The sequel to the Lego Movie, the Lego Movie 2 the second part, has just been released
in theatres, and it’s arguably just as fantastic as it’s predecessor.
The film picks up almost directly after the events of the first.
But in case some of it’s time travel, self reflexive and slightly meta story lines left
you scratching your head, fear not friends, we’re here to break down what went down
in the film, and explain the ending!
Let’s begin with where the first film left off.
In the Lego Movie, the film’s major reveal was that the events going on in Bricksburg
were all the result of a real life boy named Finn playing with his father, Will Ferrel,
with the two having very different opinions on how to play with their lego toys.
It was the central conflict that was resolved by the end of the movie, and the story in
which they were immersed in, back down in the Lego world of Bricksburg, left protagonist
Emmett, the master builder, being a hero.
The second film picks up right where the last one left off, except this time, rather than
it being a story about a father and son in real life, Finn is now struggling with sharing
his toys with his little sister Bianca, something that was hinted at the end of the first film.
Finn ends up taking his father’s role this time around, having a particular opinion on
how his Legos should be played with, which is quite the contrast to how Bianca wants
to play with them.
The whole plot of the film revolves around the idea of Finn being able to share his toys
with Bianca.
The film immediately kicks off with Bianca’s Duplos appearing in Bricksburg.
Fearing their presence, everyone wants to attack them, but master builder Emmett tries
to broker peace between the invading Duplo army and the people of Bricksburg by building
a lego heart.
It doesn’t work, or rather, there’s a miscommunication, and chaos breaks out.
Then, there’s a time jump; five years later.
Bricksburg, having been consistently destroyed by the invaders from the Systar System (which
is where Bianca’s toys are from, upstairs in her room).
It has now become a post apocalyptic wasteland known as Apocalypseburg.
A new invading ship appears, which turns out to be General Sweet Mayhem, the leader of
the Duplo army, inviting the leaders of Apocalypseburg to a wedding.
Lucy, Batman, Benny, Metalbeard and Unikitty are all kidnapped and brought to the Systar
system where they meet Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi, a shapeshifter, who decides that Batman is
the leader she’s going to marry.
Lucy believes the Queen and her subjects are up to something sinister, and they’re taken
to a spa which seems to be a brainwashing facility in order to get ready for the wedding.
Meanwhile, Emmett ends up building a space ship out of the remains of a dream house he
had built for Lucy and him to share that was destroyed.
He journeys through outer space, going through the ‘stair gate’ to the Systar system,
where he’s saved by a super cool and tough fellow named Rex Dangervest.
Rex helps Emmett infiltrate the Syster System and the wedding, and after the two meet up
with Lucy, they concoct a plan to stop the wedding and save their brainwashed friends.
But, as Lucy soon finds out while fighting General Mayhem, they’ve gotten everything
all wrong about the inhabitants of the Systar System.
Turns out that 5 years ago, when the Duplo invaders arrived in bricksburg, they just
wanted to play.
Finn building that lego heart really changed everything, and was the start of the Systar
system, inspiring them to build just like Bricksburg had been built.
So now, Lucy has to stop Emmett and Rex from destroying the wedding, seeing how really,
they’ll be the ones who bring about the Our-Mom-ageddon; a metaphor for Finn and bianca’s
mom stopping them from fighting by putting all of the lego and duplo into storage since
the two siblings couldn’t get along.
Unfortunately, Lucy isn’t able to stop Emmett, and he destroys the wedding cake, which in
real life, is Finn destroying Bianca’s lego creations out of anger.
This brings about the our-mom-ageddon that Emmett had seen in his dreams at the start
of the film.
In addition to that, Rex turns out to be a lot different than what Emmett had previously
though; he’s a version of Emmett from the future, who had gotten ‘hard and tough’
after being dropped under the washing machine and forgotten.
His anger and hatred led him to becoming what he was, and the whole time he’s been trying
to manipulate Emmett into becoming that version, too.
After they’re all put into storage, Lucy rallies up the lego and duplo characters with
a song; everything is not awesome.
The song catches Finn’s attention, drawing him to the storage bins, and he has a change
of heart about his sister playing with him.
From here, we see our heroes brought out of the bins, and Lucy goes after Emmett, rescuing
him from under the washing machine, where he was fighting with Rex.
Rex ends up dissolving, because his future timeline no longer exists if Emmett is saved
by Lucy and our-mom-aggedon is reversed.
Rex disappears forever, and Lucy and Emmett and all of our heroes now living in a mishmash
world of Bricksburg and the Systar System.
So what does that mean?
Well, essentially, the film, or rather, the Lego world within it, is a giant metaphor
for learning how to share with others.
Finn makes up to Bianca, constructing the same lego heart that Emmett had built in the
beginning of the film, giving it to her, and the two then decide to play together and build
something awesome, with all of the Lego and Duplo characters coming out of storage and
happily co-habituating together.
Sharing is caring, people! Emmett building that lego heart at the start of the film that
inspired the Systar system to come into fruition is a metaphor for Finn building Bricksburg
with his lego inspiring his little sister Bianca to also build her own world.
Apcolypseburg wasn’t really because the invaders were totally destroying them; it
was the product of Finn going in a different direction, and the fact that Bianca kept taking
more lego from him to build her own world upstairs in her room because he wouldn’t
let her play with his lego with him downstairs.
Oh metaphors!
There we have it!
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Also, if you’re interested in learning about all of the easter eggs and references in the
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on over to our channel and give that a watch.
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I’ll catch you all in the next video!