The Lego Batman Movie [2017]

Mr E

Safe to say that it'll be better than BvS?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBJyp2LFHgk

Not going to lie, that made me laugh.

"Not 20 minutes.. that's just stupid!"

s8n

Awesome !!

Josey Wales

Teaser was pretty good. Shame we have to wait til February.

Sarn

That looks Amazsome!

Mickeroo

Another teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9ZoKKQsxis

dublinman1990

Ah ffs. Poor Alfred.

This is how you do trailers. It has been so long since a movie had footage that was just for the trailer.

S.M.B.

Thought the approach was very similar to the recent Deadpool marketing campaign. Not that this is a bad thing.

I do wonder if they've quickly decided to follow in Deadpools recent footsteps though.

Slydice

Have you seen the lego movie already?

constitutionus

seen the trailer for this before my showing of BvS and have to say didnt see this coming at all.

looks like great craic.

Slydice

Brace yourselves, this is extremely funny:

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Slydice wrote: »

Brace yourselves, this is extremely funny:

F*** Yeah! This is gonna be amazing.

Agent Coulson

Come on Batman let's get grooving

Also Starring LeVar Burton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLFMGhRx0Xs

DvB

This looks great, will definitely have to bring the kids to see this... (That'll be my excuse anyway :-) )

Oafley Jones

Really looking forward to this, but I have to say I'm ever so slightly disappointed in that the animation has forsaken the rigidity of the models used in TLM. Sure they cheated a bit, but the characters moved like actual Lego mini figures, they couldn't bend at the elbow etc. They've lost that here, shame as it added to the charm of the movie for me.

Corholio

Oafley Jones wrote: »

Really looking forward to this, but I have to say I'm ever so slightly disappointed in that the animation has forsaken the rigidity of the models used in TLM. Sure they cheated a bit, but the characters moved like actual Lego mini figures, they couldn't bend at the elbow etc. They've lost that here, shame as it added to the charm of the movie for me.

Exactly what I was thinking watching the trailer as well. Sure it'll be very funny I bet but it's more figures that look like Lego now rather than being Lego figures.

Mr E

Such a great trailer.... can't wait for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGQUKzSDhrg

lafors

Bringing the kids to see this today in Vue, can't wait, just hope the trailers haven't used all the funny parts! Will review later.

Here's a trailer of the villians....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0X1r9v5XfI

MilesMorales1

I saw it yesterday, thought it was brilliant.

spacecoyote

Thought it was a great movie. Went to see it with my brother & his 5 year old son.

To be honest, most of the movie went way over his head. It was more a movie for the two adults. Lots of great references & in-jokes. A couple of times my nephew asked "why are you too laughing so much?"

Drumpot

Thought it was ok. Not as good as the other lego movie.

Also , I'm surprised it was out, isn't is scheduled for release on 10th?

MilesMorales1

Drumpot wrote: »

Thought it was ok. Not as good as the other lego movie.

Also , I'm surprised it was out, isn't is scheduled for release on 10th?

Previews.

titan18

Quite liked it, lot of funny moments in it

Optimalprimerib

It was pleasant enough. It was as good as the original but the holyhellthiswasactuallygood shock factor was gone as I was expecting alot from it.

Plenty of facebook mommas at the screening taking pictures of their spawn just before the movie started dragged me out of the experience though and had me wondering if I did have a superpower, what would it be so I could make them suffer. There was also plenty of blue light from the bored parents as well. The kids were grand but the parents were insufferable.

Matt84

Funny movie, lego are always good!

constitutionus

went to see it yesterday.

brilliant !

not quite up there with the original lego movie, but its damn close in terms of writing and comedy. im not a huge batman fan but i know alot of the lore and history so i got a blast out of all the obscure references and even little things like when they flew to supermans "fortress of solitude" and the music they play as they land is the "romantic music" from supes one.

its just and enormous amount of fun which somehow manages to do more about batmans relationships with his friends , family, and villains than the "grown up" films.

8/10 from me.

had me cracking up from the opening credits.

Laughed pretty much straight through.

Only niggling thing for me is the advertisement for iPhones throughout.

splashthecash

Brought my 5 year old to it last weekend and we both enjoyed it.

I thought it was funny, though maybe not as funny as I was expecting...maybe my expectations were too high, based on the trailers.

