Review by Pete Roche
Everything is awesome in the LEGO
universe—especially when you’re part of a team.
But evil Lord Business (Will Ferrell)
isn’t a fan of teams, fun, or randomness.
Masquerading as the CEO of a mega-corporation by day, Business overlooks
the mini-figure denizens of Bricksberg from atop his dizzily tall skyscraper
and sets about imposing rigid order across the fictitious LEGO land.
Emmett (Chris Pratt) is an
irritatingly cheerful, rule-abiding LEGO citizen / consumer who buys the right things
(overpriced coffee), watches inane TV shows (like “Where’s My Pants”) and listens
to pedestrian music in a pitiful, aw
shucks effort to conform. He’d love to
actually belong to something—to be
part of one of these teams everyone keeps singing about—but he’s so downright
ordinary and average that not even his construction site coworkers remember who
he is from day to day. Emmett’s too
invisible even to tease, and too dim to fathom that soon his desperation to fit
in will set him free. His awareness of
being ostracized becomes the key that will unlock strange, wonderful doors and
transform him from a blithering nobody caught in an Orwellian nightmare into
the “most interesting and extraordinary” person ever, alive for the first time in a waking dream of endless possibilities.
