*In a mysterious hideout*
???: *approaches a mysterious victim in a strapped table* So... You've nearly died from a competition... I've been looking around for picking one for my interest of chosen one...
???: But... W-what are trying to do to me...?!
???: You have an incredible skills for your swordfight and gun. You'll now become my apprentice that il call you, as "Dark Amethyst". *walked away, as the machine is activating for a horrific surgery*.
???: *sees the machines starting* No... No! No!! NOOAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!
*meanwhile, at Team Blast's house*
Philip "Smasher" Caiden: So, you had a phone call, where our friend Bryan Emmerich who's facing against a mysterious figure when he dressed up as Spider-man? Talk about silly plan for that.
Ryan Blackonne: But he was talking about "Spider-man Homecoming", which this movie was actually succeed.
Smasher: Ah ok.
Eric Blakron: Not to mention, me and my sister Marian been transported in some kind of hideout that we transformed into "Power Rangers" and it was intense.
Marian Blakron: Yeah, especially me in Pink Ranger fits in that i like! ^^
Ryan Blackonne: Hm, interesting. And btw, there's a movie called "The Lego Ninjago Movie", which its not based on media cultures, it was based on Lego franchise, which is about ninjas.
Smasher: Cool, ninjas are badass and pretty quick. So, maybe we can watch it?
Ryan: Sure, i mean it had a TV show. But, it can't be that bad right?
*several hours later*
Ryan Blackonne: Um... Im not sure its a good one, right?
Smasher: Yeah.
Eric Blakron: Disappointed.
Marian Blakron: Agree.
Ryan Blackonne: Aw well, i guess il talking about it.
*review started*
Hello everyone, i am Ryan Blackonne, and this is a movie review.
From the early 2017, we had a second Lego movie called "The Lego Batman movie" and it was quiet good.
So, they decided to make another Lego movie, this time, it was based on Lego's franchise called Ninjago. Its series where the ninjas with elemental power to facing against the evil force, and it became favorite for kids to having a cartoon and even a film that what we have.
"The Lego Ninjago Movie" is a 2017 animated movie that was directed by Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher, Bob Logan, produced by Phil Lord (and) Christopher Miller (the famous duos since "The Lego movie") and Dan Line and written by... *looks at the list in the wiki* Wow... Thats a lot of writers of screenplay and story...!
This is one of the film that everyone was curious that they made a movie based on the toy company's franchise that we never heard of, or maybe its because they wanted to make another movie to be better after "The Lego Batman Movie".
So, with all that explained (kinda), will this movie will holds up for the franchise, or is this film that will easily be overshadowed by Batman?
Lets find out about it.
The Story
It begins in the old relic shop from a kid who visited here, not before he meets an owner named "Mr. Liu". Which he was telling a legend about the "Ninjago". In the legend story, the ninja heroes dubbed "Ninjago" is the savior of the city with giant robots against Lord Garmadon. One green ninja's secret identity named Lloyd who's ironically a son of Lord Garmadon, which he difficult life, since everyone is not appreciated from his evil father. But one day, Lloyd and his ninja friends surprised for the return of Sensei Wu. Wu tells them stop against Lord Garmadon with the "Ultimate Weapon", but it was a laser light that Lloyd uses it, which cause a big incident, which the laser light itself is summoning a big real life cat. Devastated for the incident, Lloyd revealed that he's a green ninja and walked away from his evil father for his meltdown. Its up to Lloyd and his partners to find a second one called "The Ultimate, Ultimate Weapon" to save the city.
Even though its just a Lego movie for a strange story, but this one is probably the weakest. Which the main plot is probably wasted, due to the fact it focused to much about a father and son relationship. As if Lord Garmadon was desperate to telling about to his son Lloyd. I mean come on, we already got "The Lego Batman Movie" where it tells that Batman want to focus on his own, since his parents was killed from a gunman, not until he's sorta like a father to Robin and wife of Barbara Gordon/Batgirl. But in Ninjago movie, it feels like its all over the place for a filler. They could've take a bit of a time to mainly focus about The Ultimate Weapon 2.0.
The story itself is pretty forgettable with a mainly focus about an evil father and good son, which its almost like it was borrowed from Star Wars "Return of Jedi". Though the first act is like a fun start, while the rest got bored pretty easily.
