The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

"One of the most obvious messages to take away from this movie is something you could probably guess from even the ending of the first movie. And that's just playing nice with others. That's a pretty sweet message from siblings, but there's also another message about maturity and growing up, which does tie-in to the sibling thing a bit. I've seen some critics completely miss this message and I don't know how they did. It's not like it's hidden, they literally spell it out at one point with one of the characters. Actually, multiple times, like it's Emmet's main inner conflict in the movie. How could you missed this? Anyway, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part is a worthy sequel."

- PaleoSteno

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (also known as The Lego Movie 2) is a 2019 American-Danish-Australian computer-animated adventure science-fiction fantasy comedy film based on the Lego line of construction toys as well as the sequel to The Lego Movie, the fourth installment overall in the franchise following the releases of 2017's The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie. The film was produced by the Warner Animation Group, Lego System A/S, Animal Logic, Rideback (formerly Lin Pictures), Vertigo Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures (through unlike the first movie as well as Batman and Ninjago where it was not produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and RatPac Entertainment and like the second and third instalment, the movie was produced by Lord Miller Productions, respectively). Directed by Mike Mitchell, it stars Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Charlie Day, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, and Will Ferrell reprising their roles from the previous film, while new cast members include Stephanie Beatriz, Tiffany Haddish, Richard Ayoade, Brooklynn Prince and Maya Rudolph (replacing Amanda Farinos). Animation was provided by Animal Logic, who has provided the animation for all the films in the franchise, with Trisha Gum serving as animation director.

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part premiered at Regency Village Theatre on February 2, 2019 and was released in the Denmark on February 7, 2019 before released in the United States and United Kingdom on February 8, 2019 and in the Australia on March 21, 2019, in 3D, RealD 3D, Dolby Cinema, IMAX, IMAX 3D, and 4DX formats. With a budget of $99 million, it is the most expensive animated film produced by Warner Animation Group; the film was a box office disappointment, grossed $105.8 million in North America for a worldwide total of $192.3 million, but did received positive reviews critics, audiences and fans alike. Despite the reception and due to box office disappointment for this, Warner Bros. transfer the rights of this franchise to Universal Pictures, who later set for a five-year deal.

Plot
The citizens of Bricksburg face a dangerous new threat when LEGO DUPLO invaders from outer space start to wreck everything in their path. The battle to defeat the enemy and restore harmony to the LEGO universe takes Emmet, Lucy, Batman and the rest of their friends to faraway, unexplored worlds that test their courage and creativity.

