A movie based on LEGO bricks could've been a soulless cash grab, but this vibrant animated film is instead an imaginative adventure comedy about finding one's purpose.
A movie based on LEGO bricks could've been a soulless cash grab, but this vibrant animated film is instead an imaginative adventure comedy about finding one's purpose. Set in the LEGO universe, Emmet ( Chris Pratt) is an eager construction worker whose simple life is disrupted upon discovering a "Piece of Resistance," an item that would help prevent an evil businessman from gluing their world together. "It may be a helter-skelter kiddie adventure built out of plastic toy components," writes EW's critic, "but it’s fast and original, it’s conceptually audacious, it’s visually astonishing, and it’s 10 times more clever and smart and funny than it needed to be." — K.J.