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 Bros. in February 2014, a co-production between Village Roadshow and Animal Logic that turned a toy line into one of the sharpest animated comedies of the decade. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it married brick-built slapstick with genuine wit about creativity and conformity, earning both box office success and lasting critical affection. Its voice cast, stacked with stars playing against type, became a signature draw, helping the film transcend its origins as a marketing vehicle and stand as a self-aware, endlessly quotable entry in modern animated cinema.
This cell preserves Superman, voiced by Channing Tatum, one of the film's cameo delights drawn from DC's roster of icons folded into the Master Builders' ranks. Collectors prize this figure for the joke of casting against the character's usual gravity, a small but memorable piece of the ensemble's comic chemistry. As a 35mm frame from the feature itself, it offers a tangible fragment of that celebrated blend of pop culture reverence and parody, a physical remnant of the film's crowded, cheerful universe of borrowed heroes.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on each edge, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no visible tearing or distortion.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, appearing as a dual bilateral track; Dolby Digital data blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, consistent with a combined optical/digital soundtrack strip.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read manufacturer codes or key numbers.
Base & colour
Base appears with a light blue-tinted surround consistent with a dyed safety base stock; the dye image reads as warm and fully saturated with no visible fading or red 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 from the same continuous shot with consistent framing, matching the animated style of the film on record.
Era check
The combination of a dual bilateral variable-area optical track with Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks is consistent with a 2014 theatrical release print era, when this combined format was standard.
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 000063930
Original Film CaptureAs received
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