The requested URL /sound.php?id=288 was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. The LEGO Movie - Everything is Awesome" Clip“Everything Is Awesome” About These Nine Clips From ‘The Lego Movie’Posted on Monday, January 27th, 2014 by Angie HanIn the wrong hands, The Lego Movie could’ve been a lazy, forgettable kids’ film with no obvious purpose other than pushing more plastic bricks. But as directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, it’s looking like a very early contender for the year’s best animated film — funny, smart, energetic, and far more original than we have any reason to expect a film based on a toy would be.With every new bit of marketing that rolls out, it’s looking more and more promising. Today, we have nine new clips from the film totaling about eight minutes of footage. Chris Pratt leads the voice cast as Emmet, an extraordinarily ordinary minifig who is accidentally drafted to lead a revolution against the evil President Business (Will Ferrell).
Watch all the videos after the jump.While there don’t seem to be any major spoilers up ahead, we’ll warn you that the scenes do give away some minor gags and plot points not previously shown in the trailers.At this point, Lord and Miller practically specialize in things that sound groanworthy on paper, but look magical onscreen. Before I actually sat down and watched them, I wouldn’t have thought there was much promise in a Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs adaptation or a 21 Jump Street reboot, either. But not only were they pretty great, Lord and Miller liked working on the latter so much that they’ve returned for the sequel, due out this summer.2014 is also shaping up to be a pretty great year for Pratt, between The Lego Movie and this summer’s Guardians of the Galaxy. There aren’t many actors who can boast that they became part of the Marvel family and hung out with the Justice League in the space of twelve months — even if, okay, the Justice League we’re talking about here is a tiny, plastic version.
The Lego Movie opens in 3D on February 7. Elizabeth Banks, Alison Brie, Will Arnett, and Liam Neeson are also among the voice cast.The original 3D computer animated story follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as 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. When the musical comedy trio the Lonely Island reached out to Tegan and Sara with the prospect of recording a song for The Lego Movie, Tegan Quin remembers their reaction was, "Legos, cool!" The indie-pop sister duo worked on a demo and within two weeks, found themselves recording "Everything Is Awesome" with Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh. "Two hours later, we watched the video and voila," Quin says. The ebullient hit single debuted at Number 11 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic Songs chart.
M.I.A., Tegan and Sara Set for Canadian Music Week The Lonely Island and Tegan and Sara Declare 'Everything Is Awesome' Song Premiere: Tegan and Sara Embrace 1980s on 'Shudder to Think' Go Inside Andy Samberg's Mind Squad, The Lonely Island Quin says they spent all of a couple of hours working on the song, futzing around with its tempo and its key to get it just right. She was happy with the result. "Obviously we got to end up as Legos," she says. "We saw a couple of scenes from the movie and I thought it was really smart and funny." Rolling Stone caught up with Quin to put together (har har) how the song was recorded. Did you think you'd get the gig when you recorded your demo? I thought we did a terrible job. I think it was in a different key. Then we stepped it down because I was just shrieking. Mark, the technician, was like, "It sounds like you're screaming," I said, "I am!" We were like, "There's no way we'll get it." So we were really thrilled to hear our version got in the credits.
And I love the Lonely Island, so I was pretty excited that they picked us because they were like, "Oh, we're throwing it out to a bunch of different people." It was, like, big rappers, and I'm like, "There's no way." So how hard was it to sing the word "awesome" and convey its sentiment at the same time? The only vocal suggestion that they made was that we should sing it with as much excitement and jubilation as possible. Even though the movie ends in sort of a strange way, the lyrics are very, "Even though things are going badly, I'm still excited, I'm still happy," and I kind of love that. When I recorded the demo, I was in a basement in Croatia or something and it was extremely cold and I was cracking vocals in that room, trying to imagine the "awesome" I'd sing if we actually got the song. Are you surprised that people like the song so much? I'm kind of surprised and not surprised. First of all, I thought the movie was really cool based on the two clips we've seen. It seems really smart, really well written.
Sara and I really like to do things that we feel are credible and also it feels like they were within the brand of Tegan and Sara. We're trying to move into this more upbeat sound. Sometimes the content is pretty sad, but we try to find things within the realm of Tegan and Sara and this felt like it really fit. Since it came out, it seems like the average person who likes it is pretty young, which is pretty cool, too. I love the idea of like, an 8-year-old going to the movie and some of those kids ending up liking Tegan and Sara. But in the end, we didn't do it to become a bigger band; we did it because we thought the movie was really cool and we just loved the idea of contributing to something that would bring people happiness. Who would've thought 10 years later you'd have a hit song with The Lego Movie? Who would've thought we'd be playing music 10 years later, the way the industry is?While it’s hard to imagine anything that could reach the infectious, earworm-y highs of The Lego Movie’s ‘Everything is Awesome’, some newly-released tracks from The Lego Batman Movie try very hard.
And also allegedly feature Alfred Pennyworth shredding a guitar in a rather radical fashion. Ahead of the film’s release next week, Warner Bros. has released the soundtrack for The Lego Batman Movie online, giving us a listen of some of the key songs recorded for the film. Batman himself gets his own suitably rocking theme song—although it’s not Will Arnett singing, but Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump doing the best Lego Batman impression he can.It’s not a bad Bats impression at all, and a perfect theme for the character, from the references to the classic 1966 TV show’s theme, to the fact that it’s pretty much entirely meant to be Batman bragging about how he’s the best at everything. Because, well, he’s Batman.Arnett does appear in the film’s credits song, ‘Friends Are Family’ by Oh, Hush—coming in for a Batman-voiced rap interlude before passing over for Alfred doing a guitar solo.It’s definitely got the poppy vibe that could make it a rival to ‘Everything Is Awesome’, but honestly?