The Lego Film
The film changed into released theatrically on February 7, 2014, through Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures to close to-unanimous acclaim; critics praised its visible fashion, humor, voice solid, and heartwarming message. It earned extra than $257 million in the U.S. and Canada and $210 million in different territories, for a worldwide general of over $469 million. The movie gained the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature, and the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film. It turned into also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. The film additionally obtained an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for "Everything Is Awesome".
The movie quickly increased into a franchise which ties to the Lego logo, with two spin-off movies, The Lego Batman Movie, and The Lego Ninjago Movie, to be launched in 2017, a sequel scheduled for launch on February eight, 2019, as well as a third spin-off, The Billion Brick Race.
The movie is devoted in reminiscence of Kathleen Fleming, the former director of amusement improvement of the Lego organisation, who died in an unidentified coincidence at the same time as traveling in Cancun, Mexico, in April 2013.Plot
In a international made of Lego bricks and populated with the aid of anthropomorphic minifigures, the evil Lord Business breaks into the resting place of a superweapon referred to as the "Kragle". The wizard Vitruvius attempts to forestall him but is blinded by Business's robots; he prophesies that someone known as "the Special" will locate the Piece of Resistance, a brick capable of preventing the Kragle. However, Lord Business simply scoffs at the idea of being stopped.
8½ years later, production worker Emmet Brickowski unearths a woman named Wyldstyle searching for some thing at his construction site after hours. When he investigates, Emmet falls into a hole and reveals the Piece of Resistance. Compelled to the touch it, Emmet stories shiny visions and passes out. He awakens within the custody of Bad Cop, Lord Business's lieutenant, and with the Piece of Resistance connected to his lower back. Wyldstyle rescues Emmet, believing him to be the Special, and takes him to meet Vitruvius in the Old West.
Emmet learns that she and the wizard are "Master Builders"[6] — people able to building whatever from their imagination while not having constructing commands—who oppose Business. Wyldstyle explains Business desires to use the Kragle, a partially weathered tube of Krazy Glue, to freeze the arena into perfection; the mingling of the Lego worlds pressured him, driving Business insane. Though dissatisfied to discover Emmet isn't always a Master Builder, Wyldstyle and Vitruvius are convinced of his capability while he recollects visions of a apparently human deity called "the Man Upstairs".
Emmet, Wyldstyle, and Vitruvius avoid Bad Cop's forces with the useful resource of Batman, Wyldstyle's boyfriend. They visit the hidden "Cloud Cuckoo Land," in which they attend a council of Master Builders, who're unimpressed with Emmet and refuse to combat Business. Bad Cop's forces assault, putting a monitoring device on Emmet and shooting absolutely everyone except Emmet, Vitruvius, Wyldstyle, Batman, Benny (a Spaceman Lego Minifigure), and Princess Unikitty of the now-destroyed Cloud Cuckoo Land. Escaping, they're picked up by the makeshift pirate Metal Beard. Emmet devises a team plan to infiltrate the office and disarm the Kragle, however the group is captured and imprisoned inside the Think Tank, where all of the captured Master Builders are pressured to make commands. Trying to retaliate, Vitruvius is decapitated by using Lord Business, who sets a self-destruct protocol and leaves all people to die, which include Bad Cop. As he dies, Vitruvius famous he made up the prophecy and that it was by no means authentic. He soon reappears as a ghost to Emmet and tells him that his perception makes him the Special. Strapped to the self-destruct's battery, Emmet sacrifices himself to store his buddies by jumping right into a pit and severing the relationship, shutting the computer down. Inspired by Emmet's sacrifice, Wyldstyle rallies the Lego humans throughout the universe to apply anything creativity they ought to construct machines and weapons to fight towards Lord Business's forces.
Emmet reveals himself inside the human international as a Lego Minifigure, not able to move. The tale's events are being performed out with the aid of a little boy named Finn on his father's expansive Lego set in their basement. His father—"the Man Upstairs"—comes home from paintings and chastises his son for ruining the set by means of creating variations of different playsets and proceeds to permanently rebuild and glue his perceived perfect creations collectively. Realizing the chance his buddies are in, Emmet wills himself to move and profits Finn's interest. Finn returns Emmet and the Piece of Resistance to the set, where Emmet now possesses the powers of a Master Builder and confronts Business.
Meanwhile, Finn's father seems at his son's creations and realizes that Finn had primarily based the villainous Business on him and his perfectionism. Through a speech Emmet gives Business, Finn tells his father that he is unique and has the electricity to change the whole thing. Finn reconciles with his father, which plays out as Business having a exchange of heart, capping the Kragle, and ungluing his sufferers with mineral spirits. Emmet is hailed as a hero. With Batman's blessing, Emmet starts offevolved a courting with Wyldstyle.
As a end result of Finn's father allowing Finn's younger sister to sign up for them in gambling with his Lego sets, aliens from the planet Duplo beam down and announce their plans to kill them all.Cast
- Chris Pratt as Emmet Brickowski, an everyman, production worker from Bricksburg. He is unsuitable for the Special and is skilled to be a Master Builder.
- Will Ferrell as Lord Business, an evil businessman and tyrant of Bricksburg and the Lego Universe who is the organisation president of the Octan Corporation underneath the call President Business.
- Ferrell additionally plays "The Man Upstairs", a Lego collector and Finn's father in the stay-movement part of the movie.
- Elizabeth Banks as Wyldstyle / Lucy, a "hard as nails" and tech-savvy fighter who's one of the Master Builders, Batman's girlfriend.
- Will Arnett as Batman / Bruce Wayne, a DC Comics superhero who is a Master Builder and Wyldstyle's boyfriend.
- Nick Offerman as Metal Beard, a large makeshift pirate and Master Builder looking for revenge on Lord Business for taking his body components following an in advance encounter, compelling him to build his current frame from scratch.
- Alison Brie as Princess Unikitty, a unicorn-horned kitten and Master Builder that lives in Cloud Cuckoo Land, Middle Zealand.
- Charlie Day as Benny, a "1980-something area man" who is one of the Master Builders and is obsessed with constructing spaceships.
- Liam Neeson as Bad Cop / Good Cop, a police officer with a two-sided head and a split character who serves Lord Business as a member of the Super Secret Police. The man or woman's call and personality are both based totally on the good cop/terrible cop interrogation technique which is in brief proven within the film.
- Neeson additionally voices Pa Cop, Bad Cop/Good Cop's father.
- Morgan Freeman as Vitruvius, a old wizard who's one of the Master Builders and become blinded via Lord Business in an in advance encounter.
- Channing Tatum as Superman, a DC Comics superhero who is one of the Master Builders.
- Jonah Hill as Green Lantern, a DC Comics superhero who is one of the Master Builders. He often attempts to ingratiate himself with Superman, a whole lot to Superman's displeasure.
- Cobie Smulders as Wonder Woman, a DC Comics superhero who is one of the Master Builders.
- Jadon Sand as Finn, an eight-and-a-1/2-12 months-antique boy who is the son of "The Man Upstairs" inside the live-motion part of the movie.