Lego Movie 2 release delayed which isn't so awesome It will now bow into cinemas almost five years after the original Monday 20 June 2016 13:11 BST Smash hit animation The Lego Movie stunned the box office into submission when it was released back in 2014 becoming one of the year's biggest hits in the process. Unfortunately, its sequel - which was initially due to be released May 2018 - has been pushed back to February 2019, almost five years since the first bowed into cinemas. Deadline reports that The Lego Movie 2 (aptly titled The Lego Movie Sequel) is just one of a numerous number of release dates that Warner Bros has shifted. The film will be directed by comedy writer Rob Schrab in his directorial debut. He replaces Phil Lord and Chris Miller who'll instead be steering the upcoming Han Solo Star Wars prequel with Alden Ehrenreich. Elsewhere, while new Ben Affleck Live by Night has excitingly been brought forward from October to January 2017. Spin-off The Lego Batman Movie is moving ahead as planned - it'll be released 10 February 2017.
Directed by Chris McKay - who worked as an animation co-director on the original alongside Lord and Miller - the film will feature all the characters you'd associate with the world of Gotham. Robin (Michael Cera), Batgirl (Rosario Dawson) and Bruce Wayne's trusty butler, Alfred Pennyworth (Ralph Fiennes) will all appear, with Zach Galifianakis lending his voice to The Joker.Someone's made a metal version of The Lego Movie theme EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!! The Lego Movie theme sounds brutal now Get everything Korn related here Lego, the only thing more Danish than Carlsberg and Lars Ulrich, have been making plastic blocks for infant brickies since 1949. Since then, they've added pretty much anything you can wear, play with or carry to their huge range. Two years ago, the took the world by surprise by releasing one of the greatest films of all time: The Lego Movie. It featured the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks and Will Arnett and it appears the whole world thought it was brilliant;
it earned serious awards and grossed $469 million too. One thing stood out among the whip-smart writing and flawless animation: the theme song EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!!, which was performed by Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island. It was nominated for an Academy Award and has spawned many irrirating covers. This week, Norwegian musican Leo Moracchioli filmed his very own version of the song and gave it the metal treatment – and it's amazing. He's even got himself an 'Emmet' costume, which costs about £120 on eBay, so you know he's serious about the details. Check out the video below and tell us which film theme should he cover next... KornNew Doll - Girls TopSnap on and suit up. The LEGO Batman Movie opens this weekend and we’ve wrangled up some BAT-tastic giveaways for the awesomeness that’s about to hit IMAX theatres. Fans who experience The LEGO Batman Movie in a Regal Cinemas IMAX theatre between Thursday, February 9th and Sunday, February 12th will receive this stunningly handsome collectible ticket…* …and this strikingly dapper mini poster is available to fans who experience the film in select IMAX theatres on Thursday, February 9th.
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Oh, and just when you thought it couldn't get better, it had Batman in it. Voiced by Arrested Development's Will Arnett, channelling a little of Christian Bale's gravelly gravitas, this Dark Knight ripped on the gloomy über-hero persona with real chutzpah.So now Gotham's finest gets his own LEGO movie. A spin-off film based around a best-selling toy tie-in might sound like one almighty corporate love-in, but thankfully The LEGO Batman Movie is nothing of the sort. Right from the very beginning, as Arnett's voiceover muses on the passing studio logos ("Warner Bros? Why not Warner Brothers?"), it's clear that this brick-based bundle of joy is taking the same wry approach as its predecessor. With Lord and Miller now fully embroiled in shooting Star Wars' young Han Solo spin-off movie, in steps Chris McKay, the director best known for TV animation Robot Chicken (and its various Star Wars-themed incarnations). He's also a more-than-able deputy for Lord and Miller, who employed him to oversee the animation, effects and lighting on The LEGO Movie when they were directing 22 Jump Street.For all the tangential connections to The LEGO Movie, this is very much a Batman flick.
So don't expect a cameo from Emmet, Benny the Spaceman or Princess Unikitty. Set in a LEGO-built Gotham, Arnett's Caped Crusader follows the Batman mythology tightly. The alter-ego of billionaire Bruce Wayne, he's the crime-fighting vigilante who oversees operations from his Batcave, with just his butler Alfred Pennyworth (voiced by Ralph Fiennes) for company.Sitting home alone, the superhero enjoys some pretty long Dark Knights of the soul, eating microwaved lobster Thermidor and watching Jerry Maguire in his home cinema. While he laughs at the "you complete me" scene, really, deep down, the Bat needs someone to love. The Joker (Zach Galifianakis) recognises this, becoming most upset when Batman refuses to acknowledge that this deadly prankster is his greatest enemy.With Commissioner Gordon's daughter Barbara (Rosario Dawson) now in charge and saying Batman's vigilante antics have not exactly lowered the crime rate in Gotham, the Caped Crusader becomes even more redundant when the Joker cooks up a sneaky plot, giving himself up for a spell in Arkham Asylum.
To get himself beamed up to the Phantom Zone, that netherworld in space where Superman banished General Zod (a lovely in-joke sees newsreel footage of this provided by one Zack Snyder). Meanwhile, with Batman moping around, he barely even notices the arrival of a young orphan named Dick Grayson (Michael Cera) in his life – at least until the script starts banging us all over the head with themes of family and togetherness. Even if that gets a little tedious, the avalanche of quick-fire gags keeps you going. Like the moment Batman turns up at Superman's Fortress of Solitude, and everyone from the Justice League is partying there without him.While the film riffs on the Batman v Superman rivalry, what is heartening is that McKay and his writers don't embrace just the Snyder or even Nolan versions of the Dark Knight. One brilliant sequence, so rapid it'll be worth buying the DVD for to watch it again, illustrates every Batman all the way back to the campy Adam West days (that TV show's hoary old technique of using cartoon words like "pow" on screen to accompany fight sequences also gets a look-in).
While the film doesn't have a keynote song that comes anywhere near The LEGO Movie's infernally catchy 'Everything Is Awesome', it does use music well – notably every time Bruce Wayne/Batman sees Barbara, a burst of Cutting Crew's '80s classic '(I Just) Died In Your Arms' crashes onto the soundtrack. Much like The LEGO Movie, there's plenty of nostalgia for big kids to wallow in – although the final act does rather get swamped in retro-appeal as villains far beyond the D.C. universe are unleashed.If there's a disappointment, it's that the LEGO aspect of the film is rather sidelined. Yes, everything is still made of that beautifully tactile plastic but there are precious few building sequences. Why have one of the greatest toys and not play with it? Rather, it seems McKay and co. are more interested in mocking the superhero genre, from ribbing Suicide Squad, and the ridiculous idea of getting criminals to fight other criminals, to taking super-villains (Condiments Man, anyone?) to the lunatic extreme.