Why The Second Movie Is Always Awesome

 * 1) It is a great follow-up and retains the charm of its predecessor, where it continues to explores the new adventure world of post-apocalyptic to outer space to many fictional planets, such as alien jungle in the whole Lego universe.
 * 2) The animation have given more upgrades to look more fresh, amazing and even better than previous LEGO films, all thanks to Animal Logic, who has provided the animation for all the films in the franchise!
 * 3) The original cast reprises their roles and their voice acting is still great, with Chris Pratt voicing both Emmet from the previous film, and the new character, Rex Dangervest in this film that is also awesome (see picture here).
 * 4) The original characters are still likable, like Emmet, Lucy, Batman, Benny, Unikitty, and MetalBeard.
 * 5) *While Emmet's friends do get captured by General Mayhem, they do get much screen-time, which isn't really that distracting or noticeable, as Emmet, Lucy, Batman, Benny, Unikitty, and MetalBeard are more important, don't feel out of place and part of the main cast. Even so, Unikitty, Benny and Metalbeard are now tertiary characters.
 * 6) Plenty of good humor and clever meta references events in the franchise, like Benny commenting that loving spaceships is his one defining trait, and when Justice League are planning to departed where Superman questions where Batman is, Wonder Woman says he is heading off to standalone adventure. Also, Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi have been played as a villain at first, but the twist is that she really wasn't evil and she's just terrible at expressing this, while Emmet's future self Rex Dangervest is the actual twist villain working against Emmet's motivations (although not revealed until Emmet just says his line, see pointer 23), making Queen Watevra a reverse twist villain.
 * 7) *The fact that Maya Rudolph's character step on Lego bricks, which is nice reference to the line of plastic construction toys.
 * 8) Emmet gets a major serious character development, having been given an arc about toughening up and adapting with the times.
 * 9) It is still faithful to the Lego line of plastic construction toys.
 * 10) The musical songs, such as "Catchy Song", "Not Evil", "Gotham City Guys", "Everything's Not Awesome" "Everything Is Awesome (Tween Dream Remix)" are pretty great and catchy and contribute very well to the actual story.
 * 11) "Everything Is Awesome (Tween Dream Remix)" is a remix song of Emmet says good morning to Apocalypseburg, who remains upbeat in stark.
 * 12) "Catchy Song" is a catchy pop song designed to get stuck inside ones head and follows Lucy and Emmet's superstitions of mind control.
 * 13) "Not Evil" is Queen Watevra's introduction to the heroes suspiciously reassuring them that she is not an evil queen, with the twist being that she told the truth and she's just terrible at communicating.
 * 14) "Gotham City Guys" is Queen Watevra using reverse psychology and continuous Batman references to convince Batman to marry her.
 * 15) "Everything's Not Awesome" is an updated and sad version of the predecessor's signature song with the start of a Dark Reprise, teaching an optimistic yet realistic lesson that while not everything in the world is great, it doesn't mean that it's worthless trying to make it great. At that point, it becomes a Triumphant Reprise as everyone rises up to save Emmet, and ready to build the ship.
 * 16) The action scenes are still entertaining and complete blast, notably the chase in Apocalypseburg, the alien jungle and final battle.
 * 17) The new characters, Rex Dangervest, Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi, General Mayhem, Ice Cream Cone, and Balthazar are awesome additions and very fun, likable and entertaining meta characters. Even they do manage to steal the show.
 * 18) Four characters from The Lego Movie series, President Business (at the beginning and the end), Vitruvius (in his ghost form, before knocked out by MetalBeard), Bad Cop, and PuppyCorn from the Unikitty TV series during "Not Evil" song have returned to the cameo appearance.
 * 19) *Speaking of the Unikitty TV Series, Dr Fox, Master Frown, and Brock make split-second cameos during Rex's cover-up backstory.
 * 20) Depending on your view, this is a great improvement over The Lego Ninjago Movie.
 * 21) Someone actually says "Lego" in this movie, unlike the first one.
 * 22) This movie gives a very valuable messages the aforementioned about the world realistically not being "awesome" and can't be awesome all the time, but optimistic and at least trying to make it a better place plays a big role in the world and goes a long way, which is acceptable influences on the film's character development and for its target audience.
 * 23) The film also gives the messages about family and fighting in the live-action segments.
 * 24) The fact that Finn and The Man Upstairs (despite the latter being offscreen) return is pretty cool.
 * 25) Again, like the previous LEGO films, it has unforgettable pop-culture reference like "Let's All Go to the Lobby", the name of Rex's pet raptor, Rocky from Rocky film series, Ripley from Alien series, Quaid from 1990 of Totel Recall, and Conner from Terminator series, and Gandalf falls into an abyss in the same way that he does in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, during Emmet's nightmare.
 * 26) Just like the first movie, it features tons of new cameos from famous characters, like Dorothy Gale and her friends from The Wizard of Oz, Jason Momoa's Aquaman (who even reprised the role from DC Extended Universe), Velma Dinkley from Scooby-Doo series, Betelgeuse from Beetlejuice, and, of course, Bruce Willis, who is famously played John McClane from Die Hard series. Even returning many cameo are Abraham Lincoln, Gandalf, Shaquille O'Neal, and The Swamp Creature as well.
 * 27) Well-done musical score by Mark Mothersbaugh.
 * 28) The concept of a post-apocalypse world made with Lego is quite unique, as there is clearly some inspiration taken from films like Mad Max: Fury Road.
 * 29) The tone is still just as light-hearted as the first film, and still manages to have its serious moments.
 * 30) Even though Phil Lord and Christopher Miller didn't directed this film, Mike Mitchel still did great job as the directors, which is another huge improvement over Trolls, another animated film based on toys.
 * 31) Since the first movie ends on a cliffhanger, this sequel got the right place at the end of the film so it doesn't interrupt the film and we get to finally seeing how DULPO aliens was able to start wrecking of Bricksburg at the beginning of the film, since it starts immediately after the events of the first film, with Emmet builds the aliens a heart as a token of friendship, but one DULPO alien eats it and demands more, although it was quite short.
 * 32) Not one, but two very surprising and dramatic plot twist, the first involves Sweet Mayhem revealed that she just actually wanted to make peace with the citizens of Apocalypsburg, just like the rest of The Systar System. while the latter involves in the third act where it turns out Rex Dangervest was a future counterpart of Emmet Brickowski, and has a surprising backstories.
 * 33) Like the previous film, the action is also inspired by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
 * 34) Like the previous films, it has a great blend of action, adventure, fantasy, drama, and humor.
 * 35) The dialogue is very clever and has been improvement from the first film. (EX: The name's Rex, Rex Dangervest., and I don't know, but that beat is pretty fresh.)
 * 36) It has a many funny moments, like Banarnar have been slip over and later that he fall down chocolate fountain after he get down the stairs and when Lucy tries to stop Emmet from destroying the wedding, she noticed that someone did draw dots on his face, but Emmet just rub his face off by saying no.
 * 37) Incredible ending: At first, the ending shows the scenes where the heroes have been defeated by falling into the Bin of Storajj, making it cliffhanger, but here, Finn and Bianca's mother sees them playing together, and has a change of heart. And then moments later, the universe is restored as a mish-mash of Apocalypseburg and the Systar System, renamed "Syspocalypstar", with later that Emmet's house is rebuilt and the movie ends with Emmet seeing a gift of the original album of "Everything Is Awesome", revealing that Lucy co-originated the song, causing Emmet to gasp in shock.
 * 38) In the human world, Finn, Bianca, and their mother are decent characters.
 * 39) It is not a rehash, the movie is much different from its instalments in the franchise; for example, the main antagonist (Rex Dangervest) dies on screen instead of redeeming antagonist (Lord Business, the Joker, Lord Garmadon) and the movie takes place in outer space than land locations (mostly in Systar System).
 * 40) The movie has lots of great idea to the franchise, such as:
 * 41) Having Lego mini dolls for the big screen.
 * 42) Having a nightmare event.
 * 43) Having a sticker on Lego minifigures.
 * 44) The fictional system that is similar to Solar System.
 * 45) Overall, this film ended Warner Bros.' run of The Lego Movie franchise on a really high note, even though the box office disappointments of this film and The Lego Ninjago Movie caused Warner Bros. themselves to terminate their film rights with Lego in December 2019, resulting in Lego moving on to work with Universal Pictures in April 2020 to develop and distribute future Lego films (possibly unrelated to the previous films), while Warner Bros. still owns the rights to their run of The Lego Movie franchise. Consequently, this led to a third spin-off film titled The Billion Brick Race and a sequel to The Lego Batman Movie tentatively titled Lego Superfriends being cancelled, as well as Unikitty! being cancelled after three seasons.
 * 46) *Though to be fair, the Unikitty! series finale, "The Birthday To End All Birthdays", which aired in 2020, was the actual final thing to come out of the original franchise, which also ended it on a high note.

