I give up

Heheh...Well, maybe it'll be like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q27BfBkRHbs

No. It won't. Will it?

Haha, Saladinho, that's exactly what I was going to post. If they get Michel Gondry to direct this, it could be a masterpiece.

Ha! Indeed Herr Stroszek. Talk about a feast for the eyes...

meanwhile, i just read a whole article about how Lego is denying use of its product in the upcoming Spinal Tap production:

"The cruel masters at Lego have denied Spinal Tap permission to include on an upcoming DVD a fan-made video of Lego figures performing "Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight," simply because the song features lyrics like "You're too young and I'm too well hung" and "You're sweet, but you're just four feet and you still got your baby teeth." Even the famed copyright jerks in the Rolling Stones allowed their likenesses to be used elsewhere in the DVD. Says Harry Shearer, "Lego are the only people who strictly said no ... It was Lego Kafka." [NYT]

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/08/tonight_lego_is_gonna_prohibit.html

In defence of Lego, the lego video games are cool.

But you are right this will suck.

Yeah, RobertH has a point. The Lego video games are fun. And, ya know, the Clue movie was awesome.

That said, I also am not holding out any hope for this whatsoever.

Also, beginning the countdown to the first pedant to come in and tell us all that it's LEGO® brand building blocks, not "Lego" or, god forbid, "Legos".

Hollywood will stop serving us b-llsh-t if we can convince enough people to stop eating their b-llsh-t.

I tried. I seriously tried to keep my friends from wanting to see this latest Transformers travesty, but noooo. I made my intention to them to avoid GI Joe at all costs very clear, and they still went on their own. But this, all this, has got to end. Just get your friends, get their family and friends, keep getting the word out, to just... please, for the love of GOD, stop spending money on Hollywood crap.

I heard there was also going to be a monopoly movie...

You all miss the main motivation for making this movie. The plastic tooling for the Burger King Toys is already done and paid for.

Wall-E world, here we come.

Sorry Paul, park's closed. Moose out front shoulda told ya.

"Coming for summer 2010: Movie Theater: The Movie!"

MJ,
You really don't like Channing Tatum do you?

We get the movies we deserve.
To paraphrase Scoop Nisker -

If you don't like the films, go out and make some of your own

@ Tony: I don't either. Not even if he was delivered to me tied up, gagged, and naked on a silver platter. So, she's not alone.

@ MaryAnn: I'm only going to take my son to see this movie if they include the lego-animated versions of Eddie Izzard's "But, do you have a flag?" and "Death Star Canteen" peices.

I take it you've never heard of Bionicle? The series is based on Legos, and while I've never seen it, I've heard it's got a surprising depth. Basically, any concept is possible of transcending its crass origins if the people involved really care about storytelling. My favorite example is Singing in the Rain, which was made solely because the studio owned the rights to a bunch of songs and wanted to put them in a movie together, yet it's now considered among the best movie musicals of all time.

On the other hand, it's more likely that something like this will not be good. I'm personally getting tired of how, every time something like this comes up, someone responds with "yeah, but Clue was good." Okay, such a thing is possible, but it is unlikely.

Lego copyright lawyers..... Many years ago, in a small city in a small country, there was a university society for bookworms that called itself Lego, as being the Latin for "I read", natch. Now Lego as in the toymaker has a different derivation, namely a contraction of "Leg God", Danish for Play Well. Nevertheless the bookworm society was lawyered to cease and desist.