LEGO Batman: End of the Beginning

**LEGO Batman: End of the Beginning** is a superhero film, a family-oriented remake of LEGO Batman: Forces of Havoc with new footage.

## Synopsis

Corrupt banker Jeremiah Valeskas plants an explosive in Arkham Asylum to free his brother Jeremy and engage in insurance fraud by staging a planned robbery at the Bals-Dinaco Federal Reserves. While Batman and Robin learn of the breakout, they are unable to find and defeat anyone more than a duo of small-timers before they are diverted by mayoral candidate Giselle Ilene's campaign party at Wayne Manor. Bruce Wayne meets Valeskas at the party, claiming that he is a strong backer of Ilene but discussing his plan to hijack her campaign in secret, hoping that Wayne will sympathize with his ends. Jeremiah is turned down by Wayne for his corruption and relation to Jeremy Valeskas, who became The Joker; Tim Drake, after learning of the proposal, claims that Jeremiah perpetrated the breakout at Arkham, but he is unable to substantiate this.

Covertly massacring the occupants of a volcano lair belonging to AmerTek Industries, The Riddler is able to sneak in, along with Two-Face, Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, Clayface, and Jeremiah. Jeremiah briefs the team on what items they will need to rob Bals-Dinaco and make it look legitimate; a key, a freeze gun, magic beanstalk seeds, and military-grade explosives, which they will steal in that order. Riddler and Clayface sneak through a parking building and the streets of Gotham City before reaching a bank, where they explode the facade and Riddler steals a huge key, leaving his colleague behind. Batman and Robin arrive and fight Clayface, who stayed at the bank to steal gold, ultimately melting him the sprinkler system as Riddler runs away and leaves behind a picture of ice cream as a clue to his next robbery.

Riddler and Mr. Freeze rob a freeze gun from his abandoned ice cream factory, the two staying to release Captain Cold from a frozen prison as Mr. Freeze reclaims his factory. The Dynamic Duo arrive and face opposition from Mr. Freeze's goons, but Batman is able to incapicitate all of them as well as Mr. Freeze, although he is gravely wounded in the explosion of Freeze's mech. As the ice cream factory burns down from the blast, Two-Face arrives to escort Riddler out of the area, while the police find Mr. Freeze locked in a refrigerator and arrest him. After a quick recovery, Batman pursues Riddler and Two-Face's truck in the Batmobile, crashing it with the aid of Spider-Man and Black Panther, who arrive in and leave Gotham on unrelated terms; however, Poison Ivy saves the supervillains. Riddler and Ivy enter the Botanic Gardens and steal mutated beanstalk seeds, but Ivy stays after seducing Superman; she fights Batman and Robin when they arrive, nearly killing the latter through her seduction, but her infidelity causes Superman to break up with her, upon which Batman knocks her out with a vomit blaster.

Riddler and Two-Face break into a Wayne-Tech arms facility and flee with an array of guns and bombs; elsewhere, Batman, Robin, Batgirl, and Alfred solve the puzzles Riddler left at each crime scene and learn that he plans to rob the reserves. Riddler and Two-Face freeze the waterway to reach the isle that Bals-Dinaco is on and use the beanstalk to scale a landmass and have a goon suicide bomb Two-Face's truck into the reserve after attaching the explosives to it. The bank robbers get into Bals-Dinaco and make their way to the vault with the huge key, leaving the Dynamic Duo and Batgirl to find the Federal Reserve under Riddler and Two-Face's control. As Batman takes out a hostage taker outside, Robin and Batgirl enter and find a floor covered in acid to prevent their advancement, although they are able to use the Robin Raft to cross it. In the gold vault, Robin and Batgirl uses pieces of gold to block Riddler's assault rifle shots, before he tries to escape and gets trapped in molten gold that solidifies with him inside of it. Outside, Two-Face threatens to either kill Batman or destroy the White House depending on whether his coin lands on "heads" or "heads," meaning that he offers no true decision. Batman distracts Two-Face by throwing a half dozen coins at him, causing him to forget which one is his and fall over in confusion, losing consciousnesss from the impact. Commissioner Gordon arrives and the last undefeated bank robber shoots himself in the head to avoid arrest, while Riddler and Two-Face are readmitted to Arkham Asylum and Captain Cold is defeated by The Flash after he robs an ATM in Central City.

