The Lego Movie Christian Movie Review (2014)

Guidance: Talk Together

The surface content is fairly light for a family adventure, with fantasy action, mild language, and comic peril. The bigger conversation for Christian families is the film’s message about identity, authority, self-belief, and the way freedom and creativity are framed.

Why This Guidance Level

This lands in the middle because the movie’s surface content is light, but its message gives families more to talk through than the rating alone suggests. The action and language are mild for most viewers, yet the story’s prophecy language, anti-control satire, and repeated emphasis on finding greatness within yourself make it a useful conversation piece about identity, authority, and where true hope is found.

Faith & Worldview Perspective

The movie rightly criticizes shallow conformity, manipulative authority, and a culture that trains people to follow scripts without thinking. It also celebrates courage, sacrifice, friendship, and the dignity of an ordinary person. The tension comes in how the film grounds meaning: it leans toward self-discovery, inner specialness, and creativity as the path to salvation. Christian families may want to affirm the good here while reminding children that our deepest identity and hope are not found in being uniquely awesome, but in being made by God and redeemed through Jesus Christ.

Truths Reflected

• People should not be reduced to tools of control or empty conformity.
• Ordinary individuals can show courage, serve others, and contribute meaningfully in community.

Tensions to Discuss

• The story often frames identity around discovering that you are special in yourself, rather than receiving identity from God.
• Its playful prophecy and quasi-mystical hero language can blur the difference between inspirational fantasy and the unique hope Christians place in Jesus Christ.

Content & Discernment Markers

Occult & Spiritual Content

• A central plot thread revolves around a prophecy about “The Special One” who will find the Piece of Resistance and save the realm. The language is comic and fantasy-based rather than dark occult practice, but it still uses chosen-one and magical-destiny ideas that parents may want to contrast with the unique saving role of Jesus Christ.

Sexuality & Relationships

• Relationship material is very light. Emmet shows interest in Wyldstyle, and there is mild romantic tension played for humor rather than sensuality.

Identity Themes

• The film strongly pushes the idea that a person must break from the crowd and discover that he is “special.” Early scenes mock a scripted life with lines like “Instructions to fit in… have everybody like you… and always be happy!” Parents may want to discuss the difference between healthy creativity and building identity around self-importance.

Violence & Intensity

• The opening conflict includes direct threat language when Lord Business orders, “Robots, destroy him!” The danger is stylized and comedic, but the intent to harm is clear.
• A super-weapon called the Kragle is treated as a major threat, with Lord Business boasting, “The most powerful super weapon… is mine.” The movie uses repeated chase-and-capture tension around this weapon.
• Vitruvius is struck during the robot attack and cries, “My eyes! Ow!” The moment suggests injury, though the Lego presentation keeps it from feeling graphic. Sensitive children may still notice the distress.

Language & Humour

• Language is very mild and mostly comic. Notable phrases include “Cover your butt,” “hippie-dippie baloney,” and a cut-off joke about keeping soap out of your backside during Emmet’s morning routine.

Other Content Notes

• The movie satirizes consumer culture and social control through repetitive slogans, expensive coffee jokes, and the anthem “Everything Is Awesome.” This is often funny, but it also trains the audience to question who shapes their desires and habits. Parents may want to ask what voices most influence their children.
• Authority is portrayed in sharply divided terms: Lord Business represents oppressive control, while freedom is tied to throwing off rigid rules. That critique has value, but families may want to discuss the difference between ungodly domination and good authority under God.

Notable Moments

• Robot attack: Lord Business launches the story’s first major threat by ordering his robots to attack Vitruvius.

  “Robots, destroy him!”

• Prophecy setup: The movie introduces its chosen-one framework through a rhyming prophecy about a special hero who will save the realm.

  “One day, a talented lass or fellow A Special One with face of yellow Will make the Piece of Resistance found”

• Conformity satire: Emmet’s morning routine shows how deeply his world is shaped by scripted rules and social approval.

  “Instructions to fit in… have everybody like you… and always be happy!”

• Control through comfort: President Business presents authoritarian control in cheerful, consumer-friendly language.

  “Let’s take extra care to follow the instructions, or you’ll be put to sleep.”

Discussion Prompts

• Identity and being special: What does this movie say makes someone important or special? Is that the same as what God says?
  • Biblical guidance: Scripture teaches that our worth comes from being made by God and loved in Christ, not from proving we are extraordinary.
  • Scripture: Psalm 139:13-14, Ephesians 2:10, Galatians 2:20
• Authority and obedience: When is it right to question authority, and when is obedience good?
  • Biblical guidance: The Bible warns against corrupt rulers, but it also teaches respect for rightful authority under God’s rule.
  • Scripture: Romans 13:1-4, Acts 5:29, Ephesians 6:1
• Conformity and discernment: How do people in the movie follow the crowd without thinking? Where do we see that pressure in real life?
  • Biblical guidance: Christians are called not to be shaped by the world around them, but to be renewed in mind and truth.
  • Scripture: Romans 12:2, Proverbs 1:10, Philippians 4:8
• Self-belief and Christian hope: Is the answer to life’s problems just believing in yourself, or is there something deeper?
  • Biblical guidance: Confidence has value, but Christian hope rests in God’s grace and in Jesus Christ, not in our own greatness.
  • Scripture: Jeremiah 9:23-24, John 15:5, Philippians 4:13