By Emilio Frenk.
Directors: Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher and Bob Logan
Cast (Voice): Dave Franco, Fred Armisen, Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Peña, Abbi Jacobson, Zach Woods, Justin Theroux, Ali Wong, Olivia Munn, Randall Parker and Jackie Chan.
Rating: Average.
Directors Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher and Bob Logan bring “The LEGO Ninjago Movie”, the third movie based in the popular toys and unfortunately the results of this film were not satisfying.
The movie centers in Lloyd (Dave Franco) a teenager who happens to be the son of the evil warlord Garmadon (Justin Theroux).
Thanks to this Lloyd is constantly bullied and everybody in Ninjago blames him of every disaster that takes place.
Now Lloyd wants to put an end to all of this and decides to confront Garmadon before he does even more damage. He will do it with the help of his friends and ninjas Jay (Kumail Nanjiani), Kai (Michael Peña), Nya (Abbi Jacobson), Zane (Zach Woods) and their spiritual leader Master Wu (Jackie Chan).
“The LEGO Ninjago Movie” is a film that I think it had a lot of potential since it´s previous movies “The LEGO Movie” and “The LEGO Batman Movie” were movies that had heart and the execution worked at all levels.
Here the major problem was the fact there were seven screenwriters involved in this film and you can tell that between them there was a lot of creative conflict since many of the scenes of this film led directly to boredom and this is something you cannot afford to have.
In movie regardless of the genre it´s not a good idea to have more than two screenwriters since problems like the one I just mentioned can really happen and damage a potential project.
Some of the scenes of “The LEGO Ninjago Movie” didn´t make any sense and I felt that were either too long or didn´t bring anything to what it was really happening.
The directing of Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher and Bob Logan I felt that it was too amateur by moments and the directing of the cast in terms of voice had good moments but it could have been much better if they tried harder.
I know this was not entirely their fault since a very weak script was involve in all of this. If the screenplay would have been fixed I think that we would be talking of a different movie.
There are good things about the film that I think were really well made. One of them is the animation which follows the same pattern as the previous LEGO movies with stop motion action and I think the message in regards of friendship is very well triggered in this film.
I admit that this movie film by moments it deliver the goods but at the same time I felt that this movie should have had more humor for adults and it was entirely for children.
I understand why the movie was done like this but for a movie of this genre, again the adult part is really important and I barely saw it in this LEGO film.
My conclusion of “The LEGO Ninjago Movie” is that is a movie that is well made but it could had been a different film if the story would had been less confusing and a movie with a shorter length.