Also, a lot of times there is SO MUCH happens on screen its hard to focus - and i don't mean so many jokes happening at the same time, I mean so many things...like lego bits all over the place - its probably just the way the movie was animated, but it was a little over whelming in places and hard to know what I should be looking at

Overall though, another solid Lego based flick, and sure to continue this going over the next few years for Lego and their many many many partners.

check_six

I enjoyed the Lego Batman movie, but I did not like the Ninjago short that was on before it. My kids watch the Ninjago cartoons and they are generally good fun, but something just didn't click for me with the short movie. Can't quite put my finger on why.

pixelburp

Lacked the surprise & rug-pull genius of the Lego Movie, but still a highly entertaining comedy in its own right, where the jokes came so thick and fast it was entirely possible to miss a host of fleeting background gags. For a toy company Lego have taken to this whole blockbuster schtick like a duck to water, certainly surpassing my own expectations in their ability to produce anything this competent & polished.

And while it seems like low-hanging fruit to pick on the Zack Synder films, the infectious joy of Lego Batman really highlighted what a tonal, heretical mess the live action variants have been thus far; when a cartoon, comedic adaptation managed to be more reverential and affectionate than the nominal benchmark for the franchise, something has gone wrong. While the mocking of Batman's 'lone wolf' mentality was ruthless, it was never cruel or mean - the script understood the inherent contradictions and pathos behind the Batman persona, and there was genuine warmth behind all the teasing.

It also says a lot that Zack Galifianakis' make a better Joker than Jared Leto's bizarre, mis-cued attempt.

Plus, dunno about anyone else, but at this stage Will Arnett is up there with Kevin Conroy as a perfect voice actor for the Bats.

bren2001

An enjoyable film for the most part. I laughed right through it. Saying that, it lags behind the original Lego movie by quite some distance. The whole plot just seemed to frantic and the comedy relies on Batman far too much. I wish they would leave the Lego movie franchise at that but clearly they are not going too.

dublinman1990

I saw it on Saturday with my mam. We had a good laugh through all of it but I felt it wasn't as good with the laughs I got from The Lego Movie.

The theme focused on family a lot of the time throughout the movie. It seemed to be reflective of Batman or Bruce Wayne's shady past.

The references to a lot of the Batman stuff from years gone by was class though.

I will buy the Blu-ray of it when it is released though.

Sabre0001

Like others here, I preferred The Lego Movie, but in saying that I enjoyed it and got plenty of laughs from it. Wasn't overly gone on the short beforehand, but I suppose I'm not its target audience

Roar

I thought the first ten minutes were incredible and it passed the six laugh test (hello to Jason Isaacs) with ease. In the first two minutes in fact.

After that the laughs thinned out, however overall I still enjoyed it.

The references to all the other incarnations of Batman were top class.

"That time with the parade and the Prince music?"

Stone Deaf 4evr

pixelburp wrote: »

Lacked the surprise & rug-pull genius of the Lego Movie, but still a highly entertaining comedy in its own right, where the jokes came so thick and fast it was entirely possible to miss a host of fleeting background gags. For a toy company Lego have taken to this whole blockbuster schtick like a duck to water, certainly surpassing my own expectations in their ability to produce anything this competent & polished.

And while it seems like low-hanging fruit to pick on the Zack Synder films, the infectious joy of Lego Batman really highlighted what a tonal, heretical mess the live action variants have been thus far; when a cartoon, comedic adaptation managed to be more reverential and affectionate than the nominal benchmark for the franchise, something has gone wrong. While the mocking of Batman's 'lone wolf' mentality was ruthless, it was never cruel or mean - the script understood the inherent contradictions and pathos behind the Batman persona, and there was genuine warmth behind all the teasing.

It also says a lot that Zack Galifianakis' make a better Joker than Jared Leto's bizarre, mis-cued attempt.

Plus, dunno about anyone else, but at this stage Will Arnett is up there with Kevin Conroy as a perfect voice actor for the Bats.

If you like that kind of a take on batman, I'd highly recommend you check out the other animated series 'batman - the brave and the bold'

Its a much lighter take on the dark knight, and you get to see awsome stuff like his long running rivalry / bromance with green arrow, and how everyone thinks that lantern guy gardner is an a-hole.