"The Lego Movie 2" -- Not Awesome

*This post is by 13 year old guest blogger, Elijah, who felt so strongly about this issue that he asked to write a review.* 

Character Development in The Lego Movie & The Lego Movie 2 Contradict Each Other

A lot of people would agree that the Lego Movie was a huge hit at the box office, selling over 630,916,045 Canadian dollars. Since the Lego Movie was such a hit, Warner Bros. made a sequel titled “The Lego Movie 2” selling 257,019,945 Canadian dollars. In my opinion The Lego Movie 2 is just a large cash grab with poorly strung out ideas that contradict the first film. The main problems are the characters, storyline, and the morals, In this article i will focus on the characters and explain how The Lego Movie and The Lego Movie 2 contradict each other.

~-=EMMETT=-~

Emmett (as portrayed by The Lego Movie) is a bit of a goofball, constantly making pathetic creations and having bad ideas. Later on in the movie Emmett becomes a “master builder” and learns to just be himself, but Lego Movie 2 sings a totally different song. In The Lego Movie 2, despite the apocalyptic surrounding, Emmet is still happy and Lucy tells him that he needs to stop pretending everything is awesome. Emmett spends the rest of the movie trying to be someone he's not.

~-=LUCY=-~

In the first film Wildstyle is depicted to be insecure and tries to be dark and brooding but later learns from Emmet to just be herself, revealing her name to be Lucy. But apparently according to Lego Movie 2 she still wasn't being herself! Lucy apparently has the same personality as Emmet! Why wouldn't Lucy tell Emmet at the end of the first Lego Movie!?

~=PRESIDENT BUSINESS=~

In the Lego Movie, Fin's dad is represented by President Business and at the end of the movie he says that Fin's sister can come down into the basement and play with them, leading viewers to believe that the dad would play, build, and spend more time with his kids. In The Lego Movie 2 they threw that idea out the window and made Fin's dad an absent parent. President Business only appears in the first 2 minutes of the movie before he leaves to play golf. This means that the second that Fin and his little sister started fighting (and destroying Bricksburg) the dad left.

~=BATMAN=~

Batman is obviously a loner, but The Lego Movie 2 makes Batman marry someone -- a pile of bricks of all things. This just goes against everything Batman is. He's heartless, he's careless, and he's bachelor.

In closing, The Lego Movie contained a lot of good character development and The Lego Movie 2 ruined it. The show just exists to suck more money out of a beloved franchise. Characters, storyline, and the morals, are all contradictory to the first film.

~❀~ Elijah ~❀~