The Lego Film
The Lego Movie is a 2014 live motion/pc-lively adventure comedy film directed and co-written with the aid of Phil Lord and Chris Miller, disbursed by means of Warner Bros. Pictures, and offering the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day with Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman. Based specially on the Lego line of creation toys, the movie tells the tale of an regular Lego minifigure named Emmet prophesied to keep the Lego universe from the tyrannical Lord Business.
The film was released theatrically on February 7, 2014. It become a vital and business achievement, with many critics highlighting its visual fashion, humor, voice appearing and heartwarming message. It earned extra than $254 million in North America and $206 million across the world for a global total of over $468 million, turning into the maximum commercially successful animated film produced and dispensed via Warner Bros. Pictures thus far.
At the 41st Saturn Awards, the film become nominated for Best Animated Film. Three sequels and spin-offs have been additionally launched: The Lego Batman Movie, The Lego Ninjago Movie and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.Plot
The wizard Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman) tries to shield a superweapon called the "Kragle" from the evil Lord Business (Will Ferrell). He fails to accomplish that and its blinded. He prophesies that a person called "the Special" will find the Piece of Resistance capable of preventing the Kragle.
Eight and a half of years later, an ordinary production employee named Emmet Brickowski (Chris Pratt) comes across a female named Lucy (alias Wyldstyle) (Elizabeth Banks), who searches for some thing after hours at Emmet's construction web site. When he investigates, Emmet falls into a hole and reveals the Piece of Resistance. Compelled to the touch it, Emmet studies vibrant visions and passes out. He awakens within the custody of Bad Cop (Liam Neeson), Business' lieutenant, with the Piece of Resistance attached to his back. There, Emmet learns of Business' plans to freeze the arena with the Kragle, revealed to be a tube of Krazy Glue with the label partly rubbed out. Wyldstyle rescues Emmet and takes him to satisfy Vitruvius in The Old West, explaining that she and the wizard are Master Builders able to building anything they want without practise manuals. She similarly explains Business' disapproval of such anarchic creativity, for which maximum of them are incarcerated. Though disenchanted to find Emmet displays no creativity, Wyldstyle and Vitruvius are convinced of his capacity while he remembers visions of a humanoid deity referred to as "The Man Upstairs".
Bad Cop tracks down Emmet, Wyldstyle, and Vitruvius. They are rescued through Wyldstyle's boyfriend Batman and taken to Cloud Cuckoo Land, domestic of Unikitty (Alison Brie) in which a council of the closing Master Builders, who are unimpressed with Emmet and refuse to combat Business. Due to unspotted monitoring tool, Bad Cop and his forces assault and capture all of the Master Builders except for Emmet, Wyldstyle, Vitruvius, Batman, Unikitty and the spaceman named Benny (Charlie Day) who escaped in quick-constructed submarine. After the submarine is wrecked, they're rescued by means of Metal Beard (Nick Offerman). Emmet believes the Master Builders' weakness is that their man or woman creativity prevents them from working collectively. He devises a team plan to infiltrate Business' headquarters, however he and his allies are captured and imprisoned, whilst Vitruvius is decapitated via Lord Business with a penny. With his dying phrases, Vitruvius famous he made up the prophecy. Business throws the Piece of Resistance off the edge of the universe, sets his headquarters to self-destruct, and leaves the Master Builders and Bad Cop to die. Vitruvius' ghost seems before Emmet and explains it become now not the prophecy, however his self-notion that made him the Special. Tied to the self-destruct mechanism's battery, Emmet flings himself off the edge of the universe to keep his pals, who get away similarly hazard with the useful resource of Bad Cop. Inspired with the aid of Emmet's sacrifice, Wyldstyle rallies the Lego humans throughout the universe to apply something creativity they ought to construct machines and guns to combat Business' forces, with the Master Builders leading the charge.
