![]() I said, “Really? Like what,” and he had a look on his face that very much said that his answer was reflexive and had been given with absolutely no intention of providing a follow-up. Boy B, the slickest of the three, said, “Yes, sir.” Then he started to walk away before I could ask him to explain because that’s about how long our conversations last. Three days after we’d watched the movie, I asked each of my sons if they had learned any big lessons about life from watching it. Then they save the city together by having really good abs. (The movie ends with Batman finally admitting that he has feelings for the Joker, which he had denied because he was afraid of admitting he had any kind of emotions because his family was blahblahblah-ed when he was a kid. Let me tell you something: It’s a weird feeling to be a 35-year-old nearly tearing up because a Lego version of a bad guy is getting his heart broken over and over again, but sometimes that’s just how life goes. I like to fight around.” It’s a funny moment, but also touching, because as Batman explains several different ways that he doesn’t feel feelings, the Joker - that poor lovebird - his face just keeps getting sadder and sadder and sadder. The Joker says things close to, “Admit that you hate me, that I’m your greatest enemy.” Batman says things close to, “I don’t hate you. The revelation that the Joker is mad that Batman will not admit he’s his nemesis, except they treat it like when two people are in a relationship and one wants to get serious and the other is afraid to. = “People are terrifying, until they’re not” Beauty and the Beast = “Date ugly men” Pocahontas = “Don’t trust white men” Big Hero 6 = “Your whole family is going to die eventually so good luck, bro” The Princess and the Frog = “Here, we finally gave you a black princess” Toy Story = “Stay 10 toes down for your people” and Zootopia = “Animals are racist, too.”ġ. ![]() To wit: Inside Out = “Humans are complicated” Wall-E = “Stop looking at your phone” The Lion King = “Sometimes your family sucks” Up = “Old people love balloons” Ratatouille = “Rats should not be allowed in kitchens no matter how good they are at cooking” Monsters, Inc. *Most every animated movie has a Main Point like the “Work together” angle in The Lego Batman Movie. But I liked the Batman Isn’t Effective At All reveal more. The whole point of the movie is that working alone isn’t as good as working with a team*, and that’s fine. I like when movies do things like this - when they point out a thing that you should’ve noticed. I guess I just never really thought much about it. This, to me, was the most profound moment. The scene where they point out that Batman has been fighting crime in Gotham for decades and that Gotham is no better than when he started (and, in fact, it might have gotten worse on his watch). The scene where Batman comes home after defeating some bad guys and he microwaves lobster thermidor and then eats it alone, in silence, while floating in his pool, and then as soon he’s done he takes out an electric guitar and starts playing it.Ģ. The scene where Batgirl pokes Batman in the eye because she has to be Bat GIRL while he gets to be Bat MAN.ģ. (It’s not quite as good as that scene in Toy Story 3 when the Ken Doll goes through his wardrobe, but it’s energetic enough to be sweet.)Ĥ. The scene where the kid who eventually becomes Robin chooses his outfit. (And of course there are some spoilers here, but if you’re the type of person who gets upset at spoilers in a Lego movie, then maybe you have some bigger things to worry about than spoilers in a Lego movie.)ĥ. It’s a Lego movie, but not the Lego movie, you know what I’m saying? The Five Best Parts of ‘The Lego Batman Movie,’ Ranked It’s a fun enough movie, and had it come out before 2014’s The Lego Movie, an exceptional and truly special outing, I’d probably have liked it even more. Somewhere in between those endpoints on the Batman Scale of Excellence is Will Arnett’s Lego Batman in The Lego Batman Movie, which I watched this weekend with my youngest son (4 years old), his older brothers (twin 9-year-olds), and my wife (_ years old). ![]() That’s why the Ocean’s 11 movies are so great but why this particular Batman movie was so bad. If you want to get specific, it’s when he said, “This is why Superman works alone” in 1997’s Batman & Robin, because Clooney said it like he says all of his lines in all of his movies, which is to say, like he’s filming an Ocean’s 11 movie. Who was the worst actor to play Batman? That answer is even easier: It’s George Clooney. If you want to get specific, it’s when Christian Bale played Batman in 2008’s The Dark Knight, the best Batman movie that’s ever been made. Who was the best actor to play Batman? The answer is easy: It’s Christian Bale.
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