The Lego Movie (2014) on Netflix
PG20141h 40mActionAdventureAnimation
Emmet Brickowski is a Bricksburg construction worker who finds the Piece of Resistance and is mistaken for the Special of a prophecy. Wyldstyle and Vitruvius recruit him to oppose Lord Business.
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Plot summary
Long ago in a Lego universe, the wizard Vitruvius loses a superweapon called the Kragle to the tyrant Lord Business and prophesies that a figure known as the Special will one day find the Piece of Resistance. In Bricksburg, Emmet Brickowski, a construction worker, stumbles into a pit and discovers that piece. He passes out and comes to as a prisoner of Lord Business' lieutenant Bad Cop, with the piece stuck to his back, and hears of a plan to freeze the world. Wyldstyle, a Master Builder who believes Emmet is the Special, breaks him out. The pair flee Bad Cop and set out across the Lego universe to find Vitruvius and the Master Builders who defy Business.
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- Craig Berryas Blake / Additional Voices (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Lego Movie (2014)
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- Lord recalled that Superman was omitted from the film for an extended period of time because of a lawsuit against Warner Bros. by the heirs of co-creator Jerry Siegel, before the character was reinserted at the last minute.
- Lin recalled the closure of the deal to feature the Star Wars characters as hectic: The Walt Disney Company announced its purchase of Lucasfilm a few weeks after the filmmakers had traveled there and received permission to include them.
- Benny the spaceman was based on the line of Lego space sets sold in the 1980s, and his design includes the broken helmet chin strap, a common defect of the space sets at that time. Miller's childhood Space Village playset was used in the film.