Emmet reveals himself in the actual international, in which the occasions of the tale are being played out in the creativeness of a boy, Finn (Jadon Sand), on his father's Lego set in a basement. The father—revealed as "The Man Upstairs" (Will Ferrell) and Finn's idea for Business—chastises his son for ruining the set by using growing hodgepodges of various characters and playsets, and proceeds to completely glue his perceived perfect creations together. Realizing the hazard his pals are in, Emmet wills himself to transport and gains Finn's interest. Finn returns Emmet and the Piece of Resistance and fights his way onto Lord Business' deliver. In the actual international, Finn's father seems at his son's creations once more and is impressed. Realizing Finn based the villainous Lord Business on him, the daddy has a change of heart and allows his son to play with his Lego but he sees match. In the Lego international, Emmet tells Business that he, too, is special, as is every body. Moved with the aid of Emmet's speech, Business caps the Kragle with the Piece of Resistance and unglues his sufferers with mineral spirits. As Emmet celebrates together with his friends and his lady friend Wyldstyle (Revealing his name as Lucy), aliens from planet Duplo beings beam down and announce their invasion as a result of the father allowing Finn's younger sister to play along with his Lego sets as nicely.Cast
- Chris Pratt as Emmet Brickowski, an regular creation worker Lego minifigure in Bricksburg.
- Elizabeth Banks as Wyldstyle/Lucy, a "tough as nails" and tech-savvy fighter who is one of the Master Builders.
- Will Ferrell as Lord Business, an evil businessman and tyrant of Bricksburg who is the corporation president of the Octan Corporation below the name President Business.
- Will Ferrell also performs "The Man Upstairs", a Lego collector inside the stay-action a part of the film.
- Will Arnett as Batman, a DC Comics superhero, Master Builder, and Wyldstyle's boyfriend.
- Nick Offerman as Metal Beard, a pirate and Master Builder in search of revenge on Lord Business for taking his body components and causing him to make his current frame from scratch.
- Alison Brie as Unikitty, a unicorn/kitten hybrid and Master Builder that lives in Cloud Cuckoo Land, Middle Zealand.
- Charlie Day as Benny, a "1980-some thing space guy" who is one of the Master Builders.
- Liam Neeson as Bad Cop/Good Cop, a police officer with a -sided head and a split character who serves Lord Business as a member of the Super Secret Police.
- Liam Neeson also voices Pa Cop, a police officer who is Bad Cop/Good Cop's father.
- Morgan Freeman as Vitruvius, a blind vintage wizard who's one of the Master Builders.
- Channing Tatum as Superman, a DC Comics superhero who's one of the Master Builders.
- Jason Marsden as Green Lantern, a DC Comics superhero who is one of the Master Builders.
- Cobie Smulders as Wonder Woman, a DC Comics superhero who is one of the Master Builders.
- Jadon Sand as Finn, an eight-and-a-half of-year-vintage boy who is the son of "The Man Upstairs" in the stay-movement a part of the film.
In addition, Anthony Daniels and Billy Dee Williams reprise their Star Wars roles as C-3PO and Lando Calrissian respectively, with Keith Ferguson voicing Han Solo (whom he previously voiced in Robot Chicken and Mad). Shaquille O'Neal portrays a Lego model of himself who's a Master Builder along commonplace contributors of the 2002 NBA All-Stars.
The forged is rounded out by way of Craig Berry as Blake; David Burrows as an Octan Corporation Robo Fed; Amanda Farinos as Finn's mom (an offscreen character); Will Forte as Abraham Lincoln (a Master Builder); Dave Franco as Wally (a creation worker); Todd Hansen as Gandalf (a Master Builder whom Vitruvius mistakes for Albus Dumbledore); Jake Johnson as Barry (a construction employee); Keegan-Michael Key as Frank the Foreman (a creation foreman who's Emmet's boss); Kelly Lafferty as Velma Staplebot (Lord Business' assistant); Chris McKay as Larry the Barista (a person who works at a espresso save in Bricksburg); Graham Miller because the Duplo alien leader; Doug Nicholas as Surfer Dave (considered one of Emmett's friends) and a Micro Manager; Chris Paluszek as a Robo Foreman (the pinnacle of the Robo Demolitionists and the Robo Workers); Chris Romano as Joe (a plumber in Bricksburg), Melissa Sturm as Ma Cop (a police officer who's Bad Cop/Good Cop's mom) and Gail (a production worker); Jorma Taccone as William Shakespeare (a Master Builder); and Leiki Veskimets as the voice of Octan Tower's Central Computer.