{"id":5857,"date":"2013-06-19T16:44:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T23:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/?p=5857"},"modified":"2013-06-19T16:44:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T23:44:54","slug":"the-lego-movie-is-real-and-assembling-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/the-lego-movie-is-real-and-assembling-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The LEGO Movie is Real and Assembling for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/lego_movie_header.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5860 aligncenter\" alt=\"The LEGO Movie is Real and Assembling for 2014\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/lego_movie_header.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/lego_movie_header.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/lego_movie_header-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>After a lifetime as an incredibly fun and creative toy\/brick that unites people across cultures, languages and oceans, LEGOs are finally headed for the big screen.\u00a0Appearing now in teaser trailer form, <i>The LEGO Movie<\/i> has quite simply broken my mind. This may have something to do with the LEGO bricks undoubtedly lodged in my brain from various childhood play sets, but still.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, the LEGO landscape is full of hits and misses. There are the excellent <em>Traveler&#8217;s Tales<\/em>\u00a0video games and the endlessly innovative fan made YouTube clips of LEGO in motion.\u00a0 On the other hand, there is the failed MMO, <i>LEGO Universe<\/i>, and the awkward <i>Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless,<em> The LEGO Movie<\/em>\u00a0&#8212; helmed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who are responsible for both\u00a0<i>Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs\u00a0<\/i>and<i>\u00a021 Jump Street<\/i>\u00a0&#8212; seems to have the right stuff. But never mind those awesome guys. This flick has both Morgan Freeman AND Batman.\u00a0 No movie ever made in the history of western civilization that has both Morgan Freeman and Batman has been anything short of supremely exceptional.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t just take my word for it, check out this synopsis from Warner Bros.: &#8220;<em>The Original 3D computer animated story follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously\u00a0<\/em><i>under-prepared<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The LEGO Movie - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros.\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0EqtEPrO5Z4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just wow. February can&#8217;t come soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lifetime as an incredibly fun and creative toy\/brick that unites people across cultures, languages and oceans, LEGOs are finally headed for the big screen.\u00a0Appearing now in teaser trailer form, The LEGO Movie has quite simply broken my mind. This may have something to do with the LEGO bricks undoubtedly lodged in my brain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[223,197,517],"class_list":["post-5857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-batman","tag-lego","tag-morgan-freeman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5857"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5862,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions\/5862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}