Lord and Miller, masters of taking concepts of questionable quality and making master pieces Animated spiderman? Pffff, whod watch that? Lego movie? Pure corporate pandering
Back when this first came out I read a great movie review. The reviewer watched it with his young son and when it was over he asked his son if he liked it and his son was in awe and said, "It's exactly how I picture it in my head when I play with Lego!"
The amount of detail that went into this movie was phenomenal. They had the original piece models from Lego, but they also 3D scanned a bunch of actual pieces, both brand new and used, so they could see how they differed from the original models and how they wore and scuffed over time. Then they sat down and wrote shaders to randomly add those effects to the models that were computer generated, so you get random fingerprints, scratches, scuffs and all kinds of marks on every piece.
You missed the 21 Jump Street connection. Superman was Channing Tatum and Green Lantern was Jonah Hill. Also, you have to get additional rights, because they changed mediums.
30:06 no they didn’t have to get permission cause Warner Brothers was in charge of this movie and they own DC and a lot of the other properties they used and they did a joint project with Lego.
I know someone who’s father would build their Lego sets by the instructions then glue them together. I myself would build it that way at first then add it to the big tub of legos and sit with my kids and build crazy stuff forever hours
Yes! Everything is awesome now! the other lego movies are great also As much as its very "product placement" lego is so ubiquitous that its not like anyone that wanted some wasnt going to get some and the movies are actually really good watches!
Benny is from the space sets from the 1980s. They were quite popular, but as with most things, that popularity faded and the line came to an end. His model is scuffed in the way that minifigures from that era wear and his helmet is broken because it was one of the most commonly broken pieces from that era. The helmets were redesigned to make them more sturdy after that.
When Lego first started with themed sets there were only like three, Space, Town and Castle. So Space was one of the more popular sets before Lego got into licensing other IPs for themed sets.
Had they not got into the licensing, they probably would have gone away. They were losing a ton of money. There is/was a documentary about it on Netflix.
@@Blaskor314 Actually it was the non licensed LEGO bionicle that saved them, and the stories connected to that. Like how He:Man, Transformers and Ninja Turtles were sold to kids, make a cartoon to sell your stuff. Then you have set aimed to adults that have 5000+ parts and are 1m long like Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer or Millennium Falcon, thats 14kg of LEGO brigs.
The line where Vitruvius says "Ah, we gotta write all that down 'cause I'm not gonna remember any of it, but here we go..." was actually an outtake/improvised line. But it was so perfect for the film.
If five minutes of a serious Will Ferrell almost broke Simone, I think it's only natural for you guys to watch "Stranger than fiction", for a full experience of his serious acting.
I really don't care if a movie is a giant commercial if there's heart into, and this does. The Angry Birds movie, the entire Transformers movie franchise, Battleship, the G.I Joe movies... yeah, those didn't.
Fun fact time: The reason the blue spaceman has a small crack in his helmet is because the original spacemen range was known to have a weakness in that spot due to the manufacturing process When LEGO asked DC if they could use Batman, they were originally turned down, since DC are very protective of Batman (They thought Batman being too light-hearted would ruin people's impression of him. Because DC). DC relented when LEGO pointed out they wouldn't be portraying Batman. They'd be portraying LEGO Batman.
@@kuhpunkt You´d be surprised at what a legal mess those things can become. That's how you get Rings of Power that cant actually reference anything in Silmarillion, or even internally Sakurai having to ask permission to use Nintendo characters in Smash Bros.
@@kuhpunkt Because DC is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (who also owns the studio), not Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc (the studio). So a Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiary had to ask Warner Bros. Discovery if they could borrow batman from another Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiary.
Warner Animation Group Village Roadshow Pictures Lego System A/S Vertigo Entertainment These are the production companies behind the movie. Don't expect DC to just give permission to a foreign company. Lin Pictures
@@goldytwatus1674 I've seen them all. An I'm much bigger fan of Lego then DC Comics so there is bias there I most admit. When you combine one of my favorite things in the world (Lego) with my favorite DC character. (Batman) Well....
