-via IMDb.com
Going into this flick, I have to admit I didn't care for The Lego Movie. I love zany comedies but it was too too much of everything and it annoyed me. I rented this one with trepidation and a little bit of superhero fatigue, hoping against hope that this would be more of a satire of those movies. And now that I've watched it, I'm not sure what to think of it.
Lego Batman is dark and deep and needs to lighten up and embrace the idea of not being alone. At least according to Alfred and The Joker. And he starts to get that when he accidentally adopts Dick Grayson and sends The Joker to the Phantom Zone only to have him return with a whole bunch of crazy super villain types. Batman must work together with Dick/Robin, Alfred and Barbara Gordon/Batgirl to save the day.
This film was not made for me. Sure, it had adult jokes and inside humour but the zaniness here was aimed at kids and the colourful spectacle was too sugary for me. The animation is outstanding but it was just colours on a screen after a while and, like The Lego Movie, everything was thrown at you at such a dizzying speed that there was no time to digest what was going on.