Penguin assembles his goon squad for a meeting inside of his fishing boat, which includes Batman's mightiest foes; Man-Bat, Killer Croc, and Bane, along with himself and Catwoman, introducting them to his robotic Penguin Henchmen and explaining how they will use them to take over Gotham City. However, Penguin needs a satellite dish and the Gotham Diamond to power all of them, but the supervillains place crates full of Penguin Henchmen in front of a McDonald's and the Botanic Gardens, where Iron Man fights two armed thugs and a couple having a divorce. Bane and Penguin sail to the docks, where they steal the satellite and place it on Penguin's boat, but he leaves Bane to die as he is surrounded by cops and becomes livid, lifting a police jeep overhead before the weight crushes him. Penguin and Catwoman travel by rooftop and explode a police helicopter before they enter the Gotham City Museum and Catwoman steals the diamond, but the two are forced to split up after cops arrive.

While Batman and Nightwing pursue Catwoman, Penguin and Killer Croc flee through the docks on his boat; Catwoman is cornered by Batman and tosses the diamond off of the roof of the building they are on, where a bulldog takes it. Catwoman is arrested by the Gotham City police and Batman learns of Croc and Penguin trying to flee through the docks after a police hovercraft is destroyed by a missile strike. Batman and Nightwing pursue them in the Batboat until Penguin's boat is demolished by a tsunami that Mermaid Man generates, leaving Croc and Penguin at the hands of the heroes. Croc mutilates Batman and flees with Penguin, reaching the Police Station through the sewers to save Catwoman, as the bulldog gave the diamond to her cat, Isis, who vomited it in her cell. After killing the prison guards, Catwoman is freed and escapes with Penguin and the diamond, while Croc covers their escape as Batman and Nightwing enter the sewers after Mayor McCaskill tips them off. Batman and Robin knock out Croc with exploding gel and he drops a pamphlet for the City Zoo, revealing where Penguin and Catwoman are going next, but not before he bites Batman again, although Alfred helps him make another quick recovery. After finding Batman and Nightwing at the zoo, Penguin and Catwoman escape to the Arctic World, where they set up the satellite with the help of Jihadi mercernaries as Man-Bat slows the vigilantes down, although he is defeaned by a loud sound and defeated by Batman, but not before the satellite is powered and the Penguin Henchmen commit a massacre in Gotham City. As Nightwing tends to an assaulted couple, Batman battles his way through Arctic World as he defeats the henchmen and Jihadis before exploding the generator in Penguin's sewer fortress and stopping the satellite, destroying the Penguin Henchmen and knocking out Penguin and Catwoman. Penguin is returned to Arkham Asylum and Man-Bat is condemned to the zoo, while the remaining Jihadis are killed by vigilantes In-Betweener and Sayoku after they try to shoot up Borealis Strip and Bar, although the duo are apprehended for their violence.

Joker plots to nuke Gotham City from the Cathedral and cause chaos for Batman to resolve, sending Mad Hatter to Ace Chemicals to steal toxins while he and Harley Quinn set a trap for Commissioner Gordon. Hatter escapes from Batman but crash-lands his getaway glider at Gotham High after it is struck lightning, which gives life to the toxins, one of which kills him with a syringe full of its component chemical while the Dynamic Duo and Batgirl destroy the others. Meanwhile, Harley Quinn and Joker abduct Gordon; Joker sends Batman a video of how they plan to torture and kill the commissioner if Batman and Robin fail to arrive and save him. Flying to Amusement Mile, the Dynamic Duo enter a funhouse where they save Gordon and incapicitate Harley Quinn, although Joker flees in his helicopter and the Batcopter is damaged after crashing in the building.

