How many Lego pieces did it take to make The Lego Movie? As it turns out, the film’s creators, directing and writing duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, didn’t just rely on actual Legos for the film; as the New York Times pointed out, just the number of bricks required for the task alone would’ve already cost millions of dollars. According to Warner Bros. Pictures, there are a total of 3,863,484 unique Lego bricks seen in the movie. But if you were to recreate the entire film only using Legos, you’d need 15,080,330, the studio said. With a unique blend of CG animation and actual Lego sets, the final look of The Lego Movie has a surprising visual depth; it almost appears as if someone painstakingly animated each and every movement through stop-motion. That’s because the animators went to great lengths to ensure that they included aspects of real Lego pieces when creating their characters. In the video above, which was edited using footage provided by the studio, several animators of the film describe the intricate process of bringing virtual Lego bricks and scenes to life.
“We tried to be quite authentic with the actual Lego product itself,” said CG supervisor Damien Gray. “There’s a lot of detail put into the sticker work, the decal work, the mold lines, chips, chunks, scratches — we tried to incorporate a lot of that.” In order to achieve that “played-with” look for Emmet and the other 182 unique minifigures that appear in the film, animators observed the physical models under microscopes to get every detail right. In addition to scrutinizing the appearance of the Lego bricks themselves, Lord and Miller also took into account other factors they wanted to mimic from stop-motion videos. “If you were animating this in real life, there would be all of these dust particles, and there is a bit of actual dandruff,” Miller told the Times. “We did a little test of how much was too much.” So what else from the film resembles real life? Take a look at this blooper reel in which the Legos (or is it their voiceover actors?) have a little too much fun:
Batman (voiced by the great Will Arnett) is back — but this time front and center — in "The Lego Batman Movie."You want me to review "The LEGO Batman Movie"? You really think that readers are going to see the headline, "Movie review: ‘The Lego Batman Movie’ builds on a great brand," and think, "I really wonder what the Daily News thinks of Will Arnett's return as the Caped Crusader. I'm also curious about whether Zach Galifianakis can pull off the challenging role of the emotionally scarred, but sadistically vicious Joker. And, now that I'm about to click on the review, I do wonder whether the author, who called the original 'LEGO Movie' the 'best film since "Citizen Kane,"' will ultimately be a fair arbiter of the spinoff." I guess what I'm saying is, you don't need a review of "The LEGO Batman Movie." If you saw the original, you know exactly what you're getting: animated bricks, a simple action movie plot, and Arnett's cocky Batman — with so much fourth-wall breaking that people in the front row will likely leave covered in debris.
But I'm paid to do this stuff, so here goes: "The LEGO Movie" was indeed a five-star classic: It was innovative, it was irreverent, and its touching plot added a live-action twist at the end that, while cloying, felt real. Robin is not as annoying as one would have expected, given he's played by Michael Cera. "LEGO Batman" pulls heartstrings, but they bend rather than break. In short: We know Batman works alone (mostly in black, but sometimes in gray, Lego pieces), and we know that his inevitable crime-fighting partnership with Robin (Michael Cera), Alfred (Ralph Fiennes) and Barbara Gordon (Rosario Dawson) will end in the long-reviled group hug. But only the under-10 crowd will be bawling when it happens. It's hard to get emotional about mini-figures. If you remember anything about the original “Lego Movie,” Batman likes to work in black or dark gray. Much more successful is the Lego film franchise itself. This version feels a lot less like a long advertisement for Lego products than the original, which featured multiple "here's how to build something cool" segments.
And "LEGO Batman" uses pop culture better than the original. A scene in which Batman must confront his solitary existence employs Three Dog Night's "One (Is the Loneliest Number)" to near perfection. And several references to the late-1960s "Batman" TV series will also please the adults, especially a fight scene in which words like "Pow!" and "Kersplat" appear above the action, seconds after Arnett's Batman said they would. Yes, there's lots of self-references to "The LEGO Batman Movie," but isn't that what you're paying for? And isn't that why you're still reading this review? Oh, maybe you want one more thing: The movie poster quote. Here goes: "The LEGO Batman Movie" takes the best thing about "The LEGO Movie" — Batman! — and makes him America's new action hero. Take that, Vin Diesel!" The Games on Demand version supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian. Join Emmet and an unlikely group of resistance fighters in their heroic quest to thwart Lord Business’ evil plans—a mission that Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously unprepared for.
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