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The Lego Movie
An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from conquering the universe.
2014 · Directed by Phil Lord · 100 min · Animation · Family · Adventure · Comedy · Fantasy · Screenplay in the scene database · 9 frames
Tagline
The story of a nobody who saved everybody.
Plot
In a Lego universe, a wizard named Vitruvius fails to protect a superweapon called the Kragle—a tube of Krazy Glue—from the maniacal Lord Business, who blinds him in the process. Vitruvius prophesies that someone called "the Special" will find the Piece of Resistance, an item capable of stopping the Kragle.
Eight and a half years later, in Bricksburg, optimistic but unimaginative construction worker Emmet Brickowski falls into a pit and finds the Piece of Resistance. Compelled to touch it, he experiences visions, including one of a being dubbed "The Man Upstairs", and passes out. He awakens in the custody of Business' lieutenant Bad Cop and discovers that the Piece of Resistance is stuck to his back. Emmet learns of Business' plans to freeze the world with the Kragle; the Piece of Resistance is the tube's cap. A mysterious woman named Wyldstyle rescues Emmet, believing him to be the Special. They escape Bad Cop and travel to "The Old West", where they rendezvous with Vitruvius. He and Wyldstyle are Master Builders—beings capable of building anything without instruction manuals—who oppose Business' attempts to suppress their creativity. Though disappointed that Emmet is not a Master Builder, they are convinced of his potential when he recalls visions of the Man Upstairs.
The trio evade Business' forces with the help of Wyldstyle's boyfriend Batman and escape to "Cloud Cuckoo Land", which serves as the Master Builders' refuge. Following Emmet's confession about not being a Master Builder, everyone is unimpressed with and reject him. Soon after, Business' forces attack and capture everyone except Emmet's group and fellow Master Builders MetalBeard, Unikitty and Benny. After saving the group with his double-decker couch invention, Emmet devises a plan to infiltrate Business' headquarters and disarm the Kragle. It nearly succeeds until the group is captured and imprisoned as Business murders Vitruvius and throws the Piece of Resistance into an abyss before arming a device to electrocute the captured Master Builders. Before he dies, Vitruvius reveals he made up the prophecy, but his spirit returns to tell Emmet that his self-belief makes him the Special. Strapped to the mechanism's battery, Emmet drops off the edge of the tower and into the abyss, disarming the device and saving everyone. Inspired by Emmet's sacrifice, Wyldstyle, who earlier revealed to Emmet that her real name is Lucy, rallies the people across the universe to embrace their own creativity to oppose Business.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
- Cinematography: Pablo Plaisted, Barry Peterson
- Edited by: David Burrows, Chris McKay
- Music: Mark Mothersbaugh
- Production design: Grant Freckelton
- Produced by: Roy Lee, Dan Lin
Cast
- Chris Pratt as Emmet Brickowski (voice)
- Elizabeth Banks as Wyldstyle / Lucy (voice)
- Will Ferrell as Lord Business / President Business / The Man Upstairs
- Morgan Freeman as Vitruvius (voice)
- Will Arnett as Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
- Liam Neeson as Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice)
- Alison Brie as Unikitty (voice)
- Nick Offerman as Metal Beard (voice)
- Charlie Day as Benny (voice)
- Jadon Sand as Finn
Production
- Country: United States of America, Denmark, Australia
- Language: English
- Studios: Lin Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures, The LEGO Group
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Box office: $470,759,687
- Themes: friendship, parent child relationship, prophecy, superhero, villain, based on comic, part live action, based on toy, falling in love, anti villain
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