After fixing the Batcopter, the Dynamic Duo pursue Joker's helicopter until The Scarecrow arrives in his demonic glider to kill Batman and Robin, causing the latter to fall out of his helicopter and into a train, where he hallucinates after getting gassed by Fear Toxin. Scarecrow's glider and Joker's helicopter are shot and destroyed by the Batwing and both of the brutes are left to die, but they flee with huge balloons and shatter the Art Museum's skylight, where they wreak havoc and kill most of the security force. The Joker flees while Scarecrow tries to kill the last security guard, only for the two to knock each other out in a gunfight, the guard getting medical attention at a hospital while Scarecrow is returned to Arkham Asylum. Killer Moth and Joker meet up in the hovels of Gotham, where they cause a riot among citizens by spreading propaganda about their oppression, using this as a distraction for the police while they go to the Cathedral; Commissioner Gordon is furious about the unrest and orders many police cars to converge on the villains. Joker and Killer Moth kill all of the police in a spider-like mech they summon and save Harley Quinn as Gordon calls for the aid of the Bat Family, who immediately arrive in the Batwing. After a searchlight turns on, Moth is attracted to the light and stays, while Joker and Harley go to the Cathedral, Moth soon learning of the peril he is in and escaping as the Dynamic Duo and Batgirl pursue him across the roads of Gotham City until he is cornered and paralyzes Batgirl in a cocoon. After Batman beats up Killer Moth, Robin threatens him with pesticide, but he refuses to tell them The Joker's plans, leaving Jason Todd to spray him with it, leaving the villain comatose.

The Batcave is destroyed after a brief stop there and Alfred is seemingly killed, leaving Batman and Robin to go to the Cathedral to crash Harley Quinn and Joker's wedding before they nuke the city, only to find themselves surrounded by supervillains. The Justice League arrive to help the Dynamic Duo and knock out all of the villains, only for The Joker to escape on his helicopter, which is flown by Harley Quinn; Batman grabs the helicopter's rope ladder and grapples a statue to sabotage the vehicle with its weight. Joker realizes Batman's plan and shoots the statue into pieces with his machine gun, before killing himself and Harley with one shot and causing the helicopter to crash, leaving Batman to die. Robin mourns his death and disables the nuclear bombs with a detonator held by Joker's corpse, although the Justice League's victory is seen as anything but after the loss of Batman and they hold a funeral for him. After discovering footage of Jeremiah Valeskas getting syringes from his brother, leading Nightwing to raid Jeremiah's penthouse and impale him on a splinter of wood, leaving him for the police and sending them evidence of his crimes. Giselle Ilene publicly denies Jeremiah's wrongdoings and destroys the ambulance he is in, bringing him the syringes and injecting him with one and herself with another, causing them to bear Joker and Harley Quinn's visage, respectively.

In a post-credits scene, In-Betweener and Sayoku are found guilty at their trial and each of them is given a five year sentence to Stryker's Island, the former threatening revenge against his prosecutor before being escorted out of court. In the after-credits scene, Dick Grayson disguises himself as Bruce Wayne and gives a speech about him believing that Batman is still alive, after which it is revealed that Grayson has taken up Bruce's mantle and will protect Gotham as Batman, albeit more violently than his predecesor.

