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.Review: 'The Lego Movie' Builds to Oscar Status (Photo credit: Warner Bros. Pictures/AP Photo) "The Lego Movie" will likely be one of the most surprising movies of the year. Of course, it's only February, so it's rare to get a film with Oscar potential this early.I'm not talking best picture here, but Warner Bros isn't going to need to build a Lego Dolby Theater with Lego Oscars and pretend to have a Lego Academy Awards to be recognized. This film is probably going to grab an Academy Award nomination for best animated picture - that's how good it is. "Parks and Recreation" star Chris Pratt, who's slowly transitioning from TV star to movie star, is the voice of Emmet Brickowski, a very average, kind of boring, unoriginal citizen of this Lego world. He's conformist, following his instruction booklet, which tells him how to go about his daily routine.
Like all the other conforming Lego citizens, he goes around singing the most popular song - and apparently, the only song - everybody listens to, which is titled "Everything Is Awesome." It's sung in the streets, it's sung at work, it's sung for hours at a time. All ABC News Movie Reviews Here On the flip side, there exist Master Builders, free-thinkers unshackled from the rules and instruction booklets that keep the citizens under the stealthy totalitarian rule of President Business, voiced by Will Ferrell. President Business has an evil plan to destroy the world with a weapon called the Kragle, and the only one who can stop him is The Special: the greatest Master Builder to ever live. How do we know this? It's the prophecy as seen by Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman), a character who's a mix of Morpheus and the Oracle from The Matrix. Spoiler Alert: guess who turns out to be The Special?Will he be able to stop President Business? With the help of Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) and Vitruvius, he just might!
The very idea of a Lego movie was to me perplexing and a bit annoying, but this particular creative team, headed by directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 21 Jump Street) have made a hilarious parody of pop culture disguised as a kids' movie, replete with homage after brilliant homage to a plethora of classic sci-fi films and, of course, Lego toys. You'll leave the theater smiling and singing "Everything Is Awesome," because when it comes to The Lego Movie, everything is. Four-and-a-half out of five stars.Movie ErikMovie Where'SMovie 2014The Lego MovieTotally WakeTotally PumpedI'M PumpedSunday LovedMovie SundayForwardWho's excited about the LEGO Movie???!!! - Watched it today! Everything Is Awesome When This Parrot Sings 'Everything Is Awesome' From the Lego MovieBirds on Safari, a pet store in Stuart, Fla., posted a video of a yellow-naped Amazon parrot named Princess Yellowfeather that appears to sing "Everything is Awesome" from The Lego Movie.It also sings Celine Dion's "All By Myself."
(Someone let Bridget Jones know so she won't feel alone!)/video.php?v=870763606328289&set=vb.134770669927590&type=2&theaterAnd in a June 29 clip, it appears to try and belt out "Close to You" by The Carpenters, specifically the "Why do birds suddenly appear" part of the song.No word on whether Princess Yellowfeather is producing an album, working on an auto-tuned remix single or at least planning to star in a regular show at Miami's "Parrot Jungle."This GIF by The LEGO Movie has everything: movie, hair, LEGO! Giphy links preview in Facebook and Twitter. HTML5 links autoselect optimized format. Short URLs redirect to a specified link while rendering a GIF preview on Facebook and Twitter. The LEGO Movie animated GIFDespite How to Train Your Dragon 2's Golden Globes win this past weekend, I'd still predict that The Lego Movie is Oscar's frontrunner for Best Animated Feature, and an absolutely surefire bet to be nominated in that category tomorrow morning. But will the Oscar nominations also make room for The Lego Movie in Best Original Song, citing the infectiously upbeat "Everything Is Awesome"?
The Academy's music branch can often go its own way (as they notoriously did last year with the quickly scuttled nomination for "Alone But Not Alone"), but let's hope it recognizes the insidious genius "Awesome," which burrows itself into your brain at first listen but courteously hits every single pleasure center while it's there. Even Chris Pratt, who voiced The Lego Movie's lead character, isn't sick of the song yet — though he admits he still can't get it out of his head. "Dude, you have no idea!" Pratt laughed to Vulture. "I have a padded cell in my brain for it." Alright then, Pratt, make the case! Why does "Everything Is Awesome" warrant an Academy Award nomination? "Well, I think it follows the theme of this movie, which you think is just some Lego movie made to sell toys — and it's actually a really subversive, interesting, thought-provoking commentary on society," Pratt said, speaking to Vulture a few weeks ago at a Lego-themed soiree. "The song itself represents that, because it's saying that everything is awesome, but it's the anthem of this strange world that exists halfway between America and North Korea, you know what I mean?
Twenty or 30 years from now, I think people will look back at 'Everything Is Awesome,' and it'll be more than just a cool pop song. It's really reflective of where we are right now, and that's what art is all about." And if the Academy still requires more incentivizing, just think of all the awesome collaborators on the song who'd be up for reprising it onstage! "If they perform it on the show, it will be so fun to see Tegan and Sara, the Lonely Island, and Mark Mothersbaugh," said Phil Lord, the film's co-director. "And I'm hoping Batman will do a little surprise cameo! That alone is reason enough." The song's writer, Shawn Patterson, set his sights even higher. "My original idea was that we should have the greatest musicians and singers in the world perform it," he told us. "Yo-Yo Ma should do a solo! Meryl Streep should sing! Ice-T should do the rap! Everything about the song is sort of gloriously unglorious, so to have someone really grand belting it out — I think that's the way to go."