Important messages that most people didn't pick up

Rating: 8/10 (1 May 2014)

I went to watch the Lego Movie yesterday and before watching it I had heard pretty good things about it. Good ratings and the trailer made it look pretty entertaining. Not that I'm a fan of Trailers. Anyway after watching the movie i can see why it has such high ratings as it is satisfying to most demographics. It was both clever and entertaining to kids and adults, but what really made it so great for me was the messages that would usually fly over the heads of the average mindless movie goer.
The Lego is built so everyone is the same, everything is awesome and no one complains. No one comes up with any original ideas because the society is fed a cycle of mindless daily routines to keep the society exactly the same. "Honey where are my pants?" is the only thing that is on TV. "Everything is awesome" is played on repeat all day long, and the one thing everyone looks forward to is free tacos on"Taco Tuesday". The president ( Mr business) and the "Man upstairs" (who are more or less the same person) are basically the evil ones putting all this in place. Their aim is to keep everything the same, eventually by literally using glue to cement people into one place. Even more so then they were before.
If you think about it a lot of this isn't actually much different from our society. Think about all the mindless television out there in comparison to the actual thought provoking ones. And I'm sure most people would agree that the radio stations play the same stuff every day. It makes sense that a government wants to keep the status quo. Right now most people have very mindless jobs in office blocks and working on roads and fixing pipes. So it is in the governments interest to maintain this by seeing to it that the people are fed mindless television and repetitive music as opposed to something that cold educate the people into making them realise that they are worth more.
So the the average person, (Emmet) who is the average citizen who works on a construction site and hasn't thought of a single idea in his life. Is capable of so much more if they think outside the box and put forth their ideas.
There is so much more to how they portrayed this theme throughout the whole movie that I just cant explain without showing you the movie. The message was really strong for me, Conformity makes for a happy government.
Anyway, the movie is definitely worth seeing. It has some really thought provoking messages which really take it to the next level for me