I liked it about as much as the first. It’s not as fresh obviously, and has too many songs, but I laughed more and thought the 4th wall breaking plots added to the story instead of undermining them.

Batman is still the best in the franchise though. My man!

I’ll admit it; I could not remember the first movie at all besides the last few minutes. But I remembered enjoying it. And I remembered the song, of course. Well, the second movie is great. And I actually think I’ll remember this one. The story concept is just much better, and the gags/references are nicely earned. How it makes that connection to the real world throughout is what I appreciated the most with this one. The “Undor of The Dryor System”, “The Sis-Star”, and “Ar-Mom-Geddon” are all silly when written down, but in the context of a fast-paced, hip LEGO movie they work tremendously well. Batman obviously takes centre-stage, but other areas of popular culture are nicely referenced too, including Superman, a Mad Max: Fury Road-esque deserted wasteland called“Apocalypse-burg”, and The Matrix trilogy. Oh, and there’s another funny song which, as hard as they tried, did not get stuck in my head.

I was entertained by it more than my son. He’s too young to understand the story and, at almost 2 hours, it’s too long for him to be gripped by the visuals. But he knows LEGO. Well, he knows of chunkier three-dimensional building blocks. He’s not been brainwashed by the branding machine as yet. But I digress; he had a good time as well.

It’s better than The LEGO Batman Movie by a mile, and it seems to have more substance than the first movie, which was fun but mostly just an unforgettable parade of gags.

Didn't love this as much as the first one, but it's a pretty fun film still. Batman is better in doses than when the film revolves around him, and the other characters are good in this too. It manages to be different enough to stand on its own, and the parody is just very solid. I think they went a bit too much on the lego and real world intertwining, made the plot kind of long winding, but all together it worked well enough. It's likeable for being plentiful of jokes.

B

Yeah this was enjoyable! But didn't quite reach the level of the first one.

I loved the first one, and I think this is just as great. For some reason I didn't enjoy the wasteland stuff that much, but once the adventure really starts, it's one crazy ride. In fact I think the whole film is just incredibly weird and off-kilter, and I loved it for that. And despite being so bizarre on every level, it also manages to be perfectly coherent and logical. Which is no small feat. It's a shame that over-saturation apparently killed this franchise. I would like to see more.

It has a creative way to tell a story about sibling fights. It also acts as an interesting metaphor of our often misconception of The Other/foreign countries/perceived enemies.

74/100