Review: THE LEGO MOVIE

Its time to let your imagination expand, have some fun and see a world where everything is unique and possibilities are endless. This is our review of 'THE LEGO MOVIE'.

By Staff

Forget about growing up for a few minutes. Leave all your worries behind. Take a seat for an adventure full of color and fun.

The story begins with 'Vitruvius', a wise character who tries to stop 'Lord Business' from obtaining the most lethal weapon ever found in the LEGO world: glue (or crazy glue, we saw it dubbed in Spanish, so we don't really know how they called it in English).

Vitruvius fails in his attempt but warns Lord Business about the 'Master Builder' prophecy that tells about a man, or woman, who will find the "resistance piece" and stop him to bring peace to the world once and for all.

We then meet 'Emmet', a building builder- a character out of the bunch, really- who lives just like the 'President Business' tells all the citizens of LEGO world to do- follow the rules and live in a "perfect" world.

When Emmet finds a cute girl named 'Wyldstyle', destiny will take him to find the resistance piece. He is immediately mistaken for the 'Master Builder' the prophecy talked about.

Things will get tough as he will soon prove to be unimaginative nor creative, something that characterized all 'Master Builders' from previous worlds and times. Now, the future of all will fall on the master builders', or Emmet's, ability to stop Lord Business from using glue on the world.

Analysis and opinion:

Lets get to the point- this movie is for animation fans and kids. We (at FSR) are adults that enjoy animation and some of us even behave like children when we like something a little too much. This movie was right up our alley.

Yes, there are a few things that could've been better like the speed in which the master builders construct some things (sometime you don't even know what they are creating but you kind of forget since the end results are awesome) o the lack of more worlds shown. Its worth mentioning that where is plenty, PLENTY of stuff to see in that sense, we simply would've like to have seen more, that's all.

The animation is unbelievable. We saw it in 2D and before reaching 20 minutes we had already regretted not expending the extra cash for 3D. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE.

Last but not least, the story is simple, a bit repetitive, but more than anything- SUPER FUN! You'll definitely have a few good laughs.

The creativity level and connection with the original material (toys) is incredible. They thought about even the smallest details to make the film original, attached to its original material, but taking it to the next level- limitless imagination.

A movie that is really worth watching even if you aren't LEGO fans. Batman is on it, for pete's sake, that should be enough for many of you.