Posted on 12/11/2014 3:07:27 PM PST by lee martell
So there I was, resting in the hospital after my flat foot corrective surgery, when I turned the tablet sized TV on. There it was starting, on HBO, The Lego Movie, which came out early this year around February. I had heard so many things about it, meant to see it, but never made time before it left the theaters. Now I would be able to watch it for free. The movie begins, and I make an effort to suspend all disbelief for a while. I try to become a part of this little world made up of colored plastic blocks. Only thing is I saw very little to get me hooked into the plot or sub plots. I saw a featured character being pursued by various clusters of vaguely threatening creatures.
Before I could decide if I even gave a damn about this one featured character, now a victim of prey, he became involved in one looney battle after the other. It felt to me as though I was watching an old school Mario game being filmed with no real script. After ten or 12 minutes, I had had enough of waiting for something to care about. I bailed, and turned to an Animal World Special; something was on like "When The Tortoise Attacks!" By then, my pain medication was setting in, so I went to sleep. Re; The Lego Movie; I noticed no existential themes, no pro-family vignettes, no overarching moralizing or even any obvious attempts to satirize as with Team America which had Kim Jung Il singing 'I'm So Wonely'. I admit I didn't stay with the film for very long. Did someone else find The Lego Movie enjoyable? Maybe I missed something.
Nope, no kids to use as an easy excuse for those movies.
I used to fantasize doing illustration while working for Disney, and would have loved such a position turning two dimensional drawings into three. Now they have computers to do most that kind of planning and measuring.
Okay, if you had children you'd understand the movie better. It's about imagination and having an outlet for it. See "naturalman1975' post up thread.
I was nearly in tears at the end. I was so totally surprised by what was really going on that I had to re evaluate my sons' love for Legos and how I am so wrapped up in the "directions" that I don't use my own imagination much anymore.
You should have asked for more pain med’s tough guy.
I thought some parts of it were really funny
It kind of poked fun at modern culture and how people are expected to be a certain way
I was ‘Doin Fine on Cloud Nine’.(temptations)
Come on. The title alone should have clued you in. It’s a kids movie. Not that adults can’t watch it but it’s made for kids. My 5 year old grandson would have been mesmerized by it. He wouldn’t care about plots and such.
I think there are two ‘messages’ it has (and I think it’s a positive one).
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Ditto what NM75 said. The only thing I’d add is that the movie got a little long in the middle, because they were trying to jam EVERY SINGLE Lego theme EVER into the movie! LOL!
I did, however, enjoy the movie, because I’ve been exposed to Legos ad nauseum for the last several years (with two little boys) and so I got all the “in” jokes. Might not be so amusing without that.
So the whole ting is an enormous ad for Legos. Right after watching the movie, one of my boys turned to me (literally seconds after the credits had rolled) and said brightly, “Let’s buy more Legos!” So they certainly accomplished that. But in the next few days, they independently brought up both themes — about how ordinary people can become extraordinary, and also the value of free play and imagination — so they got that too. I don’t think it was the best kids’ movie I’ve ever seen but it was head and shoulders above most kids’ movies. Two thumbs up from our family. ;o)
Thanks for explaining. I knew there was a gold nugget in there someplace. It’s just more poignant when you have young one’s who are given something positive to think about w/o lecturing them.
The moral of the story is that you obviously have a bad attitude and cannot appreciate mindless, nostalgic cuteness.
That’s pretty good, I cracked up over the space guy with the cracked helmet, every single one of mine were cracked in that same spot!
That’s funny, I’ll have to mention that to my kid. She got a lot more out of it that I did, because she’d played with legos so much. I think they were around when I was little, but I don’t remember having them as a toy.
I grew up with Legos in the ‘70s, when you got a box of blocks, not pieces to make a kit, so I thought the movie was neat. Our youngest is five and she watched that movie every day for weeks then suddenly got sick of it. She likes the kits up to a point...builds them once, destroys them, then builds random things(quite creative sometimes)with the blocks from all the different kits.
Ha! Yeah, a positive atittude. That’s the ticket!
I sat through it, but it just did not click with me.
In Before Paw Patrol
I saw what you did there...LOL
I have that set!
I now know the my mother went through.
The thing is, it's not funny this time around.
The key, I think, is to keep them out in the garage, and play with them there.
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