'Everything is awesome, everything is cool when you're part of a team.' (song)

Rating: Null/10 (8 July 2014)

This is a curious movie. I had not heard much about it, but knew it was highly regarded. My wife and I started watching it last night, but shut it off after about 45 minutes. It didn't seem interesting at all.
But today I gave it another chance, finished it, and now understand. While it never will be one of my favorite animated movies, it was fun to watch especially during the last 10 to 15 minutes.
I tried to find out about how they made it by re-watching it with the DVD's cast commentary, but let me tell you that is one of the most annoying commentaries I've ever witnessed. Fortunately someone asked if most of the movie is computer animated or actual shots of Lego pieces, sort of in a claymation style of animation. As it turns out almost all of it uses computer-generated images, but they did it in a way that it looks like real Lego pieces were used.
I would guess that a person who grew up with Legos (not me) would get a bigger kick out of it. There's some funny stuff, like being afraid of the 'Kragle', which we see is 'Krazy Glue' with the letters 'z-y-u' scratched out from use. But it mainly seems to want to give the message that each of us has the ability to accomplish great things, and 'everything is awesome, everything is cool when you're part of a group.'
SPOILERS: For most of the movie we see Lego figures and Lego machines in various settings, buildings, streets, etc. Their small world is animated, it is as if they are alive, and I suppose in a sense they are. But then we see it is a giant Lego set built in a basement, and the dad (Will Ferrell) comes down the stairs to see his young son has made some alterations to what Dad had built. At first dad was angry, but then he realized that his son had to exercise his creativity too.