The Animation
What can we say about it? They did a great job for the animation of the Lego. With stop-motion like and tricky animation for the limbs of Lego figure. The facial animation was obviously done with 2D, but they did a nice work, especially with a tears of Lord Garmadon. The background and design looks pretty cool that its almost like what if Lego make a big budget product for kids, it will be like crazy.
While other animation than Lego like water and other stuff was also nicely work to make it a bit realistic. But the animation of a cat seems to be a bit unrealistic, although it looks cute and somewhat playful, but the design looks slightly cartoony and the movement is maybe would've done better if they learn how any cats behave.
The animation itself is pretty good, since we saw two previous Lego movies.
The Characters
Its not easy to tell which characters are likable, cause its gonna be a complicated story.
First we have Lloyd Garmadon (voiced by Dave Franco), who's a leader of "Secret Ninja Force" and a son of Lord Goarmadon. He was nice and probably a big loser for the citizens due of his father and his lack of meaning of his color green. Which we expect he would've be nice a respectful to everyone, but no, he's basically a loser leader of the Ninja. Though Dave did an ok job for his voice acting, but the personality of him and relationship are rather poor, which we really wish if he could fight against his evil father.
As for the rest of his ninjas, they're not bad, even though they have a typical personalities, like Kai (voiced by Michael Peña) is a hothead red ninja, Jay (voiced by Kumail Nanjiani) is a calm and cautious blue ninja, Nya (voiced by Abbi Jacobson) is a strong silver ninja (which maybe she's an interesting one?), Zane (voiced by Zach Woods) is a robotic white ninja and Cole (voiced by Fred Armisen) is a laid-back and music loving black ninja.
Then for the so-called "Villain", named Lord Garmadon (voiced by Justin Theroux), he's an evil ninja who lives in a volcano to taking over the city of Ninjago. Which it would've been interesting. But the big problem is that he's way to connective to his son Lloyd (aka "Laloyd" as he liked to pronounced him, which is kinda funny, but true.) for the past, which its just a waste of portrayal what he supposed to be than the original franchise. But sorry, he's easily the most forgettable villain in the movie. But his appearance looks pretty cool and kinda creepy though.
But the one character who's maybe likable is Master Wu (voiced by Jackie Chan), who's not only a master of The Secret Ninja Force, but a nephew of Lloyd. Though he's wisecracking, but he has a plot development about the ninjas for powers and death. Though he may have some problem, but Jackie Chan's role of Wu is probably a nice choice.
They're afew other characters out there, like Lloyd's mother name, who's rather.... Well, a mother. And the rest is not much else.
The characters in the movie are not as likable to watch, since Lord Garmadon way too conective to Lloyd for development. But except for Master Wu, he's rather interesting, thanks to Jackie Chan.
And now for the conclusion of the film.
Overall, "The Lego Ninjago Movie" isn't a good movie, i mean it would've been ok to releasing it on Netflix. With complicated stories, forgettable characters and the lore of Ninjago franchise feels like non-exist, even though its only a lore of the world of "Lego movies". Though the animations looks great and the jokes may or may not work to laugh. If you're a fan of Lego or Ninja, maybe this one is for you. Cause if not, i don't recommend to watch it.
Il give it 4/10.
Well, thats all for the review. If you guys have your honest opinion or even request of review, let me know at the comment.
Thanks for reading, Blackonne out.
*review ends*
Eric Blakron: That was interesting to explaining about it.
Smasher: Yeah, im--
News reporter (on TV): We're here to report that there's a figure who's wearing a purple outfit with a purple energy sword who's ridiculously strong that he killed all the innocent people...
Marian Blakron: Oh my gosh...
Blackonne: Holy hell...
Smasher: I guess we better stop that mysterious man wearing a mask.
Eric Blakron: Yeah, we better teaming up to--
*The TV around the world was hijacked to reveal a mysterious figure with a mask*
???: Greetings, humanity...
Eric Blakron: What the...?!
???: My name is Obsidian... Lord of "The Shattering Gems"... I come from other world... To taking over the world... To extinct the humanity... With not only my soldiers... But also my important Apprentice named "Dark Amethyst"...
