The Lego Movie
Directors: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Cast: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson, Alison Brie
Rating: (PG)
3 stars (out of 5)
When you are a child, you know about children's stuff.
As you get older, you lose track of the latest crazes.
The last time I paid any attention to Lego, they were brightly coloured plastic bricks you clicked together to make towers you then knocked over.
While I was looking elsewhere, Lego added figures and themed sets and started making television movies. It was only a matter of time before they invaded the big screen.
The Lego Movie is a 3-D spectacular in which everyday Lego mini-figure Emmet Brickowoski (Chris Pratt) finds he is the Special who can save the Lego world from the evil tyranny of Lord Business (Will Ferrell), who is determined to keep everything running on the tracks.
Emmet starts the movie happy to be like everybody else and follow all the rules in the how-to guide book.
Lego world pulsates to everyone singing the oh-so-catchy tune Everything Is Awesome, but one day Emmet bumps into a girl, Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks), and he finds things are not so awesome after all.
Wyldstyle has been looking for the Piece of Resistance from the prophecy of how to bring Lord Business down, but it is Emmet who finds it.
Soon he is being pursued through different Lego lands as the pair hatch a plan to use the Piece of Resistance against Lord Business.
Best thing: You really know your little country has made it when we are the punchline to a joke that needs no explaining. Welcome to Middle Zealand, people.
Worst thing: I hate wearing 3-D glasses and I cannot remember one 3-D effect from the entire movie.
See it with: Teenage boys. Although this is supposedly aimed at the children, most of the jokes are frat-boy humour.
