“The Lego Movie” (2014), a comedic family film, tells the story of Emmet Brickowski, a LEGO figure, and his adventures to save the world from corrupt President Business. While on the job, ordinary construction worker Emmet falls into a cave, and after miraculously surviving a set of booby traps he discovers the Piece of Resistance. Due to this coincidence, Emmet is marked as the “Special,” and is looped into an adventure with fellow LEGO figurines to stop President Business from freezing everybody in place with the Kragle.

“The Lego Movie” stars a variant of voice actors such as Chris Pratt (Emmet Brickowski), Will Ferrell (President Business), Elizabeth Banks (Wyldstyle) and Morgan Freeman (Vitruvius) who all contribute to the madness occurring within the LEGO world with their blatant emotions. In particular, Will Ferrell, the voice actor for President Business, curated a perfect, scary and emotional character with his pitches. His experience with acting is evident, as Will Ferrell previously starred in movies “Elf” (2003), “Zoolander” (2001), “Megamind” (2010), along with many more.

This movie has won 72 separate awards, including Critics Choice Awards (2015), Best Original Screenplay (2014), Online Film and Television Association (OFTA)’s Best Animated Picture (2015) and countless more. As a primary reason for these nominations, this movie features a happy soundtrack created by Mark Mothersbaugh, the Oscar-nominated song “Everything is Awesome!!!” composed by Shawn Patterson and the original screenplay by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

The animation is beautiful, with each and every frame capturing average LEGO bricks and figurines exactly seen in real life. Allowing each click of blocks and step of the figurines to be heard, the sound is immensely engaging. In the background of some particular scenes, water and wind whooshing is heard while also seeing the LEGO-ized version, aiding in becoming fully immersed in Emmet and his crew’s world.

This movie, an easygoing experience, creates a fun and PG atmosphere that also builds suspense in the right places. Additionally, with lines such as “The only thing anyone needs to be special is to believe that you can be,” this movie implements moral ideas into children’s heads while still being comedic. Ratings for this piece of media scale all over the place, with a 7.7 on IMDb, 3.8 on Letterboxd and 96% Rotten Tomatoes. Taking this all into consideration, this movie is certainly my favorite children’s movie of all time; I rate it a 10/10.