Plot: Shunned by everyone for being the son of an evil warlord, a teenager seeks to defeat him with the help of his fellow ninjas.
In an unexpected turn of events, I consented to watch the Lego Ninjago movie Sunday night. There are a number of films which I’ve seen, and wanted to see, in cinema this year, of which Ninjago didn’t even register as a possibility. However, I was under obligation to adhere to the “birthday-person-is-allowed-final-word” clause, and I sat down and watched Ninjago.
I suspect Lego is laughing all the way to the bank. It is pure genius business decision, and contains enough adult humor to entertain parents while stressing them out – every child that sits through one of these films will end up wanting some new Legos (hell, I think a lot of adults end up wanting new Legos after a film like this). It is a feast for childish imagination and is bright and colorful and really very excitable. I want to sanctimoniously preach to the parents who had their children out of bed on a Sunday night at our 20:30 screening, but I guess that is beside the point. It is child based and sweet, although it does pale in comparison to 2015’s Lego film. It is funny and cute but lacks some of the sharp dialogue that has become expected in animation films.
Ninjago also has some seriously crazy moments and I couldn’t help but wonder which choice herbs they were smoking when thinking of the ideas they implemented. It was very weird. I liked Jackie Chan as Sensei Wu, Dave Franco as Lloyd Garmadon and Justin Theroux as the not-so-evil-supervillain Garmadon. Typing that out made me realize that this film barely had a plot or a conclusion (the end is particularly haphazard), but ultimately, for children, it is fine. Personally I enjoyed the first Lego film more, and I’ve been informed that Lego: Batman is a finer film than Ninjago. However, Ninjago has some laugh-out-loud moments and it was bright, quirky and still not nearly as bad as I expected so all to them.
Have you seen Ninjago? If so, what did you think?
Rating: 6.5/10
Life of this city girl 
I know nothing about Ninjago and never felt the pull to see this one. I was really surprised when it was announced. I figure my kids will want to see it at some point so I’ll probably catch it later.
You can avoid this as long as possible – really forgettable. But your kids will definitely enjoy!
So forgettable you didn’t even mention seeing it this weekend xD
EXACTLY. However, it was late on that Sunday night haha.
Glad this was more fun than you were expecting. I passed on it as I get the feeling that since the Lego Movie in ’14 these are all gonna be kind of the same. Which isn’t a bad thing, but for me the one was good. Though I am tempted to see the Lego Batman Movie. I loved Will Arnett as Batman.
Lego of ’14 was great, a whole lot better than this with better dialogue. I also want to catch the Batman one, I’ve heard it’s pretty good.
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