《乐高蝙蝠侠》

    In this spin-off*, the self-satisfied Dark Knight (voiced by Will Arnett) is starting to see that constantly* dealing with The Joker (voiced by Zack Galifianakis) and his fellow fiendish* rogues* offers not enough compensation* for the fact that his life on Wayne Island is getting pretty lonely.

    Encouraged by his faithful butler Alfred (Ralph Fiennes), he adopts the orphaned Dick Grayson (Michael Cera), while defending his track record against Gotham City’s new commissioner, Barbara Gordon (Rosario Dawson), who thinks the lone vigilante* approach is no longer getting the job done.

    While on the subject of teamwork, the writers — including novelist Seth Grahame-Smith (“Pride and Prejudice” and “Zombies”), Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers (“Community”) and Jared Stern & John Wittington (the upcoming animated Netflix series “Green Eggs and Ham”) — find no shortage of satirical* targets, taking aim at everything from “Suicide Squad” to Donald Trump’s taxes. But they and director Chris McKay prove less skillful at finding the balance between the happily inspired and a non-syrupy* sweetness that made the first Lego feature film so successful.

    Instead, there’s a more-the-merrier philosophy* that goes beyond the DC universe, resulting in* a crazy pile-on that includes representatives from such Warner Bros. entities as “The Wizard of Oz,” “Harry Potter” and “The Matrix.”

    As to the voice cast, Arnett certainly does a good job, like the rest of the team, which includes Jenny Slate as Harley Quinn, Channing Tatum as Superman, Conan O’Brien as The Riddler, Billy Dee Williams as Two-Face, Mariah Carey as Gotham’s Mayor McCaskill, Doug Benson as Bane and Apple’s Siri providing the calming tones of Batman’s trusty Puter.

    Australian animation company Animal Logic is again responsible for digitizing those millions of bricks, but this time the effect doesn’t seem to possess the same visual magic as before.

    Like the rest of “The Lego Batman Movie,” all the pieces are in place, but they just don’t have that same connective snap.(SD-Agencies)