Is “The LEGO Movie” a “real” LEGO movie?

What makes a LEGO movie a “LEGO Movie”?

In response to the release of “The LEGO Movie”, Fancy Pants put together this assortment of clips from 15 popular brickfilms. It’s a great showcase of some of the best the medium has to offer (we’ve covered a few of the selections here before), but something about the sentiment behind it seems off.

Here at The Set Bump, we can certainly be somewhat snooty in terms of what makes something “true” LEGO animation. On the other hand, as I said in my spoilertastic review: The LEGO Movie is, for all intents and purposes, a brickfilm in the truest sense of the word.

What do you guys think? Are there definite criteria for what makes a “real” LEGO movie? If so, do you think The LEGO Movie qualifies?

The REAL Lego Movies – YouTube

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David Pagano is an award-winning animation director and the head of Paganomation, a New York-based production studio. Since 2007, David and his team have created dozens of stop-motion shorts, ads, and music videos. In 2014, David appeared in “A LEGO Brickumentary” in an effort to make "LEGO Animation Historian" his second unlikely career path. When he’s not otherwise occupied with work (which isn't often), David can be found sleeping in late, biking around NYC, and thinking critically about 1980s media.

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