The Lego Batman Movie

Saw it 3 hours ago. Worth it! Going to write a full review of it on my Tumblr

Dose anyone felt like this movie was a ad for Lego Dimensions?

edited 11th Feb '17 7:26:27 PM by Paint.

You mean The LEGO Movie The Original Video Game.

edited 11th Feb '17 8:27:41 PM by BigK1337

It takes a village to raise a Batman!

Love the movie, but most of the comic references (only saw part of the Nolanverse) went over my head.

It was a lot better than I expected. I think I like it more than The Lego Movie, though there were a bunch of missed opportunities in this one.

I think it was funnier overall to the Lego Movie, helped by the fact it is based on a character with such a ruch history that let them go crazy. But the Lego Movie had an overall stronger plot, it's really hard to top the big live action reveal.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

Lego Batman wins the box office weekend and is the highest rated D.C. film critically since Dark Knight Rises.

Making this accurate:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4PkSfOWYAA0R_Y?format=jpg&name=large

This is why they should just make more Lego movies! Let's have a Lego Justice League movie!

This has gotta kinda sting for Warner Bros, even though both the live-action ones and the Lego ones are their property.

No you see In The Lego Batman Movie where Joker unleashed the bad guys form the Phantom Zone, he unleashed characters that I'm pretty sure that are in Lego Dimensions

More specifically Voldemort The Daleks & The Wicked Witch Of The West and while Sauron isn't playable in the game, He is still there in his respective Adventure World

So either this was a clever way to advertise the game while connecting it with the story or just a coincidence

edited 13th Feb '17 8:06:00 AM by Paint.

The majority of the bad guys Joker frees from the Phantom Zone have only appeared in LEGO Dimensions and have otherwise never had any LEGO incarnations before.

But still, it's a weird coincidence

Actually a lot of them have already appeared in other Lego video games, such as Sauron, Voldemort, Jurassic World, and a few others.

God damn it

edited 13th Feb '17 10:07:02 AM by Paint.

Warner Executive 1: "So, what have we learned from the success of the Lego Batman Movie?"

Warner Executive 2: "That, maybe we should make our next movies a wee bit lighter and more optimistic?"

Warner Executive 3: "Of course not! That we should put Voldemort in Zack Snyder's next DC movie!"

edited 13th Feb '17 11:21:47 AM by NapoleonDeCheese

They don't have to learn anything.

Critics wouldn't like it anyway because they have it in their head that it would suck before even watching it.

All they need to do is please the executives with "that upbeat and slightly annoying pop tune for the end credits that they love".

Apples and oranges, Lego Batman movie refuses to be serious even in its serious moments, making the experience a laugh riot. BVS was trying to take itself more seriously and that brings it under a different kind of scrutiny. Plus, truth be told the overall plot of the Lego Batman movie isn't really that good, it just throws all sense out the window for a couple hours of silliness.

I was thinking though, with that brief Justice League cameo, of a theory some have said that eventually DC and Marvel will co-produce works featuring a crossover with their characters. Probably not the MCU and DCEU, but I can totally see a deal with a JLA/Avengers movie with Lego's. For the time being it seems that the Lego movie properties are largely standalone, but that could be an enormously lucrative prospect.

So, first thing I'll say is, this one's not nearly as kid-friendly as The LEGO Movie. Due to the fact that this movie centers around a much more selfish character, one who has real problems with emotional honesty, and the fact that the action is much more intense, my kid, who has happily watched The LEGO Movie for two years without issue, cried four times while watching (officially turning me into "that asshole who can't gauge what movie's appropriate for their kid"). (For the record, the scene that made her cry the most was when Batman sends Robin, Alfred, and Babs away in The Scuttler - she couldn't understand why Batman would make the people he loves go away.) The odd thing is that she says she really liked it... but she wants to wait a year or so before watching it again.

The soundtrack is probably even more fun - I really like "I'm The (Bat)Man", and my kid loved "Friends Are Family." It's really good.

For the movie itself... I thought it was really great as a critique of Batman stories. Too often, Batman is written as a kid that's so wrapped up in themselves and his tragedy that he can't connect at all with the people who try to be close to him. And yeah, there's always an element of that, but this movie makes the effort to show where that leaves Batman hollow as a person. It's probably the best take I've seen on that since Batman Beyond.

A lot of the jokes were really good; I particularly enjoyed the password to the Batcave, the inferred explanation of how secret identities work in the DC Legoverse (namely, everyone's an idiot who can't connect why Batman would live below Bruce Wayne), and the subtle hints about the fact that this does, in fact, still take place in the same universe as The LEGO Movie (one blink-and-you-miss-it appearance by Emmet where they show him falling into the abyss from the movie and the frequent use of "pew pew pew" spoken when weapons are fired, suggesting this is Finn and/or his dad playing a game with Lego Batman).

One minor point: I'm a little surprised that there was no joke about Alfred and Voldemort, given that Alfred's voice was provided by the man who portrayed Voldemort in 5 live-action films.

Yeah they have Ralph Fiennes, and Voldermort, but he does not VOICE Voldermort in this movie.

A kid in my theater kept asking his dad where Batman's parents are. By the third act, he eventually had to tell him they died. This is common knowledge for even the most casual of Batman fans, but I kind of felt bad for the kid.

Yeah, I too had to finally tell my kid that Batman's parents were dead "because of a bad guy." She was a little sad, but she was able to accept it when I told her that he became Batman to make sure bad guys didn't do that again.

I thought I was going to be in the clear when she didn't cry then, but no, things got way more intense from there.

Also, minor critique - I appreciate just how many villains got put in there, but I really wish there had been more meat to some of their roles. I didn't even realize Conan O'Brien did The Riddler (one of my all-time favorite comic villains) until I saw the credits. Though I will give credit that, inasmuch as one can with minifigs, they tried to make the minifigs match the actors behind them (Billy Dee Williams as Two-Face is the most obvious example, but Rosario Dawson as Barbara Gordon and Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman are up there, and even that Riddler is a redhead, while black or sandy brown are his most frequent hair colors). Nice touch.

So I just watched this movie...I really liked it. I'm torn over whether or not it was better than The LEGO Movie. (I almost want to say that this movie was better.)

You know you've got a great movie on your hands when you're already cracking a smile and laughing barely a minute into the movie. ("We all know: Every movie starts with black")

I found myself grinning like an eight-year-old getting what he always wanted for Christmas when many of the bad guys in the Phantom Zone were from different places. I legitimately was not expecting the Daleks or Agent Smith to show up. (Makes me wonder if a Matrix Play Se-er, I mean Level Pack for LEGO Dimensions isn't out of the question.

The story and characterization was quite great. So far, this movie is my favorite animated movie of 2017.

I had a lot of fun with this film. Not quite as good as The Lego Movie but that was always going to be a Tough Act to Follow. It's still pretty impressive and has a great time taking the piss out of the Batman mythos.

Saw the film. Liked it.

It would be nice if this led to Joker being re-characterized as something besides guy who kills randomly because he has too much plot armor. Seeing him try to accomplish something in the beginning besides get Batman's attention was refreshing.