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Perfect for a Lego Birthday Party or a birthday treat for school. Kids will go crazy over these! Complete recipe and instructions with video tutorial.4½ Reasons To Watch the Lego Movie Even Though You Aren’t a Baby I saw the Lego Movie with my sister and some wine and it was a great decision. I spent the first few minutes hypnotized by Lego fire and giggling at the rapid stream of jabs and jokes (don’t stress out about catching each one). If you’re not used to the weird world of kids movies, imagine that trying to process and appreciate each joke is like watching the I Love Lucy scene where she ends up stuffing chocolates into her bra. Like Jack Halberstam writes in The Queer Art of Failure, kids’ movies can be amazing introductions to queer, negativity, and artful failure, because kids tend to care more about friends sticking up for each other than individual success, kids agree that everyone should be able dress however they want and play whatever character they want, they more readily admit when their feelings are hurt
, and they use failure to laugh at success, like anti-matter eating away at matter. The Lego Movie could belong to the same world. The intro to our hero is a quick-witted and pointed critique of conformity and consumer culture: President Business is being shady as hell, but dumb-ass TV keeps our protagonist too entertained to care, everyone consumes the same pop-culture, everyone thinks everything is awesome1, no one thinks for themselves, and in less than five minutes, kiddos everywhere know that Legolandia is no good at all. If you’re a self-reflexive sap this might give you a mini-panic, thinking: “I’m in Legolandia. I’m watching a silly movie that’s making a critique of the contemporary political-economy and I’m just giggling but not doing anything! Am I a Lego fool? The Lego Movie might not belong to Halberstam’s “Pixarvolts”, but it’s still worth watching. Here are 4½ reasons you should watch it even if you think you’re a grownup: 1. There are a jillion jokes that the babies probably won’t get, and cameos and pop culture references that are at least ten years old.
Also, it doesn’t try to make the Lego universe “make sense” — the chicken leg is half the construction worker’s body, the sound of cats meowing sounds like people saying “meow”, and so on. 2. The film is totally a lil bit anti-capitalist. The film’s villain is named Mr. Business, and the main characters collaborate and think creatively to allow all Legolandians to live inter-universe lives where pirate robots, and kitty princess batmobiles, and old west disco queens can live in harmony. I don’t recall the protagonists discussing how to turn a bigger profit. (On the other hand the whole damn movie is a commercial, so there’s that). Either way, you sorta need to understand some political economy to appreciate the film. 3. There’s a big plot twist that is interesting from, like, a film studies perspective and you don’t want to risk not being in the loop on all the inevitable “film theory and Lego reality” conversations. Save yourself the stress, see the film, and stay in the know.
(Spoiler alert: the big twist is that the Lego world is totally constructed and there’s a meta level that involves a storyline with real people: a father and a son. The father is the evil “President Business” Lego character and the Lego storyline is the son’s way of acting out.) 4. The film takes aim at the number one question for babies in the 21st century. Does being special matter? ½. Lego water and fire are flippin awesome. Just take a moment to appreciate them while trying to keep up with the jillion jokes.Step 1: Tools, Materials, and PlanningShow All ItemsAs gateway drugs go, “The Lego Batman Movie” is pretty irresistible. It’s silly without being truly strange or crossing over into absurdity. Along the way it pulls off a nifty balancing act: It gives the PG audience its own Batman movie (it’s a superhero starter kit) and takes swipes at the subgenre, mostly by gently mocking the seriousness that has become a deadening Warner Bros. default. “The Lego Batman Movie” can’t atone for a movie as grindingly bad as the studio’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” which stars Ben Affleck as the Gotham City brooder, but at least someone on that lot gets the joke.
The cast and crew of “The Lego Batman Movie” sustain that joke admirably, filling in its 104-minute running time with loads of busy action, deadpan humor, visual comedy, reflexive bits and an overfamiliar story line. It features the usual cavalcade of marquee-ready talent (Rosario Dawson, Conan O’Brien, Mariah Carey), the comic and less so, but owes much of its pleasure and juice to Will Arnett, who voices Batman. The movie puts a goofy spin on the Batman saga, but it squeezes its brightest, most sustained comedy from Mr. Arnett’s hypnotically sepulchral voice, which conveys the entire bat ethos — the Sturm und Drang, the darkness and aloneness, the resoluteness and echoiness — in vocal terms. It’s blissfully self-serious, near-Wagnerian and demented.Mr. Arnett anchors the movie, though he’s nicely book-ended by Michael Cera, as the excitable pip-squeaker Dick Grayson, and Ralph Fiennes, who voices Alfred, Bruce Wayne’s trusted butler and operational aide-de-camp.
Some of the wittiest moments happen early, before the story machinery starts humming, and involve Batman-Bruce wandering his mansion in his fetishlike mask and a silky red bathrobe, nuking his lobster dinner and giggling solo at “Jerry Maguire.” If Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” cycle suggests that Batman teeters on actual madness, “The Lego Batman Movie” ups the ante by insinuating that he has fully settled into near-Howard Hughes eccentricity. Not too much nuttiness, mind you, just enough to keep the jokes pinging and zinging, at least until the story amps up. Most of that involves the Joker (Zach Galifianakis), who’s not the transgressive opposition but a whining smiler desperately yearning for Batman’s attention. This isn’t as funny or engaging as the filmmakers seem to think, partly because a child-friendly Joker can’t have the scariness or anarchic threat that distinguishes this character’s better iterations. (He can’t compete partly because he’s nowhere near as loopy as this Batman.)
Mostly, the Joker is the master of ceremonies for the rest of the villainous horde, a motley crew of creatures that includes Harley Quinn (Jenny Slate), who’s mostly a trauma trigger for “Suicide Squad,” another supersplat.As an object, “The Lego Batman Movie” looks as good as its predecessor, “The Lego Movie.” This one is similarly shiny and bright, though sometimes as teasingly dark as Batman. Even when the story drags, which it does as the action grows frenetic, the shiny and bright bits catch the eye. As in the first movie, the character design does much of the most meaningful work because it conveys part of what’s enjoyable about Legos, including their smooth-to-the-touch plastic surfaces and knobby bits (studs in Lego lingo), which you can almost feel in your hands as you watch. One of the satisfactions of Legos is their touch sensation, a sense memory that’s imprinted on brains, too. Basing movies on kiddie playthings is ingenious: It turns every Lego brick into a Rosebud sled, a portal into childhood.
That makes resistance fairly futile, or at least tough, especially when the crew ushering you into the past is up to the task, as is the case here. Chris McKay directed this one, working from a jammed script by Seth Grahame-Smith, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jared Stern and John Whittington. (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who directed “The Lego Movie,” helped produce “The Lego Batman Movie.”) The whole vibe is, as the first “Lego” movie insisted with its deliriously catchy anthem, awesome, so, relax, enjoy the show, go with the flow. I mean, who hates Legos? Isn’t that like hating childhood? Well, of course not, though that gets to what’s frustrating about these movies, which are so insistently good-natured and relentlessly hyped that it feels almost churlishly old-school raising even modest objections to the fact that — in addition to being, you know, fun — they’re also commercials. It’s not new or news that movies have long sold stuff, including studio tie-ins and toys, as Walt Disney explained by example decades ago, though, like Pixar, he was also in the business of storytelling and not merely corporate-brand storytelling and building.