I enjoyed the hell out of this movie. It was everything I hoped for and more.

This was a lot of fun, altho absolutely frenetic and a bit rambling. Will Ferrel is hilarious, but the whole cast does a great job.

I tweeted about it, but just so it's said here, too - I enjoyed The Lego Movie more than I enjoyed any movie in 2013.

Also, randomly remembered observation, I love me a largely-CG movie that's shot anamorphic. Heh.

(Declaring this a spoiler-thread from here on out. STAY AWAY until you see it. Trust me, you want to go in knowing nothing.)

It occurs to me that this would make a great double-feature with The Incredibles. The message of The Incredibles is, as put by Syndrome, "When everyone's super, no one will be." The message of The Lego Movie is really similar, but less cynical. "No one is super, which means everyone can be."

To elaborate on my earlier point, the reason I liked Emmet moving is because it allowed for the live-action stuff to exist without compromising the stakes of the Lego stuff. It drives home that, no matter what, the story we've seen up to this point is real, and so is the jeopardy that the Lego characters are in. Maybe the voice-over alone would've accomplished that, though.

I would love a Toy Story/ The Lego Movie double feature

I was tempted to write a review up in the review forum but couldn't get past "You should seriously go see this movie". I went in expecting Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs but with Batman, to be surprisingly entertained by a movie that doesn't really have any right to exist - as with Cloudy - and got more than I ever expected. I can't even describe the movie beyond pure happiness and excitement at this point, to the point I need to see this movie a second time so I can gather myself and put into words why this movie is so fucking awesome.

I agree with Zarban. Enjoyed the movie and laughed a lot, not on board with the live action, theme is confusing.