Smasher: Ok... This is getting to far for that! But how the heck did he--
Obsidian: We captured one man who's going to be our chosen one... Despite that he's a human being, but we changed his life as a hybrid and making him much stronger than any gems or humans...
Marian Blakron: *starts to feel nervous* Oh no...
Obsidian: And now... All you humans will prepare to die with our power and your Earth, will be mine... *evil laughs*
Eric Blakron: That Bastard!!
Ryan Blackonne: That guy named "Dark Amethyst" is gonna be a lot complicated for his speed and probably nearly indestructible.
Smasher: But, what are we gonna do now?!
Eric Blakron: I don't know...
To be Continued...
Ryan Blackonne: Um... Im not sure its a good one, right?
Smasher: Yeah.
Eric Blakron: Disappointed.
Marian Blakron: Agree.
Ryan Blackonne: Aw well, i guess il talking about it.
*review started*
Hello everyone, i am Ryan Blackonne, and this is a movie review.
From the early 2017, we had a second Lego movie called "The Lego Batman movie" and it was quiet good.
So, they decided to make another Lego movie, this time, it was based on Lego's franchise called Ninjago. Its series where the ninjas with elemental power to facing against the evil force, and it became favorite for kids to having a cartoon and even a film that what we have.
"The Lego Ninjago Movie" is a 2017 animated movie that was directed by Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher, Bob Logan, produced by Phil Lord (and) Christopher Miller (the famous duos since "The Lego movie") and Dan Line and written by... *looks at the list in the wiki* Wow... Thats a lot of writers of screenplay and story...!
This is one of the film that everyone was curious that they made a movie based on the toy company's franchise that we never heard of, or maybe its because they wanted to make another movie to be better after "The Lego Batman Movie".
So, with all that explained (kinda), will this movie will holds up for the franchise, or is this film that will easily be overshadowed by Batman?
Lets find out about it.
The Story
It begins in the old relic shop from a kid who visited here, not before he meets an owner named "Mr. Liu". Which he was telling a legend about the "Ninjago". In the legend story, the ninja heroes dubbed "Ninjago" is the savior of the city with giant robots against Lord Garmadon. One green ninja's secret identity named Lloyd who's ironically a son of Lord Garmadon, which he difficult life, since everyone is not appreciated from his evil father. But one day, Lloyd and his ninja friends surprised for the return of Sensei Wu. Wu tells them stop against Lord Garmadon with the "Ultimate Weapon", but it was a laser light that Lloyd uses it, which cause a big incident, which the laser light itself is summoning a big real life cat. Devastated for the incident, Lloyd revealed that he's a green ninja and walked away from his evil father for his meltdown. Its up to Lloyd and his partners to find a second one called "The Ultimate, Ultimate Weapon" to save the city.
Even though its just a Lego movie for a strange story, but this one is probably the weakest. Which the main plot is probably wasted, due to the fact it focused to much about a father and son relationship. As if Lord Garmadon was desperate to telling about to his son Lloyd. I mean come on, we already got "The Lego Batman Movie" where it tells that Batman want to focus on his own, since his parents was killed from a gunman, not until he's sorta like a father to Robin and wife of Barbara Gordon/Batgirl. But in Ninjago movie, it feels like its all over the place for a filler. They could've take a bit of a time to mainly focus about The Ultimate Weapon 2.0.
The story itself is pretty forgettable with a mainly focus about an evil father and good son, which its almost like it was borrowed from Star Wars "Return of Jedi". Though the first act is like a fun start, while the rest got bored pretty easily.
The Animation
What can we say about it? They did a great job for the animation of the Lego. With stop-motion like and tricky animation for the limbs of Lego figure. The facial animation was obviously done with 2D, but they did a nice work, especially with a tears of Lord Garmadon. The background and design looks pretty cool that its almost like what if Lego make a big budget product for kids, it will be like crazy.
While other animation than Lego like water and other stuff was also nicely work to make it a bit realistic. But the animation of a cat seems to be a bit unrealistic, although it looks cute and somewhat playful, but the design looks slightly cartoony and the movement is maybe would've done better if they learn how any cats behave.