Therapist here - the whole "and what would he say?" role play of asking the son to 'pretend' to say what he really feels is actually SUPER effective in therapy. It provides people the psychic distance to say what they're perhaps afraid to say or admit to feeling while also letting it out. It admittedly sounds really silly, but when deployed effectively in therapy, it can really break down walls. People often end up crying while saying what some 'other' pretend figure would say in a situation. It's quite powerful and beautiful when done appropriately.
Isn't the whole point of therapy to be able to talk to someone about your feelings without being afraid to admit you feel them? Why would you ask someone to pretend to say what they really feel? Maybe this is why therapists don't like me.
@@Dusk.EighthLegion Great question! The point of therapy broadly speaking is to become more fully and safely present to who you are, that you might then find ways to live a more fully authentic life. But even when speaking to a professional whose whole job is to be nonjudgmental and help you, that doesn't mean sharing how you feel might not be scary. We can feel scared to be present to how we feel for fear of how others may react, yes. But we can also be scared for fear of how we may react to them ourselves. We might judge ourselves, be scared to admit them, not like where a feeling brings us, or have traumatic past experiences that cause certain feelings to trigger fear responses in the body. By asking a person to "pretend" to say what they feel you are giving them a way to both access how they feel and keep a bit of psychic distance from it if they aren't fully ready or able to access those feelings yet. It's a bridge toward building more access, a technique, not the end goal. And we do this all the time in ordinary life. We rarely just frankly say how we feel (to a boss, a stranger, a crush, etc.). Instead we have small ways of saying how we feel and protecting ourselves. Totally normal. But sometimes accessing a feeling can feel so scary that we can't even admit to them -- but the feeling remains important and unable to be healed still. So this kind of technique allows for a compromise. It's a way of building some safety, not only with the therapist, but yourself. You get to 'dip your toes' in the water of the feeling before jumping in all the way. But don't take some internet rando's word for it. The next time you say you 'kinda' feel some way, are upset but claim to be 'fine,' etc., just notice that you're feeling something but perhaps not yet ready to delve into it. That's the ordinary version of this. Also, in trauma situations, the brain literally tries to stop you from feeling. It jumps on the slightest hint of it with anxiety, what if thinking, dissociation, rushes to substance use, etc. Anything to get away from the feeling. These kinds of compromise techniques allow us to access feelings before the brain completely shuts it down. And in doing so, the brain/body realize we're safe and so allow us to access a bit more feeling. And so on and so on. As for why therapists don't like you, I always tell people if you think your therapist doesn't like you that you should just ask them. Say why you think that and ask them. Who knows, might find something really helpful from it. Good therapists can and should be able to have those conversations. Either way, all the best to you!
@@Dusk.EighthLegion Oh, I see. You weren't really asking a question because you wanted to know the answer. You were trying to make being bitter and ignorant look cool. The "trendy cynicism" look of somebody who mistakes being bitter with being smart. My bad, I mistook you for a person who wanted to be taken seriously. You sure showed me! Lol Alright, have a good life, Dusk. I (genuinely) hope things get better for you.
The best part of this video was at the start where Simone and George were so jaded and dismissive by the idea of watching "The Lego Movie", and all of us who have seen and love this movie knew that soon their minds would be blown and their hearts would grow three sizes this day.
Every time emmet points at footage of real fan made stop motion lego movies and says "look at all the things people built" i tear up a bit. They could have just used all the stuff finn made, but instead they decided to give a spotlight on real things real people made with lego, and used that as the main reason why lego is so great
I definitely recommend the sequel and Lego Batman Movie. The sequel’s not quite as good, but still has just as much heart and comedy to it, and the Lego Batman Movie is the best iteration of the Batman character.
Watching this intro is the funniest thing cause it's so obvious they're going to absolutely love this movie 😂. Like it's totally up their alleys, and yet they still fell for the movie's marketing like everyone did when it first came out
Especially some of the "inside jokes". Channing Tatum (Superman) + Jonah Hill (Green Lantern). Shaq as himself. Anthony Daniels and Billy Dee Williams will nearly always do their voices as C-3PO and Lando. Lando still pronounces "Han" like "hand" (instead of like "Kahn").