Not Awesome Qualities

 * 1) Three plot holes:
 * 2) *Emmet begins journey with Rex Dangervest to the Systar System, later he reunited Lucy and has the plans to destroy the wedding cake, yet only Lucy is with Sweet Mayhem, while Emmet did destroy the wedding cake; although he did made a mistake; then they returned to the Rexcelsior, Emmet simply tells to Rex about his backstory. If Rex was being the Emmet's futuristic counterpart, then why did he save him from crashing into an asteroid if doing so would cause Rex to cease to exist and Emmet became Rex because he crashed into the asteroid?
 * 3) *During Lucy and Sweet Mayhem’s fight, when the latter’s helmet falls off and ends up dangling from a pole, why couldn’t she use her jet boosters to fly up?
 * 4) *If Rex disappeared because his timeline is gone because Emmet and Lucy got back together, then how come his pet raptors are still there in the ending?
 * 5) The film doesn't have as much surprise as the previous film, since the viewers would know that this world is (as Rex would put it) in the subconcious of an adolescent.
 * 6) Some of the humor can be hit-or-miss at times, such as the few attempts where the film tried to be hip and cool with the kids, despite its target audience seeming to be mature pre-teen kids.
 * 7) *Like Ralph Breaks the Internet, the musical scene for "Catchy Song" where Batman flossing only appears just to pander to younger audiences which they tried to cash in; and not to mention, it already became a dead trend.
 * 8) *Speaking of Ralph Breaks the Internet, it also has an infamous feminist preach scene where Sweet Mayhem says to Wyldstyle: "So you fought, and master built, and kicked butt, and then the hapless male was the leader."
 * 9) Parts of the material were recycled from the first film, making the story a little bit somewhat predictable.
 * 10) A few characters can be a bit unlikable, with Finn being a jerk to Bianca at times, mostly due to how he wrecked the wedding cake which can be stressing, although it was later subverted when he realizes that he was wrong.

Critical and audience response
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part received generally positive reviews from critics, audiences and fans alike, who commended its humor, animation, premise, soundtrack, and voice acting, although some said it was not as "fresh" as the first film. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 84% based on 300 reviews, with an average rating of 7.00/10. The audiences score was 68%, with an average rating of 3.6/5 from over 25,000 ratings. The website's critical consensus reads, "While it isn't quite as much fun as its predecessor, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part fits neatly into an animated all-ages franchise with heart and humor to spare.". On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 51 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The score of audiences was 6.7/10, based on 244 ratings. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale (down from the first film's "A"), while those at PostTrak gave it an average 4 out of 5 stars; social media monitor RelishMix noted online responses to the film were "great". On IMDb and Letterboxd, the film earned the score of 6.6/10 and 3.1/5.

