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The Lego Movie - MUST SEE (1 Viewer)

Doubtingthomas said:
Pretty good movie. Liked batman and the superman and green Lantern interactions. I super hate you. However crying during this whilst being a man?I don't get that. Go hit your thumb with a hammer, a man should cry about that more than this movie. And finding Nemo is still the gold standard for kids movies last 11 years. That one might bring a wet eye at the beginning.
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Over the Toy Storys? :no:

And :lmao: at parsing which kids movies where it's ok to get dusty at

 
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coyote5 said:
Doubtingthomas said:
Pretty good movie. Liked batman and the superman and green Lantern interactions. I super hate you. However crying during this whilst being a man?I don't get that. Go hit your thumb with a hammer, a man should cry about that more than this movie. And finding Nemo is still the gold standard for kids movies last 11 years. That one might bring a wet eye at the beginning.
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Over the Toy Storys? :no: And :lmao: at parsing which kids movies where it's ok to get dusty at
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I could cry for the previews for kids movies

 
I thought the movie was ok. I honestly was bored for the first 1/2 of the movie. Didn't really laugh outside a few times. The way the movie wrapped up made it better but wasn't the best ever imo

 
Banger said:
Saw it today with the kids. Sooo funny. I think I laughed more than them.
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:goodposting: Mrs Simsarge and I took the kids today. I laughed out loud through pretty much the whole thing, and I hate legos. Mrs wanted no part of going, but went along anyways. Walking out, she said "That was really pretty good". A ringing endorsement from my anti-kids movie SO.

 
Very good flick. My boys, nearly 6 and 8 really liked it as did my wife. My older son is like the dad near the end. Loves building complex Lego sets and can adeptly follow instructions for sets advanced beyond his age. My younger son is much more the creative one. He can spend an hour with Lego's and make 20 different creations with detailed descriptions for each right out of his head. The older son has Aspergers and that plays into their dynamic...he has told younger brother that he hates how creative he is.

At the end of the movie he was stunned by the Dad portrayal. After it concluded he started crying, ran over to me and sobbed on my chest for a minute. My wife of course lost it and I had tears in my eyes. Not because we were sad, but because the movie touched my son emotionally in a way that is tough for him to understand or describe. But we know what it meant and feel it was very good for him.

So yeah, great movie for us.

Oh, also, SPACESHIP!!!!

 
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Polish Hammer said:
Very good flick. My boys, nearly 6 and 8 really liked it as did my wife. My older son is like the dad near the end. Loves building complex Lego sets and can adeptly follow instructions for sets advanced beyond his age. My younger son is much more the creative one. He can spend an hour with Lego's and make 20 different creations with detailed descriptions for each right out of his head. The older son has Aspergers and that plays into their dynamic...he has told younger brother that he hates how creative he is.

At the end of the movie he was stunned by the Dad portrayal. After it concluded he started crying, ran over to me and sobbed on my chest for a minute. My wife of course lost it and I had tears in my eyes. Not because we were sad, but because the movie touched my son emotionally in a way that is tough for him to understand or describe. But we know what it meant and feel it was very good for him.

So yeah, great movie for us.

Oh, also, SPACESHIP!!!!
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:thumbup:

 
Polish Hammer said:
Very good flick. My boys, nearly 6 and 8 really liked it as did my wife. My older son is like the dad near the end. Loves building complex Lego sets and can adeptly follow instructions for sets advanced beyond his age. My younger son is much more the creative one. He can spend an hour with Lego's and make 20 different creations with detailed descriptions for each right out of his head. The older son has Aspergers and that plays into their dynamic...he has told younger brother that he hates how creative he is.

At the end of the movie he was stunned by the Dad portrayal. After it concluded he started crying, ran over to me and sobbed on my chest for a minute. My wife of course lost it and I had tears in my eyes. Not because we were sad, but because the movie touched my son emotionally in a way that is tough for him to understand or describe. But we know what it meant and feel it was very good for him.

So yeah, great movie for us.