I think the series is worth continuing. Please note, that even though Lego 2 is the direct sequel, Lego Batman also references the first movie, and it chronologically fits, as the next chapter. It's also briefly and indirectly referenced by Lego 2. I would watch Lego Batman next. Who knows, you might just decide that it's your favorite Batman movie. WB produced the Lego movies, or rather their animation division. DC wouldn't have been much of a problem to use. Star Wars might have posed some difficulty, but Fox was pretty friendly. I don't know about Benny's popularity, but they did have some space themed sets at the time, and they featured characters that looked like Benny. Benny was like the Emmet of the spaceship sets, in that he wasn't supposed to represent anyone in particular. It's amazing how the film starts out fun, then gets REALLY deep at the end. I don't think there will be anything like it soon. I suggest you enjoy the sequels (starting with Batman) while you can.
one of the small details i love about this film is the astronauts helmet, the thin strip at the bottom was notorious for cracking in real life and it was also cracked in this movie
This movie changed how my wife and I view our toy collections, our son turned 1 when this came out, they are toys to be enjoyed and we weren't going to the bad guys.
The LEGO Movie is so great, maybe because you go in thinking it's just a cash grab toy advertisement before the film proves you wrong. Also, I heard the way they made this look so much like Stop Motion was by scanning all the individual LEGO pieces and then building the world digitally.
I went to Emerald City Comic Con shortly after this came out. There was a trio dressed as Emmett, Wild Style, and Uni-Kitty walking around and talking pictures with every Batman cosplayer they could find.
So, quick fun fact: A few years ago, can't remember exactly how long, on April Fool's Day people were noticing a skippable ad on RU-vid that was like two hours long. It was this movie. In its entirety.
There are 100% people that glue their legos together. They'd show up all the tike at lego conventions, and ask lego employees which glue is best, which the employees hated, cause it does defeat the whole point of lego.
Back in the day. I had the original Lego castle set with knights and horses. My dad superglued them together. I can't believe my dad is a movie villain, though I did feel like it at the time.
24:36 Some people might think of Lego as a modeling kit, like a model airplane. You glue the parts together and put it on a shelf. To be fair when I build something from the instructions I almost never take it apart again, so it might as well be glued.
The "Retro Spaceship" guy/sets were massively popular back in the day, but it's had a bunch of updates. I recall when I was a kid (the 80s/90s) they started making M-Tron (which were black, red, and neon green, and started incorporating little magnets into their designs), Blacktron (black and yellow), and Space Police (blue white and red) to add more of a narrative or something I guess. Anyways, the long and short of it is that the new sets very quickly eclipsed the old ones, and the (superior, now that I look back at it as an adult) retro space Lego quickly became extremely out-of-fashion. So yeah, to answer your question, retro space Lego was beloved for a time, but Lego themselves ditched it for cops-and-robbers-and-magnets.
When I heard this was being made I groaned. Total product commercialization. Boy was I wrong. This movie is brilliant, self-reflective and one of the most pleasant cinematic surprises I can recall.
Oh you better believe I was also highly skeptical about this film after my friend implored me to watch it. I had the same exact "oh this is gonna be a by the numbers IP commercial thing" vibes. I was so deeply happy to be wrong. This movie rules.
Please, Please do all the Lego movies, they're all great! Also it's not actual stop motion, they made a completely new computer rendering engine for this movie to make the animation look like stop motion. It's also used in the other Lego movies.
@@BarryHart-xo1oyAlso many of the specials are simply CGI without the _stop-motion tweak._ For instance, if you watch any of the LEGO Star Wars specials, those are straight up CGI with the smooth motion that CGI generally entails. It is one way to compare the styles.
