Spaceshiiiip!!!!!....

Rating: 9/10 (8 February 2014)

The idea of a Lego movie really didn't entice my enthusiasm one Iota, and the trailer was even more discouraging.
But i'm here to say that this is one of the funniest, sweetest, family films I've seen in a while.
The premise is simple, a prophecy is held stating that a special master builder will find a piece that will defeat lord business, and stop him from destroying the world.
Jump eight and a half years later, we meet Emmet, an ordinary man who follows the instructions by the book, and goes unnoticed by his work colleagues and pretty much everyone in general.
That is until he spots a stranger around the building site, and he discovers the sacred piece, and a policeman who's less than friendly....
Suddenly his life changes forever....
First and foremost its a kids movie, but its a film for everyone. Not one of those movies that has separate jokes for adults, but one that the whole family can laugh at/with.
And the reason why the film works, is because it's just so bonkers that you cannot help but love it. One minute we have a wonderful Batman being cocky toward everybody, or Superman trying to avoid The Green Lantern, or Han Solo trying to find a party, to Milhouse.
There's something here for everyone. The voice work is brilliant, and even though the leads are brilliant Neeson steals the movie from everyone as his bad cop/good cop hybrid.
The adventure goes from world to different world, and each world carries a vast array of colour and character, but that's not the joker up,the movies sleeve.
The final third spins the whole film on its head, and turns it into a totally different film that you were watching for seventy five minutes.
Its clever, funny, and most of all, touching.
Well worth seeing with the whole family, and see it before people tell you the secret....