Why The Lego Movie 2 Wasn't Awesome 

Well people will have to get used to it

I think it's less people getting tired of it and more it not being groundbreaking in the way the 1st movie was. I think you can say the same thing about Toy Story, part of what made it incredible was that no one had done it before

@@barmanitan That's true, but cinema animation has just been saturated with CG in general. Sure, Spiderverse breathed some new life into it but personally I'm more than ready for traditional animation to make a comeback. It's been seen as "obsolete" for too long. I don't even need it to replace CG but if we need animated movies to have more unique styles it would be great if we could get rid of these arbitrary limits.

It's happening again with the new art style that things like Arcane, Spiderverse, and Puss in Boots are using. I guess people just want more of the same old so they can complain about things never changing despite crying every time something changes.

@@menmonstersmachines It would be nice if we could stop acting like hand drawn animation is outdated; it has a lot more potential for stylistic differences. I don’t think anyone ever got tired of it until CG happened and it became like a shiny new toy. Edit: Just realized I already said that in my previous reply but screw it, I can’t say it enough.

Best Lego and Batman movie. My daughter and I could not stop laughing.

Even though they used a Kerry Kelly’s robin likeness for dick Greyson cause the hair style color and glasses said it’s not dick Greyson I have no problem with them using her I would have just like it to actually be her not just putting dick Greyson’s name on her Lego likeness

THE LEGO MOVIE 2 FLOP,

Even the Ninjago movie was decent. Lego movie 2 wasn't bad, just not as good as the first imo.

Lego Batman is my favorite Batman Movie. It’s actually so funny

Then Lightyear took that Idea, & make the Man behind Emperor Zurg into Oldman Buzz.

@@ranoutofgoodusernames8394 dude, that was just a star wars reference, wasn't supposed to be serious

@@francunsulo9756 Seriously? I never knew that..... good to know

I wouldn’t say that. I always thought it was just a fun double role as a support and direct reference to Chris Pratts overall Hollywood career! :-)

@@ranoutofgoodusernames8394 sarcasm? I really can't tell

In all honesty, I think that queen whatevr’wanabi should’ve remained as an antagonist alongside Rex, as it would show that BOTH siblings are at fault for their rivalry

@@firewarrior8298 Agreed.

Also the supposedly redeemed President business just fled and went golfing during the apocalypse

It was a horrible plot twist

That’s not really the point of the movie tho. The point (like with first film) wasn’t actually the Lego aspect of the film at all. It was the real world conflict. It came out as a surprise for the climax in the first film, but then once the twist came, it gave the whole film a new meaning. About a creative Son feeling limited by his all-business father, until at the end those walls break down, and the Dad allows his Son to be himself and embrace his imagination, not worrying about perfection, but creativity. Lego Movie 2’s conflict isn’t about Emmet Vs an “evil” Queen. It’s about 2 siblings. A young boy, dealing with growing up and what that means. He doesn’t want to allow vulnerability or colorful stuff into his world, because that’s not “tough” and “manly”, which is characterized in Rex (the version of himself that he thinks he needs to grow up to be) And his conflict with his “annoying” younger sister. To the point where their mother makes them put their toys away because they can’t play nice. To him, his sister’s the bad guy, because she’s causing trouble for his world. But his little sister just wants to play with his big brother, she didn’t want to cause conflict, but the boy didn’t want to allow his sister’s creativity into his world, cause that’s not manly. The Queen originally came from the boy as a gift to the girl, in the beginning of the film. The boy states it can be “whatever you want it to be”, then as he got a bit older, he lost sight of that. The Queen entering his world was the sister trying to remind the boy of what he gave HER. In the end, he realizes that he CAN have vulnerability, he can have other people in his life. Once that happens, that part of himself he thinks he needs to be (Rex) disappears. And his Lego world is no longer dark and brooding and “manly”, like in the beginning, but it’s a mix of his and his sister’s world, and he opens up to the colorful and fun things. The Queen was never the Villain because she represented his sister, who the brother found out was never the villain, and instead it was Rex, who represented the mind state he thought he needed to have. The whole movie is an illustration. If you just view it as an animated adventure movie, maybe it may not seem as exciting or fresh as the first film, which had more of an actual straightforward Lego adventure. Lego 2 was written as more of an allegory.

And it was quite surprising that it was a bit underwhelming knowing that Lord and Miller wrote the screenplay. It had few rewrites from other writers before the studio settle with Lord and Miller's final script which I expected it to be more than this 😢

@ScorseseMart1n The script was less than I expect out of Lord and Miller, I agree, but they also wrote Extreme Movie and the story of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, both of which were worse than The LEGO Movie 2, so I guess it’s best to just acknowledge that everyone can mess up but some can also make absolutely amazing films like Lord and Miller have done in other cases.