Oh, also, SPACESHIP!!!!
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fantastic writeup- thanks for sharing that personal moment with us :thumbup:

we just saw it too... nothing as profound as that for us (6yo son and I), but like some others, I laughed more than my son. Great assortment of pop-culture mishmash thrown out there, and so well written. I can't put my finger on why, but Morgan Freeman's character killed me- I think I kept visualizing him in the sound-booth reading the lines and looking around like wtf?. The ending didn't grab me as much as some others in here, but overall I genuinely liked this one.

 
Took the nine-year old son and five-year old daughter. They both really liked it. I probably laughed even more. The son is a LEGO fanatic, and almost always has to build per the instructions. During the last scene, he actually reached over and put his hand on mine. Even at nine, he understands the father-son moment and I about broke down right there.

We spent the rest of the weekend yelling "SPACESHIP!!!" every time we past each other. And he spent that night building the spaceship the best he could without any instructions.

 
Kids liked it a lot. I did as well. I wouldn't put it above Shrek, Toy Story, or Despicable Me in terms of adult humor, but definitely good enough to hold my interest and they nailed the ending.

And we sang Everything Is Awesome all weekend. :thumbup:

 
Polish Hammer said:
Very good flick. My boys, nearly 6 and 8 really liked it as did my wife. My older son is like the dad near the end. Loves building complex Lego sets and can adeptly follow instructions for sets advanced beyond his age. My younger son is much more the creative one. He can spend an hour with Lego's and make 20 different creations with detailed descriptions for each right out of his head. The older son has Aspergers and that plays into their dynamic...he has told younger brother that he hates how creative he is.

At the end of the movie he was stunned by the Dad portrayal. After it concluded he started crying, ran over to me and sobbed on my chest for a minute. My wife of course lost it and I had tears in my eyes. Not because we were sad, but because the movie touched my son emotionally in a way that is tough for him to understand or describe. But we know what it meant and feel it was very good for him.

So yeah, great movie for us.

Oh, also, SPACESHIP!!!!
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Cool.

The ending hit me hard first because it was well done - seriously the whole men don't cry thing is overplayed. It's a father son moment and that should move you if you are a dad. Second, because I am the dad and my son is the kid. Not nearly to that level, but we constantly go back and forth with each other because I have a blast building with him and watching him figure out the next 5 steps in the instructions before I turn the page and creating something together - and then when it is time to play with it I'm the use it the way it was intended thing and he wants to start adding pieces and taking it apart and putting on super boosters and so on. I saw in that ending how awful I could look doing that to him and his creativity. So when we got home and played with his lego's I went with it and used his Millenium Falcon like a suicide bomber for his Hero Factory war and had a blast.

I have to admit though, seeing the "broken" sets in pieces still annoys me just a little.

 
Went out and bought the Millenium Falcon after the movie yesterday. Son and I started buidling it together last night. Yes, per the instructions, but we're doing it together and I'm letting him take the lead (I'm just the find the right pieces guy).

 
bigbottom said:
Went out and bought the Millenium Falcon after the movie yesterday. Son and I started buidling it together last night. Yes, per the instructions, but we're doing it together and I'm letting him take the lead (I'm just the find the right pieces guy).
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Was just looking it up to buy. I want to do the same with my son.

 
My daughter loves following the instructions. She gets upset if things don't work out the way they are supposed too. 99 percent of the time it's one piece she either was off by one dot or put on reverse and I have to break it down and fix the one piece :lol:

 
My daughter loves following the instructions. She gets upset if things don't work out the way they are supposed too. 99 percent of the time it's one piece she either was off by one dot or put on reverse and I have to break it down and fix the one piece :lol:

 
My daughter loves following the instructions. She gets upset if things don't work out the way they are supposed too. 99 percent of the time it's one piece she either was off by one dot or put on reverse and I have to break it down and fix the one piece :lol:

 
bigbottom said:
Went out and bought the Millenium Falcon after the movie yesterday. Son and I started buidling it together last night. Yes, per the instructions, but we're doing it together and I'm letting him take the lead (I'm just the find the right pieces guy).
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Its a cool set...my son got that and a few others for Christmas.

