Well worth seeing but NOT worth a 7.7 avg review from over 45 men

Rating: 7/10 (9 April 2014)

NO SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW
I have not written a review before but I find the other reviews misleading. I am 57 and have found that the reviews by people over 45 are most helpful for me because when you get to be our age you have seen it all so a movie had to be well written to be worth seeing. When I saw the reviews of 7.7 from men my age, I talked my family into going.
The movie was very good. I won't give any spoilers but it is funny, has somewhat sophisticated humor in some cases, and some slapstick that is funny. Characters, voice acting, story line are all pretty good. For me the first 20 minutes were a little slow and other parts were slow, but the good parts made it overall worth seeing. The problem I have is people gave it such a high review. To me a review of 7.7 is only for a movie that I will watch a second time when it comes on TV. This was good but not that good. I would give it a 6.8 but you can't do that so I put 7.
Reading the reviews I think I figured out why they were so high. People who played with Legos as a kid gave it a high rating. I never played with Lego (at least not that I remember) and so that was not special for me. The problem with reading the reviews is I was expecting a fantastic movie and ended up with a good one. If I had expected a good movie I would have enjoyed it more.
Full disclosure my wife and 18 year old daughter HATED the movie and were VERY bored. My 21 year old daughter and I liked it. I think the key here is if you tend to like movies with subtle, sophisticated, ironic and satirical humor, this is for you. If you prefer action movies and romantic comedies this might seem boring to you.