The Lego Movie [2014]

Language - English
Director - Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Run Time - 1 hour, 40 minutes
Genre - Animated/Comedy

First shot at writing review on an animated movie :3

Coming from the guys who have scored extremely when it comes to the animated movie genre - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and then into the comedy genre with 21 Jump Street, they are back with a mixture of the two, which is a delight to watch. It was fresh, unique and utterly hilarious. Add in the great animation, and the plethora of amazing characters, you get a blockbuster.

Herein, we have a plethora of characters, ranging from DC superheroes, to Star Trek characters, Dumbledore, Gandalf to William Shakespeare and Shaq O Neal among others. Although the best among those was the hilarious parody of Christian Bale's Batman and Morgan Freeman as the narrator/wise one/Godlike persona. Loads of satire/spoofs followed.

The movie starts off with Lord Business [Will Ferrel] attacking Vitruvius [Morgan Freeman] - the great wizard, to steal the greatest weapon of all time - The Kragle. He is successful and is about to leave when stopped by Vitruvius, who dictates a policy about the Special One, who will find the last piece of resistance and save the world.

Fast forward 8 years, enter Emmet Brickoswki [Chris Pratt], a NORMAL guy, who lives his life happily while following the rules. Long story short, he is the Special One, and has to save the Lego Universe by beating Lord Business and his cronies, among which includes Bad Cop/Good Cop - whose again hilarious role is carried out superbly by Liam Neeson. I'm using the word 'hilarious' too much - I know, but that's the way it was, I was in splits throughout the movie.

After the story and the script has been applauded, we come to the animation, which was spectacular. Every little block of Lego can be seen clearly, and the action scenes are well made with the effect of ripples in water or even smoke being seen incredibly.

I can go on, and on about how amazing this movie was. Just go watch it. A must watch for all

My Rating - 8.8/10