The Lego Movie Is Awesome!

Rating: 9/10 (3 May 2014)

The Lego Movie is so much fun. Anyone who grew up building things out of legos, you will love this. The film is exactly what its like when you play with legos as a kid, you put the batman in with the construction set and star wars into Gotham City, you went crazy and put everything into your own little world of awesome. Then of course, there's the kid who always tried to have everything in order, everything in its place and have everything be... not awesome.
The Lego Movie captures all of the same feelings from your childhood and bundles in up in to a very enjoyable, easily digested 100 minutes. Emmet is the main character and hero of the story, he's a very relatable character in the sense that he's upbeat about everything, even though his life is stale and he blends in with everyone else. This makes him a good role model for kids (always be yourself and always try and stand out from the crowd) and makes him an interesting character to root for. Lucy is the hipster-like love interest for Emmet and she brings some girl power into the film that gives the girls someone to relate to as well. Batman and the other characters are all there to give the story its grand scope and also to provide some of the funniest moments in the whole film. Its also nice to see that it doesn't feel that only characters the filmmakers could get the rights too are included, it really does feel like any lego character you could think of is there in the film.
The film also has some astonishingly clever social commentary and pop culture references for what is primarily a kids film. The films main theme song 'Everything Is Awesome' is a parody of today's modern pop radio and is considered by Lucy to be a song only people who blend in listen to. However, Lucy then goes on to say that Batmans emo,screamo- like song is what 'real music' is. Its a loving little nudge at what we as a society deem as popular and unpopular, what's real entertainment and what isn't. References practically seem to write themselves here, given the amount of characters they included, although my favorite has to be Green Lantern being a massive fanboy of Superman.
The animation looks so close to the same stop motion animation you would see on YouTube, giving it a very real, homemade feeling, but of course with a much bigger budget and it does look very nice. Water, fire and everything else are rendered in its lego format and props to the animators because everything on screen is CG. Then there's one scene which I was so happy to see include, I wont spoil it but it's the scene that summed up the entire film for me.
Overall, The Lego Movie is a superb film for all ages. Its bright, funny and inspiring for the kids and has enough under the hood to make it enjoyable for adults as well.