K-SCORE: 89
Writers/Directors: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Starring: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Ferrell, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson, Alison Brie, Morgan Freeman
Spoiler Level: Minor
Not everything is awesome, but this is. The Lego Movie is fantastic, simultaneously satirizing over-the-top Hollywood summer blockbusters while also being a wonderful one. The voice acting is great. Will Arnett as Batman wins, but the other characters run a quality race. Lego is a great company, and I was happy to see that they found the perfect tone for their hit movie, never losing their sense of humor, and maintaining a playful message that perfectly matches the spirit of the toys. They embrace the strange blockiness of the characters and creations, and the tiny range of motion and expressions are routinely hysterical. Far as I know, there was no major omission to the now-sprawling Lego multiverse, squeezing in pirates, space, and construction workers alongside Star Wars and superheroes. Whoever came up with the Kragle as the ultimate weapon for the Lego characters deserves a place on the pedestal with Arnett. The notion that the most villainous thing someone can do to the toys is glue them into the “perfect” shapes, is, in and of itself, perfect. Never make a sequel to this film because it is assuredly going to be worse.