The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part


The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part is a 2019 animated adventure comedy film directed by Mike Mitchell and written by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Based on the Lego construction toys, it is the fourth in the The Lego Movie film series. Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Charlie Day, Alison Brie and Nick Offerman reprise their roles from the first film, with Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz and Maya Rudolph joining the cast. The film takes place five years after the events of the previous film and follows Emmet Brickowski, Lucy and their friends, who travel into the Systar System to test their skills and creativity, while Emmet deals with a coming cataclysm known as "Armamageddon".
Development of a sequel to The Lego Movie began in February 2014. In March, it was announced that the film would be directed by Chris McKay and in October it was reported that Lord and Miller would return as the screenwriters. In February 2015, McKay was replaced as director by Rob Schrab, who in turn was replaced in February 2017 by Mike Mitchell, reportedly due to creative differences. Production for the film began in October 2017, with the majority of the cast returning to voice the characters in mid-2018, along with the new cast. As with the previous films in the franchise, the animation was provided by Animal Logic. Mark Mothersbaugh, who composed The Lego Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie, returned to compose the film's musical score, with artists including Dillon Francis, Beck, Robyn and The Lonely Island providing original songs for the film.
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part premiered in Los Angeles on February 2, 2019, and was released in the United States on February 8 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received generally positive reviews from critics, although it was considered inferior to its predecessor. Despite grossing $199.6 million against a budget of $99 million, the film became the franchise's second box office disappointment after The Lego Ninjago Movie.

Plot

Shortly after the destruction of the Kragle via the Piece of Resistance, Duplo aliens arrive and threaten destruction. Emmet builds the aliens a heart as a token of friendship, but one eats it and demands more. Lucy and the Master Builders believe this to be an attack and retaliate, and the ensuing battle ravages Bricksburg. Five years later, a teenage Finn has rebuilt Bricksburg as Apocalypseburg. The city has been ravaged by repeated Duplo attacks, and several people have gone missing while searching for the Duplo home planet. Emmet remains upbeat, in stark contrast to Lucy and his other friends, though he has visions of an impending "Armamageddon".
A mini-doll called General Sweet Mayhem arrives, kidnaps all of Emmet's friends, and takes them to the shape-shifting ruler of the Systar System, Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi. Emmet tries to convince the Master Builders to help him save Lucy and the rest of his friends, but they refuse to help, believing that he is not tough enough to go through the Systar System. Emmet subsequently crafts a spaceship to pursue Mayhem by passing through the "Stairgate". Meanwhile, Watevra has apparently brainwashed Emmet's friends into accepting the joy of her world and convinces Batman to marry her as a way to unite the Lego, Mini-doll, and Duplo worlds. Only Lucy remains skeptical of Watevra's plans.
Emmet's ship is heavily damaged and nearly collides with an asteroid field but is saved by rugged adventurer Rex Dangervest. After hearing Emmet's story, Rex offers to help and takes him to the Systar System. En route, Emmet tries to emulate some of Rex's mannerisms and learn Rex's "Master Breaker" abilities. When they arrive, they quickly reunite with Lucy and learn of the marriage plans, which Rex, Lucy, and Emmet believe to be a front to bring on Armamageddon.
As the wedding starts, Emmet, Rex, and Lucy split up to sabotage the event. Mayhem, who insists the wedding is intended to prevent Armamageddon, intercepts Lucy and explains their true intentions. At the ceremony, Watevra reveals her true form: the heart that Emmet tried to give the Duplo invaders. Realizing that Mayhem was right, Lucy tries to stop Emmet, but he destroys the ceremony with a Master Breaker punch. In reality, Finn, after finding out that his sister, Bianca, had taken his Lego figures, smashes her ceremony creation. Emmet realizes his mistake but is seized by Rex, who reveals he is a version of him from the future, who collided with the asteroids and ended up under a dryer when he was young as Emmet. Embittered and resenting his friends for forgetting him, he changed his name and appearance and created a space time-traveling machine to pick up the raptors and return to help Emmet but to make sure that Armamageddon came to pass as revenge against his friends and everyone who doubted him. When Emmet refuses to abandon his friends, Rex, infuriated at Emmet's "betrayal", usurps and knocks him under the same dryer, ensuring that Rex will continue to exist forever.
In the real world, Finn and Bianca's mother, having had to walk in on them for the past five years and fed up with their bickering jealousy, scolds and orders them to put the Lego toys into a storage bin as punishment; Lucy recognizes this as Armamageddon, which turns out to be "our mama gets in". The Lego worlds began to fall apart as everyone is sucked into a dark void into the storage bin and fear they will not escape.
Meanwhile, Finn finds the pieces of Watevra's form in one of the storage bins. The form's revealed to be a heart that Finn gave Bianca five years earlier, telling her it can be "whatever you want it to be". Finn and Bianca reconcile and start playing together. In the Lego universe, this act inspires Lucy and the others to escape the bin to save Emmet, stop Rex and help rebuild Watevra's world while fighting off the raptors. In an ensuing fight, Lucy then saves Emmet from Rex, destroying the time machine in the process. Emmet comes to accept that he will never be like Rex, and with this self-realization, Rex begins to disappear, but not before realizing the error of his ways and encouraging Emmet to keep going forward and keep being himself. Rex fades from existence, correcting a time paradox.
After that, Batman and Watevra are married, and Finn and Bianca are back in their normal lives after their Lego toys are brought back. Their mother sees them playing together and happily watches them. The Lego universe is recreated as a mish-mash of Apocalypseburg and the Systar System, renamed Syspocalypstar. When Emmet's home is rebuilt, Lucy gives Emmet a gift which is the original album of "Everything Is Awesome", revealing to Emmet that she made the song with other people, much to his shock.

