{"id":4704,"date":"2014-02-14T07:02:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T12:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/blog\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2014-02-13T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T22:30:07","slug":"review-the-lego-movie-built-with-good-jokes-engaging-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=4704","title":{"rendered":"Review: \u2018The Lego Movie\u2019 built with good jokes, engaging story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014-02-07-The-Lego-Movie-movie-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4705 alignleft\" alt=\"2014-02-07-The-Lego-Movie-movie-poster\" src=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014-02-07-The-Lego-Movie-movie-poster.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014-02-07-The-Lego-Movie-movie-poster.jpg 250w, https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014-02-07-The-Lego-Movie-movie-poster-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe Lego Movie\u201d is a legitimately good time and the most genuinely funny animated film I\u2019ve seen in years.<\/p>\n<p>What could have easily been simply a 100-minute commercial for the overpriced building blocks is instead a fun, action-packed and emotionally satisfying 100-minute commercial.<\/p>\n<p>Having mined its way through most of the the cartoons and television series of our collective childhoods, Hollywood has been turning its attention to our toys. \u201cBattleship\u201d is a prime example of taking a toy without a built-in storyline and turning it into an overproduced mess.<\/p>\n<p>The creators of \u201cThe Lego Movie,\u201d who were also the ones behind another adaptation, \u201cCloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,\u201d clearly remember why Legos have been a staple of children\u2019s rooms everywhere, building on not only the implied story potentials of the Lego universe, but also on the way we interact with the toy itself. There\u2019s more to the story than first meets the eye, but I can\u2019t really get into that without spoiling some clever twists, so suffice it to say, this is one of the better family movies I\u2019ve seen in some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Lego Movie\u201d is a legitimately good time and the most genuinely funny animated film I\u2019ve seen in years. What could have easily been simply a 100-minute commercial for the overpriced building blocks is instead a fun, action-packed and emotionally satisfying 100-minute commercial. Having mined its way through most of the the cartoons and television [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-movie-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4706,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions\/4706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}