I can’t remember what happened in the 2nd movie no matter how hard I try

@@xcyan_lilyx5788 I only remember that song titled "Catchy Song" which is definetely as good as "Everything Is Awesome". I mean, it managed to live up to it's title, it was a catchy song lol

I hated catchy song with a passion. Everything is awesome was my favourite song at the time.

Why didn't they make a sequel? I loved Lego Batman!

@@woolfmcwolf Because Ninjago and Lego Movie 2 flopped at the box office, Warner Bros sold the rights to Universal Pictures for a 5 year deal meaning it ends basically any plans for Lego Batman sequels because as you know Batman is DC, Warner Bros owns DC which means Universal can't continue it

@@15Candles TIL, thank you Mr. Scorsese

@@woolfmcwolf they sold the rights to universal, so we might get a third movie

@@OzzbimA third movie is, in fact, in development.

Sorry to hear about your loss. Rip😢

I’m sorry for your loss, Rest in Peace

Sorry for your loss 😔

I'm so sorry for your loss, RIP, and condolences to you

They’re all awesome man, I’m glad you guys got to enjoy them together

I'm a fan of the show so watching the movie with a bunch of changes that it had was absolutely weird. Hell they didn't even use spinjitzu atleast once which was vastly disaapointing

But then it wouldn’t be the Lego movie if they didn’t do that kind of style, it would feel very much out of place compared to the rest of the franchise, EH?

@@SuperMoviemaster21I think what he means it didn’t have to be about daddy issues like the last two lego movies

@@AJedits65 Well but that appropriately fits with the relationship between Lloyd and Gammerdon eh?

@@SuperMoviemaster21 That doesn't even make sense. There were only two movies at that time, and unlike the other three, Ninjago was an existing Lego property with it's own lore. Making the Ninjago movie such a tone-deaf imitation of the other two movies (at that time) was the inconsistency. Who was it supposed to be for? Anyone familiar with Ninjago would find ditching nearly everything about the world jarring, but people who only enjoyed the Lego movies wouldn't have a reason to be interested in Ninjago. The movie wasn't made for anyone to really enjoy.

Yeah, at best it's not a bad movie. It's not as bad as The Emoji Movie which if the Lego movies were handled in the wrong way, it could've ended up being The Emoji Movie

I don't think anyone was saying it was a bad film. It just didn't have that same special feeling that the first one did.

The moral of the story is, movie publishers are stupid, they give people money and freedom to make a passion project hoping it will break even. The movie is released and they discover they have a metaphorical gold mine on their hands. So they limit creative freedom, and all the life/gold quickly drains away, so the sell it to someone else.

I think also has to do with the fact that there wasn't much publicity about the film, I mean I didn't find out about this film until years later and I loved the first film and was hoping for a sequel. I finished watching the second full movie exactly two days ago, and I actually loved it more than I expected, because of all those comments that it wasn't as good as the first, of course it's not as good as the first but still exceeded my expectations. I still have a small hope that there will be a third movie in the future, although it is not very likely.

@@hooleepuk4219 Why does it get so much hate? Because it exists

Fast nad Furious are a stupid and shallow action series, mainly for viewers who like such films. They know what they will watch. Their taste. There are also people who want to see different approaches, or at least something more than "it's the same movie as before, just about something different." And there are also those who want their intelligence to be respected.

​@@tymonsulimastalman1727You pretty much nailed it. There are franchises I enjoy because they are safe, easy fun, something to watch when I'm emotionally overwhelmed and don't want to be processing too much, and then there are franchises which I like because they surprise and inspire me, and leave a lasting impact. The LEGO movies, unfortunately, fall under the latter because they lack the spectacle that would keep me engaged in stupid fun franchises, which isn't a big deal because they make up for it with the story. But then, if they can't quite get the story right...

@@tymonsulimastalman1727SHUT UP IDIOT

​​@@tymonsulimastalman1727That doesn't excuse horrible writing. I want a fun movie but also enjoy it's characters and stories instead of bringing characters back from the dead

@@KgEclispe252 Of course. I'm not excusing bad movies, I'm just explaining why people might like them. And I don't like the excessive resurrection of characters either. It's worst if they invalidate the emotional weight of an event by doing so, either to save a plot or as part of a fan-service.

It suffered from being mediocre and less imaginative than the first movie.

It's nothing more than a mountainload of wasted and lost potential

Completely agree! :-) I don’t understand why everyone else doesn’t see the value with this, I actually think I like it overall better and things from pacing and a lot of its ideas than the first one

THIS!! like just really think there was no advertising campaign for it

@@KaminoKatie how so? Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean that others do or that you’re necessarily right? Even with its overall reception, How do you know that the majority is not mistaken or misguided either?

Yeah that's the thing, I'm glad that the Lego movies at best aren't gigantic product placement movies. In every way, the movies could've been garbage like The Lego Movie but all of them turned out to be a solid movie. I didn't like Ninjago all that much but I still didn't mind watching it

@@15CandlesYou mean emoji movie?

@@Dr.Oofers You think?

