That is until he meets Wildstyle (Elizabeth Banks), a master-builder who hasn’t seen a structure she didn’t want to tear down or reshape into something nifty. Like every other worker-bee in his two-block town, Emmet follows the rules set in place for him by President Business/Lord Business (voiced by Will Ferrell) and builds within the lines. Set in a magical land of Legos and awesomeness, the film follows one lowly, unimaginative, stiff, boring, and all around unassuming everyday schmuck named Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt). Yet, Lord and Miller’s ability to both play with those licenses and honor the toy’s childhood euphoria creates a cinematic magic trick that has its spaceship and flies it too it’s shrewd commercialism and the sincerest emotionality that will cause parents and kids alike to dream about the endless possibilities found in but a handful of blocks.
Harry Potter Legos, Star Wars Legos, complicated kits, tiny little blocks.” Assuredly, the Lego brand has exponentially grown over the last decade with its diversity of licenses, making something like The Lego Moviepossible. “What happened with Legos? They used to be simple.
When watching Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s charmingly bonkers The Lego Movie, I was taken back to a quote from Michael K.