master Steven Woloshen Marcy Page Leaves Her Mark on the NFB Hayao Miyazaki – The Interview Chris Landreth Talks 'Subconscious Password' The Magical Junk-Filled World of Jiří Barta Alain Gagnol Talks 'A Cat in Paris' John Knoll Talks 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol'Even though The Lego Movie was a monster hit at the box office, some Warner Bros. executives think that Emmet's everyman story needs to be spiced up. So, in a clip from the upcoming Blu-ray, they've added the popular LEGO Ninjago characters into a couple of key action sequences. This not only improves the movie greatly, but it also helps set up audiences for the 2016 animated adventure Ninjago by introducing these popular Ninja brick warriors.
Check out the new improved action, and then be sure to pick-up The Lego Movie, on Blu-ray this week!Everything will be awesome when The Lego Movie arrives onto Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD 2-disc Special Edition, and Digital HD on June 17 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Village Roadshow Pictures. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 21 Jump Street), The Lego Movie is the hilarious story of a nobody who saves everybody.The Lego Movie stars Chris Pratt as the voice of Emmet, an ordinary LEGO minifigure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, and Will Ferrell as the voice of President Business, aka Lord Business, an uptight CEO who has a hard time balancing world domination with micro-managing his own life. Voicing the members of Emmet's rebel crew on this heroic mission are Morgan Freeman (Oblivion) as the ancient mystic Vitruvius; Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games) as tough-as-nails Wyldstyle, who mistakes Emmet for the savior of the world and guides him on his quest;
Will Arnett (The Millers) as the mysterious Batman, a LEGO minifigure with whom Wyldstyle shares a history; Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) as the craggy, swaggering pirate Metal Beard, obsessed with revenge on Lord Business; Alison Brie (Community) as the sweet and loveable Unikitty and Charlie Day (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) as Benny, the 1980-something Spaceman.From a story by Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, The Lego Movie was produced by Dan Lin (Justice League, Gangster Squad) and Roy Lee (The Grudge), with Jill Wilfert, Matthew Ashton, Kathleen Fleming, Allison Abbate, Zareh Nalbandian, Jon Burton, Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Seanne Winslow, Matt Skiena and Bruce Berman serving as executive producers, and John Powers Middleton as co-producer.The Lego Movie will be available on Blu-ray Combo Pack for $35.99 and includes the film in high definition on Blu-ray Disc, a DVD, and a digital version of the film in Digital HD with UltraViolet*.
The Lego Movie "Everything is Awesome Edition" Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack is available for $59.98 and includes an exclusive LEGO Vitruvius minifigure, a bonus 3D movie, collectible 3D Emmet photo, exclusive bonus content, a DVD, and a digital version of the movie on Digital HD with UltraViolet*.Fans can also own The Lego Movie in Digital HD same day via purchase from digital retailers.The original 3D computer-animated story follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as The Special, the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.The Lego Movie Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD 2-Disc Special Edition contain the following special features:The Lego Movie Everything is Awesome Edition Blu-ray Combo Pack contains the following special features:The Lego Movie will be available for streaming and download to watch anywhere in high definition and standard definition on their favorite devices from select digital retailers including Amazon
, CinemaNow, Flixster, iTunes, PlayStation, Target Ticket, Vudu, Xbox and others. Starting May 20, The Lego Movie will also be available digitally on Video On Demand services from cable and satellThe Lego Batman Movie is about to arrive, bringing the pint-sized Caped Crusader back to our screens and re-introducing the Lego universe to the world. But there has been a change in the direct sequel to the first Lego Movie, as Rob Schrab has left the film and Trolls director Mike Mitchell has stepped into his place. The follow-up to the 2014 hit has been development for a while by the Warner Animation Group Brain Trust and was originally handed to Chris McKay, animation director and editor on the original, who then moved to do Lego Batman. TV veteran Schrab came next, but he's since departed due to "creative differences". Nothing has been said about the plot for the sequel, but Phil Lord and Chris Miller wrote the first draft of the script, which has since seen work from BoJack Horseman's Raphael Bob-Waksberg and, more recently, Matt Fogel.
