The film was released on February 7, 2. Warner Bros. Pictures to near unanimous acclaim critics praised its visual style, humor, voice cast and heartwarming message. It earned more than 2. U. S. and Canada and 2. The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, the Critics Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature, and the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film it was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for Everything Is Awesome. The film has since expanded into a major franchise which ties into the Lego brand, with a sequel to the film, entitled The Lego Movie Sequel, scheduled for release on February 8, 2. A spin off film, The Lego Batman Movie, was released to theaters on February 1. The Lego Ninjago Movie released September 2. The Billion Brick Race, planned for development. The film was dedicated to the memory of Kathleen Fleming, the former director of entertainment development of the Lego company, following her death in Cancun, Mexico in April 2. In a Lego world populated by anthropomorphicminifigures, the evil Lord Business finds a super weapon called the Kragle. The wizard Vitruvius attempts to stop him, but is blinded by Business robots. Before Business leaves with the weapon, Vitruvius prophesies that a person called the Special will find the Piece of Resistance, a brick capable of stopping the Kragle. Eight and a half years later, construction worker Emmet Brickowski finds a woman called Wyldstyle searching for something at his construction site after hours. When he investigates, Emmet falls into a hole and finds the Piece of Resistance. Compelled to touch it, Emmet experiences vivid visions and passes out. He awakens with the Piece of Resistance attached to his back, in the custody of Bad Cop, Lord Businesss lieutenant. Download The Wild Thornberrys Movie Movie Tumblr. Wyldstyle rescues Emmett, believing him to be the Special, and takes him to meet Vitruvius in the Old West. Emmet learns that Wyldstyle and Vitruvius are Master Builders7people capable of building anything from their imagination without the need of instructionswho oppose Business. Wyldstyle explains Business wants to use the Kragle, a tube of Krazy Glue with a weathered label, to freeze the world into perfection. Though disappointed to find Emmet is not a Master Builder, Wyldstyle and Vitruvius are convinced of his potential when he recalls visions of a seemingly human deity referred to as the Man Upstairs. Emmet, Wyldstyle, and Vitruvius evade Bad Cops forces with the aid of Batman, Wyldstyles boyfriend. They go to the hidden Cloud Cuckoo Land, a realm where minifigures can create whatever they desire, to attend a council of Master Builders, all of whom are unimpressed with Emmet and refuse to fight Business. Bad Cops forces attack, having placed a tracking device on Emmett, and capture everyone except Emmet and a small team of Master Builders. Escaping, Emmet devises a plan to infiltrate Businesss office tower and disarm the Kragle, but the group is captured and imprisoned in the Think Tank, where all the Master Builders are forced to make instructions. Trying to retaliate, Vitruvius is decapitated by Business, who sets a self destruct protocol and leaves everyone to die, including Bad Cop. As he dies, Vitruvius reveals he made up the prophecy. He soon reappears to Emmet as a ghost and tells him that his belief makes him the Special. Strapped to the self destruct mechanisms battery, Emmet jumps into the abyss outside the tower and severs the connection, saving his friends. Inspired by Emmets sacrifice, Wyldstyle rallies the Lego people across the universe to use whatever creativity they have to build machines and weapons to fight against Lord Businesss forces. Emmet finds himself in the human world as a Lego minifigure unable to move. The events of the story are being played out by a little boy named Finn on his fathers expansive Lego set in their basement. His fatherthe Man Upstairscomes home from work and chastises his son for ruining the set by creating variations of different playsets, and proceeds to permanently rebuild and glue his perceived perfect creations together. Realizing the danger his friends are in, Emmet wills himself to move and gains Finns attention. Finn returns Emmet and the Piece of Resistance to the set, where Emmet now possesses the powers of a Master Builder and confronts Business. Meanwhile, Finns father looks at his sons creations and realizes that Finn had based the villainous Business on him and his perfectionism. Through a speech Emmet gives Business, Finn tells his father that he is special and has the power to change everything. Finn reconciles with his father, which plays out as Business having a change of heart, capping the Kragle, and ungluing his victims with mineral spirits. Emmet is hailed as a hero, and begins a relationship with Wyldstyle with Batmans blessing. As a result of Finns father allowing Finns younger sister to join them in playing with his Lego sets, aliens from the planet Duplo beam down and announce their plans to destroy them. Chris Pratt as Emmet Brickowski, an everyman and construction worker from Bricksburg. Will Ferrell as Lord Business, president of the Octan Corporation under the name President Business89Ferrell also plays The Man Upstairs, a Lego collector in the live action part of the film. Elizabeth Banks as Lucy Wildstyle, a Master Builder. Will Arnett as Bruce Wayne Batman, a DC Comics superhero who is a Master Builder. Nick Offerman as Metal Beard, a giant makeshift pirate and Master Builder9Alison Brie as Princess Unikitty, a unicorn horned kitten and Master Builder from Cloud Cuckoo Land91. Charlie Day as Benny, a 1. Master Builder8Liam Neeson as Bad Cop Good Cop, a double headed police officer that leads the Super Secret Police. Neeson also voices Pa Cop, Bad CopGood Cops father. Morgan Freeman as Vitruvius, a blind old wizard who is one of the Master Builders. Channing Tatum as Clark Kent Superman, a DC Comics superhero who is one of the Master Builders. Jonah Hill as Hal Jordan Green Lantern, a DC Comics superhero who is one of the Master Builders. Cobie Smulders as Diana Prince Wonder Woman, a DC Comics superhero who is one of the Master Builders. Jadon Sand as Finn, The Man Upstairs young son in the live action part of the film. In addition, Anthony Daniels and Billy Dee Williams reprise their Star Wars roles as C 3. PO and Lando Calrissian respectively, with Keith Ferguson voicing Han Solo whom he previously voiced in Robot Chicken and Mad. Shaquille ONeal voices a Lego version of himself who is a Master Builder alongside two generic members of the 2. NBA All Stars. Will Forte, Dave Franco, Jake Johnson, Keegan Michael Key, Chris Mc. Kay, and Jorma Taccone provide voice cameos in the film. Co director Christopher Miller cameos as a TV presenter in the studio that films the Where Are My PantsTV series. ProductioneditDan Lin conceived of the idea for the film and began discussing it with Roy Lee before leaving Warner Bros. Lin Pictures, in 2.