This movie made me excited for everything Phil Lord and Chris Miller do. Turned out they wanted to do an animated Spider-Man movie which might become one of the best trilogies ever if the third one holds up. Little funfact about the spaceshipcrazy figure, you probably noticed the broken helmet. Apparently that part always broke after a while for many people who owned it. I would really recommend watching at least the Lego Batman movie, it's great. Never have seen Lego Movie 2 personally.
The Lego Movie still remains one of my favourite animated movies, not just because I grew up with Lego throughout my childhood and teen years, but also because it was more than just a commercial film, it was a heartfelt, well written and passionate celebration of the power of imagination and creativity that made the childhoods of countless people, including myself.
I believe that the movie was produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Since Warner Bros. owns DC, they were able to use all those DC and Warner Bros. characters like Batman, Superman, Dumbledore, and Galdalf (New Line Cinema made LOTR, and New Line is a division of WB). They also probably had the rights to use characters that LEGO had already created building sets for, like Han Solo and the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars (Star Wars was previously a Twentieth Century Fox property but is now owned by Disney.)
RE: Simone saying "people who want to glue things should build models," yep. That's why I build models. But it's radically different. Good model building takes a degree of craftsmanship. I think that's why the "working towards a thing that just sits on the shelf" is okay with me. I get a lot of satisfaction out of creating fine crafts. Lego CAN be for that? Like if you look at the "Master" sets; the ones clearly made for adults. My friend builds those. It's a balance thing! Some people like building things to look at. Others like building and re-building. Both are okay.
“Barbie took some inspiration from this” was exactly what I was thinking when I was forced to see the Barbie movie. Only difference is that the Lego movie has subtlety and creativity in its message. Which is crazy to type out
I think you'll agree that this was a true labor of love by a veritable stadiumful of people who knew their subject intimately to the marrow of their beings and were grandly determined to bring the full wonder of it all to the whole wide world - and created high art in the process, while (of course) making trainloads of five-dollar bills. (Whether the makers themselves would describe their joint effort thusly, I'm not inclined to place any bets.) Anyway, this was a cracking good reaction to a dazzlingly inventive, surprisingly deep movie which invites (not "instructs") everyone to use the Pause button constantly. I'm right glad you finally got around to it, and to mark the occasion, here is my (long-deferred) subscription as a holidays gift. Keep going - and Happy Cinema! 😎
Fantastic film, knew you’d enjoy it 🙂 To answer George’s question about what’s the point after it’s done, it’s to display if you want to. I have the Lego Titanic (over 9000 pieces!) and the Lego Old Trafford (a football stadium in England) and there’s a company that sells display cases for them with backgrounds and a plaque with info such as piece count etc. I didn’t use superglue, though 😂
Yeah we have the Apollo Saturn V rocket which is so detailed it doesn't even look like lego. Not glued either and it sits on top of a 7 foot bookshelf, if we ever had a strong earthquake it would be a pretty bad RUD
This was an unexpected pleasure. Also one of the best 3-D movies I've ever seen. I feel that CG animation works better as 3-D than anything else, especially in a theater. Live-action 3-D just looks weird, unless it's in "Gravity" or one of the "Avatar" movies.
I don't know about Gravity, but most live-action 3D is post-process editing. For Avatar (and naturally for animated movies), Cameron put a lot of work in (I believe with his preferred cinematographer) to develop a very small *very* good dual-camera, well, camera, so it is *filmed* in 3D. Not enough movies picked it up because it's, ugh, *hard to use*, but I think the difference is worth it.
@@JuryRigged Most of "Gravity" is CGI, with only the faces of the actors actually photographed for real. The rest of the scene (including the bodies of the astronauts in their space-suits) is visual effects. However, there are a few instances of live, on-set 3-D cinematography. The percentage of live 3-D cinematography in "Avatar" is much higher, but still, an overwhelming amount of scenes are entirely CGI, and that amount is even higher for the sequel. I'm aware of the post-conversion process for most movies, especially Marvel Studios, but I don't usually see the 3-D versions. I tend to only go for 3-D if it's a CG-animated movie, such as "Minions" "Zootopia" or this one.
