The Lego Batman Movie - REVIEW (Spoiler Free!) 

you may may not have realized it, but you answered your own question. Why was it LEGO? Because that's the only way to have a comedic Batman now. Batman is a dark and serious character. If you had any other animation style going for this movie, there would be rioting in the streets (using hyperbole, people). Also, I can't recall where exactly it was (as it was some time ago), but I seem to recall hearing that this movie is not canon to The LEGO Movie, but to the current run of DC movies-- explains the animation differences, at least for me.Although, on that same note, the animation differences could also relate to the main character himself. Everything for LEGO Batman is grandiose and over the top. It makes sense to make his movie equally as such.

"I hate you" "*gasp* I hate you too!" "I hate you more" "I hate you the most!" "I hate you forever" Shipped.

I thought this movie was actually funnier than The Lego Movie. Does that make it better? No, it doesn't. While I found both films incredibly entertaining, the ending and the message of The Lego Movie just made it a stronger flick.

The movie left behind those elements because the Lego movie already had that covered. It did those elements perfectly and adding those to this movie would only make people say the film has the exact same plot as the Lego movie (because these days if two films share a few similar ideas, people will say they are the exact same movie). Plus, those elements wouldn't work in Lego Batman. We can't have another imagination vs instructions theme because it's Batman, we can't have another twist villain that represents a conflict between parent and child because it's Batman. Any attempt to include these in the Lego Batman movie would feel forced and (as mentioned before) would only lead to people saying it's the exact same as the Lego movie.

"Won't be there for long..." Um, like what do you expect to dethrone it? Rock Dog? The Boss Baby? Smurfs? Cars 3? Despicable Me 3? Those movies seem to range from boring to painful. There does seem to be some good Animated films later in the year, but not in the first half. Hardly, "soon."

I really liked the Lego batman movie. I thought it was pretty funny and some of the characters were just so cute, for example Robin and the Joker just seemed super sweet to me. At least the expressions they made were. Honestly super cute and funny. Truly loved it ^.^

I greatly enjoyed the Lego Batman movie 😄 Even a bit more than the Lego Movie.. :/

The best DC movie for now is made by LEGO

You didn't really review the movie you just kept saying it "wasn't the lego movie" :v

I went with my Boyfriend and he had never seen batman and he loved it.

I get what you're saying, but I personally prefer this movie to The Lego Movie. Maybe that's because I like Batman more than I like Lego, though. Not going to lie, my cheeks literally hurt from smiling after this movie. The Lego Movie didn't really do that for me.

The lego aspect was significant in this one a bit. Since he did use random lego parts from explosions and thing to build the Batwing and the Scuddler.

my dad is the BIGGEST Batman fan I know, so Lego Batman Movie was DEFINITELY one of his favorite movies

I thought The Lego Batman Movie was just as hilarious, just as emotional, just as creative, and just as good as The Lego Movie. 5/5 for sure.

Last time I was this early, DC used to make good Live action films.

This movie is better than suicide squad.

The thing that I think is that when kids see the trailer for this they'll think "Oh wow this is made by the people of The Lego Movie it's not made just for boys and all serious and stuff, it's funny"

Asking why is it Lego is like asking why anything is animated. They could just make it live action with CGI. The Lego aesthetic is more of a stylistic decision that brings with it a slapstick-esc humour with equal amounts of parody. It's also vibrant, colourful and allows for the formula to be creatively imagined around the idea of Lego. Both the games and Movies have followed this and I believe it's the reason for their popularity.

Tacos are great

The real question isn't "Why was it Lego?" but "Why shouldn't it be Lego?" not to mention Batman being a masterbuilder was addressed in the movie and slightly plot relevant.

Can't wait to hear your thoughts on LEGO Ninjago. It's an original LEGO theme that finally gets a wide movie theater release instead of a direct-to-home release. Having it not be LEGO would almost seem wrong.

Just saw it. i don't think ive ever laughed so hard over an animated movie

Notification squaaaaaad where you at?

Honestly, I found the movie incredibly enjoyable! Of course, I'm not exactly much of a critic, but I still think they did really well with it.

It's not a big deal personally as I've already seen the movie but isn't it kind of a spoiler to reveal that Voldemort is in it?

The reason why it's Lego is because Lego already has access to decades of franchises to pull from. And also to make bank selling the Lego sets. Anything that didn't already have a set now has one. Even the Double Decker Couch.

