'Lego Movie' posts top box-office opening of 2014 with $69.1 million

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37. One of the central themes of the film is conformity vs. non-conformity.

A theme that Lego has sold for decades. You can build with the instructions, then tear it all down and build something new. In the 1980s I loved (and saved) the boxes for my sets because I loved trying to figure out how the stuff on the back of the box was built, which had no directions and was there to inspire the buyer to do other things with the blocks. From there I started modding and making up my own wacky stuff.

The Lego Movie is that (and more) for 100 minutes. Its quite subversive. It attacks conformity ruthlessly. It also has several other messages. Namely that no matter how lame others think your ideas are, they probably aren't that lame -- just misunderstood. And, also, the "anti-business" theme that Fox complains about isn't there, its more of a child's perspective on what the adult corporate world looks like. But they are too dense and paranoid to see it.

I don't know if you saw the movie, but those are some of my take-a-ways from seeing it.