Animal Logic · Village Roadshow Pictures · The Lego Group · 101 min
Box office
$469.2M worldwide on a $60M budget
Honors
British Academy Film Awards — 1 winNational Board of Review — 1 winAnnie Awards — 1 nominationCritics' Choice Movie Award — 1 winAll 3 wins · 2 nominations on record
British Academy Film Awards: BAFTA's Children & Young People Award - Feature Film
National Board of Review: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Critics' Choice Movie Award: Best Animated Feature
Scholarship
Named in the title of 14 peer-reviewed works
Examples
The LEGO Movie — University of Texas Press eBooks, 2020
The Lego Movie, 2022
The LEGO Movie as Savvy Cinema — University of Texas Press eBooks, 2020
Sources: Wikidata · OpenAlex · Library of Congress. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived in 2014 from Warner Animation Group and Warner Bros. Pictures, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and became a surprise triumph of animation and marketing alike, translating the tactile pleasure of building blocks into a computer generated style that still evoked stop motion. It earned praise for its wit, its meta commentary on franchise culture, and its willingness to send up the very properties it borrowed from, including a scene stealing take on Batman that reset audience appetite for the character in comic form.
This cell holds Batman, the Caped Crusader reimagined here as a brooding, self absorbed rock star riffing on decades of Batman lore. Collectors seek him out because his appearances in this film are among its most quoted, a send up of superhero grandeur folded into a children's toy universe. A single 35mm frame bearing his likeness becomes a physical artifact of that parody, a small piece of film history capturing how thoroughly this Lego take on Batman entered the pop culture conversation.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges look clean throughout the strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible on the lower edge alongside what appears to be a Dolby Digital data block strip running between the perforations on that same edge; a second narrower track line is also present, suggesting a dual bilateral or SR configuration.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read manufacturer text or key numbers.
Base & colour
The base shows a cyan-tinted clear stock consistent with modern polyester; the dye image appears warm and well-saturated with no visible fading or colour shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are apparent in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated brick-figure imagery is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of cyan-base polyester stock, Dolby Digital data blocks between perforations, and variable-area optical track is consistent with a mid-2010s theatrical release print.
Read from the original intake capture shown below. Observations only — film is authenticated, not graded.
This original motion picture film element has been examined and authenticated by Crown Grading in partnership with National Film Vault, and encapsulated for archival preservation.
Why so little survivesRelease prints were leased to theaters, not sold. When the run ended they went back to the distributor to be destroyed, and most were. What collectors hold today came from the prints that escaped that order, and no new 35mm prints of these films are being struck.
CROWN SERIAL 000063884
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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