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
Released by Warner Bros. in early 2014, The Lego Movie arrived as a surprising critical and commercial triumph, proving that a film built around a toy brand could carry genuine wit, heart, and visual invention. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, it blended stop motion aesthetics with computer animation to celebrate creativity and imagination, while poking gentle fun at franchise culture itself. Its ensemble voice cast and clever meta humor made it a standout family film of the decade, one that took its premise seriously enough to say something real about play, individuality, and the tension between order and chaos.
This cell centers on Batman, one of the film's most beloved supporting players, a parody of the Caped Crusader's brooding self seriousness folded into a Lego world of endless invention. Collectors prize Batman for the character's comic timing and cultural familiarity, a figure instantly recognizable even in a single frame. As a 35mm piece, this cell preserves a fragment of that portrayal, a physical trace of the character's presence within the film's larger tapestry, offered here without further embellishment beyond what the reel itself declares.
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 one edge, alongside what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone on the same edge; a DTS timecode line also appears present as a thin continuous stripe.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
The base shows a cyan-tinted stock consistent with a colour release print; dye image appears neutral with 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 shot, consistent with a release print of The Lego Movie (2014).
Era check
The combination of cyan-base colour stock, variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, and DTS timecode stripe is consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print from the 2010s.
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 000063967
Original Film CaptureAs received
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