The Lego Movie Is INCREDIBLE! - First Time Group Reaction 

That guy got an immediate raise. Why wouldn't you use Batman if you have him? I could write a love story but if Warner Bros handed me the rights I'm setting it in Gotham.

​@@billbill6094 Of course, being set in Gotham, that romance will either be set to "will they/won't they", or end in horrific tragedy. There's almost no inbetween with Gotham.

Watched it 30 times when I was a kid. Still funny to this day, and one of my favorite movies.

What it loose to? I think it was because it had live action in it that made it ineligible.

@@MyPlaylistWillSaveAmericaBig Hero 6

​@@egg3228 ah, It deserves it, it's also a good movie, although I couldn't choose one of the two if the other disappeared forever.

@@SprayInk-And-CritGlitchnah I don’t think it did. Big Hero 6 is fine but the lego movie obviously broke the mold a lot more than Big Hero did

And even the Lego Speed Racer that only appears in the failed invasion sequence

Also with bennys design in his helmet having that broken part because those helmets were notorious for breaking in that exact spot

The lego movie should have been an emotionless cash grab but ended up being an amazing movie in its own right that uses the source material perfectly.

I didn’t know that was from the first space set, explains why the figure goes for so much now

It was made with genuine love and a desire to tell a story, not just cashing in on something people like.

Exactly, passion and teamwork man it’s just what we want to see in films.

Yea sadly the second one wasn’t even a quarter of good as the first one.

I love that movies make people realize stuff like this. Batman. BAT-MAN like if you had never heard of comics and super heroes. A dude walks in an says we should do a detective story. But what if he was dressed as a bat. A bat, which is basically a flying rat. Would really say that its gonna influence media and story telling for decades?!?! Yet, it happened and has had a huge influence on cinema(and arguably the world). It's silly to think about, but that the magic of these stories they can make wild ideas work if done right.

Yeah the last 3 are super sus. Perhaps TV shows too. But funny how he catches on at voting machines

I didn't even know the movie existed, as my ship (Navy) had been underway between when it was announced and when the Movie released. So our ship pulled into port in Bahrain and the theater on base happened to be showing it. I was like "wait.... there's a lego movie?" So I went in with absolutely zero expectations. I never saw a trailer, or anyone talking about it. my first experience was seeing the film in the theater and it was the most pure and perfect way to see it. Coming from a diehard lego fan who has more lego than she has room to sleep.

​@@11thDCYou sound fun. :)

yeah probably cause tons of toy stuffs turned to movie just does movie with top priority to just make money. but this lego money does feel like they were made as a passion project. like yes, made to make money but also the movie was made with the love for legos and lego enjoyers. i mean trying to make the lego pieces move as realistically in real life as possible? the small details you'd find in toys like smudges, prints and little cracks and seams? it's a love to animation as well.

I didn't expect it to fail.. but that's because I knew they were doing Lego... most of the new stuff ... well Lego doesn't do that.. so sorry

All the product placement makes it feel MORE like just a kid playing with legos, they have a bunch of loose sets and parts and just mash it all together

I thought that was spider punk, not the lego movie

@@cookimaus1 I know, right 😂

@@cookimaus1 Either way Phil Lord and Chris miller seemingly have a thing for going maybe a tad too far for anyone to expect with animation.

@@drdewott9154 unfortunately, even from their own animator. Love the movies but some of the alleged work conditions are.. yikes..

Is this movie stop-motion or supposed to look stop-motion

I second this. It’s so good, legitimately could be a contender for best Batman movie

And probably most prominently, The Spider-Verse Trilogy!

​@@Otisboy121and in housebroken

They're also behind the 21 Jump Street reboot, and I suspect that's how they got Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill to voice Superman and Green Lantern, respectively - probably literally took them from the movie lot to a recording studio one day to record their lines. Maybe it was even something like "ADR for 22JS in the morning, and after lunch break lines for the Lego Movie". This is what I choose to believe, at least.

Either way it's Phil Lord and Christopher Miller lol I'd even argue they were beginning to break the mold back with cloudy with a chance of meatballs too

Nah stylized animation was always a thing, it was Hollywood that said you know what, everything has to be photoreal cg animation now. Spiderverse just showed people actually putting care and passion into animation actually bleeds through the screen, when you let artjsts approach things artistically it turns out you get art, and people love art.

Not quite, gotta go back a little further than that. The very unique stylized animation trend really started with the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series, which rejected soft round shapes and realisom for very angular designs & hand painted textures. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs and Hotel Transylvania introduced extreme cartoony squash & stretch animation, Paperman continued CG animation with a hand painted textured look, Feast was groundbreaking for it's flat cell shaded 3D look, The Lego Movie brought in the CG stop motion style, The Peanuts Movie kinda had a stop motion look with how it successfully mimicked the old 2D Peanuts animated style, and the Kung Fu Panda Trilogy brought in very stylized lighting and incredible action sequences. Spiderverse was just the first to combine all of that into one movie, and it introduced the comic book style to 3D animation.

They literally designed a program that compiled every Lego brick ever made. They wanted the stop motion feel But didn’t have the time, budget, or masochistic streaks necessary to do it.necessary to do it

This movie NEEDED everything to be brick built because of the plot. It’s the mental projection of a kid playing with an actual brick-built city, so it makes sense he sees everything as brick. In ninjago, it’s more of a blend.

No ways

Actually Charlie Day also voices Art in Monsters University

@@aidanhester80 really?

Charlie Day voices Luigi in the games, too. He's just Luigi all around.

@@AvalynTheAccursed wha?

You should. It's a pretty good sequel.

There's a second movie?

@@billbill6094 Yeah, it came out in 2019.

They really paid a lot of attention to make sure everything felt like it could be; for example, even the minor things like puffs of smoke and laser blasts are also made of lego pieces. Edit: There are also some _actual_ stop motion parts, like the videos displayed in the background as Emmet talks Lord Business down (which were, in fact, submitted by real Lego fans), as well as the credits.

Well my comment was made irrelevant 3 seconds after I posted this and pushed play xD

Interesting; I remember "inventing" that couch as a kid too, and also not having friends. I get how it's sad, but also, very sweet how our soul, through imagination, "compensates" what we can see in the reality we inhabit.

It’s not better