The Lego Movie 2 - How To Kill A Franchise 

How dare you call Lego Batman movie just “fine.” That movie is amazing.

Trust me. the fact the second lego movie completely went over my radar until it's movie came out is crazy. unlike the first one that was just everywhere on tv.

They honestly should’ve gotten the people that wrote the first movie to write this.

The first movie was literally my childhood this is a tragedy lol

The original made people say “huh, wow!” The sequel made people say “Huh. Wow.”

gotta be honest, I never read the whole plot twist with Rex as a criticism of masculinity, but of maturity. Rex is the "edgy mature" while Emmett is the "real mature". Maturity and edginess are not the same thing; and a lot of kids often think that, male and female. That said, I'm an unironic enjoyer of The Lego Movie 2; but I totally agree with most of your takes about it. The movie was pretty good, but not outstanding the way the first one was.

I am surprised they never had a gag about somebody stepping on a lego in either of the movies

What i always thought funny is that the queen says she isnt evil while commiting crimes like Kidnapping or bribery

Lord and Miller not being the directors for this movie definitely hurt it a lot. Same thing happened with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2.

I can't believe Lego Star Lord became a future villain. Just like Buzz Lightyear. 😨

For the political side i didn't even know there was a political message about gender biases and toxic masculinety, I just saw Rex as holding a grudge on his friends which in the real life would be his sister 💀

I never got the message of masculinity in this literally just thought it was about letting a younger sibling play with you even if it's the most annoying thing in your childhood.

The phone call with your sister was a cuter and more effective family connection than anything in this movie

Both me and my sister independently guessed that Rex was evil Emmet from the future and Lego fiends were secretly the “good guys” but dismissed it thinking it would be a dumb plot twist

Emmet is truly the autistic representation we need

It’s genuinely sad that these films basically went the way of image movers digital after their last film, Lego movie 2 couldn’t make bank at the box office, maybe if they had spread them out better people would’ve felt less fatigued with them, but regardless the fond memories these films I will forever cherish, and I hope the films made at universal can work out just as well.

The Lego Movie 2 was THE movie of all time

It’s so weird to me that the movie tried to make it seem like the side that literally invaded and destroyed their whole civilization are the good guys, and portrays them as a utopian society, and that anything that is darker, more mature, or masculine is actually bad for some reason. Like I would understand if it was just about sending a message about playing with younger siblings, but in that case shouldn’t they have made the younger sister more sympathetic instead of demonizing the brother.

I literally forgot this movie ever happened, despite the first being one of my favorite animated movies. Not even SON OF THE MASK managed to make me subconsciously forget it that completely.

kinda bad that they didn't make more sets for lego movie 2 because some of the character designs were actually cool looking

I never saw the sequel but I kind of knew it was impossible to live up to the original. Not just because of quality, but the ending of the first kind of left it impossible to capture the same emotions again after learning everything was a metaphor for family and not real.

The lego Ninjago movie is really strange. It spoils just about every major plot twist in the original show like it's nothing, sometimes to an insensitive degree, despite the final product being meant for an audience that has likely never seen the show. It also reduces most of the characters to their basic personality traits, and sometimes just turns them into new characters that share a name with the original.

Chris Miller and Phil Lord didn't direct this film, only produced it, and it very clearly shows.

9:59 wildstyle saying “I hope we aren’t in a musical as a terrible number plays has the same energy as “you can’t hurt my feelings if Im in on the joke” Sonic

Fun fact: Part of the marketing for this movie was putting adds on random videos, where they would show a voice actor from the movie begging people not to skip it, and then they would just show the first movie again. Not only does the average person not like adds, making adds where people in them beg you not to skip even more annoying than normal (especially since these adds were over an hour long), but just showing the first movie again I imagine created this feeling of "They don't have any faith in this movie to do well on its own, so they're just showing the first movie again to get us into theaters" which I imagine didn't give people confidence about the sequel's quality. Also, this movie was released during either January or February (I forget exactly when), and those times are the worst for movies to try and be successful because less people are in the theaters. Studios purposely release movies that they have no faith in during those months because they don't think that anyone will see them. I really liked this movie when I first watched it, and while it's message of "Maturity is not derived from the content of your work, but the themes and messages that you put into it" still resonates with me, you brought up a lot of really good points here. Great video!

My theater experience for Lego Movie 2 involved dozens of kids in the seats, with none of them interested and barely any laughs during the film. Even my kid was a tough crowd for the movie's bad jokes.

