Review of The Lego Movie

When I first saw the trailer I was thinking this was a joke. Actually I really looked forward to this movie which remembered me the time when I played with these amazing yellow toys (not so far by the way). I came to the theater with some friends (about 15^^) and then hop…100 minutes of pure laugh. I have to say the writers/directors did an amazing job. I will begin with the screenplay which is so brilliant: I expected gags, some cult lines, and of course there were plenty of those things and more. This is hard to believe but the society in which our hero Emmet lives is a kind of Orwell's 1984 place or even like in The Matrix's world. A society in which we told people to be happy and they become averages nobody, this is the world of Lord Business (alias the incredible Will Ferrell). So at the beginning of the movie, I guessed this was not a movie destined firstly to children, plus there is a great deal of references to movies of "older" audiences. But in fact the movie praises imagination and particularly children imagination. There is a conflict between the two sides of what legos are made for: you can follow the instruction and make "realistic" stuff (for example a Millennium Falcon) or you can build in your own way, build things that cannot exist, except in your mind ; and the directors succeeded in pointed this out and the movie follows these two sides. The example is, for me, the song "Everything is Awesome" because, at the beginning of the movie, the song is seen as a part of the brainwashing of Lord Business's society but in the end, when it accompanies the credits, we understand that what is awesome is that you can do whatever you want with these little bricks. Then, visually, this movie is astonishing. Explosions, fires, the ocean, everything is made with Lego and it is very cool. I think this movie deserves a second vision, only in the purpose of seeing more background details because it's going too fast when there are battles (if I had to point out a default, it would that).The directing is incredible in so many point because it was really not obvious too give life to these bricks and they did a great job (especially when "Master Builders" create cars with what they found). In conclusion, I strongly recommend this movie, even if you have 50. This movie is great for children, adults, and film-lover. Well, it is a "masterbrick".