Could Easily See This Making My Top 10 of the Year

Rating: 10/10 (19 February 2014)

What a blast! My wife and I took our five and three year olds to this movie, and I think we had more fun with it than they did.
That's actually not very surprising, since the Lego franchise is defined by sarcastic humor full of pop culture references, many of them references to the pop culture of my own childhood rather than that of the present. "The Lego Movie" is fast, fun and colorful, and is capped with a surprise twist that had almost as much of an emotional impact on me as the ending of "Toy Story 3" did, and in the same way.
My favorite moment is the appearance of the Millennium Falcon, and the alternate version of what happens to it when it's trying to escape the giant space slug in the asteroid field. If you don't see why that's funny, then you're just not going to like this movie, and I will feel sorry for you.
Grade: A