Cast

  • Chris Pratt as Emmet Brickowski, an everyman, construction worker, and a Master Builder from Bricksburg and Lucy's boyfriend.
  • * Pratt also voices Rex Dangervest, a self-proclaimed "galaxy-defender, archaeologist, cowboy, and raptor trainer." He is eventually revealed to be Emmet's dangerously nihilistic future self. His character is based on Pratt's most famous roles.
  • Elizabeth Banks as Lucy / Wyldstyle, a Master Builder and Emmet's girlfriend.
  • Will Arnett as Bruce Wayne / Batman, a DC Comics superhero who is a Master Builder and Wyldstyle's ex-boyfriend.
  • Tiffany Haddish as Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi, the shape-shifting alien queen of the Systar System that was made by Emmet as a heart. Her name is a pun on the phrase "whatever I want to be", itself a descriptor of her shape-shifting abilities, which are displayed when she changes into multiple forms throughout the movie.
  • Stephanie Beatriz as General Sweet Mayhem, an intergalactic mini-doll who serves as the intergalactic naval commander and law enforcer of the Systar System Armed Forces. She is the right-hand woman to Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi.
  • Charlie Day as Benny, a Master Builder who is a spaceship-obsessed 1980s spaceman. In contrast to the previous movie, he has a metallic arm.
  • Alison Brie as Princess Unikitty / Ultrakatty, a Master Builder who is a unicorn-horned cat. In this film, instead of turning red when angry, she is red right from the outset. Over the years since the first film, she has developed the ability to become a giant version of herself called "Ultrakatty" when combat is about to occur.
  • Nick Offerman as MetalBeard, a Master Builder who is a large bionic pirate with a severed head after he lost his original body in an earlier encounter with Lord Business' forces.
  • Jadon Sand as Finn, a young teenager in the real world, whose imagination drives the events happening in the Lego universe.
  • Brooklynn Prince as Bianca, Finn's younger sister, who is the reason why the aliens from the planet Duplo attacked Bricksburg.
  • Maya Rudolph as Mom, the unnamed mother of Finn and Bianca. She is the force in the real world that brings about "Armamageddon". She was previously voiced off-screen by Amanda Farinos in the first film.
  • Will Ferrell as President Business, the former President of the Octan corporation and the Lego World, who served as the main antagonist of the first film.
  • * Ferrell also voices The Man Upstairs, a Lego collector who is Finn and Bianca's father. Outside of re-used footage from the first film, Ferrell does not appear on-screen in this role, performing only in an off-screen voiceover, except for a brief shot of a photo of the Man Upstairs and his family on a log flume ride that can be seen in his daughter Bianca's bedroom.
  • Richard Ayoade as "Ice Cream Cone", a talking ice cream cone and citizen of the Systar System who serves as Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi's aide.
  • Channing Tatum as Superman, a DC Comics superhero, and one of the Master Builders.
  • Jonah Hill as Green Lantern, a DC Comics superhero, and one of the Master Builders.
  • Cobie Smulders as Wonder Woman, a DC Comics superhero who is an ambassador of the Amazon people as well as a Master Builder.
  • Jason Momoa as Aquaman, a DC Comics superhero who is the king of Atlantis and is also a Master Builder. Momoa reprises his role from the DC Extended Universe.
  • Margot Rubin as Harley Quinn, a Gotham City criminal, girlfriend to The Joker and Master Builder. She was previously voiced by Jenny Slate in The Lego Batman Movie.