The Lego Batman movie is phenomenal. Not even joking it’s amazing

the lego batman movie is the best batman movie of all time and i will never change my mind on that

I can’t believe Disney blatantly stole the plot from the Lego Movie 2 and used it in Lightyear.

The only thing I like about the LEGO Movie 2 is that Rex’s job description is a combination of Chris Pratt’s other prior major movie roles such as Star Lord and Owen Grady.

a joke about grooming without a single cosmodore reference. you're improving.

I dont think people realize how successful lego friends actually is. Its like their top 3 best selling theme.

The part where Dumbsville called his sister was funnier than the whole movie.

I think I'm developing a kidney stone...

This movie felt like it was going along being written by one guy then halfway through someone else with a totally different story idea took over and wrote his story

I just realized your lore is a deliberate parody of other reviewers who use lore. Instead of working the movie into the lore like the nostalgia critic does, yours is disconnected entirely. That's so funny. It makes me appreciate your humor more!

The fact that I genuinely didn’t even know there was a sequel until this review came out about it is both mind boggling and very fitting to the tone of this franchise.

I recently rewatched the Lego Movie, and it was so good, I could never look at the 2nd one the same way again. It has that “we couldn’t get the same directors back so we tried to copy what they did last time” feel to it. Nothing can top the first movie.

You put my thoughts on the pacing and jokes into words when I couldn’t come up with a coherent sentence. And I didn’t realize how odd everyone was to just kick Emmet out when he saved them half a decade before. I get he put them in danger but that was legit a mistake and Lucy could’ve just easily covered the house up with spikes to look edgy if she didn’t like it so they won’t get caught. The characters aside from Lucy and Emmet felt so 1-2 dimensional. The first lego movie at least had something going on with characters like Unikitty and Benny even if it’s just minimal.

I love the sequel just as much as the first, the only problem I had with it was everyone blaming Emmet for everything that went bad, now sure it was kinda his fault for accidentally letting Sweet Mayhem in the bunker, but he had no idea his friends were going to get kidnapped, at least the cat lady didn´t entirely blame him though so credits to her, and yeah he also destroyed the cake and caused Armamagedon, but he was just trying to save his friends who he thought were brainwashed, plus he was manipulated by Rex into thinking it, so it´s hard to really fault him for that (looking at you Lucy), speaking of Lucy, she´s the reason why Rex exists in the first place and the duplo war starting, don´t get me wrong I liked her in this movie and how they showed more of her character, but it did bother me a bit how she blamed Emmet for Armamagedon happening, granted she did apologize for changing him so all is well, in conclusion and I have said this ¨planty¨ of times before in many comment sections, Emmet needs a therapist.

There's a part in this movie where they try to say Emmet didn't do shit in the first movie and stole all the credit from Wyldestyle and I felt so insulted. Like, bro I saw the first movie. I know what happened.

I actually love how they made Rex literally just Owen Grady but absurdly over-the-top. We better see a plumber in the Lego Movie 3 voiced by Chris Pratt

I will never forgive this movie for cancelling Lego Batman Movie 2 and Billion Brick Race

Can't wait for Lego Movie 3 where the off the grid uncle brings over his Warhammer collection

You and your sister have a better family connection than the siblings from the movie

Lord help me I didn't even KNOW a sequel came out until you literally just now told me.....thats so embarrassing

Im getting the vibes that dumbsville wants a goth gf

I agree with this. Lego movie 1 is my favorite movie of all time, and 2 just took everything out of it, no charm, emotion, just a lackluster story with a basic plot

I've waited five years for a sequel, as a fan of the first film I was certainty disappointed, and now four years later I still wonder how much they messed up. At least the film gave us more of Annie as Unikitty and Betty Brant as Wyldstyle. (A plus for any fan of Community and Raimi Spider-Man)

You can say what you want about LEGO Movie 2, but in my opinion, unlike the Chip and Dale movie, I thought it had a consistent story that somewhat made sense at least.

The Lego Movie 2 feels like what we all thought the Lego Movie was going to be when its first trailer was shown.

i love it when the lego movie 2 goes “lets lego ruin a franchise”

19:55 That's pretty wholesome ngl.

20:24 Dumbs PLEASE bring your sister for a review video PLEASE LOL.

