THE LEGO MOVIE

How to train your dragon

On top of the childhood nostalgia (I too with the broken 80s space helmet) and sniffles at the pro-creativity message (though yes this movie was made by capitalists who want to sell things and not by true revolutionaries, I concede), this is one of the rare movies that I could imagine not just watching without sound, but also enjoying the hell out of the audio track alone. Amazing voice work, even old hands like Morgan freeman and Liam Neeson who could easily autopilot were clearly having fun.

yeah i need to watch this again

One of Freeman's best bits is about the fact that he's on autopilot- the line where he says something like "I'm never going to remember that so you're going to have to write it down".

I like movies that are jampacked with jokes, and this is one of those movies.

i really liked this! very entertaining.

"These mechanical birds will get our message out. They will go to an internet cafe and email the remaining Master Builders who will meet us in the secret realm of Cloud Cuckoo Land."

My favorite Morgan Freeman moment was either this line or his ghost sounds.

Everything about this is awes... you know.

i know that sounds like a cat poster

Saw A LEGO Brickumentary. Didn't really like it at all--I can only take so much gee-whiz wonderment in 90 minutes.

Okay so, seeing Lego Batman tomorrow.

I am psyched for it. I bought the Batmobile.

looking forward to taking the kids to this

I watched this with the kid on Prime around Christmas. It was pretty good I guess, not as suitable for adults as the Lego Movie, and Superman is in it a lot, almost as much as Batman. If I didn't have children to pacify I would probably give it a miss, but not really into childrens' films anyway.

Oh, and my office has the federation of master builders downstairs. I have informed my five year old of this and he is *very* impressed.

I watched this with the kid on Prime around Christmas

I do not understand how this is possible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lego_Batman_Movie

Ah... apparently there are two different Lego Batman movies ?!

I saw this one. Thought it was a bit low-budget to be in the cinema.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Batman:_The_Movie_%E2%80%93_DC_Super_Heroes_Unite

yeah that was direct to TV

still enjoyable

And seen. Very entertaining, it pretty much is the formula they've already established (and the Ninjago one looks like the same), but it works for that reason and there's some deep, deep Batman nerdery throughout. (The extended Nightwing riff at one point was amazing.)

I kind of want to go see this just for The Scuttler

seeing this on Saturday

is it as funny as lego movie?

I'd say so, yeah.

trailers look bad and Seth Grahame-Smith wrote it. I'm sceptical

My favourite was "more like Martian Dancehunter"

I thought it was a little better than the Lego Movie.

Saw trailers for the abysmal looking Boss Baby and Despicable Me 2.

This was p good, not as great as first one but whatever. I lol'd most at all the villain cameos/jokes ("i'm irritating!")

Was surprised Lego Batmite wasn't included

"Despicable Me 2" this came out years ago....there must be yet another one coming?

Yes its DM3

This was exec produced by our new treasury secretary

Went to see this last night and it was good and entertaining and funny - more about Batman than about Lego, definitely, but the fact that it was Lego was an intrinsic part and not incidental.

Very light on plot, really, and possibly a little dissatisfying because of that, but so many jokes and so much to look at. Definitely one for watching again on blu-ray to spot the references and obscure characters (and characters that oughtn't to be there: for instance the mutant leader from The Dark Night Returns is going to be in an actual Lego set released later this year. He is NOT for kids! Think I spotted him in the movie but only just).

Not as good as The Lego Movie itself, but that had the shock of the new in it's favour, and more scope to explore given the original characters (though obviously The Lego Batman Movie explores outside of just Batman's universe. I enjoyed it more than The Dark Knight Rises though. (I've not seen Bats V Supes.)

This largely what would happen if you took all of the R-rated stuff out of Deadpool - though it left in some McFarlane-esque meanness, which was greatly appreciated.

Also yeah very glad they kept the same approach of "hey I found this in the Lego bucket let's use it" as the Lego Movie.

I was really surprised to hear an Al Jarreau song in the Lego Batman movie.

That and George Michael -- almost spooky.

some McFarlane-esque meanness

took me a while to realise you probably didn't mean todd mcfarlane so before coming to that conclusion i wondered why anything todd mcfarlane-related would be appreciated

then i guessed you meant seth mcfarlane and i spent awhile longer wondering why anything seth mcfarlane-related would be appreciated

then i spent a bit thinking wondering who was worse, todd or seth. i decided on seth obv

it's been a slow afternoon

Todd had his moments.

I thought this movie was about as good as the Ghostbusters reboot, which is to say, not that good. Totally lazy and uninspired, even on its own terms, and it felt like it was 60 minutes too long.

there were way more jokes in this than in nu Ghostbusters, that's harsh

But I thought the jokes were lame and tired and uninspired and repetitive. And then it just kept going.

It did feel a bit longer than necessary but I generally feel that way about all H'wood blockbusters these days, everything has three endings

That's at least partly why I disliked it so much. It's a conflation of CGI and Lego, which means literally anything is possible, and yet it played like a totally boring, explosion-y generic action movie. I was not a big fan of the first Lego movie, but at least it involved (to some degree) creating new things out of Legos. This was just a half-assed Batman pseudo-parody made of CGI Legos. And then even beyond that, the script (credited to like 8 people), there were scenes were character A says stuff like "it's not what's up here that counts" (points to head), "it's what's in here" (points to heart). And I would wait for the joke and then realize, huh, I guess there is no joke, they're just going total boilerplate.

Doesn't help that dickhead Batman in the Lego Movie was amusing because he was essentially a cameo, but here he has to sustain the whole movie with his one-note schtick.

That and George Michael -- almost spooky.

My kids said it was funny...

The Jerry Maguire joke, as an example, is definitely in the key of Seth McFarlane.

And they even do that one twice! I don't even want to get into the literally countless iPhone placements (meta product placement?), Let alone the WB catalog shilling. Surprised Bugs Bunny wasn't in this ...

Xpost My kids didn't like it. One said even the good jokes were dumb, and there weren't many of them.

Let alone the WB catalog shilling.

Dude, seriously -- you're surprised by this.