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A Lego Brickumentary

A LEGO BRICKUMENTARY (Kief Davidson and Daniel Junge). 92 minutes. Opens Friday July (31). See Listings. Rating: NN

Where to watch: iTunes


Remember last year, when everyone expected The LEGO Movie to be nothing more than a feature-length commercial? Well, it turns out they were saving that for A LEGO Brickumentary.

Unaffiliated with Chris Miller and Philip Lord’s delirious blockbuster but perfectly happy to ride its coattails, Kief Davidson and Daniel Junge’s doc is aimed directly at AFOLs (adult fans of LEGO) and KFOLs (kid fans of LEGO).

They’ll surely love this brightly coloured dive into the product, hosted in animated mini-fig form by Jason Bateman at his extra-friendliest. Those more ambivalent toward the little plastic bricks will find less to latch on to and will perhaps be more aware of the filmmakers’ enthusiastic, on-brand manipulations.

Two major sequences are built around a giant X-wing fighter from Star Wars and the city of Rivendell from The Lord Of The Rings – triumphs of licensing as much as engineering – and the explorations of LEGO’s therapeutic and mathematical potential are left underdeveloped in favour of further gee-whizzery. Some subtitles.

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