Directed by Christopher Miller and Phil Lord. Warner Brothers Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures, 2014. Rated PG.
The Lego Movie is the tale of a nobody. The lead character, Emmet, is just an ordinary lego construction worker. He is fully invested in his ordinary life, he always follows the rules and all of the instructions, never building anything out of his own creativity. Until one day, something extraordinary happens. After the cap to a bottle of superglue gets stuck to his back he suddenly becomes "the special" the master builder who will help the Lego world stop find its creativity again. He is whisked away to multiple worlds he did not know, testing his creative limits as he tries to think outside of the box.
The animation in this movie is beautiful and the story line that finally makes sense in the end does touch your heart and makes you want to hold your kids a little closer. The end story line is really in there for the adults, while all of the original lego portion of the story keeps the children entertained. In the end it does turn out that the "bad guy" is a little boys father who will not let him play with his "collectable" legos, the legos that he has meticulously put together with superglue and does not want them to be touched. The father spends all of his time with his legos, never letting the little boy touch them or play with them or his father. It is a really sweet story line that makes the adults want to spend that extra time with their kids that we so often forget wrapped up in our adult world.
This book is a wonderful addition to any collection, it would be really good to incorporate some sort of lego building day with a viewing of the film.
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