If you’d told me last year that I’d enjoy a movie about legos as much as a movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters, I would have shaved your head and locked you in my trunk for punishment. I mean I’m busy, I can’t punish you right this second.
I enjoyed the shit out of this film. Attend:
There are two types of people when it comes to legos: Those who follow the instructions, and those who gleefully ignore them.
Lord Business (Will Farrell) opens the film by defeating Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman) and stealing the kragle (an ultimate weapon). Vitruvius then prophicizes a special will come to defeat Lord Business and the kragle. We don’t know who the special is or what the kragle is, but this opening scene cracked me up and was matched by the rest of the film.
Lord Business rules the world (did I mention that everything in this world is legos because that’s important) and demands everything proceed according to strict instructions. He is secretly opposed by Master Builders who can create anything they want from the lego environment and wouldn’t follow instructions to save their lives.
Emmet is a Fry-like character just plugging away in gleeful obscurity until he accidently comes across The Piece of Resistance. This is a relic that can destroy the kragle. Lord Business finds out and trys to kill him. Emmet is rescued and helped by the Master Builders whose ranks include Vitruvius, Batman, Gandalf, the ninja turtles, Abraham Lincoln, Wonderwoman, the 2002 NBA all-stars, a hybrid unicorn/cat, Superman, Dumbledore, Shakespeare, Green Lantern, and a Ron Swanson cyborg pirate. Not joking at all.
The film is gleefully insane, funny, and really good.