History YMMV / TheLEGONinjagoMovie

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Perhaps befitting his element[[note]]"Surprise!"[[/note]], the Fuchsia Ninja got a surprisingly high amount of attention after he showed up in the last few seconds of one of the clips Warner posted before the premiere.

* FridgeHorror: The warehouse that serves as the ninjas' base is shown to have once belonged to a company called Brick Recycling whose motto is "Remake your world over and over". Was this company once responsible for restoration efforts to the city after Garmadon's attacks, and since the warehouse had closed down before the ninjas set up their base there, did they eventually give up on trying to restore the city knowing that Garmadon would just attack it again?

* UncannyValley: For the most part, Meowthra looks very realistic and well-animated (it helps that Creator/AnimalLogic is a visual effects studio first and foremost, meaning they have experience making realistic animal movements), but there are some shots where the cat looks a little off, mostly during close-ups and in certain lighting.

** Given that the much-beloved original series has been going on for six years (and counting), complaints about the Ninja's redesigns, the new voice cast, and the script's deviations (such as the absence of Spinjitzu) were inevitable.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Lloyd being ostracized by other students on the bus because they know his father is a warmonger? A bit sad. ''Everyone'' on the bus moving to the left side just so they don't have to be near him, telling him his dad ruins everything, and the ''entire bus'' tilting to the side? Hilarious.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: The village of fired generals. They have very clearly lost it. Notably, Shark General 1 is visibly ''twitching'' at points and jerking her head about, and even gives a SlasherSmile when she declares their intention to throw Garmadon and Lloyd into a volcano, including describing in detail how their flesh will melt off their bones before they even feel the heat. Also, their injuries are a little more realistic with the burns, and one of them going deaf from having been blasted out the volcano, whereas Lloyd losing his arm was played more for laughs.]]

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The fact that it was a ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' adaptation in the style of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', while having [[AlternateContinuity no connection]] [[CanonDiscontinuity to either]] [[InNameOnly of them]], certainly didn't do this movie any favors. People who liked the previous LEGO movies but weren't fans of ''Ninjago'' didn't know what to make of it, while ''Ninjago'' fans were apt to cry TheyChangedItNowItSucks. This was a major factor in the movie's marketing failure.

* ContinuityLockout: Zig-zagged. The filmmakers wanted to keep the film in the continuity of the Lego movie worlds so as not to alienate those that have never seen the TV series. Despite this however, many in-jokes and lines from the film won't make sense to an average viewer unless they're familiar with the source material, and the characters themselves are clearly introduced under the impression that the [[RememberTheNewGuy audience would already know who they were]]. Due to the ''Ninjago'' characters not being as well-known or as iconic as [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie Batman]], or just [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie LEGO in general]], this unfortunately worked against the film for many viewers.

* UncannyValley: For the most part, Meowthra looks very realistic and well-animated (it helps that Creator/AnimalLogic is a visual effects studio first and foremost, meaning they have experience making realistic animal movements), but there are some shots where the cat looks a little off, mostly during close-ups and in certain lighting.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The fact that it was a ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' adaptation in the style of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', while having [[AlternateContinuity no connection]] [[CanonDiscontinuity to either]] [[InNameOnly of them]], certainly didn't do this movie any favors.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Mixed with CanonDiscontinuity, but many fans of both ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' won't think twice about someone who hasn't seen the movie, given how the plot is irrelevant to both.

* SnarkBait: The FramingDevice has received mockery due to the FridgeLogic of how and why Mr. Liu would keep the boy in his shop for that long, and how exactly he'd describe certain events without visual aid or other voices.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' home media releases included a short about the making of a Ninjago version of the movie, ''Enter the Ninjago''. In the short, the movie gets focus-grouped to the point of having nothing to do with Emmet Brickowski's adventures, and ends up a BoxOfficeBomb. Now, ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie'' boasts several differences from the ninja's TV adventures, and grossed less than each theatrical LEGO film released before and after it.[[note]]The short seems especially spot-on when the executive uses "physical comedy/pratfalls and cute, furry animals" as selling points.[[/note]]
** [[http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/caa5cbe415/dream-girl-w-dave-franco-alison-brie This NSFW (in terms of language) Funny or Die video featuring Dave Franco]] has a new layer of {{Squick}} regarding its ending, [[spoiler:which implies Franco will make out with Olivia Munn, who voices his mother in this movie.]]

** One of Jackie Chan's previous movies, ''Film/NewPoliceStory'', had a fight scene set in a LEGO exhibit. Both films even have a green LEGO dragon.

