On the Charts: 'Frozen,' 'Lego Movie' Dominate Finding good news in a sea of bad Rather than rehashing the same old dismal music-sales news in this space (tracks down 12 percent, albums down 15 percent), let's focus on the good things. Like Pharrell's "Happy" — it's Number One, up 22 percent, selling 402,000 copies! Or John Legend's "All of Me" — it rose 23 percent, sold 203,000 copies and increased to Number Four! All we need are 700 more pieces of news like this and everything will be (see below) awesome. 'Frozen' Freezes Out 'Paranormal Activity' On the Charts: Valentine's Day Shows Love to Album Sales "Rock Band" Courts Kids With "LEGO" Video Game THE SOUNDTRACK THAT WON'T GO AWAY (FOR HUMANS): Because my 11-year-old daughter and her middle-school friends refuse to stop singing "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?," to the obsessive point that we are deconstructing melodic similarities between that song and Michael Jackson's "Childhood," it's the perfect time to revisit the Frozen soundtrack's chart dominance so far this year.
After a brief Eric Church interlude, Frozen sold 89,000 copies (actually a decrease of 11 percent) and hits Number One for the fifth week. (That's five separate weeks, not five weeks in a row.) I've been arguing that the album is huge because it's the only thing out, not counting warmed-over Beyonce and Katy Perry releases from 2013, but the songs are super-catchy and rich in that Annie-Lion King musical sort of way. (Church's The Outsiders, by the way, dropped 74 percent in sales, with 74,000 copies, and is at Number Two.) THE SOUNDTRACK THAT WON'T GO AWAY (FOR LEGO PEOPLE): Speaking of stupidly catchy songs from kids' movies, "Everything Is AWESOME!!!" [note correct punctuation], the Tegan & Sara-Lonely Island-Mark Mothersbaugh centerpiece to The Lego Movie, is perhaps poised to make a run up the charts. As of last week, according to Billboard, it was at Number 11 on the dance-electronic songs chart, and it made its debut at Number 37 on the latest Ultimate Chart, which often predicts future hits.
The video is up to a respectable 3.5 million YouTube views and the song hit Spotify's most-viral-tracks list, although, curiously, it's not available on the service at the moment. ANOMALY OF THE WEEK: Justin Timberlake hasn't done anything new, near as I can tell, to promote his album The 20/20 Experience, Part 2, and yet it jumped into iTunes' Top 10 albums this week. Maybe it's the history-of-rap-part-five video he did with Jimmy Fallon during the talk-show host's new Tonight Show gig last week? Maybe it's the fact that his U.S. tour has finally kicked in, although he had to postpone a show in Buffalo due to health reasons? Or maybe it's because his wife Jessica Biel did some shopping?The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)10 February 201732 songsFollowMusic SupervisorsIs it you? Songs and music featured in The LEGO Batman Movie (2017): Add songPopular SongsHarry NilssonAlessoPatrick StumpDNCEFraser Murray LEGO filmen (original: The Lego Movie) är en animerad långfilm från 2014, baserad på Lego.
Legofiguren Emmet jobbar som byggjobbare. En dag upptäcker han att en mystisk kvinna, Wyldstyle, tagit sig in på byggarbetsplatsen. Han jagar henne, men faller ner i ett dolt hål, där han hittar en underlig artefakt som tycks tala till honom. Den fastnar på honom. Emmet blir förhörd av polisen, men fritas av Wyldstyle som visar sig vara en "mästerbyggare". Hon berättar att hon har letat länge efter artefakten som enligt legenden ska visa vägen till en utvald person. Hon tar Emmet till en annan värld, där den vise mästaren Vitruvius försöker träna upp Emmet utan framgång. Den onde Lord Business' styrkor anfaller dock och lyckas slutligen fånga in gänget, där även Batman och flera andra Legofigurer medverkar. Emmet beslutar sig för att försöka rädda sina vänner från Lord Business' högkvarter, men blir också infångad. Lord Business tar artefakten från Emmet, som visar sig vara en kork till en klistertub, som Lord Business tänkt att använda för att se till att allt Lego förblir såsom det var tänkt från början.
