So, these reviews have evolved into watching movies with my friends and we try to show each other cool movies. And by cool movies, I mean movies that are gay or have gay subtext. Continuing the theme, as well as watching it for research purposes, I wanted to show my friends the 2017 classic Lego: Batman. That’s right, the one that was in the news for pushing pro-gay propaganda. The funny thing was, all the news outlets focused on one joke, instead of the overarching theme of Batman and Joker being in a “relationship” … 

Kinda cringe  

Okay, about the movie, it is one of my guilty pleasures. This movie is so funny, unbelievably funny I promise. The dry humor and the deep dive into making fun of superhero movies is the most noticeable attribute of the movie. The second most noticeable thing is the fact that in this movie Batman/Bruce Wayne is basically a man-child and the Joker is defanged and is a trickster at most. This switch of having Batman not know everything, and is basically whining the whole time, is so much different than his character had been in recent movies like Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. It is a part of the satire of this movie, a character that is a straight alpha male power fantasy doesn’t want to go to a fancy dinner and throws a fit. Hilarious.  

I fully expect everyone I meet to have watched this movie, if you have not, you’re missing out but no judgment. But now I will be talking about more spoilery? stuff so be warned.  

The whole theme that Batman can’t get close to people because he is afraid of losing them was not something I was expecting from a kid’s Lego movie. They did this so well because they showed that it’s not just an easy fix and that it takes time? Like, go Lego: Batman movie very mature of you. If you have ever read or consumed Batman anything past the 70s it’s so hard to find a story where Bruce actually improves his own life and fixes his own behaviors. It was a nice change of pace. The whole movie itself is not something you would expect of a children’s movie. It really plays to an audience that would understand the complex themes it was weaving into the bright bubble gum craziness of the filmography. Animated movies are one of my favorite mediums, and Lego movies have a similar feeling to the stop motion clips I would make as a kid, you can explore so many stories with animation. The ending of the movie is very lighthearted for a “superhero” movie and makes a funny gag that left room for a sequel like all kids’ movies do to milk the profit of toy sales. However, even if this movie was just to make parents buy kids more pieces of plastic that they will get sick of after 20 minutes, it was a damn good one at that. 

 

10/10 please let me know if you have seen any other Lego movies, I need someone to talk to about them

 

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