## Common Sense Media

* age 12+
* Summary: Enjoyable but sometimes derivative cartoon-like experience.
* Review: Parents need to know that this movie isn't based on movies like *Joker* but rather the *Batman* television series and comics. *End of the Beginning* is dark and edgy, as much so as its predecesor *LEGO Batman: Forces of Havoc*-- there are countless villains, fights, massacres, explosives, guns, destruction, and overall mayhem. As such, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the movie received a PG-13 rating for violence, but the brutality is relatively harmless; LEGO bricks compose the cartoony characters. When fighting, characters get hurt and sometimes killed; this includes police officers and some of the superheroes. However, there is little blood and no gore to fret over, unlike *Forces of Havoc*; still, characters strike, shoot, and otherwise use weapons against one another. Although the film is generally light and stylized, it includes some dark scenes with the characters of focus constantly in intense peril, which will likely upset young or sensitive viewers, plus it ends on a melancholy note with the seriously-portrayed death of an important character. There are also some strip club scenes with Minifigures pole dancing in mildly provocative wear as well as a few uses of crass language including an iliteral instance of "c--kblocker." The film has almost no dialogue and doesn't take care to explain much beyond the characters, so folks looking for a plot-centric movie might find this picture mediocre.
* Positive Messages ⭐️: The film shows the perspective of both superheroes and their archenemies; it is possible to enjoy the movie while hating the villains, but you'd miss out on much of the movie's appeal. Laws are portrayed as flawed and obtrusive in the form of two vigilantes being arrested for stopping a mass shooting yet the police are also portrayed as sympathetic at their lowest points-- like when they unknowingly slaughter children while under a drug's influence.
* Positive Role Models ⭐️: Role models are decidedly mixed to negative, with both heroes and more often antagonists getting the spotlight, which leaves the film with a combination of both decent and terrible role models. Batman, while a superhero, has a knack for iffy pranks, like taking a selfie with a boy in a bikini after his clothes are humiliatingly melted, while a prominent police officer is treated as a role model despite his part in a horrific act of inadvertent police brutality.
* Diverse Representations ⭐️: There is next to no diversity in gender and especially race in the original Forces of Havoc, which is lifted over to this one, although woman and BIPOC-coded Minifigures appear more in the new scenes. Most of the women onscreen are either helpless bystanders or villains, with the only heroic representation in the form of Batgirl, who rarely appears, as well as one-off cops who usually die. A gay bar is the setting of one scene and a racially-ambiguous trans-masculine police officer eventually steps up to protect the patrons from a homophobic shooting, which is unfortunately caused by a stereotypical Islamist terrorist group of mostly minorities who are opposed by white vigilantes and security guards. There is a joke at the expense of a seemingly masculine teenager who wears a bikini under their clothes, which implies that they are either trans or gender nonconforming in some form.
* Violence: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The movie involves combat, with both the hostile and heroic biting the bullet, whether by gunfire or explosions. However, the film's violence is often cartoony and bloodless, although there are some dark scenes, including some potentially emotional deaths. One scene depicts a duo of security guards shooting what they see as demons; the two are influenced by a drug and are actually killing children. The bloodiest scene is a brief glimpse of a man having a gunshot wound cleaned after getting shot, although he ultimately survives. Heavy Spoiler Alert: The film's titular character doesn't make it to the end, along with some of his allies and enemies.
* Sex, Romance, and Nudity: ⭐️⭐️ Some of the women wear revealing clothing with cleavage depicted, with one close-up showing off the prominent bustline printed on one. Three scenes are implicitly set in strip clubs but no nudity is depicted, only women in bikinis pole dancing and shirtless men in underwear. Involuntary exposure occurs after dying slime monsters collapse onto and melt a teen's clothes, revealing a Slave Leia bikini with slight cleavage.
* Language: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The film has some moderate swearing, including one use of "c--k blocker" and more of the words "s--t," "bitch," "bastard," "hell," and "goddamn."
* Products & Purchases: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This movie unites the LEGO toy company with the campy Batman television shows and comic books.
* Drinking, Drugs, & Smoking: ⭐️⭐️ There is a comical drug reference in the form of a homeless man cooking blue meth crystals, along with momentary smoking of paper cigars and cigarettes as well as bar scenes with exploding bottles and kegs of alcohol.

