Directors-screenwriters Phil Lord and Christopher Miller bring the building bricks to life with a voice cast that includes Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman.
Our unlikely* hero is Emmet (Chris Pratt), a construction worker who is happy with his life as an ordinary citizen of the city of Bricksburg. Like people around him, Emmet barely* thinks at all.
But after dawdling* on a work site after hours, Emmet finds himself coming into an underworld where a wise wizard* named Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman), by mistake, declares* him to be the Special, the greatest Master Builder of them all.
But special is what Emmet isn’t, and he seems to be unprepared to fight the enemy. That would be President Business (Will Ferrell), a crazy control freak* whose orders are carried out by a henchman* named Bad Cop/Good Cop (Liam Neeson).
“The Lego Movie” does not disappoint the audience who expect to see funny things coming along the way, as President Business aims to glue* all the pieces of the city in place for ever — no freeform deviations* allowed.
From there, Emmet and would-be love interest Wyldstyle — a pretty yet strong girl (Elizabeth Banks) — enter a surreal* universe where “Lord of the Rings” warriors, “Star Wars” and “Harry Potter” characters, superheroes, Abraham Lincoln and even basketball star Shaquille O’Neal (a legacy of an actual 2003 NBA-sanctioned* Lego set) join forces to defeat President Business’s evil plan.
It isn’t fair to tell you what happens next, other than* to say that it continues to be great despite a lack of female characters and a bit too much big talk. Well, the sweet Unikitty who rules over Cloud Cuckoo Land doesn’t quite count* as a female character.
Apart from a creative and interesting story, the film also has great visual effects, vividly presented by those millions of LEGO pieces put together, brick by brick, by Australia’s Animal Logic, whether taking the 3-D form of a fiery explosion or a stormy LEGO sea.(SD-Agencies)
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