The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie is a 2014 computer-lively adventure comedy film written and directed through Phil Lord and Christopher Miller from a tale with the aid of Lord, Miller, and Dan and Kevin Hageman. Based at the Lego line of construction toys, its story makes a speciality of Emmet, an regular Lego minifigure who facilitates a resistance motion forestall a tyrannical businessman from gluing the whole thing inside the Lego world into his imaginative and prescient of perfection. Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson, and Morgan Freeman offer their voices for the film's primary characters. The movie turned into dedicated to Kathleen Fleming, the former director of enjoyment improvement of the Lego enterprise, following her dying in Cancún, Mexico, in April 2013.
The first movie produced through the Warner Animation Group, The Lego Movie changed into launched on February 7, 2014 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It have become a vital and industrial success, grossing $468.1 million international in opposition to its $60-65 million price range, and obtained praise for its animation, performing, tale, and humor. The film received 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 was additionally nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and acquired an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for "Everything Is Awesome".
The movie has accelerated into a cinematic universe which ties into the Lego brand, including the sequel The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019); four spin-off movies The Lego Batman Movie (2017), The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), The Lego Justice League Movie (2018), and The Lego Marvel Movie (2018); the 4D movie The Lego Movie: 4D – A New Adventure; and the two-D animated television collection Unikitty!Plot
In a Lego universe populated by way of anthropomorphic minifigures, the wizard Vitruvius attempts to guard a superweapon called the "Kragle" from the evil Lord Business. He fails to do so, however prophesies that someone known as "the Special" will discover the Piece of Resistance capable of stopping the Kragle. Lord Business then kicks Vitruvius off of a cliff while pronouncing the prophecy became fake.
8 and a 1/2 years later, a production worker named Emmet Brickowski comes across a female named Wyldstyle, who is looking for something after hours at Emmet's production website. When he investigates, Emmet falls into a pit and finds the Piece of Resistance. Compelled to touch it, Emmet studies vivid visions and passes out. He awakens with the Piece of Resistance attached to his again in the custody of Bad Cop, Business's lieutenant. Emmet learns of Business's plans to freeze the world with the Kragle, a tube of Krazy Glue with the label partly rubbed out; the Piece of Resistance is the tube's cap. Wyldstyle rescues Emmet, believing him to be the special. They get away from Bad Cop and journey to the Western global where they meet up with a blind Vitruvius. Emmet learns that he and Wyldstyle are Master Builders—humans able to constructing anything they need with out preparation manuals—who oppose Business's tries to suppress their creativity. Though dissatisfied to discover Emmet isn't a Master Builder, Wyldstyle and Vitruvius are satisfied of his ability when he remembers visions of a human named "the Man Upstairs".
Emmet, Wyldstyle, and Vitruvius evade Bad Cop's forces with the useful resource of Batman. They break out to Cloud Cooko Land, in which all the master developers had been in hiding, and attend a council of the Master Builders, who're unimpressed with Emmet‘s cowardliness and refuse to help him combat Business. Bad Cop's forces attack and seize all and sundry except for Emmet and his friends. After being rescued from drowning by means of pirate Metal-beard, Emmet devises a team plan to infiltrate Business's headquarters and disarm the Kragle. As the plan unfolds, Emmet learns that Wyldstyle's actual name is Lucy. The plan is nearly a complete success until Emmet and his buddies are all captured and imprisoned, and Vitruvius is killed through Lord Business, who throws the Piece of Resistance into an abyss and sets his headquarters to self-destruct, leaving all gift to die. Vitruvius suggests he made up the prophecy as he dies, but reappears to Emmet as a ghost and tells him it's far his self-belief that makes him the Special. Strapped to the self-destruct mechanism's battery, Emmet flings himself off the threshold inside the tower and saves his friends and the Master Builders. Inspired by Emmet's sacrifice, Wyldstyle rallies the Lego people throughout the universe to apply whatever creativity they should construct machines and guns to fight Business's forces.
Emmet finds himself within the actual world, in which the events of the tale are being performed out in a basement through a boy, Finn, on his father's Lego set. The father—called "the Man Upstairs"—chastises his son for creating hodgepodges of various playsets, and proceeds to completely glue his perceived perfect creations collectively. Realizing the risk 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 possesses the powers of a Master Builder and confronts Business. In the actual world, Finn's father looks at his son's creations, and fast sees that the villainous Business is based on him. Through a speech Emmet gives Business, Finn tells his father that he may be very unique and has the electricity to alternate the entirety. Finn's father reconciles together with his son, which performs out as Business having a alternate of coronary heart, capping the Kragle with the Piece of Resistance, and ungluing his sufferers with mineral spirits. Lucy and Emmet end up boyfriend and female friend. As a end result of the daddy allowing Finn's more youthful sister to join them in gambling together with his Lego sets, Duplo aliens arrive within the Lego universe and threaten destruction.Cast
- Chris Pratt as Emmet Brickowski, an everyman and construction worker from Bricksburg who is first of all fallacious for the Special.
- Will Ferrell as Lord Business, an evil businessman and tyrant of Bricksburg and the Lego Universe who's the business enterprise president of the Octan Corporation below the name President Business.
- Ferrell also performs "The Man Upstairs", a Lego collector and Finn's father in the live-motion part of the film.
- Elizabeth Banks as Lucy / Wyldstyle, a "hard as nails" and tech-savvy fighter who is one of the Master Builders.
- Will Arnett as Bruce Wayne / Batman, a DC Comics man or woman who's a Master Builder.
- Nick Offerman as Metal Beard, a pirate and Master Builder in search of revenge on Lord Business for taking his frame components following an earlier come upon and causing him to remake his frame from bricks.
- Alison Brie as Princess Unikitty, a unicorn-horned cat and Master Builder who lives in Cloud Cuckoo Land.
- Charlie Day as Benny, a "1980-something space 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 -sided head and a cut up personality who serves Lord Business as the commander of the Super Secret Police. The person's name and persona are based totally on the best cop/horrific cop interrogation approach which is in short proven inside the movie.
- Neeson also voices Pa Cop, a police officer who's Bad Cop/Good Cop's father and Ma Cop's husband.
- Morgan Freeman as Vitruvius, a blind antique wizard who's one of the Master Builders.
- Channing Tatum as Superman, a DC Comics man or woman who is one of the Master Builders
- Jonah Hill as Green Lantern, a DC Comics character who's one of the Master Builders
- Cobie Smulders as Wonder Woman, a DC Comics man or woman who's one of the Master Builders.
- Jadon Sand as Finn, an eight-and-a-1/2-12 months-vintage boy who is the son of "The Man Upstairs" in the stay-motion part of the movie.
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 is a Master Builder along common contributors of the 2002 NBA All-Stars. Will Forte performs Abraham Lincoln (whom he had previously voiced on Clone High, any other Lord/Miller production).
Director Christopher Miller voices as a TV announcer for the Octan comedy display Where Are My Pants?ProductionDevelopment