We are slowly working on the falcon after he got the other things put together.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
Polish Hammer said:
Very good flick. My boys, nearly 6 and 8 really liked it as did my wife. My older son is like the dad near the end. Loves building complex Lego sets and can adeptly follow instructions for sets advanced beyond his age. My younger son is much more the creative one. He can spend an hour with Lego's and make 20 different creations with detailed descriptions for each right out of his head. The older son has Aspergers and that plays into their dynamic...he has told younger brother that he hates how creative he is.

At the end of the movie he was stunned by the Dad portrayal. After it concluded he started crying, ran over to me and sobbed on my chest for a minute. My wife of course lost it and I had tears in my eyes. Not because we were sad, but because the movie touched my son emotionally in a way that is tough for him to understand or describe. But we know what it meant and feel it was very good for him.

So yeah, great movie for us.

Oh, also, SPACESHIP!!!!
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Cool.

The ending hit me hard first because it was well done - seriously the whole men don't cry thing is overplayed. It's a father son moment and that should move you if you are a dad. Second, because I am the dad and my son is the kid. Not nearly to that level, but we constantly go back and forth with each other because I have a blast building with him and watching him figure out the next 5 steps in the instructions before I turn the page and creating something together - and then when it is time to play with it I'm the use it the way it was intended thing and he wants to start adding pieces and taking it apart and putting on super boosters and so on. I saw in that ending how awful I could look doing that to him and his creativity. So when we got home and played with his lego's I went with it and used his Millenium Falcon like a suicide bomber for his Hero Factory war and had a blast.

I have to admit though, seeing the "broken" sets in pieces still annoys me just a little.
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It was really hard for me to watch my kid cannibalize his built sets to make other things. When he started with these things at 3yo, I assumed we'd end up with shelves full of completed sets that he'd play with as-is. Even though I'm in a creative field, the new Lego sets just seem too prescriptive with such specific pieces per set... but now I love watching what he comes up with after he's played with the finished sets a few days.

 
Saw it with the wife and 14 year old daughter (and some of her friends). We all enjoyed it very much. Certainly not the best animated movie I've seen but very good nonetheless. It probably would have resonated more if everyone wasn't saying it was the best thing they'd ever seen. Regardless, very enjoyable and well worth the $$.

 
El Floppo said:
Yankee23Fan said:
Polish Hammer said:
Very good flick. My boys, nearly 6 and 8 really liked it as did my wife. My older son is like the dad near the end. Loves building complex Lego sets and can adeptly follow instructions for sets advanced beyond his age. My younger son is much more the creative one. He can spend an hour with Lego's and make 20 different creations with detailed descriptions for each right out of his head. The older son has Aspergers and that plays into their dynamic...he has told younger brother that he hates how creative he is.

At the end of the movie he was stunned by the Dad portrayal. After it concluded he started crying, ran over to me and sobbed on my chest for a minute. My wife of course lost it and I had tears in my eyes. Not because we were sad, but because the movie touched my son emotionally in a way that is tough for him to understand or describe. But we know what it meant and feel it was very good for him.

So yeah, great movie for us.

Oh, also, SPACESHIP!!!!
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Cool.The ending hit me hard first because it was well done - seriously the whole men don't cry thing is overplayed. It's a father son moment and that should move you if you are a dad. Second, because I am the dad and my son is the kid. Not nearly to that level, but we constantly go back and forth with each other because I have a blast building with him and watching him figure out the next 5 steps in the instructions before I turn the page and creating something together - and then when it is time to play with it I'm the use it the way it was intended thing and he wants to start adding pieces and taking it apart and putting on super boosters and so on. I saw in that ending how awful I could look doing that to him and his creativity. So when we got home and played with his lego's I went with it and used his Millenium Falcon like a suicide bomber for his Hero Factory war and had a blast.

