THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE Filmplakat THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE Filmplakat THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE Action, Animation, Young Adults, Kids & FamilyFilm Blog (column; 9.2.2017) 10 box office highlights for 2017 The Lego Batman Movie <[ day_selected | format_to_date ]> No shows on this day. Next show: <[ get_next_show_date() | format_to_date ]> The new program (Thursday - Wednesday) is available from Monday, 6 p.m. A deliriously fun rideA thing of wonder Funniest animated movie of the year A movie the whole family will enjoy In the irreverent spirit of fun that made “The LEGO® Movie” a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble—LEGO® Batman—stars in his own big-screen adventure. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to save the city from The Joker’s hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up.
Will Arnett reprises his starring role from “The LEGO Movie” as the voice of LEGO Batman, aka Bruce Wayne. Zach Galifianakis (the “Hangover” films, “Muppets Most Wanted”) stars as The Joker; Michael Cera (TV’s “Arrested Development”) as the orphan Dick Grayson; Rosario Dawson (TV’s “Daredevil”) as Barbara Gordon; and Ralph Fiennes (the “Harry Potter” films) as Alfred. “The LEGO Batman Movie” is directed by Chris McKay, and produced by Dan Lin, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Roy Lee, who worked together on “The LEGO Movie.” Jill Wilfert, Matthew Ashton, Will Allegra and Brad Lewis serve as executive producers. The screenplay is by Seth Grahame-Smith and Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers and Jared Stern & John Whittington, story by Seth Grahame-Smith, based on LEGO Construction Toys and based on characters from DC Entertainment. Batman was created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger; Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Production designer Grant Freckelton and editor David Burrows also return from “The LEGO Movie,” joined by editors Matt Villa, and John Venzon.
The music is composed by Lorne Balfe. From Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Animation Group, in association with LEGO System A/S, a Lin Pictures / Lord Miller / Vertigo Entertainment production, “The LEGO Batman Movie” will open in theaters in 3D, 2D and IMAX. It will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. Sign up for exclusive accessThere’s nothing like them. But let’s face it: they don’t make them like they used to. The action is more real, the stories more intense, and the ratings more relaxed. So you need a critic to tell you not only if a movie is good, but good for your family. That’s where I come in. I’m Box Office Mom. I’m your behind-the-scenes ticket to family friendly movies and parent movie reviews. Rating: 4 and 1/2 out of 5 popcorn buckets Release Date: February 10, 2017 Best Age Group: 7+ Crude or Profane Language: Mild Drug and Alcohol Content: Mild Will Kids Like It? Read the full review here!
Rating: 4 out of 5 popcorn buckets Release Date: February 3, 2017 Best Age Group: 11+ Drug and Alcohol Content: Moderate Will Kids/Teens Like It? Release Date: January 27, 2017 Best Age Group: 10+ Crude or Profane Language: None Release Date: January 20, 2017 Best Age Group: 13+ Crude or Profane Language: Moderate Rating: 2 and 1/2 out of 5 popcorn buckets Release Date: January 13, 2017 Best Age Group: 17+ Crude or Profane Language: Excessive Will Teens Like It? Rating: 3 out of 5 popcorn buckets Release Date: January 6, 2017 Best Age Group: 15+ Rating: 5 out of 5 popcorn buckets Release Date: December 21, 2016 Best Age Group: 5+ Will Kids Like It? Best Age Group: 14+ Rating: 3 and 1/2 out of 5 popcorn buckets Release Date: December 16, 2016 Release Date: December 2, 2016 Release Date: November 18, 2016 Will Kids/ Teens Like It? Release Date: November 4, 2016
Best Age Group: 12+ Drug and Alcohol Content: None Rating: 4 and 1/2 out of 5 popcorn buckets. Release Date: November 2, 2016 Best Age Group: 16+ Rating: 3 and 1/2 out of 5 popcorn buckets. Release Date: October 21, 2016 Rating: 1 out of 5 popcorn buckets Release Date: October 10, 2016 Drug and Alcohol Content: Excessive Release Date: October 6, 2016 Best Age Group: 9+ Will Kids/ Teens Like It? Release Date: September 30, 2016 Will Teens Like It? It's only fair to share...The game of the film of the toy is more than just a promotional tie-in, but is it the next gen Lego game fans have been waiting for? Never mind the video game, what we would definitely recommend to everyone is to go out and see The Lego Movie. A bizarre mixture of Toy Story, Idiocracy, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, the film is as funny as it is scathing in its anti-authoritarian, non-conformist rhetoric. And all this while essentially being a two-hour advert for some very expensive toys.