### What's It About?

A remake of *LEGO Batman: Forces of Havoc*, *End of the Beginning* is-– what a shock -- another LEGO quest starring the Caped Crusader; as with the kid-friendly *The LEGO Batman Movie* and the family-unfriendly *Forces of Havoc*, this film blends the beloved kids' construction toy with familiar heroes and adversaries. Viewers follow Minifigure versions of Batman and Robin in its predecessor's original plot of the Dynamic Duo fighting Gotham City's most evil criminal geniuses, such as The Joker, Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Scarecrow, Two-Face, and Poison Ivy, after they flee Arkham Asylum, this time with the aid of a mysterious benefactor. Additionally, viewers also follow the supervillains, with specific adventures just for them; torn right out of the TV shows, settings go from underground sewers to rooftops to Gotham's soulless streets, with notable vehicle chases involving the instantly-recognizable Batmobile, Batwing, and Batboat.

### Is It Any Good?

While entertaining, with kitsch and color galore in the stop-motion animation, *LEGO Batman: End of the Beginning* plays out very similarly to creator LEGO Metaworld's previous *Forces of Havoc;* yes, there are new characters, locations, gizmos, and adventures. Most important of the additions is a new duo stopping a massacre uncannily akin to the Pulse Shooting-- to say nothing of the Club Q shooting that happened after the scene was animated-- but essentially, the film has almost the same formula: superheroes and villains battle whoever is hostile, achieve a vague task, and repeat. That being said, die-hard Batman and LEGO fans probably don't want Metaworld to "toy" with the layout too much, but it often feels like it is little more than a new coat of paint and camera angles on an existing film to cover up the excessive gore and errors.

That being said, the film is still clever, hilarious, and frenetic, which shows that the original Forces of Havoc, for all its goofs, was not a fluke: LEGO Metaworld knows what he is doing. That being said, while the messages about the importance of cooperation and self-sacrifice aren't as powerful or obvious as they should've been, there is still more for parents to talk about than the original had under its belt. Note: While the original film fluctuated from 420p to 720p with a few 1080p scenes, the new closeups intended to cut out graphic violence and movie mistakes can look slightly grainier, but thankfully the new shots are unanimously high-definition 1080p footage, even the 1FPS comic book panel-style scenes.

### Talk to Your Kids About...

* Parents can talk about whether the creator should have refreshed the film by completely remaking it or if it's better that LEGO Metaworld churned out a very similar movie to *Forces of Havoc* but for a younger demographic.
* Talk about the violence and blood in the film, is it any less terrifying because the characters and objects are made out of Lego toys? How much horror can children and tween audiences handle?
* How do Batman and the police in this Lego film stack up with other versions of Batman and police you have seen in films and/or in television shows? Why do you think Batman and the police force are portrayed as so solemn and furious most of the time? Are they still positive role models and why does that matter?
* In the climax of the film, how does Batman learn the vitality of cooperation and self-sacrifice? Why are those important character strengths and life skills?
* The Joker et al. are supervillains, but it is obvious that you are also supposed to love watching their anger and calamity play out. Did you follow the supervillains' narrative and how did that make you feel? Is it OK to love the villains and what they do if it's fictional? Are their massacres too realistic to separate from reality?
* How do LEGO Metaworld's Lego films stack up with other toy-based franchises, such as the official Lego movies or the Transformers films? Does watching *End of the Beginning* make you want to buy the Lego Minifigures and sets in the film? Is it still product placement if no deal was made or are Lego stop-motion "Brickfilms" simply an art form?

