The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

Returning to the lego-world about two seconds after the previous film finished, this is another bright, colourful adventure-with-a-message that should play just as easily to lego-obsessed children and their less discerning parents. This does lean slightly more towards being a musical (there’s a fair few songs, including the terrifyingly brainwormy “This song’s gonna get stuck inside your head”), and it maybe hits the message button a bit harder than the first film did, and in some ways it is very much a “second verse same as the first” kind of sequel, with a whole heap of pop-culture referencing, callbacks and general familiarity. And while the first film tended to bounce around several different environments, this tends to stick to three – which means there are a couple of moments in the middle where the film is sorta repeating the same couple of jokes and routines over and over. Still, they’re not bad jokes and there’s a nicely inspired closing credits sequence. Barring a sudden rush of inspiration I wouldn’t mind this being the last Lego movie, but this is a perfectly reasonable, highspirited way to spend an afternoon.