Product Description
A LEGO Brickumentary (#ad) is a G Rated feature-length documentary about the LEGO phenomenon,directed and written by Kief Davidson and Daniel Junge. This American documentary was released on July 31st 2015 and runs for 95 mins. It was released by the Radius studios.
The movie features Jason Bateman as the narrator and Alice Finch Lee, Nathan Sawaya, Adam Reed Tucker, Jamie Berard and David Pagano as themselves.
This documentary playfully delves into the immeasurable and extraordinary impact of LEGO brick, it’s global fan base and the unique and innovative uses that it has sprung up around the globe.
Humble Beginnings
The story is narrated by a LEGO-ized version of Jason Bateman and takes the viewers on a tour of every aspect of the LEGO story starting with its beginnings in 1957 as the brainchild of a Denmark-based Businessman, Ole Kirk Christiansen whose factories had a tendency to burst up in flames to the present to day where they can boast to be the second-biggest toy manufacturer in the world even though they sell just one product.
There are some scenes where we get to see what happens behind-the-scenes during the production process and we also get to see the designers and the master builders who develop this seemingly endless array of LEGO bricks.
Plot
The parents need to know that this documentary chronicles the aspects of LEGO Company’s evolution and introduces various super fans known as AFOL who work with bricks.
Even though this documentary is about (arguably) the most popular toy in the world yet it is not for very young kids. They might get bored by the spotlight being on married master builders or Danish mathematician who is trying to unlock the formula of finding out different ways to arrange a finite number of LEGO bricks.
There is a lot of discussion about the company, its failures, its glory days and how the fan community has more males than females. There is also no iffy content in the way of violence, sex, language, drinking or drugs.
Verdict
The documentary is a relentlessly upbeat movie which gives a lot of knowledge about the toy unless you are already a big fan and know everything about it.
LEGO devotees – that is the target audience will surely know all there is to know about it so asking them to pay top dollar for this movie is a ridiculous idea. Their money would be well spent buying LEGO bricks.
I give this documentary 3.2 out of 5. I didn’t know much about LEGO bricks and enjoyed the documentary yet it felt a bit boring at times.
