The Lego Movie

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Jess, Jim, Aaron, Andrew, Tom, Leo

Yes! So great. I loved this from beginning to end. So much fun, so hilarious, so beautiful, a delight. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller seem to have a knack for taking concepts that seem like really stupid ideas for a movie and not only making them work but actually be worthwhile too.

Their humour is irreverent and always skirting the boundaries of self-referentiallity. Always a little off-kilter and unexpected too, which is probably what I like the most. And they got a great cast to perform the various franchise-licenced characters.

Animal Logic have once again blown my mind with their shaders and sumptuous digital lighting. They nail stop-frame animation style too and there are many great details to bee seen and some creative techniques. I don't even want to know how hard that ocean was to simulate. But it's amazing.

But all this would be for nothing without a good story. And they've managed find a great central conflict for lego, namely do you build exactly what's on the box, or use the pieces to make whatever you can imagine. And the world they build (literally) out of that premise is a fun one indeed. Sure to be the first of many repeat viewings.