Angry Joe gave this movie a rating of 8/10. PaleoSteno says it is a worthy sequel.

DeviantArt user JacobHessReviews gave this movie an rating of 8.5/10 (Great to Amazing), explaining that although not as good as it's predecessor, this is a great film to end Warner Bros. Pictures of The Lego Movie series.

Box office
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part grossed $105.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $86.5 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $192.3 million against to $99 million budget, became the franchise's second box office disappointment after The Lego Ninjago Movie. Although some source says it bombed at the box office, it is actually not a box office bomb, but rather a box office disappointment. Deadline Hollywood attributed the low opening to franchise fatigue due to the release of two spin-offs prior to The Lego Movie 2, as well as Warner Bros. promoting the film using similar marketing tactics from the first film, leading audiences to assume the sequel to be derivative and indistinguishable from its predecessor.

This film ended up being the last Lego film from Warner Bros., as it is shifting to Universal Pictures for a period of time that confirmed for limited 5-year deal to make plans for an upcoming Lego Movie, while Warner Bros. still owns the rights to their run of the franchise from 2014 to 2020, including the Unikitty! TV series.

Sequel?
During an interview with Moviefone on February 7, 2019, Chris Pratt (Emmet's voice actor) expresses his idea for a potential third film in the series.

Universal Pictures era
Following The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part's disappointing box office returns, Warner Bros. allowed their film rights with Lego to expire. Lego has later entered in negotiations with Universal Pictures for a new first-look deal. While the original characters and film are owned by Warner Bros. Pictures, Universal Picture will develop and distribute future Lego films. Dan Lin is expected to remain as producer through his company Rideback. In April 2020, the deal with Universal was set for a limited 5-year film deal, with Warner Bros. still owning the previous films and characters.

