Ambition pointed at a monster, then corrected toward a person. Better than the poster.
The review
Igors are supposed to be servants of evil scientists. This one wants the credit, which starts as vanity and turns into responsibility when his invention wakes up as a girl with a conscience. The evil science fair is a joke about a culture that rewards harm. The film picks the girl.
It is macabre in a cartoon way. Older children, not the nursery. The useful line is that a maker answers for what stands up and calls him by name.
The Lego Movie is still a animation film, and it scores 69 instead of 58. What you gain is household: The real plot is a father who has forgotten how to share the toys.
The eight
7
Industry
Invention is the plot. So is the credit, honestly wanted.
5
Household
He becomes a guardian of what he made.
3
Piety
A mockery of mad science, not a creed.
6
Courage
He tells the truth in front of the fair.
5
Republic
A kingdom that applauds the wrong experiment.
6
Temperance
The will to be famous is checked by a person.
7
Truth
The monster is a person. Pretending otherwise is the sin.
Adults. The courtroom is the work. What happened and what can be proved are not the same fact.
The review
A soldier shoots a bar owner and says the man raped his wife. A former prosecutor who now fishes more than he practices takes the defense. I am not going to describe the testimony. In 1959 the testimony itself was the scandal, because a courtroom in an American film was asked to say out loud what a trial of this kind has to say. The lawyer is good at the saying. He is also having a good time, and the film lets you see the good time, which is the correction inside the craft.
Adults. A house does not need this as a primer. A house that wants one picture of how a verdict is made, rather than how a villain confesses, can use it. Ask, at the end, what the jury was allowed to know and what the rooms already knew. Those are different piles. The decade's more famous courtroom hours snap the case shut with a witness who breaks. This one is more honest about the gap, and less honest about whether the lawyer is a man to admire. Admire the proceeding. Decline the grin.