Filmens soundtrack, The Lego Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, släpptes den 4 februari 2014 genom WaterTower Music.[1] Ledmotivet "Everything Is Awesome" släpptes på singel den 27 januari, och framförs av Tegan and Sara och The Lonely Island. Denna artikel om amerikansk film saknar väsentlig information. Du kan hjälpa till genom att . Batman has been in need of a great unburdening. It became necessary after Christopher Nolan's trilogy posited the Caped Crusader as a hulking avatar of turn-of-the-millennium anxiety. And it grew even more urgent after the drudgery of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, which was like chasing the heaviest meal of your life with a fully loaded, twice-baked potato. Over the last 50 years, Batman has crossed the spectrum from the campy, freewheeling POW! of the 1966 TV version to a grim-faced, gravel-voiced bulwark against festering corruption, urban blight, and existential malaise. Only the Joel Schumacher versions, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, tried to Batusi in the other direction, but the backlash only catapulted the hero further into darkness.
In the exceedingly busy world of 2014's The LEGO Movie, Batman languished several names down the cast list, serving as the super-cool boyfriend standing between its dimwitted hero and the Master Builder of his dreams. But it advanced one small, important insight: Batman had become kind of a self-obsessed jerk and wouldn't it be funny to point this out to an audience that blithely accepted him as the hero of our times? As voiced by Will Arnett, Batman was re-conceived as a variation on other Arnett characters like Devon Banks on 30 Rock or Gob on Arrested Development, masking insecurity and ignorance with thundering arrogance and bravado. The LEGO Batman Movie is perhaps the best possible thing that could have happened to Batman and to DC, which has suffered for its humorlessness as Marvel movies have playfully cracked wise. In the spirit of the first movie — and of the act of playing with LEGOs themselves — the freedom to deconstruct and rebuild outside conventional parameters has the effect of liberating Batman, making him fun and self-deprecating again.
In fact, the arc of the story itself feels like a gradual unwinding of the clock, taking him from a surly, joyless echo in the Batcave to someone with the humility to be a team player. The self-deprecation starts before the Warner Brothers logo even appears. "All important movies start with a black screen," snarls Batman in the voiceover, primed to add another world-saving adventure to his mythological résumé. Once he does appear, however, the film etches a sad portrait of superhero bachelordom, with Batman as a Charles Foster Kane type who slumps home to an empty Xanadu and eats microwaved lobster thermidor in front of Jerry Maguire (which he takes as a comedy). With Gotham City once again under attack by the Joker (Zach Galifianakis) — and a wealth of major and minor villains in the Batman catalog, on top of appearances by the Eye of Sauron and other off-brand nemeses — the Caped Crusader can barely hide his boredom behind his mask. When the threat gets overwhelming, he reluctantly learns to work with a team that includes his devoted butler Alfred (Ralph Fiennes), his adopted son Dick Grayson (Michael Cera), and the glamorous new police commissioner Barbara Gordon (Rosario Dawson).
The first LEGO Movie turned a philosophical battle over the blocks themselves — are they better as meticulous, step-by-step model construction or a playground of creativity? — into a metaphor for the pleasures of nonconformity and free discovery. With that matter resolved, The LEGO Batman Movie doesn't have to fuss over the rules, leaving director Chris McKay (Robot Chicken) and his battery of screenwriters to move the fake-plastic pieces around the board without holding anything sacrosanct. Figures from The Lords of the Rings and The Wizard of Oz can, indeed, wriggle around in the same cinematic space as DC legends because the children who accumulate these toys have no reservations about it. The nonstop flurry of gags and references, on top of the hectic business of Gotham City literally breaking in two, is mostly a strength, especially for those steeped in comics and pop culture knowledge. The consequence is a structural looseness that would drive Will Ferrell's father in The LEGO Movie crazy, though any flabbiness resulting from the devil-may-care storytelling is a fair trade-off for a film so enthusiastic about screwing around.