The Lego Movie Sequel will be with us on 8 February 2019. The Lego Ninjago Movie arrives on 13 October this year.I was skeptical at first about "The Lego Movie." Having now seen it, I understand why its message is so appealing to so many. The film actually had much to say about society and education. The film’s protagonist, Emmet (Chris Pratt), an average construction worker, lives in a world where his entire waking existence is regulated by rules (cleverly called “instructions”). The first thing he does in the morning (besides saying “good morning” to his apartment) is to check the “Instructions to Fit In, Have Everybody Like You, and Always Be Happy.” He goes through his day making sure to follow all of the instructions, which meticulously detail everything a good citizen is supposed to do; from the obvious (breath, brush your teeth, comb your hair) to the not so obvious (enjoy popular music, obey all traffic regulations, always root for the local sports team, drink overpriced coffee).
Despite Emmet’s meticulous rule following, he is unfulfilled. He has no loved ones to eat breakfast with, and none of his co-workers want to spend any time with him. There are myriad reasons why “The Lego Movie” was so successful. One reason this movie connects with people, from the very beginning, is that most everybody knows the environment in which Emmet lives. This environment stresses compliance and conformity over individualism. Following the rules is said to bring success and happiness, but only brings dissatisfaction when neither success nor happiness come. When I tried to think of a real world environment like Emmet’s there was one example that stood above all the rest: public education. The state has an interest in students learning a philosophy of state supremacy. One of its methods (though in my opinion not its most powerful) is through its selection of curriculum. Think back to your public education experience. There was likely an “American civics” type class that taught about how the government works and your “duty” as a “citizen.”
Few and far between are classes on how markets work and how the needs of people can be met through a system of voluntary cooperation. A student will be taught how a bill becomes a law, but it is unlikely that a student will be taught about the law of supply and demand, what causes inflation, or entrepreneurship. In public school curriculum there is a pro-state bias, which is to be expected from a state-run institution. Author and social critic Isabel Paterson understood this as well: “Educational texts are necessarily selective, in subject matter, language, and point of view. Where teaching is conducted by private schools, there will be a considerable variation in different schools; the parents must judge what they want their children taught, by the curriculum offered. Nowhere will there be any inducement to teach the ‘supremacy of the state as a compulsory philosophy.’ But every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later, whether as the divine right of kings, or the ‘will of the people’ in ‘democracy.’
Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property, and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.” The state’s most powerful tool in shaping compliant citizens is through conditioning an attitude of obedience through the school environment. Public education inculcates in almost every student who passes through its system a mindset of passivity. The student is the object to be regulated and acted upon. The student must raise her hand to speak. The student passes from grade to grade without needing to exert any real effort. The student is herded into the lunchroom to be fed at a specific time. The student must ask permission before using the restroom. The student must adhere to certain dress standards. Regardless of what curriculum is taught, the lesson is clear: The public school, an arm of the state, commands and the student complies.
One of the founders of public education in America, Horace Mann, recognized the incredible formative power of the Prussian model of education (which we have adopted here in the United States). He said, “If Prussia can pervert the benign influences of education to the support of arbitrary power, we surely can employ them for the support and perpetuation of republican institutions. A national spirit of liberty can be cultivated more easily than a national spirit of bondage; and if it may be made one of the great prerogatives of education to perform the unnatural and unholy work of making slaves, then surely it must be one of the noblest instrumentalities for rearing a nation of freemen.” What Mann did not understand is that the means of public education are contrary to the ends of “rearing a nation of freemen.” The public education system can teach some subjects to some students effectively. However, having a populace that understands math and science but has been reared through a system that teaches conformity and submission to the state is inimical to having a nation of free people.
The Struggle to Break Free Throughout the course of “The Lego Movie,” Emmet struggles to break free of the lessons that were taught to him by stressing incessant rule-following. Just like Emmet was taught that obedience to authority is the path to success, so have most of us gone through a system that re-enforces rule-following as a top virtue. Emmet and any of the citizens of Bricksburg (just like any of us) could only have the power to build a truly happy life after breaking free of their largely self imposed fetters: by looking at the resources around and within them and taking charge of their own lives and success. Like Emmet, I often times find myself struggling against the conditioning I received at Orem High School. Isaac Morehouse and Dan Sanchez are right in their fantastic article “”. In it they list seven mindsets that most people learned in the school system that in order to experience personal freedom we must learn to overcome. My favorite (more accurately the one I suffer from the most acutely) is the permission mindset.