15/41
A vibrant journey through the life of Pharrell Williams, told through the lens of LEGO animation. Animal Logic, who animated the previous four Lego theatrical films, did not return to animate the film, as it would have been considered a rip-off of Warner Bros., despite Lego and Warner Bros. both sharing the rights to the original franchise. Instead, the animation was done at Pure Imagination Studios in Los Angeles and Zebu Animation Studios in India. Both Pure Imagination and Zebu have previously recreated the style of the original film franchise through theme park attractions, PSAs, and the “Brick Like Me (2014)” episode of The Simpsons (1989). The opening logos for Universal Pictures, Focus Features, Tremolo Productions, and The Lego Group are made of Lego bricks. In The Graham Norton Show: Billy Crystal/Emily Mortimer/Hugh Bonneville/Pharrell Williams/Michael Kiwanuka (2024). It’s HappeningWritten by Pharrell Williams and Shelly BergPerformed by Pharrell WilliamsCourtesy of Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment. A Pharrell Williams biopic but made out of Legos, beautiful and original. But you have to ask yourself who was it made for? Because it’s too boring to be a kids movie and most adults wouldn’t watch it because they’d think it was a kids movie. I saw it myself last night and was pretty bored, this Lego biopic was the only thing that saved this movie otherwise no one would be interested except Pharrell Williams super fans. Also I don’t know how Focus Features survived this whole year, they are the only movie company where the theater was constantly empty every time I went even one piece at a time only had a total of 5 people in it. The other two movies I saw this year on Focus Features, the auditorium was completely empty and I was the only person in the sound system, it’s very rare that I’m alone in a theater.
