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.
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