I want to know what The Lego Movie Part 3 would be about, I hope it would involve the older sibling or cousin to the human story mix, but yeah

Hahaha same 😂

me neither! I was like you mean lego batman or... 😂

Me too

I was gonna post the same comment if no one else did. I HAD NO IDEA THIS MOVIE EXSITED!!! This is like a Mandela effect for me right now. I have no idea how this movie could have come and gone without me ever even hearing about it. I'm pretty tuned into movie news and releases and everything. I wasn't particularly distracted in February 2019 as far as I can remember... I just somehow didn't hear anything about this. Did they market it at all?? I also spend a lot of time on youtube and watch coverage of movie news and reviews and everything... don't remember ever seeing anybody talking about Lego Movie 2. I never saw a trailer. Never seen any of the images from this movie that this video showed. Nothing. Seeing this video's thumbnail was the first time I ever heard anything about it. I was sure it had to have been a direct-to-video release or something... but nope. Theater release and everything. How? How did this pass by me and seemingly everybody in my entire circle of movie fan friends and RU-vidrs, etc... ? Seriously like a Mandela Effect.

I completely blocked the movie from my memory for like the past 3 years

Agreed. While it didn't have the same charm as the first film, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part was definitely a pretty good movie in its own right. 😊😁

Despite lazily recycling J.K. Simmons’ audio as “J. Jonah Jameson” from Sam Raimi’s _Spider-Man?_

@@Wired4Life2That is the kind of thing these Lego movies would do, they did those kinds of things with the Lego Batman movie

@@SuperMoviemaster21 I don’t recall any particular instance in _The Lego Batman Movie_ of recycling past media audio.

@@Wired4Life2 Well, do you not remember the archive footage and there’s also some other audio sprinkle here and there throughout the movie.....They’re essentially the exact same kind of thing, EH?

​@@SuperMoviemaster21 Perhaps, but those were clearly references, whereas the Lego scene in _ATSV,_ while still fun, took me aback with the Jameson audio lifted straight from the 1st Raimi film (which wasn't even directed at Peter).

The movie could've been a lot better if they had made Armamageddon to be an unavoidable event that the citizens of the Lego universe cannot stop or prevent it no matter how hard they tried

​@@KaminoKatie That'd be such a downer ending.

@@gtd5626 The way I'd do it is to make that into a timeloop thanks to Rex who was driven mad by trying to prevent Armamageddon only to fail again and again for lord knows how many times he reset the timeline

Like homura akemi?

@@PrincessKittymeow-mt4yr Yeah

Thanks I will!@@Thomperfan

Just finished it. Stupendous editing and a great dissection of the flaws in plot. I would add that all the references that were not already LEGO sets were insulting to LEGO fans, like they didn't get the references in the first movie were to LEGO themes that already existed.@@Thomperfan

I kinda like the fact they kept up with the live action. We know from the first movie it takes place in the real world and since it's not a twist anymore they decided to incorporate more of that.

I love how throughout the movie the lego characters fight and argue the way the kids would. Metalbeard: "Fire the lazer canon!" Shoots Duplo: "I eat lazers" Metalbeard: "That's impossible!" Batman throws boomerang and it hits duplo Duplo: "You missed me" Batman: "No I did not" General Sweet Mayhem: "You attacked us!" Wyldstyle: "No, you started it!" GeneralSweetMayhem: "No, *you* stared it!" General Sweet Mayhem: "Well I asked you first" Wyldstyle: "Well, I asked you second" General Sweet Mayhem: "Real mature" When shooting Wyldstyle with her sticker gun General Sweet Mayhem: "Well I expected your expecting our expecting. 😂😂😂

well two times opposite to me especially they change to ruined characters too much and make zero scenes

For me its the opposite,the first is fast paced but its not too fast where i don't understand wtf's going on,but the second movie's pacing is so slower,i got bored after 10 minutes...

Me too. That made it better.

I don't really like musicals Makes me understand more why i don't like this movie.

The cold snap didn't happen in the rest of the world

@KaminoKatie True, yes; but a large U.S. opening is still considered important for a "successful" release. As stated in the video, even as it was, it was quite successful in making a profit. It was just the precession in so far as whether the studio wanted to make more.

Oh God please no

You think sequels are inherently bad as a concept?

I disagree. I feel like Rex is supposed to represent the brother’s teenage self where his interests become edgier, while Emmet is supposed to represent his inner child. It’s why Emmet stayed the same despite everything else becoming more gritty in the post apocalyptic world. Having them be separate characters could have worked, but it fits better having them be the same character thematically as a major theme is childhood interests vs adolescent interests.

@@phabiorules I feel like they should've instead pull a Psychonauts 2 by having Rex's redemption be a metaphor for Finn reconciling with his past and present selves and accepting that they're both equally important to who he is as a person

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Lord Business leaving was supposed to represent the Dad staying out of Finn and Biancas fighting.

"The real Lucy would never say that" 😢