Somehow, the Lego company managed to make an hour and a half long advertisement, then have people go and pay to see it. They literally made money (lots of it) from their advert, while simultaneously making money because of their advert. Genius.
Then they made a Lego Movie focused on Batman, then one on Ninjago, then a sequel to their first effort. With the exception of Lego Ninjago, the entire franchise is weirdly brilliant. It’s full of great characters, genuinely hilarious comedy and enough meta-humor to keep you interested forever. However, seeing as the films are made with Lego, there are quite a few continuity errors littered within.
Convenient Tracking Device
Despite having a filmography listing the likes of Taken and Star Wars, legendary actor Liam Neeson seemed more than happy to lend his voice talents to the Good Cop/Bad Cop character from The Lego Movie. Alternating between the harsh, aggressive Bad Cop, and the good-natured and thoughtful Good Cop.
Bad Cop shot a tracking device at Emmet’s leg at one point during the film, and it became quite important to the plot. Weirdly, the animation team decided to make this tracking device invisible until it actually became relevant to the plot.
Fake Footage?
There isn’t a lot of logical sense to be found in the clip Bad Cop shows Emmet during his brief incarceration. Bad Cop became interested in capturing Emmet since he found out that he had the piece of resistance, and ended up catching him pretty soon after this revelation.
He obviously didn’t have time to do a lot. Despite this, the video Bad Cop shows of an interview with Emmet’s friends is taken in the daylight, even though Emmet was captured in the early evening and had escaped by later on that night.
Emmet’s Disappearing Glue
The very existence of The Piece Of Resistance is a key feature of the entire plot of The Lego Movie, yet they don’t keep its presence particularly consistent. Emmet is supposed to have glue on his back throughout a lot of the film, but in pretty much every shot it changes whether it’s there or not.
You’d think that as soon as they forgot to keep it there once, they’d remember to do it next time, not alternate between forgetting and remembering pretty much every time the scene changes.
Quick Change Outfit
There are few pretty strange characters introduced to us during The Lego Movie. Uni-Kitty and WyldStyle are both quite unusual names and quite unusual people. Well, the former isn’t even a human, more a square-shaped pink cat capable of overwhelming rage.
Anyway, when they’re falling from the spaceship, they’re decked out in special outfits that will stop them from certain space-based death. When they’ve landed in these clothes, the scene changes and they’ve switched straight back to their normal outfits.
Hair Under Helmet
President Business, voiced by Will Ferrell (it’s an impressive cast, right?) shows his true evil when he ascends to the position of Lord Business. In doing so, we get a lovely Lego in-joke in which he removes his hair (a piece of Lego) and replaces it with a helmet (another piece of Lego).
For some reason, this joke is abandoned later on, because when Emmet knocks Lord Business’ helmet off later on, it falls to the ground and reveals his hair underneath.
Magician Out Of Prison?
We don’t see a lot from him, but something we definitely see about the little magician Minifigure is that Bad Cop captures him pretty early on in the film, and we never see or hear about an escape.
Despite this, the continuity of his imprisonment is ignored and he shows up at least twice more: he is on Cloud Cuckoo Land and in Metal Beard’s flashback. Maybe this was an intentional reference to his own magical powers that might have broken him out?
Moving Materials
When Metal Beard is explaining his story, the Relic Room is shown. We see a gummy bear, a floppy disc, a golf ball, a highlighter, a key, a pen cap, and a battery. When the battery is zoomed in on, it is in the same place the highlighter was a second ago, and a bottle of white-out has replaced the gummy bear.
If they had animated this particular location in one way, why create unnecessary issues of continuity by animating it a different way later on?
Unfrozen?
The scariest weapon available in The Lego Movie is called The Kragle. In reality, it’s a tube of superglue. Its biggest and best power is its ability to freeze people, which it does in the corner of the screen when WyldStyle is starting to make her speech on TV. A guy with a beard and mustache in a white shirt is very clearly frozen.
Then the shot changes and he is unfrozen and moving around. It seems to undermine the power of this weapon a little bit if ordinary people can just walk it off, but it is cool to use in Lego games.
Scarecrow’s Changing Voice
The voice of Scarecrow in the Lego Batman Movie is Jason Mantzoukas, known for his work in the likes of The League and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. We hear him speak multiple times in the film, but during one particular scene towards the end of the film, he clearly says “we say your signal, we came to help”, and a totally different voice comes out.
Whether this was filmed before Mantzoukas took the role, or maybe had to be redubbed after his work on the film was completed, we don’t know, but it certainly sticks out.
Flipped Shot
Right at the end of the Lego Batman Movie, well, during the end credits, actually, there is something a little off about Two-Face. It’s sort of his whole thing that one side of his face is burnt, so you think special care would be made to keep this consistent.
Well, you’d be wrong. For some reason, a shot of him during the credits is mirrored, making the burnt half of his face appear on the right instead of the left like usual.
