Comments on: Watch: Michelangelo & Abraham Lincoln Team Up For ‘Lego Movie’ Spin-Off Short ‘History Cops’

By: Fartwad

Fartwad — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:02 +0000

The horrific irony of The Lego Movie was that the harsh and clinical world of business and marketing that the big, bad guy represented and whom was based on the character of the father, couldn't hide the fact that in the end the movie was telling you bugger all about existing outside of that world and was entirely saturated in product placement and incessant corporate branding and advertising. A depressing venture…

Like that kid is going to grow up and start an imaginative socialist utopia. He'll get the same grey suit his dad has and work the same way he dies, without happiness.

By: Jake the Hake

Jake the Hake — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:19:02 +0000

"the most exciting and innovative animated film"

says a lot when a Warner Bros./DC advertising fest with weak-plotting in its first two acts leading to the same reveal we've had in every children's film since the 70's (that imagination vs. stagnation is childhood vs. adulthood, this time typified by the even more generic and wholly innocuous father vs. son) is touted as the "most exciting" or "innovative" animated film released since Pixar became just another cog in Disney's machine.

Do you report like this because no one went to see The Wind Rises? Or were you really sucked into the brash and incessant advert that The Lego Movie actually was for 90% of its running time?