The Lego Movie

The American film directors and former animators, Phil Lord and Chris Miller took on the challenge of personifying Lego and made a hilarious box office smash. Combining brilliant animation and slapstick humour, it was a laugh for the whole family.

The plot is relatively complex for a film aimed at a PG audience. Evil Lord Business steals the “Kragle”, a super weapon, but the wizard Vitruvius warns him of the prophecy that one day the Special will rise with the Piece of Resistance and defeat him. The ‘Mr Average’ character, Emmet, who is a builder following instructions from President (Lord) Business like everyone else, falls down a hole on a construction site and discovers the Piece of Resistance. Emmet becomes The Special and with his team of master builders, goes off on a quest to defeat Lord Business. It becomes clear at the end of a film, that the entire story is in fact, the creation of a young boy’s imagination when he’s playing with a Lego set.

Even though the characters are bits of plastic, each of them has their own personality, for example Batman, a deep voiced show off, and Emmet, who is as normal as the next guy but then becomes a completely different person. I will admit the 1980s spaceman was a bit bland (mainly because he only said a few words) but even he managed to make me chuckle.

The Lego Movie provides plenty of laughs, with its extremely funny and sarcastic humour. I expect everyone who has seen this film will now be singing the unique song “Every Thing is Awesome”.

However, The Lego Movie felt a bit like a huge advert and I suspect that Lego are just using it to make money. That being said, it really inspired me to get building and use my imagination, rather than follow the instructions on a Lego set.