Review: 'The Lego Movie'

What a clever concept, for the most part. Throughout most of 'The Lego Movie' I was in awe of the animated visuals and story, even despite how confusing and silly it got at points. There are references to Lego's throughout the decades, Lego products that nostalgic adults will recognize more than kids (and vice-versa), and an interesting hint to an individual whom the legos refer to as 'the man upstairs'.

I remember for my eleventh birthday, I received the one of a kind 'Steven Spielberg' Lego Studios Movie Maker Set'. What an AWESOME set it was. It was compatible with a little Lego camera which allowed you to take both pictures and video. With it, I was able to create some stop-motion animated shorts and have some of the greatest fun I ever had as a kid. Twelve years later, we now have the theatrical release of 'The Lego Movie', which by the looks of it is both stop-motion & computer animated. And it looks really good either way. Everything is Lego: The water is Lego, the dirt is Lego, the clouds and smoke are Lego. There's so much imagination on the screen, you'll have to look twice to see what it is you've missed.

The whole movie's plot, from the very first minute, unfolds like a little kid's fantasy would roll in his head, as he plays with his toys in his room. That at first can be a little distracting, by how goofy and absurd the characters are, and even annoying. But after a while, it really starts to make sense and becomes pretty clever. It achieves that status near the end, when... well, I'll just refer you to the end of paragraph one, above ('the man upstairs').

Kids will really enjoy this movie, trust me. And with the right audience, even adults who at least were around Legos sometime when they were a kid will like this movie too.

My rating: 3 / 4