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
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FILM NOTES
FILM NOTES
Released by Warner Animation Group in 2014, The Lego Movie arrived as a surprise triumph, a studio production built from a toy line that turned into one of the sharpest animated comedies of the decade. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it combined stop motion aesthetics with full computer animation, assembling a cast of licensed characters from across pop culture into one anarchic story. Its wit and visual density earned it lasting critical goodwill and a devoted following, and it remains a high water mark for family filmmaking that speaks equally to adults, a rare feat for a project built around a construction toy brand.
This cell carries the name Batman Rescue, placing the character in a moment defined by action taken on someone else's behalf. Batman's presence in the Lego universe is one of its most celebrated draws, a self serious icon dropped into a world that constantly undercuts him, and collectors prize any frame that isolates him in a defining beat. A rescue implies stakes and heroism distilled to their essence, exactly the kind of scene fans return to when building a collection around this character's contribution to the film's larger, joke filled machinery.
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 appear clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible below the picture area, appearing as a dual bilateral (two-track) waveform pattern in blue and white, consistent with a Dolby Stereo or SR optical track; Dolby Digital pixel blocks between perforations are not clearly distinguishable at this capture resolution; DTS and SDDS tracks are not visible in this capture.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
The base shows a cyan-blue tint consistent with modern polyester safety stock; the dye image reads with warm amber and deep shadow tones, showing no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible splices, cue marks, or heavy scratching are apparent; the image area appears consistent with a projected print.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the warm amber industrial imagery is consistent with the animated visual style of the film on record.
Era check
The cyan polyester base, dual bilateral optical soundtrack, and colour dye structure are all consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print era.
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 000063922
Original Film CaptureAs received
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