I have to admit though, seeing the "broken" sets in pieces still annoys me just a little.
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It was really hard for me to watch my kid cannibalize his built sets to make other things. When he started with these things at 3yo, I assumed we'd end up with shelves full of completed sets that he'd play with as-is. Even though I'm in a creative field, the new Lego sets just seem too prescriptive with such specific pieces per set... but now I love watching what he comes up with after he's played with the finished sets a few days.
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For me growing up with LEGOS was about building stuff. I never had a "set" that was supposed to be made into one thing and left on a shelf. I inherited my brothers 714 "piece" set...bricks, doors, windows and wheels. Not much else. Looking at the big sets over Christmas I just couldn't pull the trigger on one. Every piece is specialized for that particular ship, vehicle or building.

 
Went to a 2:30 showing yesterday. Showed up 15 minutes early and it was sold out. Oh well.

Went to a 2:15 showing today. Showed up 30 minutes early and it was sold out.

It's a small theater in the suburbs, but wow. The ticket guy said that every showing was selling out.

 
johnnyrock62000 said:
El Floppo said:
Yankee23Fan said:
Polish Hammer said:
Very good flick. My boys, nearly 6 and 8 really liked it as did my wife. My older son is like the dad near the end. Loves building complex Lego sets and can adeptly follow instructions for sets advanced beyond his age. My younger son is much more the creative one. He can spend an hour with Lego's and make 20 different creations with detailed descriptions for each right out of his head. The older son has Aspergers and that plays into their dynamic...he has told younger brother that he hates how creative he is.

At the end of the movie he was stunned by the Dad portrayal. After it concluded he started crying, ran over to me and sobbed on my chest for a minute. My wife of course lost it and I had tears in my eyes. Not because we were sad, but because the movie touched my son emotionally in a way that is tough for him to understand or describe. But we know what it meant and feel it was very good for him.

So yeah, great movie for us.

Oh, also, SPACESHIP!!!!
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Cool.The ending hit me hard first because it was well done - seriously the whole men don't cry thing is overplayed. It's a father son moment and that should move you if you are a dad. Second, because I am the dad and my son is the kid. Not nearly to that level, but we constantly go back and forth with each other because I have a blast building with him and watching him figure out the next 5 steps in the instructions before I turn the page and creating something together - and then when it is time to play with it I'm the use it the way it was intended thing and he wants to start adding pieces and taking it apart and putting on super boosters and so on. I saw in that ending how awful I could look doing that to him and his creativity. So when we got home and played with his lego's I went with it and used his Millenium Falcon like a suicide bomber for his Hero Factory war and had a blast.

I have to admit though, seeing the "broken" sets in pieces still annoys me just a little.
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It was really hard for me to watch my kid cannibalize his built sets to make other things. When he started with these things at 3yo, I assumed we'd end up with shelves full of completed sets that he'd play with as-is. Even though I'm in a creative field, the new Lego sets just seem too prescriptive with such specific pieces per set... but now I love watching what he comes up with after he's played with the finished sets a few days.
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For me growing up with LEGOS was about building stuff. I never had a "set" that was supposed to be made into one thing and left on a shelf. I inherited my brothers 714 "piece" set...bricks, doors, windows and wheels. Not much else. Looking at the big sets over Christmas I just couldn't pull the trigger on one. Every piece is specialized for that particular ship, vehicle or building.
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Same for me. Growing up our Lego was just a jumble of pieces you could make into whatever your imagination could come up with. It didn't have to look perfect because your imagination filled in the blanks. My sons (7 and 9) have the sets that are specialized to be made into specific things. The first time I took two sets and "Frankensteined" them together to come up with something new, they looked at me like I was a Lego savant.My wife and I took the boys to the movie today and they thought it was awesome! We thought it was pretty good too.

 
Also, the guys who did the Lego Movie also did a little-known show on MTV called Clone High. A.V. Club wrote about it lately. It's about a bunch of historical figures who get cloned and are going through high school. It's animated.

It's also funny and smart as heck. Very meta. Very funny.

 
Saw it yesterday with 14 year old daughter and wife and we all loved it. It got better as the movie went along.

I am not huge into Lego's outside of playing the video games with my daughter but my daughter is/was huge into them. I have posted the video before on here of her massive Legoland in our house. My wife also runs a Lego club for young kids at our library.

