Not unlike this TV that just showed up magically... Wyldstyle: *Beat* "That is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Vitruvius: "We are entering your mind." the mysterious portal to oblivion, he keeps falling, basically to the point of an implied offscreen Overly Long Gag while the rest of the Master Builders are saving the world. While coming up with a plan to infiltrate the Octan headquarters, Emmet asks the team what the last thing Lord Business expects the Master Builders to do.(transforms into a giant face that sings "How Ya Gonna Keep Them Down On the Farm?")Lego Movie clips are way funnier than they have any business being1/27/14 10:40am The Lego Movie is funny. Check out these nine clips. If you don't (at least) chuckle, you're dead inside. Also, they introduce the greatest character ever made — Princess Uni-Kitty! Big props to directors Phil Lord, Chris Miller (21 Jump Street, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) and Chris McKay for actually turning The Lego Movie into something other than a giant ad for Lego.
This movie is front loaded with 1,001 jokes, and continues to blast the audience with sheer creative joy. These clips are an excellent example of why you should probably check this film out.“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. Cool Posts From Around the Web: ZergNetMan GeezThis ManLove ThisI Love HimYep GifGif XdOlan Rogers FunnyMaster CommanderSo FunnyForwardHahaha Olan. He is hilarious, just look up Olan Rogers and you must watch Ghost in the Stalls first. I promise you, you will laugh!“Who can chokehold a bear?”“Those lines are shouted in a song introducing the brooding, blocky Caped Crusader in the opening of “The Lego Batman Movie.” The scene has Batman (voiced by Will Arnett) is fighting a gaggle of bad guys before squaring off with the Joker (voiced by Zach Galifianakis).
In an interview, the director Chris McKay discussed how the song came to be and why he decided to begin the movie with a climactic action sequence. Below are excerpts from that conversation.Would you discuss this song that Batman is singing?Batman, in the first movie, has a song, “Darkness, No Parents.” We loved the idea that Batman fancied himself to be a Marilyn Manson/Trent Reznor type, somewhere between industrial and rap. He saw himself as this warrior poet and writes these earnest, dark-feeling songs. In the original edit, the song was “Bodies,” by Drowning Pool. But the studio didn’t think that was going to play for a kid’s movie. So we brought in a bunch of guys to write stuff and the song we loved the most was from a songwriter named Cheap Shot, who wrote this really funny, but also really cool song.The scene starts the movie off with a bang. What were your goals for it?I wanted the beginning of our movie to feel like the third act of someone else’s movie. This is the third act of a Zack Snyder or Christopher Nolan Batman movie where there’s this threat that the city can’t do anything about and it’s the biggest thing Batman’s ever faced.
I wanted the beginning of the movie to tell you about the world, to tell you about what other Batman movies would have done. I wanted to set this up for what you see after this scene, when Batman goes home and you see that he leads a lonely life.Could you talk about the Joker in this scene?Joker is the villain we love watching Batman fight. Batman and Joker have the central relationship of the Batman movies and comic books. I love this idea that Joker feels like this little brother who wants to show up his older brother but can never quite beat him. Joker sees himself as the bad guy version of Batman, but here Batman pulls the rug out from under him and doesn’t see it that way at all. We wanted Joker to be so vulnerable and look at them as having some kind of relationship. To have Batman deny that relationship like a bad boyfriend seemed like a lot of fun.Back to full review Back to full review Don't ask me again. Snap to it, or block it? A parents' guide to 'The Lego Movie'
Every kid with a toy box, every parent who’s ever winced from landing a bare foot on a two-by-two red block, every grandparent who’s bought a minifig for a birthday knows that “The Lego Movie” opens Friday. But is it right for everyone? We snap together some of your likely questions. (Warning: Many spoilers ahead.) The prosCritical reviews have been almost universally positive, with Time magazine calling it "the funniest, cleverest, most exhaustingly exhilarating animated feature in ages." There's plenty of pop-culture references to keep the adults amused and the movie's world is nicely representative of your typical kid's Lego collection. Milhouse from "The Simpsons" mingles with Superman, Lady Liberty, "1980 something space guy," a mermaid, a panda and other Lego figs, and other household items such as Krazy Glue and used Band-Aids ("the cloak of Ban-Dai-Ed") play roles. The consEmphasis on "exhaustive." It’s like it was written by a Lego-loving kid hopped up on Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs who was inspired by one of the “Batman” movies — the action is frenetic and hyper.
All kids who play with Legos may want to see it, but it's not right for the younger tykes. And the 3-D is unnecessary. Is it right for kids of all ages?We're going to say no. While it’s rated PG for “mild action and rude humor,” there are a lot of hyperactive battle scenes, car chases and explosions. The Batmobile is shot until it blows up, as is Wonder Woman’s invisible jet (but that’s pretty funny, since … it’s invisible). And there are intense scenes — scary skeleton-faced robots attack, a characters’ parents are threatened, our heroes are strapped into chairs and “tortured” with green light flashes. A kid behind us wailed when a submarine exploded, another couldn't stop asking her parents about a character who was beheaded with a penny. Parents need to evaluate their own child's comfort level. Nine-year-olds will be in happy hyperfrenetic heaven, preschoolers should stick to "Frozen." Do I need to pony up for 3-D?Emmet and some of the other characters are flung into the audience due to various explosions, and red Lego blocks often rain out at the audience.
But the third dimension doesn't suck the audience onscreen into its crazy cartoonish world. If you've got the money and want to get the full "Lego Movie" experience, the 3-D isn't a bad addition. But if your local theater's only showing it in 2-D or you want to save a few bucks, don't let your kids guilt you into feeling bad about it. How are the voices?Chris Pratt's enthusiastic voice as unlikely hero Emmet is in almost every minute of the movie, and he's likable and funny. Kudos also to Morgan Freeman in a perfect Morgan Freeman role as the wizard Vitruvius and Will Arnett as a growly, frattish Batman. You'll have fun recognizing the other voices too, especially Jonah Hill, whose Green Lantern could've used a much bigger role, Elizabeth Banks as a fighter not unlike Trinity from "The Matrix," and Will Ferrell as the nasty villain. Best lines“His face is so generic, it matches every other face in our database.”“We need more ideas so dumb and bad no one will ever think they could possibly be useful.”“