** The TV show's pilot had some of the villains discuss whether the plural form of "ninja" has an s at the end, before deciding that it doesn't. The movie seems to forget such.
** Lloyd losing an arm turns into this when you realise that Creator/JamesFranco, brother of Lloyd's VA, Dave Franco, [[Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours went through the same thing.]]
** For that matter, James Franco was [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy the Green Goblin]] and [[Creator/SethRogen his brother from another mother]] was Film/TheGreenHornet, so obviously Dave had to be the Green ninja.
** One of Master Wu's accomplishments involves publishing an actual book of ninjitsu, much like [[Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger another elderly ninja master (just substitute "Ninjanuity" for "Nintality")]].

* ToughActToFollow: ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie'' has failed to receive the critical love previously earned by ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'', with reviews admitting it has a smaller amount of all-ages appeal.

* SignatureScene: Meowthra's arrival and initial attack on Ninjago City is consistently cited by fans and critics as one of the most memorable and funny scenes of the film, due to it consisting of a ([[ConspicuousCG sorta-]])live-action cat adorably causing carnage in a LEGO city.

* ContinuityLockout: Despite being in an AlternateContinuity from the original ''Ninjago'' series, many in-jokes and lines from the film won't make sense to an average viewer unless they're familiar with the source material, and the characters themselves are clearly introduced under the impression that the [[RememberTheNewGuy audience would already know who they were]]. Due to the ''Ninjago'' characters not being as well-known or as iconic as [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie Batman]], or just [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie LEGO in general]], this unfortunately worked against the film for many viewers.

* EarWorm: Listen to the song ''Found My Place'' and try not to get it stuck in your head.

* BrokenBase: While it has its over-the-top and zany moments, the film pulls back the LeaningOnTheFourthWall humour of [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie its]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie predecessors]] in favour of a more emotional and grounded storyline, and also makes no references to the larger ''LEGO Movie'' universe. Some viewers took a liking to the film's more serious tone, while others felt that this made the film feel out-of-place in the franchise and found the ''LEGO'' aspect of the film to be irrelevant to the story or settings.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' home media releases included a short about the making of a Ninjago version of the movie, ''Enter the Ninjago''. In the short, the movie gets focus-grouped to the point of having nothing to do with Emmet Brickowski's adventures, and ends up a BoxOfficeBomb. Now, ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie'' boasts several differences from the ninja's TV adventures, and grossed less than expected on opening weekend.[[note]]The short seems especially spot-on when the executive uses "physical comedy/pratfalls and cute, furry animals" as selling points.[[/note]]

** The end credits song "Dance of Doom" lists "Wait 'til a human steps on you and [[AgonyOfTheFeet hurts their foot]]" as one of the steps. In [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart the next LEGO movie]], [[spoiler:some LEGO pieces subjecting the mother's feet to a "pain worse than childbirth" results in the destruction of the LEGO universe, until her bickering children make amends and build a new LEGO universe together.]]

** The end credits song "Dance of Doom" lists "Wait 'til a human steps on you and [[AgonyOfTheFeet hurts their foot]]" as one of the steps. In [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart the next LEGO movie]], [[spoiler:some loose LEGO pieces subjecting the mother's feet to a "pain worse than childbirth" results in the destruction of the LEGO universe, until her children make amends and build a new LEGO universe together.]]

* BrokenBase: While it has it's over-the-top and zany moments, the film pulls back the LeaningOnTheFourthWall humour of [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie it's]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie predecessors]] in favour of a more emotional and grounded storyline, and also makes no references to the larger ''LEGO Movie'' universe. Some viewers took a liking to the film's more serious tone, while others felt that this made the film feel out-of-place in the franchise and found the ''LEGO'' aspect of the film to be irrelevant to the story or settings.

* MorePopularSpinoff: It feels safe to assume more people have seen ''The Master'' than ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie'', due to premiering before ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'', a movie with a larger box-office gross than ''Ninjago'', and re-appearing on the home media releases of ''The LEGO Batman Movie''. ''The Master''[='=]s Website/{{IMDB}} score also looks slightly higher than that of the ''Ninjago'' movie, though with a much smaller number of votes.

* CrackIsCheaper:
** Want to own all the sets made to tie in with the film? Be ready to shell out upwards of $600.
** The cheapest way to collect all of the ninja in their signature gi[[note]]Lloyd in the minifigure series, Kai and Zane in Spinjitzu Training, Cole in the Manta Ray Bomber, Jay in the Flying Jelly Sub, and Nya in the Water Strider[[/note]] totals about $105 USD ($110 if you count Wu, from the minifigure series). But to collect all of the ninja in their ''civilian gear''? It starts off okay, as Cole, Zane, Lloyd, and Jay are all given in the minifigure series, and total about $20. Then, Nya can be found in a $20 set. But the set they put casual Kai in is the ''$300'' Ninjago City. So that's a grand total of $340 for the casual minifigures if you wanted to get them through the sets. Both groups, and you're down $445. (However, casual Lloyd is also available in Ninjago City, so if you get that set for both, you can shave a [[SarcasmMode hefty $5]] off your total.)