Sunday, October 15, 2017

"The Funniest Superhero Movie in Years"

"So Batman, over about an hour and 45 minutes, has to learn to let people in, even the villains who clearly bring him great joy. Somehow, the film (credited to a horde of writers including Community's Chris McKenna and the novelist Seth Grahame-Smith) stretches this into a feature-length story, though it feels a little thin at times. The film works best when it’s furiously lobbing jokes at the screen, à la Airplane!, rather than trying to construct a meaningful action-movie narrative. The expected happy ending feels a bit more pat than The Lego Movie's radical meta-twist, but it's largely earned (partly because Cera's voice work as young Robin is surprisingly, and hilariously, heartfelt)."

David Sims at The Atlantic reviews The Lego Batman Movie.

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