Now Playing: The Lego(tm) Movie

I have to admit - I was pretty excited to see The Lego Movie.  I mean, it has Lego Batman, so already a win.  It was even better to see it will LilBro and MJ, who are Lego fans and who laughed out loud just as hard as I did. 

It had a great story (with a lovely lesson in "tipping the box"), fabulous voice actors, and excellent pacing.  I think it's mostly a movie for adults who used to play Lego and have sort of forgotten how to play at all. 

I loved the attention to detail - there was no cheating, everything used Lego (trees, rivers, clouds, steam, ... heck, even the bubbles in the shower).  Even the slow-mo scenes which feature a lot of fire and ammunition?  It all used lego flames and plastic lasers.  Awesome.

Oh, and speaking of awesome - the songs!  Everything Is Awesome is so fantastically tongue-in-cheek with its ridiculous hook and techno beats, it is stupidly catchy .  And then there's the full Batman-does-Death-Metal song during the credits.  Stay.  Watch it.

If you want a feel for the movie, check out the Behind The Bricks featurette. 

I will complain a little about the lack of female characters (because, it turns out, that even the females are controlled by boys) - Lego could do so much better appealing to girls, especially now with STEM learning making a huge splash.  It's too bad the only two "real" girls in the film are a disembodied mom who has dinner ready and a toddler who can only play with duplo. 

So, 3 out of 5 stars.  Take the kids and kids-at-heart.  And then dig out your old Lego to play.