It shouldn’t have worked, but like the chimeric brick creations featured throughout it absolutely does. Sadly, and inevitably, the film’s anti-establishment themes are largely lost in the game, as the villain of the piece (no pun intended) is portrayed as orchestrating a straightforward end-of-the world plan. Unlike most movie tie-ins nowadays this seeks to adapt the events of the film with relatively little embellishment, which means that you absolutely have to see the movie first or all the best jokes will be ruined for you. Especially as the game has an unusually generous number of (highly compressed) cut scenes taken straight from the film. Assuming you do experience them the right way round you’ll find that the major problem with the Lego Movie game is that it is actively pursuing the very opposite message to the one the film is trying to spread. In the movie everyman Lego guy Emmett is encouraged to, literally, give up the instruction books and do things his way.
In the game though you have to do exactly what you’re told. This includes an entirely un-ironic need to collect and use… instruction books – which you then watch the game use to build Lego creations, and where your only input is to spot the odd missing piece. Even less interactive is when characters take three highlighted clumps of Lego and combine them into a new form, a process over which you have no control whatsoever. Traveller’s Tales have been making Lego games for almost a decade now and so it’s going to be no surprise to find that, despite a few wrinkles in the formula, this is just the same as all the other ones. Change is especially unlikely given how little time there is to make them: Lego Marvel only came out in November, while Lego The Hobbit is out in just a few months. As entertaining as the games are they don’t really encapsulate the creativity of the toys, and have owed a lot of their success to parodying whatever other franchise they’re based on.
In the video game world the real Lego equivalent is Minecraft, and yet Lego has never shown any serious intention of creating their own rival. So instead what you have here is the same co-op action adventure as usual, just with a slightly different emphasis on the various elements. There are almost no vehicles in the main story levels and even the ones in the world hubs are barely used, while what little combat there is turns out to be the most simplistic and unsatisfying in any of the games so far. Instead puzzle-solving and exploration is pushed more to the fore, although again the puzzles are less complicated than many of the more recent games. For understandable reasons The Lego Movie seems to be aimed at a younger audience than titles like Lego Marvel and Lego Lord Of The Rings, but only in terms of gameplay. We noted in its review that Lego Marvel’s script seemed to be pitched several years younger than usual, despite the gameplay being more involved than the average.
The Lego Movie is the opposite, as although most of its best gags are from the film the new dialogue is almost equally funny, and will be appreciated most by an older audience. Especially the portrayal of Batman as a self-centred braggart and the knowing sarcasm of Lord Business and Wyldstyle. And although the credits make it unclear whether anyone from the film reprised their roles or not the voiceovers are good enough that we couldn’t tell anyway. While many will accept the lack of change, even given that this would’ve been an obvious point to institute it, the only real disappointment with The Lego Movie game is that it’s a lot shorter than the other games. You can speed through all the story levels in around five hours and although there are four main hub world they’re all much smaller than the open world environments from most of the other recent games. It’s still not exactly a small game – we’d estimate you’d need about 18 hours to 100 per cent it – but it doesn’t offer anywhere like the longevity or value for money of something like Lego Marvel.
On the upside though Lego Movie doesn’t have anywhere near as many bugs. We only had it crash on us once, and there are very few of the usual graphical and artificial intelligence glitches. Graphically this is billed as being the first of the games where everything, including the environments, are made out of Lego and from an art design perspective that is true. But as you’d probably guess a lot of this is just a matter of switching realistic textures for ones that look like Lego bricks. There’s no more, or less, destruction than a normal Lego game and often times some bricks can be smashed while others, that look almost identical, are left standing. We’re willing to believe though that a completely destructible Lego game is a technical impossibility, even on the next gen consoles. But what we’d really like to see in a new game is the ability to create something other than what is pre-programmed into the game. As entertaining as The Lego Movie game is, and it is just as much fun as always, it hasn’t really understood the lessons of the film at all.