Jordan Chodorow reviews movies on a scale of zero to four stars. Find reviews of all the latest releases here, along with a searchable database of all reviews from January 2012 to today.
Monday, February 10, 2014
The LEGO Movie
The only way to enjoy "The LEGO Movie" is stoned (as directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller none-too-subtly suggest).
Sober, it's wearying - exhausting, actually (I nodded off twice, apparently as a defense mechanism). It's the story of a construction worker LEGO figurine named Emmett (Chris Pratt), pegged as The Special by the sage Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman), who with hottie Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) and her soon-to-be-dumped BF Batman (Will Arnett) battles President Business (Will Ferrell) and his forces of conformity, led by Good Cop/Bad Cop (Liam Neeson). There's one memorable song (actually, one memorable line from a song) and I did like the surprise ending that gives clever meaning to what's come before. But I didn't laugh once; the social satire is toothless and inane; and the assault of plot and dialogue seems never to end.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment