The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part puts it all together for ages 7 and up

Everything is awesome. The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part is now available on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital.  Think of the joy, happiness, creativity and feeling of accomplishment that you get from completing an advanced LEGO set. Now put those feeling into a LEGO movie, but throw in some LEGO: DUPLO bricks and you’ve got chaos coming together.

That is the basic premise behind The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part. It’s a gorgeous piece of animation that makes your mind tumble at the intricateness of how  fun it would be to create any of these brick machines. For the Brickphiles….it’s only the opening and ending credits that are filmed using stop animation. The rest of the film is seamlessly made using CGI with beautiful, plastic bricks that look like you could build a Unikitty village. In other words, you won’t mind that it’s not ‘real’ LEGO bricks because they haven’t been real in any of the other movies and they were all ridiculously entertaining.

So LEGO Duplo invaders are here, laying waste to any new construction and preventing any repairs to existing structures that have been damaged. Emmett is back and as chipper as ever, but the landscape is different, a bit darker and filled with surly characters. The LEGO characters in the film are great and the film was really entertaining. We took our 7 and 9  year-old boys to the film and they loved every minute of it.

One thing that people have come to expect from a LEGO film is a great song. After all, everything is awesome and The LEGO Movie 2 delivers on a couple great songs that make you laugh and wish that top 40 radio would play it. For us, the best song was played during the credits. It was also a song about the end of the movie and the credits. To make things even better, it’s performed by Beck, featuring Robyn and The Lonely Island. Supercool has that trademark Beck sound with the whip smart lyrics that one expects from LEGO. When you see The LEGO Movie 2 be sure to stay around for the end credits.

As a film, it does have moments that you know are coming. While it doesn’t have the surprising elements that some of the earlier LEGO films have it’s still very entertaining and had both kids (and I) laughing out loud.

We were provided with a copy of The LEGO Movie 2: The Second One for review, all thoughts are our own