Contribute to This Page Whether or not you think it’s the next ‘Everything Is Awesome,’ the end credits of The LEGO Batman Movie didn’t so much roll as jump, clap, spin, sashay, and jam out with the thoroughly addicting new song, “Friends Are Family.”The film ends with Batman (Will Arnett) coming to understand the power of friendship, and it’s a lesson learned via the arrival of his nightwing buddy, Robin (Michael Cera). As director Chris McKay tells EW, the film’s end-credits song is from the POV of Robin and, as such, it’s a certifiable bop that may have stuck in your ear since you caught the film in its box-office-smashing opening run. Now, EW has an exclusive video clip of the song that’s got playlists popping and minivans bumping: the jubilant dance finale of LEGO Batman. There’s Alfred and the Joker rocking out on electric guitar! Mr. Freeze doing the moonwalk! Harley Quinn playing drums! Something called Orca doing the caterpillar! The song comes from Oh, Hush!
and features the vocals of Will Arnett and Jeff Lewis; it’s available (along with a wildly underrated new DNCE song) on the LEGO Batman soundtrack from WaterTower Music. Full Cast and CrewThe Lego Batman Movie (2017) Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, Ralph Fiennes At the start of the credits a Lego Batman music-style video is played in which the characters sing along with some scenes from the film. There is no stinger after the credits of The Lego Batman Movie. Special thanks to Russ N Jake for the stinger submission! Stinger information added and verified by The Great Wall (2017) 1 week ago | The Lego Batman Movie (2017) 2 weeks ago | Fifty Shades Darker (2017) 3 weeks ago |Stoopid Buddy Stoodios is known best for creating the hilarious stop-motion animated series, “Robot Chicken.” But it also imparted its crafty magic on one of the most popular movies of 2014. Actor Seth Green and his fellow Stoopid Buddy founders, John Harvatine IV, Matthew Senreich, and Eric Towner, took time out from the numerous projects going on at “Stoodios” to give Business Insider some insight on how they created the eye-popping end credit sequence in “The Lego Movie.”
“They wanted something pretty ambitious,” Green recalls. “Stop-motion without a lot of compositing (combining two or more images).” To pull this off, Brian Mah of visual studio Alma Mater and Ethan Marak at Stoodios, led the charge, and what they came up with was a less is more approach. “We wanted to see how few [Lego] bricks we could use to build a train or a bat or a cop car,” said Towner, who added that the creation of the whole credits sequence took two months to complete. “The result instantly felt far more charming,” he said. “You could appreciate the unique details of each individual brick, rather than them getting lost in a mass of fifty pieces.” This made it possible for the sequences to go from an original estimate of 10,000 Legos being used to 3,000. The credits show up in different Lego-made layouts as the film’s theme song, “Everything is Awesome” by The Lonely Island, plays in the background. Here are a few: And then the camera pulls back to display a wide shot of the layouts we’ve seen with a Lego blocks creation of the words “The Lego Movie” formed before the screen goes black.
That final 12-second portion is considered one of the largest and most intricate stop-motion Lego animations ever attempted, according to Stoopid Stoodios. The sequence took four motion control passes to complete, with three animators working simultaneously to increment hundreds of individual Lego bricks. With an average of four objects moving per set that totals around 10,000 animated increments to create. “It’s astonishing how much work goes into such a short sequence,” said Senreich. “Animator Benny Zelkowicz had to move 150-plus Lego pieces per frame!” Here’s how the whole ending came out. NOW WATCH: This Scientology documentary made HBO hire 160 lawyers — here’s the trailerThe LEGO Batman Movie has won the box office two weekends in a row, following easily in the success of it’s LEGO Movie predecessor. Will Arnett reprises his role from the 2014 film as the Dark Knight and audiences get a chance to dive deeper into the overwhelming darkness that surrounds his very existence in all aspects at all times.
Of course, The LEGO Batman Movie combines humor with themes of family in its animated superhero tale. Now, a new video epitomizes those aspects utilizing the movie’s end credits song. Today WaterTower Music released the fully animated end credits sequence from The LEGO Batman Movie. In keeping with the characterization of Batman from the first LEGO Movie, music plays an important role in the narrative – and as a plot device – and it comes as no surprise that the end credits sequence is both hilarious and a fully executed music video complete with costume changes and choreography. Take a look above.Hush leads the song along with Arnett, who provides vocals in-character as the eponymous Batman, and they are joined by Jeff Lewis. The song – titled “Friends Are Family” – is a little bit of a spoiler for the lesson that Batman will learn over the course of the movie and does highlight many characters that appear as cameos or are surprises when they enter the action of the movie.
It is tough to encourage someone who has yet to see The LEGO Batman Movie to check this music video out, but it is definitely worth a revisit afterward. Viewers also get a sense of the marriage between practical effects and computer generated images that are the backbone of any LEGO Movie that has, or ever shall be, produced. Warner Bros. was likely hoping that “Friends Are Family” would take off and become wildly popular the same way “Everything is Awesome” did during The LEGO Movie, but that remains to be seen. “Friends Are Family” is less of an ear worm, although a better song. “Friends Are Family” is actually a really good song and the credits sequence does a great job at celebrating the weirdness of the sprawling cast of characters that make up The LEGO Batman Movie. At the same time, it lampoons tropes that viewers are familiar with from both musical theatre, movie credits and music videos themselves, adding to the comedy inherent in these representations of Batman, Batgirl, Robin et al. Repeat viewing reveals deeper and deeper levels of clever design and thinking behind the song.