Excellent for the young and the young at heart. Leave your credit card at home before going, not that it will save you.

Rating: 7/10 (2 April 2014)

A frankly bizarre movie, almost psychedelic in intensity and imagery.
I only went for the sake of my 4 and a half year old son, who certainly enjoyed it immensely, especially as a recently inducted Lego fanatic (and how...) I was certainly engaged by the visual feast and stunned slightly by the thought of all the Lego building and CGI that was surely involved, although the plot itself seemed ultimately secondary if not tertiary to the actual entertainment.
As a heterosexual male, however, I was definitely taken by the 'Wyldstyl' character, including the development of her relationship with Emmet and found the Batman character hilarious in context.
Ultimately, I must confess to a couple of tears at the end, speaking as the Lego fanatic father of a young Lego fanatic and I was quite taken taken by the moral value message, in spite of how I feel about such things in general.
In closing, there was a sense that the movie was a giant and extended, if passionately crafted, Lego advert and have to imagine Lego sales in the locale of whichever cinema complex spiking at least slightly after each showing of the movie and no wonder. If I had been in the position to go out and buy some Lego after watching it myself, I would definitely have done so...
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