Subscribe to ComicsAlliance on The Lego Batman Movie is the perfect film to escape into for ninety minutes, and its message of friendship, co-operation, and teamwork is downright inspiring. A lot of the film’s emotional strength is reflected in its original songs, including the touching “I Found You,” which features the cherubic Dick Grayson recounting the happiness he discovered in his adopted family. It might be a leftover result of Fredric Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent, but Batman comics rarely truly cut to the emotional core of the Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson relationship. You might see it with Bruce and Damian, but Bruce’s adoption of Dick has never really been put into so many words before, kept at a distance by the archaic word “ward.” Yet there’s something incredibly vulnerable about a man orphaned as a child taking in another orphan, and while The Lego Batman Movie is a jokey-joke film for babies, it has one of the most nuanced takes on Bruce Wayne’s loss and reluctance to find a new family, in any medium.
We are both the same I’m Dick Grayson and you’re Bruce Wayne Though we both have different names We’re born to save the day The opening lines of “I Found You” is some of the tightest storytelling I’ve ever seen when it comes to Batman and Robin, and honestly it could be up there with Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely‘s iconic All-Star Superman intro for how much it conveys in so little time. It’s also such a drastically different approach to the aggro-macho Batman in his own songs — like “I’m The (Bat)Man” — that it comes with an inherent honesty that makes it all the more affecting. Subscribe to ComicsAlliance on The rest of the film’s original songs are killer too, and I’m not ashamed to say that I nearly teared up over the song “Friends Are Family.” There aren’t many films aimed directly at children that tell you that family comes in all shapes and sizes, and a family that you choose is just important as the one you’re born into.
Plus, Alfred’s rocking guitar solo totally rules. Of Mysteries And Martians: The Best Silver Age Sci-Fi Covers Ever 10 Worst Superhero Games The Wild, Tear-Filled World of Heartbreak: The Best Romance Comic Covers Ever [Love & Sex Week] 10 Greatest Superhero Video Games "Everything Is Awesome" is the theme song to the 2014 Warner Bros. Pictures film The Lego Movie. It was written by Shawn Patterson,[1] Jo Li,[2][3] and The Lonely Island. The single and pop version featured in the end credits of the movie was produced by Mark Mothersbaugh[4] and performed by Tegan and Sara in collaboration with The Lonely Island. The version of "Everything Is Awesome" featured in The Lego Movie scene, official trailer,[5] TV spots,[6][7][8] video game, and featurette[9] was produced by Bartholomew[10] and performed by Bartholomew and Lisa Harriton under the name Jo Li. A third version appears in The Lego Batman Movie, performed by Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine.
On January 26, 2014, the song received its first US radio airplay via Anything Anything with Rich Russo on WXPK-FM, WRAT-FM and WDHA-FM.[11] Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara said in a Billboard interview: We want to be a "serious" musical band, while also being humorous people, but this was so adorable, and the movie looked great, and the opportunity to do something with Mark Mothersbaugh and the Lonely Island ... it was sort of a no-brainer, and it's turned out to be this really cool moment. We feel like it was a win-win. In an interview to Fox News, Mark Mothersbaugh says the song "was supposed to be like mind control early in the film. It's totally irritating, this kind of mindless mantra to get people up and working." The music video features Lego versions of Tegan and Sara as well as The Lonely Island's Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone. Parts of the video were made using brickfilming. "Everything is Awesome" debuted at No. 7 on the Dance/Electronic Songs chart, with 34,000 downloads in its first week (Nielsen SoundScan) and 11 on the Irish Charts.
It also charted 35 on the Canadian Hot 100. The song charted 17 on the UK Charts and charted 3 on the UK Indie. In the US Billboard Hot 100, the song charted 57.[15] As of June 2014, the single had sold 418,000 copies in the United States. International Business Times described the song as a parody of creeping fascism, saying that the song "seems little more than an infectiously catchy parody of watered-down radio pop, right down to the faux-dubstep breakdown. There’s a lot more happening under the surface, however." As one of the songs nominated for Best Original Song at the 2015 Oscars, "Everything is Awesome" was performed as a large-scale musical number featuring not only Tegan and Sara and The Lonely Island, but also on-stage appearances by Mothersbaugh (paying homage to his 1970s group Devo by wearing a LEGO version of the distinctive Devo energy dome), DJ Questlove, and comic actor Will Arnett dressed as Batman (in the film, Arnett provides the voice of Batman and sings the mocking heavy metal composition "Untitled Self Portrait", an excerpt of which was incorporated into the "Everything Is Awesome" performance).
[18] According to LEGO Movie co-director Christopher Miller, for this on-stage appearance, Arnett wore the Batman costume originally worn by Val Kilmer in the 1995 film Batman Forever.[19] Arnett also lip-synced to the song on the Reality TV Show Lip Sync Battle, while dressed as Emmet, the character voiced by Chris Pratt in The Lego Movie. ^ [1] "Playlists for 1/26/14" ^ a b 'The Lego Movie': Why Tegan & Sara Went Chirpy for 'Everything Is Awesome' (Video). ^ Devo lead singer dishes on creating catchy 'Lego' song. ^ How 'The Lego Movie' And 'Everything Is Awesome' Parody Creeping Everyday Fascism. ^ WATCH: ‘Everything is Awesome’ at the Oscars Thanks to Will Arnett’s Batman and Oprah, Variety. accessed February 25, 2015 ^ Nick Romano, Will Arnett Wore A Piece Of Batman History At The Oscars. ^ ARIA Australian Top 40 Digital Tracks | Australia's Official Top 40 Digital Downloads. ^ "Tegan and Sara – Chart history" Canadian Hot 100 for Tegan and Sara.