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Shazaaaam
Pros: Some great gags, as you'd expect from Lord&Miller, and great visual imagination. Elizabeth Banks' comic timing is masterful as always. Good pace till about the third act.Cons: The human scenes don't work nearly as well this time, and the third act plot twists are just bizarre/nonsensical--the story can't really support the allegory. Has the usual comedy-sequel problem of not knowing what to do with one-gag characters from the first movie (Benny, Metalbeard) except repeat the same schticks.
6 / 10.
PaleoSteno
I just have one thing to say:KuroSawWhat
There are many moments in Lego 2 which have a "pause for laugh" moment inserted which were not filled in my showing. There are many gags throughout the film which simply don't pay off like they did in the first film, and it meanders quite a bit without seeming to have an end destination in mind.Every character spouts their signature bits as you would expect them to do so, and that's kind of the summary of the problem: You expect it all. There was no moment that caught me by surprise or took things in a direction which I had not imagined ahead of time. As an example, the 1960s Astronaut had a clear, simple, and enjoyable arc in the first film: He really wanted to build a spaceship but was continually denied, until finally they let him build a super awesome spaceship and he has the time of his life!! Very enjoyable and a perfect payoff. In Lego 2, he just says "spaceship" whenever it could be logically inserted into the script. .. That's it.
Even the animation seemed to be putting in a minimal effort. Where the first film seemed like it had something to prove, Lego 2 is just getting the job done. It did not look like a major blockbuster. It looked like a Direct-to-DVD release.
I did enjoy the last act and where the film ultimately ended, but.. well I'm glad that my ticket was on a discount.
Jedirobbo
It's certainly worth a view, and it's a fun time. Of the 3 Lego movies out now, I think it's the lesser of them all though. Still funny, with good ideas, just not as good execution as the previous two.Siskoid
At the end of the first Lego Movie, the live action boy was told to let his sister play with him. In The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, we see the consequences, not just of the troublesome sharing of play space by a brother and sister with very different aesthetics, but of their interests evolving with age. Five years later, Lego Land is a Mad Max wasteland under threat from the Sistar System that includes girlier minifig lines. No matter how self-aware the humor is in this movie/franchise, there was a point where I thought we were seeing too much of the real world in this particular installment, but by the end, I think they justified its use. It's a story about learning to share. It's also a story about how the world's gone to pot in the last few years but that we shouldn't give up hope. And of course, it's wall-to-wall jokes and action, with a pertinent arc for Wildstyle, and the always dependable Chris Pratt in a dual role (one his Andy-like Emmett, the other based on all his action roles, Rex Danger... the raptors are perhaps the funniest side-characters) supported by a large cast of guest-stars and cameos. Oh, and shout-out to my countryman Jon Lajoie for writing several of the songs - definitely bear his stamp - plus bonus Lonely Island track in the credits.ntan
I thought this was a blast.Sure, it may not live up to the first one or maybe even Batman but it's still an awesome time.
I thought it was paced extremely well and was consistently funny from open to close. The songs were 10/10 as well.
Emiam
6+/10Worse than part one, fewer jokes. Good family film, both adults and children laugh, albeit at different things sometimes. Great joke about / with Bruce Willis crawling somewhere... * LOL *
MrDoog
So disappointing.Really enjoyed the first movie but this was awful, none of jokes were funny and they pretty much just reheated everything from the first one. Had to switch it off after 30 or 40 minutes.
Agrimorfee
siskoid, your review needs spoiler tagschunkylefunga
Average, very much a cash grab.buc86
This for me was one of the best films of last year. It's built on the twists and clever ideas of the first film, the jokes are funnier and more frequent, we get an even more clever twist that I really did not see coming, the action scenes are a massive step up and we learn more about all of the characters. The songs are all memorable and have a lot of clever lyrics to them. Pretty much my only con would the abrupt way things get resolved.I really don't get the lukewarm reception, maybe it's because the first film was a surprise hit. So that nice surprise of it being good just multiplied how much people liked it, while here people were expecting this to be good.
Just to address some of the common criticisms I've seen:
"There is too much live-action stuff" Is there really much more live-action stuff than the first film? It certainly didn't feel like there was. But I kind of liked that they gave the family a bit more of a role this time around.
"Benny and Batman have nothing to do" True but that doesn't take away from the story of the film since that's all about Emmett and Lucy. Also, Batman got his own movie, isn't that enough?
"There's very little story until the third act" Wasn't that also true in the first film? Also, a lot of adventure or mystery stories do work like that, everything comes together in the third act.
"The twists with the "Sis-star system and Aremomagegon, were telegraphed" If you assume they were even meant to be twists, which I don't personally. But if they were supposed to be twists then I agree.
Then there is stuff like people not finding the jokes funny or not finding it as memorable, which is perfectly fair but also just completely subjective. But I was laughing the whole time and remembered everything about this film even months later.
boulderman
The shots were too short/ cuts too frequent.5/10