For a film series made exclusively out of a children’s building block, they really touch on some important points and deliver word-class humor at the same time. On top of all of this, a surprisingly jaw-dropping twist turns the film completely on its head towards the end.
Despite the multitude of things that make this 90-minute advertisement into a brilliant film (with three sequels of varying qualities) there are certainly a few elements that don’t make a whole lot of sense. Here are ten plot holes from the Lego Movie franchise.
Vitruvius Fake Blindness?
A lot of the characterization around the character of Vitruvius comes from the fact that he is supposed to be blind. His Dumbledore-esque aesthetic is topped off with his milky-white, blind eyes.
Despite this, there are many scenes in which Vitruvius turns his head to see various things take place, looks directly at certain characters when speaking to them, and even comments on things he would only know about if he could actually see.
Reversed Rainbows
Considering this film is built around moving and talking Lego blocks, we can exactly shoot for total accuracy. The big twist in the film shows that most of the action comes from the mind of a child as well, so we can’t expect him to have an in-depth knowledge of physics and light refraction.
Either way, the rainbows in The Lego Movie are reversed, putting the colors in the right order, but the wrong way around. Red should be on the outside, with blue in the middle.
Spelling Mistakes
Considering this film was made by Lego, with Lego, for people who like Lego, in order to advertise Lego, you think they’d get their own Lego advertisement correct. When President Business is showing Emmet a map, there are various areas named after real-life Lego sets, such as Pharaoh’s Quest.
They spell the name of their own product incorrectly, calling it ‘Pharoah’s Quest’, which not only shows a lack of awareness within their own brand, but also a big error in fact-checking.
Unnamed Cat
Emmet‘s character is designed to be a really nice, caring guy who looks out for everyone in his town and gets very little in return. He even says hello to every single cat who exits a building. Jasmine, Dexter, Angie, Loki, Bad Leroy, Fluffy, Fluffy Junior, Fluffy Senior, and Jeff all get a warm welcome, but one straggler at the back is accidentally ignored.
This doesn’t seem like Emmett’s style, so it’s obviously a subtle plot point that has been accidentally overlooked.
Fake Cameras?
Early on in the film, Bad Cop shows Emmet footage apparently taken from the area in which the Piece Of Resistance was being kept. He says, “security camera picked up this”, and shows him the footage of Emmet with the Piece.
If they actually had a camera down there that was able to film Emmet in this way, then they would have found the Piece a long time ago, because they’d have been able to see it whether Emmet was there or not.
Visible Platform
At first, this seems like a cool piece of foreshadowing designed to subtly suggest that these Lego actions may not be as ‘real’ as the film first suggests. Later on, when the live-action portion of the film shows the game being played, it would make perfect sense as to why we could see a little platform being used to hold the string when the ghost version of Vitruvius says, “I know that sounds like a cat poster”.
Unfortunately, DVD releases zoom out quicker in order to hide the error, providing it to be a plot hole rather than a cool piece of foreshadowing for the eagle-eyed viewer.
Classic Time Travel Problems
In order to match the big live-action twist of the first Lego Movie, its 2019 sequel had to come up with something pretty impressive. They went for a classic time travel twist. Towards the end of the film, it is revealed that Rex Dangervest is actually a version of Emmet from the future who built his own time machine.
Of course, as this is part of a Lego game, we can’t really judge the consistency of the various time travel paradox’s this creates, but it still makes it hard to explain how Emmet (having met Rex and found out that he was him from the future) could ever go into the future and become Rex Dangervest, knowing everything that happens already. It’s a pretty big paradox.
Dolphins
This is another plot hole that can be easily explained away by the fact that every element of the Lego Movie 2 storyline comes from the mind of a child. A dolphin looks like a fish, and a kid probably just assumes they’re a type of fish.
They’re actually mammals, though, so when Lucy asks Emmet to “think of something with less fish” (when describing a nightmare involving dolphins), he is technically already doing so, because a dolphin isn’t a fish.
Confusing Affiliations
In the Lego Batman Movie, Batman manages to convince many of Gotham’s biggest villains and friends of the Joker to join his side.
Despite this, towards the end of the film when Batman and his friends are bridging the gaps between crevices, many of these apparently now-good villains are back on the side of the Joker, not trying to help and apparently still affiliated to the bad.
Voldemort Doesn’t Know His Spells
You’d think that someone known for his incredibly powerful wizardry skills, Lord Voldemort himself would know exactly what spell to use for whichever bad guy deed he is attempting to commit.
The spell to lift a human is, according to Harry Potter lore, ‘Levicorpus’, but Voldemort uses ‘Wingardium Leviosa’ to lift humans, which should only work on objects. Again, everything in this film is made of Lego and controlled by a child, but they should still be making sure to keep everything in line.