The Lego Movie - Wikipedia
The Lego Movie is a 2014 laptop-lively motion-adventure comedy movie written and directed by means of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller from a story through Lord, Miller, and Dan and Kevin Hageman. Based at the Lego line of creation toys, its story makes a speciality of Emmet, an regular Lego minifigure who enables a resistance movement forestall a tyrannical businessman from gluing the entirety in the Lego world into his vision of perfection. Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson offer their voices for the film's characters.
Plans of the movie based on Lego began in 2008 and become announced with the aid of Warner Bros. in November 2011. Chris McKay become added in to co-direct the movie in 2011. Much of the solid have been signed in to voice the characters in 2012, even as the animation became supplied by Animal Logic. The movie became devoted to Kathleen Fleming, the previous director of leisure improvement of the Lego business enterprise, following her demise in Cancún, Mexico, in April 2013.[nine][10]
A collaboration between manufacturing houses from the US, Australia, and Denmark, The Lego Movie premiered in Los Angeles on February 1, 2014, and turned into released inside the United States on February 7. It have become a vital and commercial achievement, grossing $468.1 million global in opposition to its $60–65 million budget, and acquired praise for its animation, tale, humor and performing. The National Board of Review selected The Lego Movie as one of the pinnacle films of the year. It turned into nominated for Best Original Song on the 87th Academy Awards, and received numerous accolades. The Lego Movie is the primary entry in what could grow to be the franchise of the identical name, which includes three more films—The Lego Batman Movie (2017), The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019).Plot[edit]
In the Lego universe, the wizard Vitruvius fails to protect a superweapon known as the "Kragle" from the evil Lord Business, but prophesies that a person called "The Special" will locate the Piece of Resistance capable of preventing the Kragle. Lord Business claims it unfaithful and kicks Vitruvius off a cliff.
8 half years later in Bricksburg, creation worker Emmet Brickowski comes throughout Wyldstyle, a lady looking for something at Emmet's production website. Emmet falls into a pit and unearths the Piece of Resistance. Compelled to touch it, Emmet stories visions and passes out.
He awakens inside the custody of Bad Cop, Business's lieutenant, with the Piece of Resistance attached to his lower back. Emmet learns of Business's plans to freeze the sector with the Kragle, a tube of Krazy Glue with the label partially rubbed out; the Piece of Resistance is the tube's cap. Wyldstyle rescues Emmet, believing him to be the Special. They break out Bad Cop and tour to "The Old West" wherein they meet a blind Vitruvius. He and Wyldstyle are Master Builders, capable of constructing some thing without practise manuals, who oppose Business's tries to suppress their creativity. Though dissatisfied Emmet isn't always a Master Builder, they're convinced of his ability whilst he recollects visions of "the Man Upstairs".
Emmet, Wyldstyle, and Vitruvius prevent Bad Cop's forces with Batman's help and break out to Cloud Cuckoo Land in which all of the master builders are in hiding. The Master Builders are unimpressed with Emmet's cowardlinessand refuse to help him combat Business. Bad Cop's forces assault and seize every body besides Emmet and his pals. Fellow Master Builder MetalBeard rescues Emmet from drowning and Emmet devises a plan to infiltrate Business's headquarters and disarm the Kragle. The plan almost succeeds until Emmet and his pals are captured and imprisoned. Lord Business murders Vitruvius through decapitating him with a penny, throws the Piece of Resistance into an abyss, and sets his headquarters to self-destruct, leaving all present to die. Vitruvius reveals he made up the prophecy as he dies, but his spirit returns to inform Emmet it's miles his self-perception that makes him the Special. Strapped to the self-destruct mechanism's battery, Emmet flings himself off the brink inside the tower and saves his pals and the Master Builders. Inspired by way of Emmet's sacrifice, Wyldstyle rallies the Lego human beings throughout the universe to use something creativity they ought to construct machines and guns to fight Business's forces.
Emmet reveals himself inside the human international wherein the activities of his life are being played out in a basement by using a young boy, Finn, on his father's Lego set. The father — "The Man Upstairs" — chastises his son for creating hodgepodges of various playsets and starts offevolved to permanently glue his perceived ideal creations together. Realizing the hazard, Emmet wills himself to move and profits Finn's interest. Finn returns Emmet and the Piece of Resistance to the set, where Emmet possesses the powers of a Master Builder and confronts Business. In the human international, Finn's father looks at his son's creations and sees how he based the villainous Business on him. Through a speech Emmet gives Business, Finn tells his father that he could be very special and has the energy to exchange the whole lot. Finn's father reconciles along with his son, which performs out as Business having a exchange of coronary heart, capping the Kragle with the Piece of Resistance, and ungluing his sufferers with mineral spirits as Wyldstyle and Emmet input a dating. As Finn's younger sister joins in playing with the Lego sets, Duplo aliens arrive within the Lego universe and threaten destruction.[N 1]Cast[edit]
- Chris Pratt as Emmet Brickowski, an everyman and construction worker from Bricksburg who's to start with flawed for the Special.
- Will Ferrell as Lord Business, an evil businessman who hates Master Builders, tyrant of Bricksburg and the Lego Universe who is the organization president of the Octan Corporation beneath the call President Business.[11][12]
- Ferrell also performs "The Man Upstairs", a Lego collector and Finn's father inside the stay-motion a part of the movie.
- Morgan Freeman as Vitruvius, a blind and aged wizard-like Master Builder.
- Elizabeth Banks as Lucy / Wyldstyle, a "tough as nails" and tech-savvy Master Builder.[thirteen]
- Will Arnett as Bruce Wayne / Batman, a DC Comics person who's one of the Master Builders, in addition to Wyldstyle's boyfriend and an newbie musician.
- Nick Offerman as MetalBeard, a pirate-like Master Builder searching for revenge on Lord Business for taking his body parts following an earlier come upon and causing him to remake his body from bricks.[12]
- Alison Brie as Princess Unikitty, a unicorn/cat hybrid-like Master Builder who lives in Cloud Cuckoo Land.[12][14]
- Charlie Day as Benny, a "1980-something space man"-like Master Builder who is captivated with constructing spaceships.[11]
- Liam Neeson as Bad Cop / Good Cop / Scribble Cop, a police officer with a two-sided head and a break up character who serves Lord Business as the commander of the Super Secret Police. The man or woman's call and persona are primarily based on the good cop/horrific cop interrogation technique, which is briefly proven within the movie.
- Neeson also voices Pa Cop, a police officer who is Bad Cop/Good Cop's father and Ma Cop's husband.
- Channing Tatum as Superman, a DC Comics person who's one of the Master Builders
- Jonah Hill as Green Lantern, a DC Comics individual who's one of the Master Builders
- Cobie Smulders as Wonder Woman, a DC Comics person who is one of the Master Builders.
- Jadon Sand as Finn, an eight-and-a-half of-12 months-old boy who's the son of "The Man Upstairs" inside the live-motion a part of the film.
Additionally, Anthony Daniels, Keith Ferguson, and Billy Dee Williams appear as protocol droid C-3PO, and smugglers Han Solo and Lando Calrissian from the 20 th Century Fox Star Wars franchise and the television series Robot Chicken.[N 2] Other appearances from licensed Lego iterations of franchises consist of Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit franchises (voiced by way of Todd Hansen); Dumbledore from the Wizarding World franchise; The Flash and Aquaman from DC Comics; Milhouse from the 20th Century Fox Simpsons franchise; Michelangelo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise and Speed Racer from the Lego tie-in sets released along the 2008 film model of the eponymous lively tv collection.