This Valentine’s Day my grandparents gave me and my parents some money for a dinner and movie. The movie we went to was The Lego Batman Movie. When I went in, I had high expectations because of the amazing humor-filled previews. This movie passed my expectations. (Spoiler alert) it starts with a black screen and Will Arnett, Batman, explaining how all important movies start with black screens… and then he says how he has a nine-pack.
Batman is introduced as a narcissistic and egotistical person that “…sit around all day in black clothes.” Dick Grayson, on the other hand, is a happy orphan who is a male gymnast. He meets Bruce Wayne at a festival where Barbara Gordon is becoming the police commissioner of Gotham City. Dick Grayson is asking Bruce Wayne if he is able to adopt someone, and he says yes because he is musing about Barbara and how beautiful she is and unconsciously adopts Dick. Barbara Gordon is the daughter of James Gordon, former police commissioner of Gotham City. Barbara has graduated from Harvard For Police. She grew up in a family full of police and wanted to follow her father’s footsteps. When Bruce Wayne’s parents were killed, Alfred Pennyworth became Bruce’s father figure and Batman refers to him as that.
The movie is mainly about two things. Number one, The Joker thinks he is Batman’s “greatest enemy” and does everything to prove that. Number two, in the previews there is a scene about what Batman is afraid of, and Alfred says it is being part of a family, he counters and says he is afraid of snake-clowns. Later in the movie Robin, Dick Grayson, says they are going on a family trip and throughout the movie Batman tries to deal with that without admitting that being part of a family is his fear. By the end of the movie both of those problems are resolved.
During the movie, Dick Grayson makes up things that people will know him by. He says his code name is Robin and his motto is “tweet, tweet, on the street.” He even comes up with a song, I’ll try to write it. This is how it goes: “Flyyyyy, Robin, Flyyyyy!” Batman tells Robin that he and Bruce Wayne said that they would both be his dad. Robin tries to call Batman Dad, and he immediately tells Robin to stop. Robin now tries to call him padré and Batman starts to talk, but Robin interrupts and asks him if he’s not allowed to call him that either. Batman asks what padré means and he says it means dad in Spanish. Batman doesn’t mind it and says it also means buddy.
At the end of the movie there is a white screen and Batman is explaining how all important movies end in white and then a robotic voice says: Playing Robin’s happy music, and it shows all of the people dancing around in gold and white with all the credits on the side.
The movie was so amazing! It had 188 fresh tomatoes and 19 rotten tomatoes on the website rottentomatoes.com which means it is very popular. I’m not sure but I think that is a record on Rotten Tomatoes. If you are thinking about watching a movie, I suggest the Lego Batman Movie. Not just because it’s a good movie for kids, it has hilarious adult humor as well and is satisfactory for an entire family.