The first movie was and still in my top 5 best movies, of all time. Not only because of nostalgia, but because the pacing is great, characters: great, story: great. This was the first time, I could feel emotions for a toy brand. Despite what it was originally intended: a full-length commercial. Edit: I was 3 years old when this came out and I still cherish the original

17:28 ok, if that’s true…THEN WHY DID THE LEGO DUPLO LITERALLY SAY “we’ve come 2 desroy u :) “ AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MOVIE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I really wanted to like this movie since I did enjoy my time with the first one, but with over abundance of meta/self aware humor and HORRIBLE music numbers, this movie feels like the other SpongeBob movies, hyped to see them only to be sorely disappointed

The first movie's fourth wall break was good, because it's the twist at the end where you realize the world is just some kid playing with his dad's legos, with Emmet moving around as a bit of humor, but in the sequel, the idea of "oh look it's kids playing with legos" is shoved in your face to try and be super meta. It doesn't even feel like a lighthearted stop motion movie, it just feels like a family drama with computer generated Legos added in. Also, it's just dumb how they went from "the kids control the legos" to "they all have a mind of their own and can move without anyone knowing like in toy story", completely going against the logic established in the first movie.

I remember after I saw Lego Movie 2 in 2019, I thought to myself. "So this is what it was like to see Ghostbusters 2 30 years ago."

We're never going to forget about the lore in these videos

This movie is like Ralph Breaks the Internet where I just pretend it doesn’t exist

Actually, I can defend the Queen's musical number (not the dialogue preceding it, but the song itself and why its in the movie.): IIRC, this song is meant to make the queen seem like the bad guy, being in line with a villain song, but for a twist non-villain. It also was meant to push the idea Rex was going to help Emmet, rather than betray everyone. The song was meant to push the red herring antagonist, which I personally think is a neat plot device, despite the obvious flaws you mentioned.

At first, I thought The LEGO Movie 2 was an enjoyable movie that just so happened to not be as enjoyable as the first movie, but that one plot twist that stated that the bad guys aren’t actually the bad guys the whole time, in spite of the Duplo aliens destroying the entirety of Bricksburg just left an extremely sour taste in my mouth, and had actually got me rethinking some things about the second film as a whole.

The Lego Movie was one of several movies that really did not need a sequel. As a kid I never gave two craps about the duplo characters at the end, they went completely over my head, the only reason I remember them now is because they lead to the tragedy that was the 2nd movie. I honestly would’ve never thought about those duplo characters ever again until later on in my life, but even then I would’ve thought “Oh it has an open end, that’s pretty cool” not “I think we need to have a second movie to explain this” Also the 1st movie had a better video game, the 2nd lego movie video game sucks absolute booty, argue with the wall.

15:47 Dumbsville spitting bars.

0:22 Wait! Are you saying that Uni-kitty is my Elden Ring waifu, death mommy?!

Personally I enjoyed it when I watched it even if it was a step down in quality. But when I rewatched the Lego Batman movie last year I had to stop watching it with my brother cause he said it was really boring and honestly I felt that way as well. I’m not sure if rewatching it would be in favor of this movie since you brought up some good points but I guess I’ll have see some day.

Love or hate this movie, you have to admit that the songs were certified bangers.

Can we acknowledge the fact that Vitruvius lord business and bad cop got no screen time in this movie

Highlights: 3:20 Opening 4:34 Screw TV Tropes 4:57 Line of all History 5:13 The only normal Person in a Apocalypse (With Klonoa Footage) 7:16 David Busters gets invaded by Aliens 8:20 Oh no, not a Song-Number (Why Tiny Toon Adventures is a 5 to 6/10). 10:18 Okay? 10:34 Literally "Other Chris Pratt" 11:47 Jak 2 (From a Franchise that will never be revived) 12:09 Only I can survive that 13:48 The Gag from earlier 15:27 Batman "Something" Reference 16:34 Plottwist 17:38 Other Chris Pratt was evil the whole Time 21:44 Im on Dumbsville´s Side 22:34 Great Example (Klonoa Footage) 23:44 Climax 24:36 Final Boss of all Time 27:47 Ending

Even as a kid when I first saw the first one, I loved it so much that I pretty much memorize most of the dialogue back then. And I couldn’t remember a single thing about the 2nd one when I saw it.

The first movie inspired me to be more creative, the second one inspired me to talk to my siblings for like 12 seconds

I find it absolutely hilarious Lego would be the one to shame their core audience for liking broody things.

16:53 Remember kids, terrorism is actually good.

