Although The Lego Movie was surely a commercial to sell Legos, it was a damn good one.

Rating: 8/10 (7 February 2014)

Seeing the incredibly high reviews that "The Lego Movie" was receiving it persuaded me to check this film out; originally I wouldn't have given this movie the time of day as I've seen from the trailers it seemed to be a film that purely relied on cheap jokes such as referential humor and fart jokes; thank God it wasn't that. I went in the Lego Movie with moderately high expectations since the review scores were so high, and I left feeling it truly deserved those scores. The film had absolutely breath-taking amount of detail when it came to making the computer animated graphics look as though it was filmed entirely in Legos bricks, also the wide variety of characters in the film from a punk chick that's dating Batman, to a hippie mystical wizard gave the film a sense of worlds colliding as well as charm; but what was the most surprising thing about this film was how much depth the story had with its commentary on modern America. How an everyman listens to only poplar vapid music, to drinking overly priced coffee, and to have absolutely nothing that makes them special in anyway. Also the main villain being called Lord Business owning a huge corporation that runs charities, taco night Tuesdays, as well as ballot boxes, huh you never see a kids film put that much emphasis on the corrupt business. But the message the movie tries to convey at roughly the last 15 minutes in the film truly turns a hilarious comedy into a touching ending that rivals ending like Toy Story 3. The Lego Movie brought me back to the days were I used to play with Legos every day, and although it one huge commercial for Legos it worked as I wanted to buy some Legos and relive my childhood again. 8.5/10