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.[1] 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.[2]

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"[3] 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