### Parents Say

* Age: 11+
* Quality:
	+ Awesome aside from one problem
		- Age: 10+
		- Review: It is a simple plot, has enjoyable scenes, and my 9-year-old says it is the best LEGO movie, the violence is just killing LEGO Minifigures with brief bleeding, so I am concerned with that as much as any reasonable person would be, although some will find if iffy for its effects on tween viewers. The one con is that at least half of the scenes are reserved to the supervillains violently beating up and killing the "heroes" like cops, it's a gross idea for my son to love authority figures getting killed.
	+ Awesome for children, even more for grown-ups!
		- Age: 10+
		- Review: This film is super delightful for children about ten and up and their parents; it is unbelievably humorous and the product placement is the main concern, the violence and "blood" are simply LEGO Minifigures crumbling to pieces and the latter isn't even shown with the former so there's nothing even tangentially gory, which adds to the funny charm of the movie. My husband and I have watched this a ton and laugh our butts off, it also has equal if not stronger women as well as the men, which is extremely empowering representation. :D
	+ Does not need language comprehension
		- Age: 10+
		- Review: This is one of the very few movies I have found that my severely autistic son can watch because he still cannot understand words, there is some talking and text boxes however they are not needed to enjoy the film. This movie gives him the violence he wants to see without any gore also there's gay pride stuff, which is great.
	+ Crazy, ADHD and sensory overload-inducing
		- Age: 14+
		- Quality: ⭐️⭐️
		- Review: So my teens love Batman and LEGO so naturally they wanted to watch this, we gave it a try but from the beginning it was so much frenetic scene-changing violent craziness we turned it off within two minutes. We are not soft, gentle people either, but this film is one of the worst examples of why teens are so ADHD these days and it will induce sensory overload if they don't.
	+ The darkest, edgiest, and grittiest family film out there
		- Age: 14+
		- Quality: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
		- Review: Take the darkness and violence of the Batman franchise, double it, and translate it to Lego Minifigures; there was alcohol and drug use in the film and I am upset and angry that the main review did not note this (i.e. the meth making homeless guy in the ghetto and the party with the man in a dress are just two examples). I knew there would be violence and blood as this is a PG-13 film, but it was 100% of the film, the villains are freakish, monstrous characters and the hideousness and selfishness of the police even had my tweens feel sorry for the criminals. So screwed up, my husband and I loved it but I my tweens should not have seen it for years. Age 14 is the absolute minimum, from my perspective, there was also profanity like "c\*ck blocker."
	+ It's okay, not as great as the real LEGO movies
		- Age: 15+
		- Quality: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
		- Review: Way too many graphic sexual jokes, they are shoved throughout the whole film and there's also too much swearing! Tons of violence and blood but not much worse than Batman vs. Superman, there isn't enough plot, my teenagers were not blown away, and it felt a bit like we had wasted our night.
	+ Batman movie about supervillains, thus sympathy to them
		- Age: 14+
		- Quality: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
		- Review: We were sad to find that 4/5 of the film are about the villains, who unsurprisingly are selfish, arrogant bullies who are not only cruel and unbelievably irreverent to everyone they see but also kill them in cold blood. While the message is eventually that they're evil, you're supposed to root for them until the last 8 to 10 minutes, the rest of the time your family are supposed to cheer on villains treating others in ways that are utterly villainous. The film also did not have the humor of the real LEGO movies, the writer goes for simple penis gags and the like, there is little you'd quote for months on end.
	+ It doesn't matter that it's a Brickfilm
		- Age: 14+
		- Quality: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
		- Review: Translate this into live-action and you have yourself an 18-rated film on your hands or even an R21+ one, I do not care if it is 'just' Minifigs by that point as what is fictionalized to old minds can still leave permanent impressions on young minds that are negative. Sure, the takeaway message was a bittersweet ending scene, but the rest was mostly overly mature humor such as the whole part at the gay strip bar with Lego pole dancers in bikinis and a close-up camera angle on the Deathstroke knockoff woman's pronounced breasts. I can't speak for you but all of that totally sounds like material that preteens are far too young to get and I just think it is extremely unsavory to stick it into a family movie for the sake of the grown ups laughing. As Comedy Central-like content, I found it hilarious, but I cringed watching it with my 10 and 12-year-old cousins so there is also that, not to mention the bloody violence because there is tons of that throughout, as well.
	+ This film would be rated at least R if it weren't Lego guys
		- Age: 18+
		- Quality: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
		- Review: I previewed this for my preteens, had high hopes after loving the message and story of the DC Animated Universe films, despite the unneeded innuendos and shots of private parts, but compared to any of the PG-13 entries in that, this one is much darker and more disturbing, with none of the at least bittersweet plot elements and oodles of innuendos and shots of stuff that are simply unfunny. As an adult I walked away knowing my preteens do not need this in their brains or lives, we will skip this one and enjoy something wholesome even if it was quality. I left this film feeling like I did when I saw Venture: Bounty, this film has the same feeling and tone as it, if I could choose one word to describe this film, it'd be "decent"... this film was sheer over-entertainment stimulation filled 100% with bust and junk humor as well as very unnecessary and mature innuendos.

