but it took me THE WHOLE MOVIE to finally recognize Benny’s high pitched shriek as Charlie Day. The Voice of God is pretty recognizable, so I figured out Morgan Freeman pretty fast, and Alison Brie too, actually, since I love her. I’m almost a little stunned he’s going to be in the next Star Wars movies at all.)Īlso, it’s fun trying to figure out where you know a voice from, isn’t it? I knew going in that this movie had Elizabeth Banks and Will Arnett in it, and I remembered Will Ferrell and Liam Neeson’s casting as soon as I heard them speak. (To no one’s great surprise, Harrison Ford did not appear as Han Solo. Not to mention Channing Tatum as Superman, Jonah Hill as Green Lantern, Cobie Smulders as Wonder Woman, Anthony Daniels as C3po, and Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian. The voice cast for this movie is kind of spectacular. For instance: So, why DO I like The Lego Movie so much? Well, I guess primarily because it’s just so damn funny.īatman might manage to snag the best lines, but the whole movie is chock full of some pretty great dialogue that adults can laugh at as well as their kids. So, this movie? There’s pretty much zero nostalgia factor here, no man, I used to love my Legos, and that’s why I’m having all kinds of geeky feels over this one.ģ. Probably because I was less interested in building shit than I was in setting up elaborate death traps that my dolls had to escape from, and - all in all - normal building blocks and Jenga pieces collapse much more dramatically than Lego pieces, don’t you think? I didn’t dislike them or anything we just didn’t have any, and I don’t remember ever particularly wanting to own them, either. Also - while I’m on the subject of me instead of than the actual movie itself - I feel like I should point out that I never really played much with Legos as a kid. It was the constant trauma of my tiny human life.)Ģ. Not to mention, I have no room to judge, AT ALL, how often kids cry. I know that movie theaters certainly overwhelmed me sometimes when I was a kid, possibly because of the surround sound, and possibly because we just didn’t go very often. (And yes, I should be more understanding of loud and tearful children in general. In the meantime, I suppose I’ll simply have to deal with the fact that if I want to see a children’s movie in theater, there will, in fact, be children in the audience. I don’t actually have a lawn, and I would have no idea how to take care of one if I did.) I’d like to think that, anyway, because I do want to become a mom someday, preferably a good one, and that desire seems a little at odds with my current old-people attitude towards children, some kind of deeply ingrained reflex to raise my shaking fist and scream, “Get off my lawn!” (Only, obviously, a movie theater instead of a lawn. I suspect that when I have children of my own, I will become much more tolerant of kids who show up at the cinema ready to wriggle incessantly, continuously ask their parents questions, and, rather inevitably, cry. And then they all brought their tiny humans with them, too. Everyone who wanted to see it should have already seen it - nevertheless, plenty of people stole my great idea of waiting until they came to Reno for a few days so they, too, could watch it in hotel movie theater for only four dollars. It will actually be on DVD in only a few short weeks. This movie initially came out in February. It is up to Emmet and his vastly more qualified allies to save the world from President Business (Will Ferrell) and his Doom Device, the Kragle.ġ. You have been warned.Įmmet (Chris Pratt) is a construction worker and pretty literal everyman who unexpectedly finds himself stumbling into the role of the Chosen One (or, in this case, the Special). Significant plot points and character resolutions will be revealed. Once you hit the Quotes Section, you’re on your own, buddy. This review will be Spoiler Free UNTIL you get to the Quotes Section. I figure I’m too snarky of a person to properly gush, but I’ll admit, I thought it was pretty fantastic too. Honestly, this film wasn’t even on my radar until, like, February when every geek I knew suddenly started gushing about it. I thought about going to see it, but instead went to watch another nerdy movie, albeit one that premiered months and months ago: The Lego Movie. While I was in Reno last weekend, a super-hyped and nerdtacular movie called Godzilla came out.
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