Like a particle accelerator that generates visual gags at a faster and faster rate until they achieve light speed and reveal the film’s sub-atomic sentiment, McKay’s gorgeously animated film blends decades of comic book mythos into a heartfelt (if inoffensively hackneyed) story about the power of family.
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And it wouldn’t be overstating the case at all to say that this film’s surprisingly lovable Bane improves on Nolan’s version in every way.īut “LEGO Batman,” much like the movie that spawned it (and on which McKay served as editor and animation director), uses its amphetamine-addled approach as a means to an end. It would only be slightly overstating the case to say that more happens in the first 10 minutes of this delightful sugar rush than in the entirety of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. The opening sequence alone manages to squeeze in a massive fight scene, a zillion different villains of the classic (The Joker, a mundane Zach Galifianakis) and not-so-classic (The Condiment King), and even a full-blown musical number in which our egotistic hero regales the citizens of Gotham with a song about his own gloriousness.
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The relentless pace and irreverently self-aware tone are clear from the very start, as Batman - voiced to gravelly perfection by Will Arnett - offers a running commentary on the various studio logos that precede his latest adventure (imagine “Deadpool,” but funny). Neither of those are particularly high bars to clear, but Chris Mckay’s exuberant - and exhausting - new film is nevertheless a worthy spin-off of 2014’s “The LEGO Movie,” grafting a warm-hearted parody of the Caped Crusader onto an animated franchise that’s as malleable as the plastic bricks for which it’s named.
It is also arguably the most enjoyable Batman movie ever made, and certainly the funniest. “ The LEGO Batman Movie” is this year’s only worthwhile story about a manic, self-obsessed, profoundly unloved cartoon billionaire who lives in an isolated fortress of his own design, resents the people that he’s entrusted to protect, and receives money from (executive producer) Steve Mnuchin.
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