It's fun. The first 10 minutes or so are really great but it kind of loses that brisk pace somewhere in the middle. The live action stuff also felt kind of eh for me. Still, it has great/funny moments and is amusing for the most part.

So I just read Charlie Day is in this.

Which should be a requirement for all films.

^ after all Lego's director is the same from the 21/22 jump street

In relation to this movie

http://everythingwrongwithfrozen.tumblr.com/

Eating a chocolate bar can be a delightful experience. Eat ten, though, and you may not have a very pleasant evening, even though chocolate is still chocolate. This sums up my view of The Lego Movie. There is no denying the colorful, detailed, and often downright spectacular nature of the Lego world imagined in the film. I am not even sure where the stop-motion elements, if present, end and the computer-generated images begin as various intricate cities and psychedelic magical landscapes are explored, but I am certain the final renderings are awe-inspiring. And for around 30 minutes, the film, which moves through a standard storyline (at once adhering to and modestly lampooning the conventional arc of the hero's journey) and launches one-liners and visual jests at five-second intervals, held me tightly in its grip, elevated by a dynamic voice cast including Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman, and a perfectly cast Liam Neeson as an antagonistic policeman whose personality is split along the old good-cop/bad-cop line. However, its aural and visual hyperactivity, its inability to let any single sensation or idea establish itself in full before racing toward the next comic pyrotechnic, began to wear on me. At the end of this most ambitious and mad of toy advertisements, I still admired the visual splendor on display in every frame, but otherwise left the theatre a tad numbed and disengaged, the way one might describe watching a friend play video games for too long.

C+

I was never a huge fan of Legos. They frustrated me. To truly have fun with them and create "awesome" structures required a dexterity beyond my capability.

I guess

I loved UniKitty though! lol

my childhood sucked /and/ I'm just an idiot. I'm gonna hate this movie.

just kidding I'm not gonna see it because I'm no longer ten.

haha no but really, I wanna see this, so far the only bad things I've heard were the two subpar reactions in this thread so I've got high hopes.

my bad. I didn't actually read any opinions except yours...I was just basing the subpar thing on your two '^ loser' posts.

ouch

lol it was a joke. I thought that was obvious...I mean, seriously, only taking into account the opinion of /Magnus/?

(that was a joke too, I love you all)

Certainly better than I was expecting months ago. I wasn't expecting it to be bad or anything, but just "average" and it's certainly above average. I've played Lego Pirates, Lego LOTR, Lego Harry Potter, Lego Star Wars, as well as Lego City: Undercover (Emmet is like the love child of Chase and Honey), and the film captures the best humor elements of these games and then some.

The film has excellent pacing until about 2/3 of the film when it comes to a surprising halt, in my opinion. For a brief moment I wasn't really like it as much anymore but it finishes strong. (B+) The film version of "Everything is Awesome" is so much better than the original, too.

There is only air above your post.

No there is the title of "The Lego Movie" which he calls a winner.

So. Much. Fun. A zippy, colorful, zany, hilarious ode to creativity that totally blew past any expectations I had just a week ago. So many great voices! A-

I think that's just a natural side effect of when a film completely destroys the fourth wall and becomes something else entirely. Blazing Saddles is one of my all-time favorite movies, and while I ultimately think the fourth-wall breaking is brilliant, every time I watch I'm still a little jarred and left wondering "where are we going with this?" I had a very similar reaction to the fourth-wall breaking here, though like you the film ultimately works itself out. And anyway, the ending has Lego William Shakespeare doing the worm so it could've fucked it up and still ended on an awesome note with that.

But yeah, A-/B+ sounds about right. Probably my favorite American animated film since at least How to Train Your Dragon. Maybe even since Fantastic Mr. Fox.

BJs Grade:

A-

Everything is Awesome!

Spaceship!

FIRST TRY!

Where are my Pants!

^

Wiener.

Shit, I ended the streak of winners.

^

WInner.

Shut your mouth, Jon.