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2	* 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.
3	* 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.[[note]]The latter flaw also applies to most of ''The LEGO Batman Movie'', but ''Batman'' at least has building factor into a handful of the key scenes, including the climax.[[/note]]
4	* CrossesTheLineTwice:
5	** 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.
6	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC5ZUu1NBMY This song]] that plays during the credits about how to do the Dance of Doom has several steps that involve horribly disfiguring your body (if not outright killing yourself) set to energetic music, which makes it all the more hilarious.
7	* 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. His popularity is likely why the show [[CanonImmigrant got its own]] Fuschia Ninja (albeit having no element) in Season 15.
8	* EvilIsCool: Justin Theroux's performance as Lord Garmadon seems like the most oft-praised one in this movie.
9	* HarsherInHindsight:
10	** ''TLNM'' becoming both the first LEGO movie to reference the ill-fated ''Series/{{Galidor}}'', and the first LEGO movie to perform worse than expected, implies that the ''Galidor'' logo will remain a seal of low-quality for LEGO tie-ins.
11	** A short film on the home video release of the first LEGO movie titled ''Enter the Ninjago'', has Hollywood making another LEGO movie involving Ninjago which turns out to be a huge flop and a CreatorKiller for Hollywood, which happened to this film as it was a critical and commercial failure and led to Warner Bros. losing the rights to LEGO.
12	* HilariousInHindsight:
13	** The first trailer has an apparently random pick of a popular song at the time ("Bad Blood" by Music/TaylorSwift) while also establishing Garmadon's NeverMyFault attitude. The title of Taytay's big hit song by the time the movie's due out? "Look What You Made Me Do".
14	** 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]], which revisits the first one's human family, [[spoiler:some LEGO pieces subjecting the mother's feet to a pain "close second to childbirth" results in the destruction of the LEGO universe, until her bickering children make amends and build a new LEGO universe together.]]
15	** In this film, Garmadon led an oddly shark-themed army, despite the undead and snakes being more of his thing in the series. Cue the Seabound season later in the series, which has the sea-themed villain Kalmaar and his army to fight the Ninja with.
16	** The film has a joke about the "Element of Surprise" belonging to the Fuchsia Ninja. Later, the series would feature an actual Fuchsia Ninja, though he lacked elemental powers.
17	* IronWoobie: Hoo boy, Lloyd. He is widely despised by everyone sans his Ninja friends, his mother and his uncle simply because he's the son of Garmadon, the evil warlord. Likewise, his father is the clueless {{Jerkass}} who stated that he wasn't even a part of Lloyd's life. But despite all that, Lloyd manages to stay strong and [[spoiler:eventually succeeds in repairing his relationship with his father at the end]].
18	* MorePopularSpinoff: It feels safe to assume more people have seen ''The Master'' than ''The LEGO Ninjago Movie'', due to WB attaching it to movies with larger grosses -- ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'' in theaters, and ''The LEGO Batman Movie'' on home video. ''The Master''[='=]s Website/{{IMDB}} score also looks slightly higher than that of the ''Ninjago'' movie, though with a much smaller number of votes.
19	* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: The village of fired generals. They have very clearly lost it. Notably, General Olivia 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.]]
20	* 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 ([[MediumBlending sorta-]])live-action cat adorably causing carnage in a LEGO city.
21	* SoOkayItsAverage: A large consensus is that this ''LEGO'' movie doesn't stick together as well as the others, but it's alright as harmless entertainment.
22	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
23	** Given that the much-beloved original series had been going on for six years at the time of release, complaints about the Ninja's redesigns, the new voice cast, and the script's deviations (such as the absence of Spinjitzu) were inevitable.
24	** Fans of ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'''s all-LEGO aesthetic found it off-putting that parts of this movie's environment look so realistic.
25	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Kai, Jay, Zane, Cole, and Nya get sidelined, in order to place as much focus as possible on Lloyd's family drama.

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