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The Lego Movie 2 works as a meta-narrative switching between the "real" world and the Lego world, which also includes characters from other pop culture narratives, who are both unaware of the real world and yet somehow also aware of their position in the zeitgeist. But this is 2019, where movies operate on a whole other level of meta-textual sophistication. In the past, you might have a kid getting sucked into Lego world and trying to get back. But this is one semiotically complex movie. He's wrong, of course, which might be a level of dramatic irony too far for younger viewers. Rex Dangervest, action hero, gives Emmet a new role model. Batman, voiced by Will Arnett, loves this darker tone, but it's clear all is not right in Lego world. The older brother asserts himself against his sister's childish ways by adopting a tough, cynical tone, complete with dark, gritty brooding - so much brooding. Anyone with kids will recognise the younger one's unstoppable urge to be up in the older sibling's business, and the ructions that can cause.
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But now everything's been ruined by the arrival of his sister and her Duplo blocks. In the first film, everything was awesome for a young boy playing in his basement with Lego bricks. The result is a trippy treat for kids and adults. But whether it's a space battle between various kinds of Lego or a vampire DJ with the voice of Noel Fielding or a startling detour into crayon, the humour is completely unfettered by such boring adult concerns as logic or physics. The characters and sets still come complete with scarred and pitted texture on their surfaces, just like real plastic, for an authentic stop-motion look.