THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART

'''THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART. Mike Mitchell, director.''' Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, script; Lord, Miller, and Mathhew Fogel, story. Denmark, Norway, Australia, USA: Warner Brothers Pictures presents, Warner Animation Group, LEGO System A/S, in association with ca,. 6 others (production) / Warner Bros. (US and most of world distribution), 2019.

Animation with significant live action. Gleefully intertextual (or rapid-fire allusive), the film references a number of works, including several movies we cover. Relevant here mostly for the initial LEGO world and major characters built by the live-action boy (with cooperation of his father): cyberpunk, Industrial, post-apocalyptic, and noir, contrasted with the brighter, glitter-inflected LEGO worlds and characters built by his younger sister. The various LEGO devices — including a featured time machine — are in complex relationship with the imaginations and human-world relationships of the brother and sister.

Note mechanism-assisted ascents and descents, working comic variations of ancient and possibly archetypal motifs. Note especially ascents from the basement playroom with the huge initial LEGO arrangement of "Apocalypseburg" to the brighter above-ground portions of the house, and the final movement to a more natural world of (apparently) the yard (probably the back yard).

RDE, Initial Compiler, 20Feb19