5 - The Lego Movie (February 2014)

If before recording this episode you told me this movie came out eleven years ago and I still hadn't seen it... I would have walked right by you without another word because I'm obviously too high-society, snobby, and cultured to waste my time with an animated children's movie based on toys. But now that I'm doing this podcast, my shock and alarm that I let this one slip by me before has my mouth fully agape! The Lego Movie is jaw dropping and more than your average children's movie. This is a genuinely fun ride punctuated by great voice acting, clever jokes, incredible animation, and a 'Song-that-must-not-be-named" for fear of unleashing the ear worm that plagued all of North America until we wrestled it away deep in our unconscious minds forever. Grab your bricks (no, not the ones measured in kilos) and assemble your way onto your double-decker couch for Will Farrell's best vilain work since the likes of "Mugatu" and get ready to count the jokes that will have sailed over the younger audience. Good thing megalomaniacs who "write all the history books" and "control all the voting machines" are just works of fiction right... right?