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The end of the franchise?

posted 5 years ago by MovieFan007 (317)
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It all started with disastrous OW, ever since the difference between the first Lego Movie and this title is getting slightly bigger - talking about percentages here, up until today it was slightly smaller than 50% and now it's slightly bigger. That's not a good trend. How To train Your Dragon 3 opens next weekend, that will surely take its toll, not to mention TLM2 is already competing with HTTYD3 in international markets so it's unclear TLM2 will be saved by foreign markets (Alita is also a solid international competition, not sure if it opened in Asian markets already).

This is WB's first 2019's flop. The problem here isn't just with the earnings. The problem are the reviews. The fact that they're good. If they were bad then that can be easily fixed by changing directors. At least then there's room for improvement. But with the current situation I guess the only thing that can be done is put the Lego movies on hold for a few years, hoping the new movie will be good and that the market will once again develop interest for that type of movies.

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

Yeah, well the movie wasn't that funny, and their style doesn't wear well.

The first movie was great fun, and was surprisingly good and original, considering that it was basically an extended toy commercial. But Lego Inc. has saturated the market with more and more shows ever since and they're all in exactly the same ADD style, they'd already overplayed their hand before the movie was released. Of course this came out in February, an official "dumping ground" time period.

[–] DisneyAlwaysWINS (69) 5 years ago

I think so. Unfortunately it only made $180 million on a $100 million budget which is pretty much flop territory. They flooded the market with too many poor Lego adaptions.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

Too many live action scenes. They look jarring and out of place. And it goes back and forth too many times it ruins the immersion.

It's as if they made the movie for the parents to, I don't know, lecture them? And not for children. The many 80s and 90s pop-culture references they put in proved this. Parents with small children likely grew up in that period. So they targeted them. Which is a bad move.