The Lego Ninjago Movie

Hard to believe for you, maybe. My kid has been literally planning around this. Given that she's four, it's pretty impressive.

EDIT: Reading that spoilered-but-thankfully-spoiler-free comment in the previous post, that reminds me heavily of the reaction to The LEGO Movie. Heck, that was my specific reaction to said movie.

edited 20th Sep '17 9:39:39 AM by 32_Footsteps

Planning for a movie release at 4 years old? That is impressive.

I was going to go see this anyway, but the positive review is nice.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lego_ninjago_movie/

Currently we're looking at about a 52% on Rotten Tomatoes, which now has me a bit worried over the film's quality. Looks like it's gonna be a step down after The Lego Movie and Lego Batman.

Maybe they've just grown tired of them.

I mean, let's be honest: they're literally just ninety minute long commercials.

Or maybe it's just as simple as the film not being as good as the first two?

Being toy commercials doesn't mean they're automatically bad, the positive reception to the first two Lego films is evidence of that. The problem could simply be bad writing, I'll have to see the film myself to judge.

edited 22nd Sep '17 2:26:56 PM by AdricDePsycho

The writing seemed fine in the trailers.

Well, never trust a trailer and all that jazz. The reviews seem more mixed than anything, could simply be that it's not bad but a downgrade.

I saw it over the weekend with my kid.

Spoiler free review: I'd say it's better than The LEGO Batman Movie, but not as good as The LEGO Movie. The visuals are a mixed bag (the action is the smoothest it's been yet, but the increase in non-LEGO parts detracts from the film, IMO), and there are a couple of plot beats that I think were just missed (in particular, I was dissatisfied with both how they used Lloyd's mom Koko as well as how they handled the resolution between Garmadon and Lloyd).

That said, there were some fun nods for the AFOL crowd (M-Tron!), I think the jokes worked better here than they did in either of the previous two (much more accessible and just landing better in general), and while the non-Lloyd Ninjago members didn't get much spotlight, they all did very well with what they had.

One part that I think might be controversial is that the live-action stuff is way more straightforward - it's basically a Framing Device, and WYSIWYG. I appreciate that they didn't overcomplicate things in that regard, and it actually flowed well. Plus, it was fun to see Jackie Chan riff for a few minutes (in particular, anything about the cat).

Oh, speaking of, for anyone who is a Jackie Chan fan - even though there wasn't any dangerous stuntwork for him, since there was a stunt, we do get the traditional mid-credits "watch Jackie mess up" reel. I'm glad that I could expose 33_Footsteps to that level of silly.

Well.

Its opening weekend didn't even get close to how "The Lego Batman Movie" did. I think Warner Bros has overestimated how well these LEGO movies do, and they're releasing these way too close to one another (we had two released this year alone).

Could someone who's seen this movie please update the YMMV page's Alternate Character Interpretation entry for Lord Garmadon?

I mean, other than tweaking it to make it clear that the ambiguity is in the film itself (and there's very good arguments that it is), I don't see what's the issue.

That said, I'm not made of free time. Maybe I'll get to it later.

The entry first appeared before the movie came out, and seemed based mainly on speculation from the trailers.

edited 27th Sep '17 2:09:41 PM by dsneybuf