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Trivia

 * This is currently the seventh large page and also the fifth largest page for any movie on this wiki.
 * Like other films in the franchise, Lego released a number of building toy sets based on scenes from The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.
 * Rex Dangervest is a reference to Chris Pratt himself since he voiced a Lego construction worker as well as portraying a superhero who saves galaxies and a raptor trainer.
 * The scene where Emmet and Wyldstyle are being chased by General Mayhem and Wyldstyle questions why they aren't losing General Mayhem and suddenly realizes that the signal light for the vehicle were on is coincidentally similar to a deleted scene (at 3:17 in the video) from The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
 * This was the last film in The Lego Movie franchise to be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures before selling the rights to Universal Pictures for five years deal.
 * A comment is made about Marvel "not returning our calls." Characters from the Marvel Universe are conspicuously absent from the Lego movies, due to rights issues with Disney. Characters from the Star Wars universe (also owned by Disney) appeared in The Lego Movie (2014), but not in this sequel.
 * Daniel Radcliffe was originally set to voice a look-alike of his Harry Potter known as Larry Potter, but his scene was ultimately cut. It was revealed by Mike Mitchell that Radcliffe's cameo was deleted due to not wanting to risk anything that would upset the Harry Potter fandom. The character was replaced by Larry Poppins (another look-alike character based on Mary Poppins).
 * Rex's design was partially inspired by LEGO's Jack Stone. Jack Stone was an early 2000s line designed to be hip and edgy, and was widely despised by LEGO enthusiasts. In fact, LEGO actually uses Jack Stone sets as a teaching example of what not to do when designing a new LEGO product.
 * With 13 minutes of end credits, this film has the longest amount of end credits for a non-Disney animated film. Thus, it is also the first animated film to use that amount of end credits without post-credits scenes.
 * Rob Schrab was going to make this film his feature directorial debut, until he was replaced by Mike Mitchell, due to "creative differences".
 * Like in first movie, Will Forte was billed as "Orville Forte" due to a typo. Forte's actual first name (his full name is Orville Willis Forte IV) rather than his professional name was listed on a form used when compiling the end credits. Thus, the voice of "Abraham Lincoln" remained credited to "Orville Forte."
 * During the first part of the second half of the main-on-end credits, the winning entries of LEGO's "The Awesome Building Buddies Contest", which held online through most of July 2018, is shown aside from some of the credits. It features actual siblings pairing together to create the unique LEGO model either on the white background or on a off-white background. If the second picture is here, the panel flip itself to reveal the actual LEGO model.
 * To promote the movie, "Everything is Awesome" Dance Together Music Video was made as the internet short.
 * With the running time of 107 minutes long, this is currently the longest LEGO film to date.
 * On Black Friday 2018, Warner Bros. released The Lego Movie on YouTube in its entirety for one day only, with a trailer for The Lego Movie 2 attached.
 * This was the last Warner Animation Group to have a Blu-ray/DVD/Digital combo pack until Space Jam: A New Legacy.
 * On December 10, 2018, Warner Bros. released a Christmas-themed promotional short for The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, titled Emmet's Holiday Party. In the short, Emmet and the citizens of Apocalypseburg throw a big Christmas Party to make everything awesome again despite the concern of attack from the Systar System from Lucy. Although originally released as an online short, it was eventually included as a bonus feature on the home media release.
 * The Warner Bros. Pictures/Warner Animation Group logo is similar to the original installment but with a few enhancements:
 * The camera backs up from the string in front of the black LEGO® background setting before it settles when the sky blue background has brought up.
 * The byline has changed to "WARNERMEDIA" (due to AT&T has merged with Time Warner back in Summer 2018).
 * When the shield turns to WAG, the banner drops down from the WBP position to accompany the change.
 * And the transition to space environment, setting up for the movie's prologue sequence.
 * After the prologue, the opening title sequence animates on the black background. The word "LEGO®" quickly drops down and the rest of the title slides in from the left and right while the sideways "2" forms. The "2" positions itself and the title shines for a couple seconds before the camera pans to the front of "2" which draws towards us as it fades to black.
 * The production of the film took advantage of Animal Logic's latest update to its trace renderer, Glimpse, to improve on-screen detail and depth-of-field.
 * In October 2014, Warner Bros. scheduled The Lego Batman Movie for 2017, and The Lego Movie 2 for May 18, 2018 (originally May 26, 2017). On October 25, 2014, it was reported that Lord and Miller had signed on to write The Lego Movie 2. On October 30, it was announced that Australia-based animation studio Animal Logic was in talks to produce the next three Lego films (though the deal was not finalized at the time) and the New South Wales government would make financial contributions to all the films. On November 12, during an interview with BBC News, Lord and Miller revealed that there would be more female characters featured in the film.
 * In an interview with Collider, producer Dan Lin confirmed that Lord & Miller were rewriting the script during production. He also said that the sequel was going to include more songs due to the success of competing Disney musical films like Frozen and Moana.
 * Jason Momoa reprised his role as Aquaman from the DC Extended Universe. Gal Gadot was set to reprise her role as Wonder Woman, replacing Cobie Smulders from the previous film, but Smulders ended up returning shortly before the film's release.
 * Additionally, Margot Robbie was also set to reprise her role as Harley Quinn, replacing Jenny Slate, who voiced Harley in The Lego Batman Movie, but Harley was instead voiced by Margot Rubin, whose name, ironically, is similar to Robbie's.
 * In one version of the film, Emmet and his friends would've been found by Rex Dangervest in his introduction and they would be part of the team to take down Queen Watevra. The original storyboards can be seen here.
 * Another original storyboard (made by Head of Story Matt Flynn) shows an alternative version of Rex Dangervest's backstory. The difference here is the way is shown and Rex's original plan was to take Queen Watevra (originally called Queen MerPony) to the Stairgate and destroying her in pieces to make sure the kids won't playing with them anymore. Storyboards can be seen here.
 * Some of the musical numbers' incidental dialogue sounds different on the soundtrack than in the final film; to quote an example from the start of "Not Evil":
 * Lucy: Oh no, are we in a musical?
 * Batman (soundtrack): Uh, hope not.
 * Batman (movie): Yup. Get ready.
 * Early reports claimed the second film would focus on Emmet's long lost sister, but this never happened and was likely scrapped.
 * Arturo Castro was originally going to voice Ice Cream Cone, but he was replaced with Richard Ayoade.
 * Vitruvius, President Business and Bad Cop are the only characters from the first movie who don't play a big role: Vitruvius and Bad Cop only appear in the beginning and President Business has only two scenes, through it was justified, since he is the Man Upstairs.
 * On that note, Finn is the only human character from the first movie to physically appear in the sequel. His father, the Man Upstairs, was only heard off-screen in the sequel, aside from being seen from a flashback from the first movie and in a picture of him and his family on a log flume ride, which can be seen in Finn's sister Bianca's bedroom.
 * This doesn't count for Finn's mother, however, as she was only heard off-screen in the first movie and was voiced by Amanda Farinos, although she does physically appear in the sequel and was played by Maya Rudolph.