The Lego Batman Movie

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lego-batman-spinoff-movie-works-738631

Well, he's already got a theme song for the opening credits.

I have a sinking feeling this will be Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides all over again. By which I mean, LEGO Batman was great as an over-the-top supporting character, bouncing off the more normal protagonist. I doubt he'll work nearly as well as the main character himself. Maybe if they brought in someone like Robin or Alfred serves to serve as co-protagonist and voice of reason.

If it takes this kind of tone and does some spoofs of classic scenes, I might find it amusing.

what's the deal with their heads in the end?

I agree. The Straight Man is a really underrated comedy trope because humor typically falls flat without their presence.

Just realized, shouldn't this be in the Western Animation subforum?

edited 23rd Oct '14 6:21:42 AM by Odd1

M...Maybe it'll be a live actor in a suit made out of Lego?

You mean the LEGO movie wasn't made with actual LEGO bricks?

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A feature film based off the Lego Ninjago series and toyline, and a direct sequel to the Lego Movie are also in the works. This franchise is getting milked dry. These superhero movies and these franchise movie sequels are getting ridiculous.

If The Bat is getting some character development, and the movie isn't going to just be him grimderping for 90 minutes, then that addresses my biggest worry about this movie. Count me back in the cautiously optimistic camp.

I like both Lego and Batman. And yet for some reason I was never interested in seeing The Lego Movie (it looks like just another generic kids' movie to me), and so I have no interest in this movie either.

'Everything is BATMAN, everything is cool when you're BAAATMAN!!!

Only thing less true than that is "the Titanic is unsinkable".

I haven't watched The Lego Movie, so I won't comment on that, but every other Lego project I've watched tends to seem more and more generic and been-there-done-that than the prior one. The first Lego Batman DTV was very funny, for instance, but the followup one just felt like an exercise on futile rehearsh. Even the Star Wars ones have become sort of an one trick pony that overstayed its welcome. And the Marvel one... let's just say it could have passed as another Lego DC movie with just some cosmetic changes. I think those ones are becoming less and less reliant on wit and more overconfident on being funny just because they're about dumbed down versions of well known characters with Chibi bodies.

“Batman is the ultimate in white people problems,” says Lord. “It’s like, ‘oh I’m so rich and handsome and women like me and… something about my parents!'”

I haven't ever had my own parents shot or anything, but this sentence's phrasing still rubs me quite the wrong way.

edited 10th Jan '15 5:56:09 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

First pictures.

Poster.

Hmm... I like the casting so far, and heaven knows how doubtful I was about The LEGO Movie at first. I'm probably going to see this with my kid when it comes out (because she's now old enough to go to movies, and she likes both Lego bricks and Batman - damn, I'm raising this kid right).

Implying that Batman stories aren't more about helping whole Gotham then about his problems.

Suggesting that Batman (who's barely sleeps cause he spends nights jumping around and getting into fights, then going back to his cave so Alfred can patch him up and basically pushing yourself to furthest limit every day) has fantastic life we should all envy.

Possibly suggesting that being handsome is white privilege or something.

And yeah, making kids movie with "childhood trauma is no biggie" approach.

Yeah, I think I'm rubbed the wrong way too.

It might be worth noting that Lego Dimensions counts Lego Movie Batman and Lego Batman as separate entities, and by the looks of it, this Batman is distinctly the former flavor.

edited 22nd Mar '16 12:36:59 PM by Grounder

Truth be told, I see no real characterization differences between the LEGO Movie Batman and the LEGO DC series Batman, except because the former at least was able to hold onto a 'normal' girlfriend for a while, which is no small feat for a Bruce Wayne.

The thing that nags me about LEGO Batmen is they've become pretty much the same thing they want to criticize about the 'serious' Batman— the self-caricature who keeps being taught the same lesson all over and over again just to forget it by the time the next story starts. Then again, the same thing applies to his LEGO League partners, who basically exist to repeat their Flanderized gag routines over and over. At first it was charming, by now it's just grating and annoying. It's easy to preach the 'this guy should lighten up and enjoy everything!' when you live in an universe made of building blocks where no one is ever allowed to die, but then you try to apply the same lesson to the character who has to live in a crime infested city, in an increasingly darker and nihilistic universe, and then the Aesop falls flat.

That, and the trouble with LEGO adaptations nowadays is they feel all the same but with different dressings, or in some cases, like LEGO Scooby Doo, just the same as the original canon but with LEGO figures— seriously, that movie would have been just the same had they done it in the style of classic Scooby. What made LEGO Movie and the original LEGO Batman shine was they were and did innovative, fresh things, but by now those things have become paling shadows of themselves.

First try!

Whoops...I mean "First trailer!"

Oh my goodness. Judging from the shot at 1:16 with all the bat outfits, this movie will be Easter egg heaven.