I saw it for the second time today. I like many of your points, but I'm not sure that I agree with you on the question of if it needed to be LEGO. In my book, having it in LEGO makes the most sense. Having a CGI or real-life Batman wouldn't work for this movie. It is ultimately a comedy, and live-action Batman is usually associated with being dark and serious. LEGO Batman was established as a new take on the character in The LEGO Movie, so it was the best choice to have him in LEGO form.

YESSS! You're doing the review of every animated movie this year!

My favorite part of the animating style was the weave on the fabrics. We all know the "quality" of the Lego capes and such, and the close ups of those really nailed the texture of the weave.

I love the intro and outro music in these reviews! It's so dang catchy! :D

I'll be honest here: When I saw the trailers, I was like "It looks really good, but I don't think it can beat the first Lego Movie", then again I waited for the movie so I can give a try, and I did, My Opinion didn't really changed. I enjoyed the Lego Batman Movie, but I think it's not as good as the Lego Movie.

I think the stylistic differences between the movies was intentional. The original movie was meant to look more realistic and "scuffed up" because it did take place in real life. The Lego Batman movie was not part of the canon. It doesn't take place in real life. Therefore, all the smoothness was intentionally made to create that separation between realities.

October and this is still my favorite. I honestly did not think that would happen.

I'm into the LEGO games and I didn't compare this movie to the LEGO movie since it was a spin off. I loved this movie a ton. I know it seems like "Why are they LEGO?" But it's just SO interesting to see how everything is built. I was very into fan made stop motion animations with LEGO on RU-vid when I was younger and they were always funny and never really acknowledged why they were LEGO. If anyone remembers a channel called Forestfire who made a TON of LEGO Batman stop motion that legit had the same formula as the movie. A cocky funny conceited Batman and a charming optimistic Robin. Did they ever mention they were LEGO? No. Is this movie better than the LEGO movie? No. But it's not The Lego movie 2. It's a fun spin off for everyone who loves Batman in the first film. I am actually excited for LEGO to be the next big spoof genre. Spoofing a bunch of franchises. Imagine a LEGO Star Wars movie like this!

Not f1rst

Still better than Batman V Superman.

Early squad where y'all at?!?!

I feel Like the change in the animation style is a reflection of what the movie is. Meaning that I feel the lego batman movie is taking place more in the the imagination of the child from the first lego movie. I think the first lego movie the film makers tried to emphasize that the story is connected to the boy and it is more connected to the real world. Where as the lego Batman movie is just a fun additional story that the kid is making up. This would explain the graphic shift because kids can sometimes create more over the top visuals in their head than just with what they have.

Actually, I think adding water that looks realistic actually makes more sense. A child wouldn't make lego water, they'd get a glass or run a tap and make the character the sink. Also, if it wasn't lego, I don't know how you'd explain the phantom zone having all these different villains from completely different universes. Lego Dimensions explains it but the Lego Movie does as well so...yeah. Other than that, I do generally agree, The Lego Movie was better but I liked this one too. It had me in hysterics the entire time

The only reason I wanted to watch the movie was because Robin was in it.

I thought it was better than the lego movie but I prefer the lego movie animation style

I know this is your personal opinion and all, but I really gotta wonder what you think is going to come out that this one "won't be on the top spot for very long". I know what shouldn't judge by the trailers, but does anyone really think Despicable Me 3, Rock Dog, or BOSS BABY is going to outdo this one?

I have not seen the movie yet, so I have no opinion on how good it is, but your argument seems kinda weird to me. From what I can tell, your main issue is just the animation style of the movie. Why does it have to be lego? Why not? Why did Kubo have to be stop motion? It would be faster and cheaper to make it cgi, right? I know that Lego Batman is cgi made to look like lego stop motion. I just don't see how it affects the quality of the movie in anyway. Did it being lego, make the experience worse in any specific way?

I wish you did get to go to early press screenings because I always agree with your opinion so much on these animated films that when I'm not sure whether to go and see one, I always want to check your review to see if it's worth it!

this is the batman from the lego movie. they make reference to the lego movie and show connections to the lego movie.

So glad your continuing this series !!!

