FILM: The Lego Movie 2 - The Second Part (dir: Mike Mitchell, 2019)

"Did you want to do this in, like, fifteen minutes?"
"Make it a quarter of an hour."

This sequel gives the viewer an even more dementedly breathless battering, never letting up for a moment as its gloriously candy-coloured  world is expanded and throws all manner of visual and verbal jokes at the screen with total abandon.  Indeed, the relatively careful plotting of the first film is abandoned for a hectic and seemingly random mish-mash of ideas that almost hangs together in the final act.  Inevitably, the freshness and the smart closing conceit of the first movie cannot apply here, but all you can do is revel in the mayhem and brace yourself for the onslaught.  It was interesting to note that the adults in the audience were chuckling more than the young children, but then any kids' animated film that can manage a reference to They Live in the first two minutes must be trying to appeal across the board!