### Kids Say

* Age: 11+
* Quality:
	+ End of the Beginning Sweep!
		- Age: 12+
		- Quality: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
		- Review: This film is exceptional and a must-watch, if you're a Batman fan you will love this film even more, especially the allusions it makes to other DC films! The main reason I made this 12 and up is because children under that will not get the deep themes, there are some graphic and intense scenes of violence and action, and it has stuff like strip clubs that they don't know about.
	+ HORRIFYNG
		- Age: 13+
		- Quality: ⭐️⭐️
		- Review: This is one of the most foolish films I've seen, wayyy too many graphic adult jokes and sexual content and everyone is a beyond horrible role model, the heroes included. The movie is worse than for no ages.
	+ Below-average portrayal of great characters
		- Age: 13+
		- Quality: ⭐️⭐️
		- Review: LEGO Batman: End of the Beginning looks fun at first, but it carries countless dark undertones, it tries to paint Batman as a heartless vigilante who believes that he needs nobody. In trying to solve this flaw, like any great movie would, they make very complicated and edgy bylines, he treats Dick Grayson/Nightwing and the Robins as if they are very expendable. There's also a random one-off scene of a gay bar that has a strip club where some random new heroes including a transgender police officer defend the LGBT people from a shooting. Other things that were super edgy occur later in the film; when the high school is being attacked by radioactive slime monsters, Batman kills them and they fall on a teenager which melts his clothes and exposes a bra in front of everyone. Batman kills himself in a helicopter crash while trying to save Gotham and everyone but the cop in the Pulse ripoff go to prison for breaking the law. That is not sending families a positive message, also when the radioactive waste is getting on all of the high schoolers, two pink balls of it land on a girl's chest before melting her. Something is very off with them looking like breasts and melting her real ones... at the end, in order to stop the villain, Nightwing tortures him and skewers him on a spike, therefore giving the message that heroes do terrible things. That is a terrible message for families, it also bothers me to no end that the villains, including the Joker replacement, are emotionally-unstable, needy criminals who are desperate to pull Batman into their crime wave. That is outright offensive to the ENTPs of the world, the Joker is an ENTP, a logical thinker who argues for whatever idea they believe in him. Making The Joker look emotional is completely absurd, but there a few great qualities with all of the humor and other emotion that's used. I missed the other nice things about it but I'm sure they exist, overall, LEGO Batman: End of the Beginning is probably not a film worth watching.
	+ Good but some things are too terrifying for children
		- Age: 12+
		- Quality: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
		- Review: It was an entertaining film but there were parts with a ton of violence, blood and terrifying supervillains.
	+ There is 100% an agenda with this one >:(
		- Age: 11+
		- Quality: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
		- Review: I finished this movie finding it slightly mediocre, the Lego violence and bloodshed are okay since they are toys but I couldn't love it because of the continual and pervasive scenes of gay people and a strip club with pride flags all over the place. It is blatant and anyone will notice it, these filmmakers keep dropping blatant crap like this in family films like Eternals nowadays, why do they do this without any reason? It is 100% to promote SOMETHING, this film leaves somewhat negative messages and it is just plain wrong. Fortunately, the entertaining humor, action, and emotion in the film make up for it.