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
FILM NOTES
The Lego Movie arrived from Warner Animation Group in 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and reframed the building-block toy line as a genuinely sharp piece of studio filmmaking. Built on stop-motion-flavored CG and a script that loved its source material as much as it poked at it, the film became a box office and critical success, praised for balancing corporate-owned IP with real wit and heart. Its late reveal, bringing a human father and son into the Lego universe, gave the story an emotional register rarely attempted in toy-based features, and it remains a touchstone for how animated family films can be both commercial and clever.
This cell comes from that pivotal stretch of the film, the passage into the world of the Man Upstairs, where the story steps outside its constructed universe entirely. Collectors seek footage from this sequence because it marks the narrative's shift from pure Lego mythology into something more personal, the moment the film's premise is recontextualized. As a 35mm cell rather than a trailer or title card, it preserves a piece of actual release printing from that transition, a physical fragment of the scene where the movie changes what kind of story it is telling.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame visible on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the bottom edge beside the picture area, appearing as a wavy dual-band pattern consistent with a stereo optical track.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers, manufacturer text, or SAFETY FILM legend.
Base & colour
The base appears with a slight cyan-teal tint consistent with modern polyester stock; the dye image reads as neutral with strong blue and orange saturation showing no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks, or prominent scratches are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the animated CG imagery is consistent with The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The polyester base tint, dual variable-area optical soundtrack, and clean perforation style are all consistent with a 2014-era 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 000063885
Original Film CaptureAs received
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