PROFILPELAJAR.COM

A LEGO Brickumentary
A LEGO Brickumentary
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kief Davidson; Daniel Junge;
Written by	Davis Coombe; Kief Davidson; Daniel Junge;
Produced by	Chris Brown; Daniel Junge; Brendan Kiernan; Justin Moore-Lewy; Gustavo Gelmini;
Narrated by	Jason Bateman
Cinematography	Luke Geissbühler; Robert Muratore;
Edited by	Davis Coombe; Tiffany Hauck; Chad Herschberger; Marc Jakubowicz; Inbal B. Lessner; Darrin Roberts;
Music by	John Jennings Boyd
Production; companies	Global Emerging Markets; HeLo; The Lego Group;
Distributed by	RADiUS-TWC
Release dates	April 20, 2014 (Tribeca); July 31, 2015 (U.S.);
Running time	93 minutes
Countries	Denmark; United States;
Language	English
Budget	$1 million
Box office	$101,531

A Lego Brickumentary (also known as Beyond the Brick: A Lego Brickumentary) is a 2014 Danish-American documentary film directed by Kief Davidson and Daniel Junge, focused on the Danish construction toy Lego. The film was released on July 31, 2015. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its appeal but criticized the promotional tone of the film. It grossed over $100,000 against a production budget of $1 million, although it fared better in home media sales.^[3]

Synopsis

A LEGO Brickumentary offers a look at the global appeal of the LEGO building-block toy.

Cast

Jason Bateman as narrator
Jamie Berard as himself
Alice Finch as herself
Bret Harris as himself
G.W. Krauss as himself
Dan Legoff as himself
Nathan Sawaya as himself
Brian Whitaker as himself
Iain Clifford Heath as himself
Ed Sheeran as himself
Trey Parker as himself
Dwight Howard as himself
David Pagano as himself
Phil Lord as Writer/Director/Himself
Christopher Miller as Writer/Director/Himself

Release

The film had its premiere at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival on April 20, and was released in theaters on July 31, 2015.^[4]

Reception

Commercial performance

The film grossed $101,531 in theaters against a production budget of $1 million, in addition to $427,757 in domestic DVD sales.^[3]

Critical reception

The film received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 55% rating based on 49 reviews, with an average score of 5.41/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "A LEGO Brickumentary offers a cheerful overview of the popular toy that should satisfy diehard enthusiasts, but its aggressively promotional tone may turn off LEGO agnostics."^[5] On Metacritic, the film has a 51 out of 100 rating based on 19 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[6]

Peter Sobczynski of RogerEbert.com gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of five.^[7] Peter Debruge of Variety writes that the film feels like a "glorified DVD extra" for The Lego Movie.^[1] Spectrum Culture wrote that "Brickumentary is both interesting and informative as well as being fun. There may be no “other side” to this documentary, but it does, indeed, give great depth to the toy, its inception and evolution. It also manages, quite successfully, to never, ever be boring."^[8] Jordan Hoffman of the New York Daily News gave the film one out of five stars, noting "As a movie, it can be as annoying as stepping on a stray LEGO brick with your socks off."^[9]