My son is the same way, George. He spends hours building numerous sets, takes them apart to build something completely different with those same parts. Accidentally loses the manuals and builds the sets from memory, rebuilds the sets with different pieces and colors to make certain parts to the set pop out more. Kid's gonna be a hell of a mechanical engineer.
When I was a child of about 10 years, I was visiting another family, where the oldest child was about 8 years, and this child was actually glueing the LEGO pieces together. I was flabbergasted (and remember it still, more than 40 years later).
Few years ago I saw this a 2nd time with my younger cousin at my parents'. Mom overheard "Everything is Awesome" and asked/implied the song and/or movie was about conformity or a sort of shallow, childish message of teamwork. I was internally laughing as I explained how satirical it actually is...and yet of course, she's not entirely wrong, since the climax actually embraces both. Individual and team. Adherence to instruction and uncontrolled creativity. Business, pleasure. Order, chaos. Adult, child. Wonderful storytelling, selling toys. It's impressive how it has its cake and eats it too! (And, many kids just hummed "EVERYTHING IS AWESOME WHEN YOU'RE PART OF THE TEAM" for weeks and didn't get the satirical side of it...)
I feel like for all its virtues, Barbie didn't quite hit the emotional resonance The Lego Movie did as far as the real world parent-child relationship, I think because they were trying to do say number of different things whereas this had one very clear theme to keep building on. It'll be interesting to see how it ages once its out of the zeitgeist compared to something like this. I'll join plenty of other comments requesting you watch The Lego Batman movie, genuinely top tier. Also on DC, I just think it'd be funny to watch Simone watch James Gunn's The Suicide Squad.
Because the Lego Movie was produced by Warner Bros. there wouldn't have been any legal issues in using the DC comics characters, as Warner Bros. owns DC.
You guys should definitely start reacting to *Pitch Meeting* videos on movies you've watched, they're on youtube by Ryan George from Screen rant and they're absolutely hilarious and awesome Like the comment if you also want to see them react to Pitch Meetings
To answer your question the entire film (minus the live-action section and the credits, which was made using real legos) was made with CGI, all of it, the animators were asked to follow the logics of stop-motion as closely as possible to add to the realism. This movie is probably the best CGI movie of all time in my opinion, the attention to detail is insane, the animators went so far as to have the legos have imperfections like scratches and stains and that makes it look so real and I really think that makes the whole message of it feel even more impactful because you end up believing the whole thing goes beyond a child's imagination, or at least that's how I feel.
The underlying theme of the film really captured the _essence_ of Lego, with a real and emotionally resonant message. This is how you write a movie - not just a product movie, but _any_ movie.
I'm personally biased in preferring this over Barbie due to the fact this came out when I was almost 18, Toy Story was the first movie I ever watched, and I grew up playing with Bionicles and assembling my own creations. But most importantly it reminded me of the last words my late auntie said to me, I started calling her by her actual name to the fact that I was 16 and felt calling her auntie still was a bit childish, she asked "can you please call me auntie instead?" I saw that as a metaphor about not being ashamed of who you are shouldn't feel like you need to conform. So, when I saw this when it came out, it hit every emotional note inside me. So seeing you both getting emotional as well makes me glad that I wasn't just being the lone weirdo for crying in the theater. Kudos.
The Lego Batman is literally the greatest interpretation of the character. The movie spin-off is my favorite of all the other batman movies and you should definitely watch it if you liked this.
this is my proof that no matter the concept, if its something for childrens or to sell toys, if you have a good talent a people behind the scenes any movie or show can be amazing, they didnt have to go this hard for a lego movie, but Miller and Lord take something simple and make it super deep and heartwarming, not even talking about the great work of the animators and the cast, and i always say you should get real voice actors for movies to, but having Morgan Freeman and Liam Neeson in such goofy characters is a delight
"Wondering why this one won.....by a landslide" when you said that, i knew you both gonna absolutely LOVE this movie by the end. also: is Princess Unikitty the best character EVER or not?!
