My Experience With... The Lego Batman Movie (LAST POST OF 2017!)

Awww, yeah, here we go!
Out of the disappointments and into
what we've been waiting for!

As you may have read previously (specifically in the Lego’s Batman: The Movie review), I am not much of a superhero-genre-watcher. It’s interesting, just not my immediate style. I do like the How It Should Have Ended series, mainly for its comedy, and the fact that these superheroes often stay in their superhero form. Speaking of comedy and superhero genre, I finally got my hands on a free rental for The Lego Batman Movie.

While Princess Unikitty is without a doubt my absolute favorite character from The Lego Movie, Lego Batman was probably the coolest, and my second favorite. When I first heard he was getting his own movie, I was ecstatic! My poor parents did not share in my excitement. Oh, it’s not that they disliked The Lego Movie, there’s just a generation chasm. My mom is not necessarily one for Legos or modern animated films, and my Dad is not necessarily one for Legos or post-Adam West Batman. I’d heard it was a good movie, and after the *mild* disappointment from what I thought was The Lego Batman Movie, I suddenly became more excited than ever.

To make myself even more appropriately excited, I watched The Lego Movie before The Lego Batman Movie… well, technically. There may or may not have been a viewing of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in between the two movies. I was still excited!

THIS HAD ME LAUGHING FROM THE FIRST LINES. Oh, man! It actually starts with a Batman voice-over critique and a Michael Jackson quote! I was dying!

The story starts off about as basic superhero folklore as it gets. The joker wants to take over Gotham City…

I know how that meme is supposed to

be used, but I feel it still applies here.

…using an admittedly overcomplicated bomb and a ton of Batman Supervillains (Apparently, there are many; I don’t know how many were legit, but the movie claims they’re real. I’m not Googling them.) under the city to do so. With the city somehow surviving as a bunch of Lego-like plates over no actual foundation, just an abyss, plus the fact that Batman cannot be reached. the town is in real trouble.

Batman, however, inexplicably arrives on the scene. And of course, Batman defeats the Joker… but not without a – what I like to call – Nemesis Lovers’ Spat. In order to understand what I mean, think about when Dr. Doofenschmirtz had a minor falling out with Perry the Platypus when he was secretly fighting Peter the Panda on the side.

Hmm. P-names… everyone has a type, I guess.

Anyway, the Joker not only thinks that Batman’s obsessed with him, he also thinks he’s Batman’s greatest enemy! Batman gives Joker a MAJOR shutdown, leaving Joker a bit… deflated. For those who saw the movie….

If you’ve been reading my blog as well,

you knew that meme would be back.

Batman in this movie is comically full of himself, as he was in The Lego Movie, and to a lesser extent Lego’s Batman: The Movie. He’s still insanely rich, with a lair that would be the ultimate man-cave, and he frequently visits the orphanage to give out Batman merchandise. There is one bespectacled boy there who is obviously Batman’s biggest and shyest fan. The only thing Batman lacks is friends/ / a stable family…. unless you count his computer, and his butler, Alfred.

You wish.

This movie is incredible. I knew it was going to be good, but I didn’t realize just HOW good this was. It shows a (somewhat predictable) journey for Batman and his inner quest to open himself up to let people into his life… and save the world from one of cinema’s best crossovers. I did NOT, however expcect a Bat-fax to be included. I guess Hobbes was right on his prediction.

Hey, it was still amazing!!!

The best part about this movie is that, like The Lego Movie, it included a ton of material for a huge age range. It has a ton of charm, and excellent geeky references for both the amateur and extreme. I’d recommend this for ages 8 and up, but I guess a 5-year-old could watch it, too, depending on the parent’s discretion. This was simple an amazing film.

Plugging time! YouTube Page.

Well, as I mentioned in last week's post, this is the last post I have for 2017. I'm taking an extended holiday break to recharge. Hope you enjoy the rest of 2017, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and I'll see you in 2018!

Bye!

If you had to hug a flower, what would you hug? And what would your superhero alter-ego be?