To be honest, this new, "smooth" texture to the legos is probably the best for this movie. As explained, the Lego Movie was made to scream to the audience "LEGO", however, this movie is basically a parody of a popular franchise that is Batman. If you look at those fingerprints and scratches of the Lego Movie, it gives this mood of creativity and a bouncy sort of feel. In this movie, however, its focus is NOT to focus that these are legos, but that this lego Batman is a parody of the actual Batman. This parody is so light-hearted and fun, ESPECIALLY compared to the Batman movie line, therefore this smoother texture helps this movie feel like a Batman parody instead of a spin-off from the Lego movie in which, like said in this video, had a focus on making Legos to be LEGOS. Or this specific lego set could have been a newly bought set

remember that one scene with the air horns? best scene in the entire movie

"Every single thing in the universe was made of legos" ALMOST but there was also the chewing gum, Vitruvius' staff, and the string Vitruvius was on when he was ghost

My recommendation: The Lego Batman Movie is one of those movies where if you think you might like it then you probably will. It's a strong movie, and delivers good snappy comedy, and I really enjoyed it, but I wouldn't call it a must-see envelope pushing unexpected art piece like The Lego Movie was.

Me and my dad watched it together and we had a lot of laughs,it's hard to recognize the villains since I haven't watched Lord of the rings,Harry Potter but I did recognize the Daleks and my dad pointed out the villains for me (thanks god),I also liked the inclusion of old villains like King Kong and Godzilla,and let's say I've grown a love for lego Robin.Must.Protect.

Saw this on my 16th birthday and thought it was amazing and entertaining!

I think the animation style can be attributed to the narrator of the movie - in the LEGO movie Emmett's personality fits the stop motion style, while batman's edgelord style matches the darker, more polished animation style

Gosh I had such flashbacks when you mentioned the Lego video games

I personally found this to be much better than the Lego movie

I loved both. I believe it deserved it's 91% but The Lego Movie was better and stronger but they were both amazing.

I love how it was sort of making fun of superhero movies in a way, like remember at the start there's a guy passing in a taxi and the other guy literally says ''man I like that guy I hope nothing bad happens to him!'' And then under his breath the man in the taxi is singing "nothing bad ever happens to me"

I really liked the Lego Batman-movie and the reason why is because it has so much to it, there's comedy, drama, action, good messages and of course, Batman 😊

You should draw yourself in 5 video games. Like Five Nights At Freddy's, Undertale, Super Mario, Minecraft and Pokemon

As a "lego movie" I get what you are saying. I still loved this movie but as you said, it didn't need to be a lego movie.. but it made for a good Batman movie and I needed that after Batman V Superman...

it's funny how he says he doesn't think this movie will stay at #1 for long yet we have movies like Boss Baby and Cars 3 to look forward to soon

Mark Hamill is also well known for voicing the joker, so i wonder why they also didn't put him up for the role?

yO I FREAKIN LOVED THIS MOVIE? i absolutely adORE the style of humor that the lego movie did. i had such low expectations for this movie, (after being extremely disappointed by storks),so i don't know if this tilted my veiw. what really shone it through to me was the character interactions and the humor. i also really loved the slower and sadder moments and thought that they helped complete the film and weren't forced like a lot of other movies nowadays.

When you get the Nationwide ad before the video and you can't focus because you're too shook about Leslie Odom Jr. 's beautiful voice

As someone who's never seen a batman film nor know anything of the lore, I found this film incredible!

you hit two points that i had similar thoughts about - why Legos? and why not have Ralph Fiennes voice Voldemort?

I think that the reason this Batman movie was a Lego movie was mainly because the Lego characature of Batman was such a popular side character in the original Lego movie that they decided to give that specific version of Batman his own movie It's a way to joke about all the ridiculousness of Batman without incurring the wrath of diehard fans because it a hyperbole of the real thing being displayed on a different platform of film It's supposed to be a twist that allows for comedy around a beloved character that's usually very very serious.

I play a lot of Lego Games. Im not really a shooting killing type gamer. More of games that have stories like Undertale, Animal Crossing, Fnaf, and like the Lego Games. They have a story thats fun to mess around with AND THE BULDING!!!! The building os the best part, the game tells you to build something and then you fuck around with it and its AMAZING! So thats where lego games have their charm.

I get your view on the lego bayman movie, but you are comparing it to an astounding movie that was called the 'lego' movie about the philosophy of Levi's. This being the 'lego batman' movie, it is all about the titular character of lego batman.

I dissagree about the no point in being lego, in the movie the conflict is solved because they are lego.