 
The Noid said:
My wife didn't cry at the beginning of "Up." Didn't even get choked up. I now sleep with one eye open.
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Wise man. Thankfully my 8 year old son at the time lost it so it gave me the chance to walk him outside. I would have cried if I had stayed much longer.

 
I liked this and am glad I saw it for just $7. But I feel my expectations were too high based on many great reviews.

 
I don't get people not loving this movie. Finally watched it today with my 7yo son. He seemed to like it, but I am sure I was laughing more than he was. More than it being funny, I found it to be one of the more original and smartest kids movie I have seen in a while. From the start, I had a big smile on my face, and will admit that it almost got dusty in the room. Seeing dreck like Free Birds, Planes, and The Nut Job I am sure helped vault this one higher as well. I honestly can't think of a kids movie that hit all the bases and kept me interested all the way through in the last several years more than this one. Is it the best movie ever? No. But I would say it's as 'can't miss' as a kids movie can get.

 
KarmaPolice said:
I don't get people not loving this movie. Finally watched it today with my 7yo son. He seemed to like it, but I am sure I was laughing more than he was. More than it being funny, I found it to be one of the more original and smartest kids movie I have seen in a while. From the start, I had a big smile on my face, and will admit that it almost got dusty in the room. Seeing dreck like Free Birds, Planes, and The Nut Job I am sure helped vault this one higher as well. I honestly can't think of a kids movie that hit all the bases and kept me interested all the way through in the last several years more than this one. Is it the best movie ever? No. But I would say it's as 'can't miss' as a kids movie can get.
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What about Despicable Me or Despicable Me 2?
 
northern exposure said:
KarmaPolice said:
I don't get people not loving this movie. Finally watched it today with my 7yo son. He seemed to like it, but I am sure I was laughing more than he was. More than it being funny, I found it to be one of the more original and smartest kids movie I have seen in a while. From the start, I had a big smile on my face, and will admit that it almost got dusty in the room. Seeing dreck like Free Birds, Planes, and The Nut Job I am sure helped vault this one higher as well. I honestly can't think of a kids movie that hit all the bases and kept me interested all the way through in the last several years more than this one. Is it the best movie ever? No. But I would say it's as 'can't miss' as a kids movie can get.
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What about Despicable Me or Despicable Me 2?
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I really dug Despicable Me and Wreck-It Ralph. I think the Lego Movie will reward repeat viewings more than those though.

 
KarmaPolice said:
northern exposure said:
KarmaPolice said:
I don't get people not loving this movie. Finally watched it today with my 7yo son. He seemed to like it, but I am sure I was laughing more than he was. More than it being funny, I found it to be one of the more original and smartest kids movie I have seen in a while. From the start, I had a big smile on my face, and will admit that it almost got dusty in the room. Seeing dreck like Free Birds, Planes, and The Nut Job I am sure helped vault this one higher as well. I honestly can't think of a kids movie that hit all the bases and kept me interested all the way through in the last several years more than this one. Is it the best movie ever? No. But I would say it's as 'can't miss' as a kids movie can get.
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What about Despicable Me or Despicable Me 2?
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I really dug Despicable Me and Wreck-It Ralph. I think the Lego Movie will reward repeat viewings more than those though.
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I haven't seen Wreck-It Ralph, but I liked both the Lego Movie and both Despicable Me movies. I'd say I (and my sons) preferred the DM movies.
 
Saw this over the weekend. My expectations were raised due to the thread title, but I did not open the thread. I was pretty disappointed. This is a prime example of a movie that would have been 100 times better had I not seen all of the commercials. Most of the best lines were revealed in the previews. There were a handful in the movie I hadn't seen before, but they weren't enough to enjoy throughout.

I don't get the tear jerking of this movie. Don't get me wrong, Finding Nemo and Toys Story 3 got to me, but this one did not at all. Maybe it was the disappointment that ruined the end for me.

 
Overall an okay movie. It was funny and enjoyable and a good time with 2 of my kids. Maybe it will grow more on me in a DVD viewing later. Not in the same class for me as some of the other kids' movies (e.g., Toy Story).

 
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