Everything is Awesome About the New Lego Movie

I worried about "The Lego Movie." The commercials just didn't do it for me.

The storytelling, however, was astounding and impressively so. 

With writers like Dan Hageman, and Kevin Hageman of "Hotel Transylvania" and "Ninjago" as well as the Christopher Miller and Phil Lord of "21 Jump Street" and "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," I  knew I would likely be amused by the movie. But as funny a those movies were they didn't seem to have the substance of "The Lego Movie," which surprised me, a lot.

Of course, it's true that to some extent the film had the same worn out message that Hollywood loves (Discover who you are, don't follow the crowd, you can be special if you believe in yourself... yadda yadda yadda).

Their approach to these messages, however, along with the amusing way they pitch the story were far better than most attempts at delivering them however.

And hey, you have to love, the ability of artists to throw so much emotion, and character archetypes into simple lego forms.