Written by Jared Solis
An all-star cast, a love story, an adventure, a coming of age story, action, comedy, and drama but most importantly a platform (or toy) in which both children and adults could relate to; The LEGO movie had it all. From the very beginning if it wasn’t the visuals of the LEGO world that got you than surely it must have been the satire they expressed of our everyday lives (which they knocked out in the first fifteen minutes rather than spend the whole movie doing so). Shortly after grabbing your attention that is when the story really began with the little LEGO man Emmet Brickowoski, voiced by Chris Pratt, runs into Lucy aka Wyldstyle, voiced by Elizabeth Banks, and from here the story of nobody turns somebody begins.
An adventure that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller directed with intensity any real action film could compete with but to see it in the world of LEGO is something else. With a writing cast that continually laced the script with joke after joke or awkward moment it at times was seamlessly perfect. An adventure that puts a group of “master builders” up against Lord Business (Will Ferrell) shows how misfits can be the truth to opening up the wool over the eyelids in their fight against the conformity of the business world.
Though The LEGO Movie, at the heart, is a kid’s movie it also undertones and blatantly points out how our society operates today. Which has Emmit at the beginning taking the steps of his everyday life while blurting out “I don’t know what I’m doing” and other such jargon that makes you start to reflect on what your everyday life is like. The LEGO movie takes it’s over the top symbolization like singing the same song for 8 hours straight from the morning commute to clocking out to thinking that you have friends but really don’t simply because your type of character doesn’t have a “thing,” the use of Emmet Brickowoski’s character tends to reflect a lot on how people can feel and why something unordinary can change the whole way of the world around them.
The LEGO movie is massively entertaining but is not pointless. There is so much more to the adventure that it could be put up there with the likes of Up and The Toy Story trilogy. If this is a one and done for Warner Bros. and the rest of the production companies associated than it surely contend for the title of classic but if there are more LEGO movies in the future than I can not wait.