The animation itself is pretty good, since we saw two previous Lego movies.
The Characters
Its not easy to tell which characters are likable, cause its gonna be a complicated story.
First we have Lloyd Garmadon (voiced by Dave Franco), who's a leader of "Secret Ninja Force" and a son of Lord Goarmadon. He was nice and probably a big loser for the citizens due of his father and his lack of meaning of his color green. Which we expect he would've be nice a respectful to everyone, but no, he's basically a loser leader of the Ninja. Though Dave did an ok job for his voice acting, but the personality of him and relationship are rather poor, which we really wish if he could fight against his evil father.
As for the rest of his ninjas, they're not bad, even though they have a typical personalities, like Kai (voiced by Michael Peña) is a hothead red ninja, Jay (voiced by Kumail Nanjiani) is a calm and cautious blue ninja, Nya (voiced by Abbi Jacobson) is a strong silver ninja (which maybe she's an interesting one?), Zane (voiced by Zach Woods) is a robotic white ninja and Cole (voiced by Fred Armisen) is a laid-back and music loving black ninja.
Then for the so-called "Villain", named Lord Garmadon (voiced by Justin Theroux), he's an evil ninja who lives in a volcano to taking over the city of Ninjago. Which it would've been interesting. But the big problem is that he's way to connective to his son Lloyd (aka "Laloyd" as he liked to pronounced him, which is kinda funny, but true.) for the past, which its just a waste of portrayal what he supposed to be than the original franchise. But sorry, he's easily the most forgettable villain in the movie. But his appearance looks pretty cool and kinda creepy though.
But the one character who's maybe likable is Master Wu (voiced by Jackie Chan), who's not only a master of The Secret Ninja Force, but a nephew of Lloyd. Though he's wisecracking, but he has a plot development about the ninjas for powers and death. Though he may have some problem, but Jackie Chan's role of Wu is probably a nice choice.
They're afew other characters out there, like Lloyd's mother name, who's rather.... Well, a mother. And the rest is not much else.
The characters in the movie are not as likable to watch, since Lord Garmadon way too conective to Lloyd for development. But except for Master Wu, he's rather interesting, thanks to Jackie Chan.
And now for the conclusion of the film.
Overall, "The Lego Ninjago Movie" isn't a good movie, i mean it would've been ok to releasing it on Netflix. With complicated stories, forgettable characters and the lore of Ninjago franchise feels like non-exist, even though its only a lore of the world of "Lego movies". Though the animations looks great and the jokes may or may not work to laugh. If you're a fan of Lego or Ninja, maybe this one is for you. Cause if not, i don't recommend to watch it.
Il give it 4/10.
Well, thats all for the review. If you guys have your honest opinion or even request of review, let me know at the comment.
Thanks for reading, Blackonne out.
*review ends*
Eric Blakron: That was interesting to explaining about it.
Smasher: Yeah, im--
News reporter (on TV): We're here to report that there's a figure who's wearing a purple outfit with a purple energy sword who's ridiculously strong that he killed all the innocent people...
Marian Blakron: Oh my gosh...
Blackonne: Holy hell...
Smasher: I guess we better stop that mysterious man wearing a mask.
Eric Blakron: Yeah, we better teaming up to--
*The TV around the world was hijacked to reveal a mysterious figure with a mask*
???: Greetings, humanity...
Eric Blakron: What the...?!
???: My name is Obsidian... Lord of "The Shattering Gems"... I come from other world... To taking over the world... To extinct the humanity... With not only my soldiers... But also my important Apprentice named "Dark Amethyst"...
Smasher: Ok... This is getting to far for that! But how the heck did he--
Obsidian: We captured one man who's going to be our chosen one... Despite that he's a human being, but we changed his life as a hybrid and making him much stronger than any gems or humans...
Marian Blakron: *starts to feel nervous* Oh no...
Obsidian: And now... All you humans will prepare to die with our power and your Earth, will be mine... *evil laughs*
Eric Blakron: That Bastard!!
Ryan Blackonne: That guy named "Dark Amethyst" is gonna be a lot complicated for his speed and probably nearly indestructible.
Smasher: But, what are we gonna do now?!
Eric Blakron: I don't know...
To be Continued...
