THE LEGO MOVIE

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.

Actually, yeah, especially because they had to go deep into the dustbin, not just properties they own and/or control (Wizard of Oz, King Kong, Dracula, Harry Potter, LotR, Gremlins (!)), but also forgotten John Cusack rom-coms "Must Love Dogs" (!) and "Serendipity" (!!), whose DVD covers they actually give screen time to!

Anyway, they establish the Phantom Zone as prison for the worst evil criminals of all time, like Zod, and when there's a breakout we get not Zod but Dracula, the Wicked Witch, et al. Just was super lame, especially since the movie was already populated with seemingly all the most powerful DC bad guys of all time. So wtf with releasing, like, a shark and some dinosaurs into the fray along with the aforementioned? That's what made me think of the Ghostbusters reboot. They make a big deal of unleashing the ultimate evil to destroy the city, and we get ... a bunch of Thanksgiving parade balloon ghosts. And here we get throwaway lazy WB references.

I dont keep track of what WB owns ergo idgaf

Assuming, WB stan or no, that you recognized them all, you didn't think the Eye of Sauron, the Wicked Witch of the West, King Kong, Voldermort and a bunch of Gremlins was a conspicuously weird batch of baddies to bust out?

Not really, felt amusingly random

I feel you may have slightly missed the light the rom-coms are shown in.

The variety of baddies is as in the Lego Movie, that's what I meant by "hey I found this in the Lego bucket let's use it".

Yeah, random Lego baddies here was in direct reflection of random goodies in The Lego Movie.

Also "British robots; ask your nerd friends"!

I liked that joke, but also thought it was dumb, given the Doctor Who resurgence and especially the Doctor Who resurgence among kids. Biggest Doctor Who fans I know are either pushing 50 or under 12.

Re Lego box, I wish there were some invented baddies then and not just known quantity pop culture baddies. Even then, they establish early on that Zod is in The Phantom Zone. So why didn't they release Zod? And for that matter, where were the rest of the super friends? Still partying in the Fortress of Solitude? I couldn't even figure out why the three dozen DC bad guys turned on the Joker. Maybe I missed something? I don't know, I just thought it was so so lazy.

My kids had a half day, though, so if you asked me if it was better than sitting around the house doing nothing but screaming at one another, then yeah, it was better than that.

I did like that Batman was really into rap metal though.

I liked that joke, but also thought it was dumb

"Should I be enjoying this" material!

I thought this was decent. The Scuttler was everything I hoped it would be, but The Phantom Zone being an extremely lazy version of Cloud-Cuckoo-Land was a bit disappointing. In retrospect I am actually pretty surprised that Will Arnett growling for two hours wasn't anywhere close to being as irritating as the Despicable 3 trailer (we were spared the Boss Baby one, thank god).

Barbara Gordon's intro + presentation was solid gold. Top of her class at Harvard For Police. STATISTICS and COMPASSION!

Boss Baby looked fucking awful.

this was totally great. agreed that it's not quite as good as The Lego Movie, but really really great for Batman and Lego fans.
love that these movies are still really (especially visually) creative and not lazy, production-wise. yeah the story is whatever but it had tons of great jokes and colorful splashy set pieces and animation. totally worth it

sometimes I wonder if I really like these movies just because of Corporal Dan...

so many lols at HARVARD FOR POLICE

So, the Australian distributors complained when the original movie came out thatr they lost estimated millions in piracy here because they waited over 2 months after release to release the movie in Aus. Then said theyd never make that mistake again.

Guess what isnt coming out here til MARCH EFFING 30???? :|