3:42 this is the fatal flaw, imo. I know this sounds ridiculous, but I was actually kinda dissapointed when the entire ending of the first movie is erased instantly. And the city is actually in a WORSE state than the start of the first movie. Like if you watch the first movie you have to then at the end think "all of this was erased instantly in the sequel". Like just a bit oddly depressing for a movie where the stakes were basically non-existent. In the first one the villain was basically comic relief. The mad Max setting could have worked if it was more self aware but it just seemed, bleak.

Is The Lego Movie 2 seen as a bad sequel now? I remember people loving it when it came out, and everyone saying it was a great sequel, especially compared to other animated sequels that were coming out around the same time.

I remember watching this in theaters at like age 11 or something and being very disappointed, it was a huge step down from the first one and the songs were very unfunny and cringe. Im glad to know i wasn't the only person who felt this way

They ruined batman completely. They acted like the batman and ninjago lego movies didn't happen. Batman had an entire character arc, with a son, and a potential WIFE. And she didn't even get mentioned. Instead, they introduced a new one and didn't even mention the original. Even his son just seased to exist. Heck, i disliked it so much, at the point of writing this comment, the movie is still playing on my screen. Im not even bothering to finish watching it, instead im just watching a video about how mad the movie is while the movie is still playing. And this is the first time i even see the movie.

17:15 I am free to take criticism but I kind of disagree with your point here. The whole point of the Systar Sytstem characters is that they are being protrayed through the eyes of the younger sister who was probably a toddler when she first started destroying the brother's stuff. It's an allegory for the conflict between siblings and how they usually aren't good at communicating with each other. I don't have a problem with their idea being stupid because these are decisions being made by a literal 8 year old.

I asked my family to go see the LEGO Movie 2 when it came out, and I felt embarrassed because of how bad it was

I like how you’ve been referring to the klonoa series when it comes to how stories talking about loss, change, acceptance, or even friendships can be done especially in a well meaning and well written way for children that can rival more Mature media talking about the same things.

I feel like your thoughts on stories approaching morals are something I can learn from. What if you have a clear idea for a moral, but it’s simple, so you don’t need to harp on it too much? For instance, let’s say that you want to make a movie that says “something about you that you see as a weakness can be a strength”, and this can be demonstrated by having a character with a “lame power” who uses it creatively to come out on top, the whole film doesn’t have to be people talking about, you don’t even have to bring it up in dialogue. What might you say about that? Sorry about this lengthy comment!

i'd do unspeakable things to wildstyle

my favorite part in the Lego Movie 2 was when Chris Pratt said "It's Prattin' Time" and then Pratted all over the place

The most memorable part of this movie for me is how forgettable the song meant to get stuck in your head is.

Ok, to be fair, the songs in Phineas and Ferb were kinda fire though

As an autistuc person myself, I agree with the points made in this video. Nice work Dumbsville. :3

If you're not a fan of musicals, I don't know if you can judge it, but as one I'd say the numbers (song sequences) are pretty good in this. I especially love the queens first song, it's so dumb in concept and so funny in execution, especially once she turns out to be good in the end. It's the most needlessly suspicious song ever, and it just works for me. Heck, the songs were the best part, because this movie certainly lost a lot of important stuff from the original in other respects.

The best part about sequels is that you can pretend that they never happened

Part 3 is slated to release next year. Ultimately that means the franchise is not dead

I can’t believe Dumbsville, Mr. Lego ObiWan, is FINALLY talking about Lego.

I would like this movie more of you narrated this movie 7:14 I like Tiger Unikitty’s design.

It's always gonna be quite a day when Dumbsville uploads. But The Lego Movie 2 truly was one of the movies of all time, it even had "some moments I guess."

I actually didn't hate this movie, it's not as great as the first movie, but it was a pretty enjoyable film to be honest.

I remember seeing the original in theraters as a kid and it blew my mind, and had such an impact on me. With the sequel I pretty much forgot the plot in 2 weeks XD!

Lego movie one was avtually a masterpiece.the second one feels like the kind of movie Disney would port straight to DVD/home movie like lion king 2

2:02 Bro with that clip you unlocked old memories I forgot were even there. That was, what, eleven years ago? Maybe more.

If this movie wasn’t a musical it would’ve been more rememberable

19:29 only real hazeheads will get this one🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

If I was to write the concept for Lego Movie 2's story. I probably would've had it be where Duplo and Lego coexist together but are invaded by Megablox properties like Halo and Call of Duty and I have the main antagonist be Master Chief just as a joke. And have Emmet and his friends venture across space to recruit other Lego properties to help them like Ninjago and Bionicle.

So basically you can’t hurt their feelings if they’re in on the joke