The Lego Movie is the most wonderful slice of bonkers to grace cinema screens in a very long time. The frantic pace, the eye-popping colourful detail and the relentless onslaught of verbal and visual gags at times feels almost overwhelming, but if you are not completely hooked by the end of the opening salvo of Emmet's morning routine then there is little joy in your life. The directors' Cloudy With A Chance... collides with A Town Called Panic to create unexpected boundless manic joy and some real heart with a ridiculously high hit-rate of creative ideas and invention (including mad movie references such as Twister, Akira, The Matrix Revolutions and Independence Day, and is not afraid to use 2 Unlimited on the soundtrack with a killer deadpan joke attached). The comedy genius that is Chris Pratt suffuses the film with terrific energy as the lead character, giving one of the best voice-over performances in modern animation, and the always-recognisable Morgan Freeman has an enormous amount of fun as the Obi-Wan figure. This is a truly cross-generational movie that virtually sidesteps the whole notion of the ultimate in product placement to focus on the very fundamental notions of play, imagination and discovering self-value, bringing together toys and the movies in a hugely entertaining manner.
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