The LEGO Batman Movie

LEGO Batman revs so fast and moves so frenetically that 
it becomes a little exhausting by the end. It flirts with being too much of a good thing. But rarely has corporate brainwashing been so much fun and gone down with such a delightful aftertaste.

2990d ago

Don’t tell Ben Affleck – he seems sad enough already – but the actor has just been made surplus to requirements by one and a half inches of moulded plastic.

2990d ago

This animated sendup of comic-book epics includes a neurotic Batman, a needy Joker and a desperate Dick Grayson.

2990d ago

Will Arnett voices a brilliantly gruff, macho, humourless Dark Knight in this expressive, cinematic and subversive Gotham City satire.

2990d ago

The LEGO aspect aside, there’s also the consideration of how well this works as a Batman movie, which we now have enough of to consider its own genre.

2990d ago

Slighted by Batman’s unwillingness to recognise him as his arch enemy, the Joker (Zach Galifianakis) hatches a plan to make the Dark Knight (Will Arnett) take notice — involving the Lego universe’s greatest villains descending on Gotham to take control of the city once and for all.

2990d ago

The Lego Batman Movie turns Bat mythology into a giant toybox.

2990d ago

You sense that a lot of the funniest stuff is flying by too quickly to land.

2990d ago

The film is an unbroken chain of one-liners, sight gags, and pop-culture references, and the hit-to-miss ratio is high.

2990d ago

Will Arnett and a who's who of superhero toys turn this 'Lego Movie' spin-off into a superfun time.

2990d ago

It’s lonely being the best, and don’t I know it. Lego Batman knows it, too, and he’s adrift inside his vast hilltop estate. When no one is watching, he eats microwave dinners for one and sits by himself watching “Jerry Maguire” on his big-screen TV. In other words: Everything is awesome.

2990d ago

As gateway drugs go, The Lego Batman Movie is pretty irresistible. It’s silly without being truly strange or crossing over into absurdity. Along the way it pulls off a nifty balancing act: It gives the PG audience its own Batman movie (it’s a superhero starter kit) and takes swipes at the subgenre, mostly by gently mocking the seriousness that has become a deadening Warner Bros. default.

2990d ago

LEGO's Batman comedy is at its best when thumbing through a rolodex of obscure franchise references, which will please both Batfans and mainstream audiences alike.

2990d ago

Given that it’s a sequel/spin-off built around a mostly throwaway gag from The LEGO Movie, The LEGO Batman Movie is funnier than you might think it has any right to be.

2990d ago

Will Arnett reprises his self-centered Caped Crusader in this busy CGI spinoff.

2990d ago

“The Lego Batman Movie” is still roughly four hundred million times more enjoyable than “Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice,” and hardcore Bat-fans will probably find it an absolute joy.

2990d ago

The Lego Batman Movie offers more mayhem and less funny.

2990d ago

Bring it on, Bat dudes and dude-ettes. I am not among those flapping my Bat wings with overflowing joy over “The Lego Batman Movie,” the latest building block in a burgeoning animated toy-box franchise based on 2014’s “The Lego Movie.”

2990d ago

After that kick-ass opening, the picture devolves into an action-action-plot-action-plot-action monotone.

2990d ago