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The Lego Movie

The Lego Movie

Animation · Family · Adventure · 2014

An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from conquering the universe.

Movie details

The Lego Movie

“The story of a nobody who saved everybody.”

2014 Animation · Family · Adventure 1h 40m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

7.7 / 10

411.9K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

96 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

83 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

7.4 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from conquering the universe.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over The Lego Movie?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

Nearby on the taste map.

TMDB supplies the candidates. CriticWise reorders them by craft, strangeness, prestige, emotion, and pace.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Phil Lord · Christopher Miller

Written by

Phil Lord · Christopher Miller · Kevin Hageman · Dan Hageman

Chris Pratt

Chris Pratt

Emmet Brickowski (voice)

Elizabeth Banks

Elizabeth Banks

Wyldstyle / Lucy (voice)

Will Ferrell

Will Ferrell

Lord Business / President Business / The Man Upstairs

Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman

Vitruvius (voice)

Will Arnett

Will Arnett

Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)

Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson

Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice)

Alison Brie

Alison Brie

Unikitty (voice)

Court is in session

Put The Lego Movie on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.