The appeal doesn't have anything to do with the issue of it being made with lego or not and really that just seems like a nitpick, sure the question might always be at the back of your mind but in the end, does it really matter much? Plus it being Lego helps the unrelated to DC Comics cameos and references feel less distracting. You yourself mentioned Voldemort. I didn't even know about those cameos before.

lego joker is honestly the only good recent movie joker adaptation

You definitely should let there be an exception for Kimi No Na Wa it did release in the US and with an English dub. Personally, I think it's too good to leave it off the list

I watched this movie in the theater, and it was one of the only movies that made me laugh out loud so much. The kids didn't get the jokes. (the butler wearing an old batman costume and batman asking, why are you wearing that, and the butler answers with: i miss the fifties.)

yes i love this series

Lego batman movie was awesome! its really the only 2017 release I was excited for and totally lived up to it. I do agree that the stop motion animation look would have been better thank the polished but I still really loved it. so many quirky references and a heart felt plot all worked great together in my opinion

My friend asked me to go and see this movie with her and tbh I thought it was gonna be dumb but after seeing it I was fairly surprised to how good it was

When I was watching the movie in the theatre, there was this lady who would not stop laughing at every freaking joke!!! However, before the movie, she was talking about a new Minions movie, and everything clicked into place. She was THAT kind of movie watcher.

you really should apply to see early screenings your subcount would probably give you cred

Lego Batman movie is directed by the guy who did work on such shows like Robot chicken as hope this gets nominated for best animated feature and not snubbed!

I've never laughed so much in a movie. This had so many callbacks and happy moments. I also cried a bit :/ Also my friend said that the Leto Batman movie was the fantasy of the boy from the first movie's sister. The boy has grown up and his sister is about 10ish or something maybe older. She is playing with his logos and this is her fantasy.

You know, I thought it was pretty obvious, but this movie is implied to still be Finn's imagination, just like the first one (hence the "Pew Pew" Guns. And Batman's arc in this movie was so relatable for me, it was almost shocking. I love this movie, pretty much as much as the original. Oh, and the Lego games are fun. You should definitely, DEFINITELY play the remastered Lego City Undercover, coming to Xbox One, PS4, Switch, and Steam in early April. Not to over-hype it, but seriously, Lego City Undercover has to be one of my favorite video games, in general. :D

Yeah I think I agree with you, Lego Batman was great, but I don't know if I loved it as much as others did... It did make me want to get back into Legos though, and buy a bunch of Batman legos, so congrats for that WB, you got me anyway!

You asked why it was Legos? I think you forgot the scenes where he use his master builder skills to make stuff like his plane and cars while others pass him pieces. That is why it was legos instead of other styles. Those scenes wouldn't worked otherwise

I'd agree, I hated the animation because of the lack of a Lego feel. I hope that the future of Lego movies include Lego like animation.

I was thinking they made it in lego because its a movie that you shouldnt take seriously, they cant really do a normal cartoon because they already made cartoons of batman being serious which would be weird.

Next year could you do every superhero movie of the year

Fun Fact: The word "Legos" is not really a word, as "Lego" is more of a noun. So it'd be more-so "Lego Bricks", "Lego Sets", etc.

We have Lego batman because they had a Lego batman in the Lego movie, he became a very popular character, so the creators decided to make a movie out of the batman they had created in their universe based off of the Lego movie

ahhhh your name in the intro!!! 💙💙💙

The only thing in the Lego movie that wasn't Lego was under the surface of the ocean. How else could they move around underwater?

YAY! so glad your doing it again chad!

Even tho it wasn't revealed I thought it felt more like a kid was playing with a Batman Lego set. But unlike the original kid she only had the full batman set so she just used real water. But what ever I really liked the movie

To be fair, this movie was, like, the DEFINITION of a kid playing with Lego. The Joker and every other DC villain getting their butts kicked by Batman alone, then the Joker teaming up with Sauron, Voldemort, King Kong, dinosaurs, and tons of other movie villains to face Batman, Robin, Barbara, Alfred, and all the rest of the DC villains? Come on, who DIDN'T mix up Lego themes as a kid? Besides, the part where everyone stuck their heads together wouldn't really have worked...

I genuinely loved this movie. I wouldn't doubt it if this became my favourite movie of the year.

This movie was superior to every 20th century Batman film. Yes, even the 1989 Batman.

Yay! Thanks for posting this review. Now I know to go see this while it is out! :-D

chad: its nice to see the dc cast in a lighter tone me: oh teen titans go, what have you done to me

Now review Rock Dog. I bet its almost as bad as norm of the north

I liked the movie, but the pacing was very odd to me. Big explosions and emotional moments happen seconds apart