lestarte

A great documentation with never before seen footage of rare animals in their natural habitat (a stream). Also the great risks of industrialization are shown and a natural disaster occurred whilst filming as well. Apart from that, really spectacular images and time-lapse scenes. Also, nice music in the background, fitting the scenes perfectly. The (German) speaker does his job well, too.

...and here's why: It's - I think - mostly intended to be a movie for children. My little one is 5 1/2 and watched it together with me. But, and here comes the big BUT: it's not ideal for a small child (which of course would be the ideal audience for LEGO).

The movie has SO MUCH going on, it's - as a reviewer mentioned before - overwhelming. They've put so much stuff (besides love for detail) in this movie, it's just packed with stuff. And this is the sad thing, apart from the very high speed with which all is going down. Every joke is living for just about 1 or 2 seconds max. Way too much to process for a child - and even I as an adult and movie buff had difficulties taking it all in.

Of course, not alle references and jokes are intendend for the children but their parents, but it's just all too much. Maybe they thought that they only will get this one chance for a movie and HAD to squeeze it all in... But they should have stretched it to two movies and toned the speed way more down. It would have meant more fun and especially more time to take the lovingly made details all in.

And they are plentiful. Let alone the LEGO-made water in the sea, it's so well made and hilarious to look at. And nearly everything else is just plain awesomeness. It looks, as mentioned by another reviewer, like a brickfilm on a big budget - they made it look absolutely perfect.

So sad that children below, let's say, 8 or 10 will have a hard time watching it. Otherwise: hat tip to the makers, it's very nice.

Of course, Will Ferrell is a big bonus :-)

I can't understand the other reviewer: Our 5 and a half year old and we ourselves laughed our a**es off in the cinema. It was such a great work, as ever with Aardman. Even the new logo is over the top great stuff and you can see in every (!) scene the love these guys have for their work. And much work it is, of course. All the cool hints to other movies (E.T. and Close encounters of the Third Kind) and series (The X Files) are so cool and make it even more worthwile for us adults, watching along with our kids. As with every Aardman movie or series: Great stuff, keep it coming, please! We love your work immensely!