3DS, iPhone/iPad, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One Mixed or average reviews Mixed or average reviews- based on 98 Ratings More Details and Credits » See all 31 Critic Reviews users found this helpful See all 16 User Reviews The LEGO Movie Videogame - Launch Trailer The LEGO Movie Videogame - Official TrailerThe Lego Movie is one of those films that really needs no review. It's not just good, though. Despite being a feature-length toy commercial, Phil Lord and Chris Miller's film is so thoughtful, clever, and full that it already feels like a familiar classic before it's even over. The Lego Movie is so successful that discussing its merits almost feels boring. In short, The Lego Movie combines the clever licensed product integration of Toy Story with the slight surrealism found in Happy Feet and the set pieces of an action film. It does so while offering a storyline that both comments on and wholly utilizes the best and worst elements of the brand it promotes, enough that one wouldn't be totally out of line describing it as mildly subversive.
There is a perfect balance of elements here to please both children and adults alike. Adults might actually like it more. If I were to have a complaint about The Lego Movie - and I'm not sure this even counts - it would be the film's hyperactivity. Especially early on, the jokes and visuals go by too fast to comprehend. That speed might not matter in a lesser film, but the constant cleverness on display here leads me to lament the myriad of details I missed because my brain just couldn't take it all in on a first viewing, which I guess is a good thing as it indicates a film that rewards multiple re-watches. I've never seen a Lego animation product before, so I don't know if this is a standard for the company or not, but it turns out that a world made of Legos is a fascinating and even beautiful place to take in visually. It's one thing to have a bunch of Lego people, buildings, and cars, but when the film starts using the blocks for elements like fire and water we get something very special and unique.
There's one shot in particular where we see Lego ocean waves roll across the screen which I honestly could have watched all day long. The better conversations about The Lego Movie are going to take place next week when everyone has already seen it and can discuss the themes without fear of spoilers. Suffice to say, the film contains a risky and curious third act which might really bug some people. There's a weird conflict between what the film says about how we should use Legos versus how the film sells itself through licensed characters and merchandising. However you come down on this matter, it's respectable and brave that Lord and Miller bring up the issue at all. This film could have been so many degrees simpler and still charmed and entertained. Instead it comes with something on its mind and the ambition to really explore ideas. I love that, especially from a corporate product kids film. More than anything, though, Lord and Miller have made an almost ideal entertainment.
You don't walk out of The Lego Movie thinking "That was the greatest movie ever!" so much as "Why isn't every movie this good?"If you've been obsessed with the premise of Lego Batman ever since the character's appearance in 2014's The Lego Movie, then you're likely beyond excited for the 2017 release of The Lego Batman Movie. Me too, guys — I'm sitting here shining my little Lego Bat-Signal light in eager anticipation for it. So I'm absolutely giddy right now because the new trailer for The Lego Batman Movie has been released, and holy smokes, does it look amazing. Pretty much hilarious from start to finish, the trailer also gives us some greater glimpses at Zach Galifianakis' Joker and Rosario Dawson's Barbara Gordon (aka Batgirl), as well as laying down what feels like an infinite loop of Batman in-jokes that true fans will love. Because one thing that is looking more and more evident with each new trailer from The Lego Batman Movie is that it appears to be a full-on, unapologetic, and loving satire of the expanded narratives of Batman (and Bruce Wayne) as we know him.
The jokes in the new Lego Batman Movie trailer appear to encapsulate all of the many incarnations of the superhero (and the many variations of the overall canon) in a way that Batman fans are going to absolutely adore. Check out the new trailer, and then join me in celebrating some of the finest Batman jokes from it that only true fans will understand: Big Batman fans will be well aware of the hinted at connection between the superhero and his arch nemesis The Joker (as highlighted in The Dark Knight and Alan Moores' The Killing Joke). The Lego Batman Movie looks as though it's taking that symbiotic relationship a step further by highlighting that fine line between love and hate. When Batman tells The Joker that he isn't his number one "bad guy" and that he "likes to fight around," it makes The Joker well up into tears. A brilliant riff on all of the many Batman branded vehicles that have existed over time, Robin excitedly discovers some cheerfully ridiculous Bat-vehicles including "the Bat-Sub, the Bat-Zeppelin, and the Bat-Kayak.
Batman's tendency to be a joyless individual gratified by his own misery was played up perfectly during his "Untitled Self Portrait" song of The Lego Movie. Here, this same quality is highlighted once more to great comedic effect as we see Batman heading to a quiet, lonely home after saving Gotham and struggling to work his TV set as Three Dog Night's "One Is The Loneliest Number" plays in the background. Another perfect reference to Wayne's loner status is made by a news reporter after Batman saves Gotham. The reference to "lady active-wear models" may be referring to the embarrassing scene in Batman Begins, wherein Wayne turns up to a party with two attractive models in tow and proceeds to lark about in a fountain. Just, you know, to keep up appearances. After all of the many comics and movies that have been released about Batman since the initial days of the comic books, the character has progressed quite a bit. In The Lego Batman Movie trailer, Wayne's horrified reaction that he's actually adopted Robin (and that his sarcasm over the initial gesture wasn't recognized) reflects a sentiment shared by many fans (who once famously voted the character be killed off).
Full of an unbridled enthusiasm for life, and a great love for tearaway costumes and skimpy shorts, The Lego Batman Movie's incarnation of the sidekick is gleefully playing up everything that fans have ever despised about the character over the years. And he appears to only exist in the movie to irritate our loner hero. As seen in the costume line-up in which Robin finds a "Reggae-Man" alternate Batman costume and turns it into his Robin one. Just down the line you can see "The Bat Pack" (an all-gold costume, supposedly for when Batman wants to go gangster) and the iconic "Classic Bat" costume from the Batman TV Series of the '60s. While arguing with The Joker, Batman brings up that Superman is his "greatest enemy" before providing us with a flashback fight scene between Batman and Superman that looks very similar to the one from Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice — a film that received a great deal of criticism from critics. There have been more than a few occasions in Batman movies over the many years wherein Wayne, having spent the past who knows how long fighting bad guys in his Batsuit, then charmingly enters a party not long afterward looking supremely well put together.