{"id":97046,"date":"2017-05-30T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T23:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=97046"},"modified":"2017-05-22T15:35:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T14:35:15","slug":"the-lego-batman-movie-dvd-blu-ray-review-the-best-batman-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/the-lego-batman-movie-dvd-blu-ray-review-the-best-batman-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lego Batman Movie DVD &#038; Blu-ray review: The best Batman movie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Warner Bros announced that it was making <em><strong>The Lego Movie<\/strong><\/em>, the whole thing sounded a bit like a ploy to get people to pay to see a 100-minute-long advert for Lego. Upon the film\u2019s release it was immediately clear that that wasn\u2019t the case at all. The more cynical among us probably presumed <em><strong>The Lego Batman Movie<\/strong><\/em> would be a 104-minute advert for the upcoming DCEU, but they couldn\u2019t have been more wrong either.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of attempting to capitalise off a film\u2019s success to sell more Lego, Warner Bros seems to be using the already immensely successful Lego brand as an excuse to make movies as stupid and ridiculously entertaining as possible. That\u2019s what <em><strong>The Lego Batman Movie<\/strong><\/em> is; it\u2019s simultaneously dumb, razor sharp, hilarious and utterly charming. It rips the whole concept of Batman to shreds while somehow making you love the Caped Crusader even more.<\/p>\n<p>Like with<em><strong> The Lego Movie<\/strong><\/em>, the voice cast for <em><strong>The Lego Batman Movie<\/strong><\/em> is pretty much perfect. Will Arnett\u2019s grumble as Batman continues to be hysterical, while new voices like Michael Cera as Robin, Rosario Dawson as Batgirl and Ralph Fiennes as Alfred Pennyworth fit into the bizarre world of Lego Gotham beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>If we were to list all the new characters you\u2019d no doubt stop reading there are that many \u2013 the film really packs them in \u2013 but it never feels like they\u2019ve been included for the sake of including them (or for the sake of making the most of having the rights to everything). The film has gone back decades to seek out the weirdest, most obscure <em><strong>Batman<\/strong><\/em> characters, and the jokes that follow are definitely worth it.<\/p>\n<p>The animation continues to be stunning, albeit a bit of a mind stamp at times when you can\u2019t tell if what you\u2019re looking at is actual Lego bricks or not. The story, perhaps, isn\u2019t as layered as <em><strong>The Lego Movie<\/strong><\/em> but it really doesn\u2019t matter, not when something is as laugh-a-minute as this. And it really laugh-a-minute, out loud and everything. The whole thing is a perfect antidote the steely, sombre\u00a0superheroes we\u2019re seeing more and more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lego Batman Movie is available to buy now on digital download <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":97048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2617,8],"tags":[4590],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FU-LEGO-BATMAN4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}