The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)

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  d_riptide

  9 / 10

  Once....everything was awesome. Now, 5 years later, everything is in fact still awesome with “The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part”. As a chase-and-rescue space opera, it’s mostly everything you expected a sequel to the LEGO Movie to be and more: fast, zany, pretentious, self-aware, sporting great animation, pure comedic effect with challenging and heartwarming themes and messages and while the story doesn’t run as smoothly or sharply or maybe as effectively as before, there isn’t much to not love about this movie. What the film lacks in cohesion in the story, it nearly makes up with it due to its overabundance of ideas and one way or the other, it’s still a lot of fun for the whole family and a great follow up to one of the best films of 2014. 
 
The main question here, however is is it better then the original? My opinion? Not really. There’s this wacky charm that it’s predecessor had that just doesn’t seem to follow through here, so it’s not as fun as the film before it. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it. I had a lot of fun with this one but it only made me remind myself as to why the original worked so well. It’s childish but also adult in some ways. It’s stupid but also intelligent in the way it tells the story because even though it’s dumb, it’s the right kind of dumb. It reminds me of the original Ghostbusters. And when I say that, I mean both films had predecessors that didn’t surpass the original because the first film was practically lightning in a bottle against all the odds and lightning unfortunately doesn’t strike in the same place twice. 
I doubt anything will be able to recreate the magic of the original but it’s still a fun time in the theaters nonetheless.

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