  • * Rubin also voices Susan, a mini-doll, and one of Queen Watevra Wa-Nabi's servants.
  • * Rubin also voices Mermaid, an inhabitant of Apocalypseburg.
  • * Rubin also voices Wonder Woman mini-doll, an inhabitant of Harmony Town.
  • * Rubin also voices Panda, a panda-masked inhabitant of Apocalypseburg.
  • Ike Barinholtz as Lex Luthor, a DC Comics supervillain, Master Builder and arch-enemy of Superman. Strangely, he and the Man of Steel have somehow become best friends after being brain-washed by the Queen.
  • Ralph Fiennes as Alfred Pennyworth, a DC Comics character and Master Builder who is Batman's loyal Butler.
  • Will Forte as Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States and a Master Builder.
  • Bruce Willis as himself, a Lego caricature of the actor who appears in several scenes, including a running joke alluding to his character John McClane from the 20th Century Studios Die Hard franchise.
  • Ben Schwartz as Banarnar, a sentient banana peel who is a citizen and the perpetual jester of the Systar System.
  • Jimmy O. Yang as Zebe, a lavender and black zebra who is a citizen and the bus driver of the Systar System.
  • Noel Fielding as Balthazar, a sparkly-faced teenage vampire, spa expert, and DJ from the planet Sparkle in the Systar System describing himself as an "attractive and non-threatening teen vampire." He is a nod to Edward Cullen from The Twilight Saga.
  • Jorma Taccone as Larry Poppins, a male counterpart of Mary Poppins.
  • Gary Payton as Himself, a Lego caricature of the basketball player who Emmet encounters in Apocalypseburg.
  • Sheryl Swoopes as Herself, a Lego caricature of the basketball player who Emmet encounters in Apocalypseburg.
  • Trisha Gum as Velma Dinkley, a member of Mystery Inc. from the Scooby-Doo franchise.
  • Todd Hansen as Gandalf, a wizard from Middle-earth and a Master Builder. Hansen had voiced the same character in The Lego Movie.
  • * Hansen also voices The Swamp Creature, a gill-man from Lego Monster Fighters and a Master Builder. He is also a recurring character from The Lego Movie.
  • Doug Nicholas as Chainsaw Dave, a citizen of Apocalypseburg who was formerly known as Surfer Dave.
  • Mike Mitchell as Sherry Scratchen-Post, a cat lady who is a citizen of Apocalypseburg.
  • * Mitchell also voices a royal guard that works for Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi.
  • * Mitchell also voices "Eight", an octopus who does massages and works at the spa in the Palace of Infinite Reflection.
  • * Mitchell also voices a Harmony Town citizen
  • * Mitchell also voices an announcer who announces the guests on the bride and groom's side
  • * Mitchell also voices an Apocalypseburg warrior.
  • Christopher Miller as Chad, a citizen of the Systar System who is the DJ of the Pop-Up Party Bus under the stage name Tempo.
  • * Miller also voices a horse.
  • * Miller also voices a talking chocolate bar that resides in the Systar System.
  • * Miller also voices a Plantimals, a plant-like creature in the Systar System that live in the jungles near Harmony Town.
  • * Miller also voices Paper Boy, a resident of Harmony Town.
  • Emily Nordwind as Cleopatra, an Egyptian queen and Master Builder.
  • Chris McKay as "Larry", a barista that works in Apocalypseburg.
  • Ralph Halprin as "Dolphin Clock," an orbiting clock in the Systar System that is based on Bianca's actual clock.
Additionally, the characters of Bad Cop / Good Cop and Vitruvius' ghost return with brief lines of dialogue, voiced by uncredited actors in place of Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman respectively.