Gimmicky though it may seem, the Lego people have decided to move outside of the toys and video game platform and try their hand at a feature film. This first trailer offers a look at the legoverse which seems to have somehow ascertained the rights to a handful of franchises seeing how they throw DC comic book characters like Batman and Superman up against Michelangelo (painter), Michelangelo (ninja turtle), the NBA All Stars and…Abe Lincoln.

The official synopsis reads:

“The Lego Movie follows Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt), an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO mini-figure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously under-prepared.”

With the writing/director combo behind Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street in Phil Lord and Chris Miller, it seems that the project is definitely in competent hands but the initial animation we’re seeing here certainly leaves something to be desired. It looks almost like claymation but it’s still also very clear that the animation is digital and the balance that they’re striking at this point just makes the animation look cheap and video gamey rather than something suitable for the big screen but we’ll have to keep an eye on that and track how it progresses over the next nine months until its release.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPnY2NjSjrg

The Lego Movie is directed by Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Chris McKay and stars Chris Pratt, Will Arnett, Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson, Nick Offerman, Elizabeth Banks and Morgan Freeman. It comes to theaters on February 7, 2014.

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