THE LEGO MOVIE

Actually, yeah, especially because they had to go deep into the dustbin, not just properties they own and/or control (Wizard of Oz, King Kong, Dracula, Harry Potter, LotR, Gremlins (!)), but also forgotten John Cusack rom-coms "Must Love Dogs" (!) and "Serendipity" (!!), whose DVD covers they actually give screen time to!

Anyway, they establish the Phantom Zone as prison for the worst evil criminals of all time, like Zod, and when there's a breakout we get not Zod but Dracula, the Wicked Witch, et al. Just was super lame, especially since the movie was already populated with seemingly all the most powerful DC bad guys of all time. So wtf with releasing, like, a shark and some dinosaurs into the fray along with the aforementioned? That's what made me think of the Ghostbusters reboot. They make a big deal of unleashing the ultimate evil to destroy the city, and we get ... a bunch of Thanksgiving parade balloon ghosts. And here we get throwaway lazy WB references.

I dont keep track of what WB owns ergo idgaf

Assuming, WB stan or no, that you recognized them all, you didn't think the Eye of Sauron, the Wicked Witch of the West, King Kong, Voldermort and a bunch of Gremlins was a conspicuously weird batch of baddies to bust out?

Not really, felt amusingly random

I feel you may have slightly missed the light the rom-coms are shown in.

The variety of baddies is as in the Lego Movie, that's what I meant by "hey I found this in the Lego bucket let's use it".

Yeah, random Lego baddies here was in direct reflection of random goodies in The Lego Movie.

Also "British robots; ask your nerd friends"!

I liked that joke, but also thought it was dumb, given the Doctor Who resurgence and especially the Doctor Who resurgence among kids. Biggest Doctor Who fans I know are either pushing 50 or under 12.

Re Lego box, I wish there were some invented baddies then and not just known quantity pop culture baddies. Even then, they establish early on that Zod is in The Phantom Zone. So why didn't they release Zod? And for that matter, where were the rest of the super friends? Still partying in the Fortress of Solitude? I couldn't even figure out why the three dozen DC bad guys turned on the Joker. Maybe I missed something? I don't know, I just thought it was so so lazy.

My kids had a half day, though, so if you asked me if it was better than sitting around the house doing nothing but screaming at one another, then yeah, it was better than that.

I did like that Batman was really into rap metal though.

I liked that joke, but also thought it was dumb

"Should I be enjoying this" material!

I thought this was decent. The Scuttler was everything I hoped it would be, but The Phantom Zone being an extremely lazy version of Cloud-Cuckoo-Land was a bit disappointing. In retrospect I am actually pretty surprised that Will Arnett growling for two hours wasn't anywhere close to being as irritating as the Despicable 3 trailer (we were spared the Boss Baby one, thank god).

Barbara Gordon's intro + presentation was solid gold. Top of her class at Harvard For Police. STATISTICS and COMPASSION!

Boss Baby looked fucking awful.

this was totally great. agreed that it's not quite as good as The Lego Movie, but really really great for Batman and Lego fans.
love that these movies are still really (especially visually) creative and not lazy, production-wise. yeah the story is whatever but it had tons of great jokes and colorful splashy set pieces and animation. totally worth it

sometimes I wonder if I really like these movies just because of Corporal Dan...

so many lols at HARVARD FOR POLICE

So, the Australian distributors complained when the original movie came out thatr they lost estimated millions in piracy here because they waited over 2 months after release to release the movie in Aus. Then said theyd never make that mistake again.

Guess what isnt coming out here til MARCH EFFING 30???? :|

i thought this went on too long with its generic power-of-teamwork arc. also the animation wasn't as charming as the lego movie -- they went full cg overload instead of the "is this stop-motion or cg?" approach of tlm.

I was bored with this and left a half hour early, but I suspect I'm not its target audience. I Loved Lego Movie but this shtick wore thin really fast.

i really loved the use of kid noises for the guns during the battles .. 'peeeuuuw peeeeuuuw peeeeeuuuw'

hehe me too. the sort of stupid, non-clever yet completely amusing joke this movie had in spades

The LEGO ninjago movie Is genuinely funny imho. Writing is sharp and the voice acting is superb. Especially throreux as the evil lord garmadon

Lego Movie 2 is really good. It obv loses some compared to the first one which was such a surprise but I still really enjoyed it, also, it has some of best ending credits ever.

Agree with you on the ending credits, it's wonderfully animated and the Lonely Island song is great.

Found it a letdown from both Lego Movie I and Lego Batman personally. I loved some of the pieces - the overarching real world story was sweet and the final act were a lot of fun - but the first two thirds felt lacking in humor and momentum. But, in fairness, it was sort of impossible to follow up the first movie with something as good given that surprise.

ya all otm

That song is stuck inside my head.

took mk2 today to see it.
I was the oldest man in the cinema.
I laughed the most.
I absolutely loved it.

(if we had not watched LM1 yesterday then we would never have got the wonder woman invisible spaceship joke, nor several others … )

(Wonder Woman has had an invisible plane since 1941, btw!)

It's pretty wild that a) the first movie came out five years ago and b) five years ago President Business was if anything a slightly elderly Mitt Romney reference.