I don't know about the other licenses, but if the directors hadn't locked in Star Wars when they did, if they'd waited a week later, they wouldn't have got it - as the rights went to Disney. The Barbie movie is an apt comparison - both that and The Lego Movie understood to celebrate what the franchise actually MEANS to people and not just be product placement, and were deeply emotional as a result. And both had Will Farrell as the business bad guy! Definitely continue to The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Movie 2. They're SO GOOD too!
When Simone and George wondered during the other guys if Will Ferrell had ever done anything serious, Stranger than Fiction popped into my head first, but then I remembered how straight he plays the dad in this. I saw it for the first time in my honeymoon, and now the ending chokes me up every time i see it watching with my kids.
Betcha didn't think you'd be crying and getting a deeper message before you started this :) totally surprised me just how good this was, but it was done by Chris Lord and Phil Miller who have a string of kickass movies
I'm absolutely one of those people that builds Lego kits by the instructions and then puts them on display to be looked at, but I do not kragle mine. Lego Batman is definitely worth a watch also.
Actually I have two grown kids and five grandkids but none that live with me. The only one I worry about though is the 2 year old and if he destroys them, oh well, I can put them back together. I do have thousands of loose Legos also to build with and destroy as needed.
There's a fan theory that Will Ferrells character in this is the same as in Barbie. He looks the same in a suit, he's some sort of executive, and he obviously likes toys lol
One of my favorite movies. I have quite the nostalgia for it as I saw it come out during my high school days & saw the tie-in toy line with creative & clever builds new in stores. The film crew basically took the lemon of an idea of a LEGO commercial stretched out to film length & made quite the tasty lemonade with it. The animation is apparently mostly CGI, but deliberately animated to mimic stop motion LEGO videos. Along with adding quite the details like the scratches and fingerprints to the models. The Classic Space Guy, Benny, is based on a old LEGO line from the 70s. It has quite the nostalgia driven cult following lately. Even got a new anniversary set recently. I recommend checking out The LEGO Batman Movie. It’s somehow widely considered one of the best Batman movies out there. And it’s as fun as this one. Fun video overall, especially seeing your doubts on this film proven wrong.
I know I’m in the minority but I loved Lego Movie 2 so much! Really liked the brother/sister angle and the there is no “good” way to play with something angle
I had that spaceman.. and his helmet was for sure cracked. I also had many many knight kingdom castles, space ships, all sorts.. I even built a cyclops robot thing with movable joints which looked oddly like the pirate except slightly smaller. I've heard Lego are now worth more than their weight in gold.. Ok, golds heavy, but still.
What I love about this movie is it explores a real deep divide between LEGO Enthusiasts: the people who just like to follow the instructions and build what's on the box, put it on a shelf and display it, and people who like to mix and match, create their own stuff, and create adventures. And the movie ends with Emmet and Lord Business, who represent each side of this coin, embracing and recognizing both of these ways of enjoying LEGO are valid, and one shouldn't look down on or stifle the other.
Love that you guys were skeptical about this one and fell in love with it especially the Will Ferrell scene we all knew you would love it and it was your guys sense of humour!The voice cast is immense so many amazing,hilarious and loveable characters but my all time favourite is Unikitty followed by Batman and Vetruvius😊also i feel like if Simoje was a character in this movie it would be Unikitty haha😂 all i have left to say is "Everything is Awesome everything is cool when your part of a team!"😋😁
I love the idea of the Lego world being mixed with things from "the real world" - like Krazy Glue, a golf ball, Q-tips, a 9 volt battery...I did the exact same thing when I was a kid, mixing up my toys. We used Lego to build a headquarters for our 8-inch Mego action figures. A Q-tip fit in each of the plastic hands and became magic wands. We used a G.I. Joe figure (12-inches tall) as "Giant-Man" for our 8-inch Mego figure Avengers. A Mr. Spock head on a stripped down naked body (the crotch area was solid blue, looking like a speedo) was Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner...
