Overplaying his character, Lord Business, like a distant cousin of his dim-witted “ Megamind” villain, the actor once again gets tons of comic mileage out of his patented silly grandiloquence. The chief party animal, of course, is Ferrell. It’s hard not to have fun when the film (written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller) is having such a good time with pop culture. Keep an ear out for cameos by such stars as Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Billy Dee Williams, good-naturedly reprising his role as Lando Calrissian from the “ Star Wars” trilogy. The rest of the freedom fighters are a cheeky mix of Lego-sized historical personages (Abraham Lincoln, Shakespeare and Shaquille O’Neal) and co-branded comic book heroes (Green Lantern, Superman, Wonder Woman and others). Guided by a leader who’s part Gandalf and part Morpheus (Morgan Freeman), this underground resistance movement consists of a fittingly motley crew: a punk-ish loner named Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) her egotistical boyfriend, Batman (Will Arnett) a well-worn Lego spaceman figure from the mid-1980s (Charlie Day) and a robot-pirate hybrid named Metal Beard (Nick Offerman).
Lego movie 1 full movie free#
(In a nod to the term Lego uses to designate its in-house designers, these creative free spirits are known as “master builders.”) But when his Lego universe is threatened by an evil villain (Will Ferrell) who intends to glue all the world’s pieces - and its people - together, Emmet must join forces with a group of rebels to stop him.
Set in a world built entirely of Legos, the story revolves around construction worker Emmet Brickowski (voice of Chris Pratt), a tiny plastic Everyman who loves nothing better than following instructions. Its hero, ironically, is anything but a rule-breaker. “The Lego Movie” is an homage to the spirit of the iconoclast (i.e., the child). Thankfully, and somewhat surprisingly, “ The Lego Movie” takes dead aim at this disturbing trend, undermining, with delightful results, the hegemony of a creative toy that comes with its own set of inflexible rules. The most essential item of the modern Lego set has become, unfortunately, the instruction booklet.
Once celebrated for fostering creativity through simple yet versatile sets that could be combined into a wide variety of structures - a barn, a boat, a plane - the 80-year old Lego company is probably best known today as a purveyor of narrowly proscribed model kits with hundreds of highly specialized pieces designed to replicate, in meticulous detail, say, the A-wing starfighter from “Star Wars,” and nothing else. While clearly filled with affection for - and marketing tie-ins to - the titular product that’s front and center, it’s also something of a sharp plastic brick flung in the eye of its corporate sponsor. There are so many things to like about “ The Lego Movie”: a great voice cast, clever dialogue and a handsome blend of stop-motion and CGI animation that feels lovingly retro, while still looking sharp in 21st-century 3-D.īut the best thing about this movie, which was produced in full partnership with the Danish toymaker famous for its plastic-brick building system, is its subversive nature.
0 kommentar(er)
