Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers (2010) Reviews

• Better Than Expected

  rickytrapp2010-03-05

  Clutch Powers is Lego City's best explorer. His latest mission is to capture a criminal mastermind who is also a wizard. Teaming up with other Lego characters such as Brick, a weapons expert, Peg, a smart botanist and Bernie, Lego's best engineer, they travel into space and into medieval times to stop the wizard and his comical sidekicks, Skully & Bones, two skeleton warriors. It is better than it sounds. Humorous and lots of fun, this was a lot better than expected, with some standout scenes and interesting characters, this Lego homage to explorer films is a lot of fun for kids and adults. Rated G Some Scary Scenes.

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• Fun, but definitely a straight to video release

  samradion2010-07-08

  Firstly this is a kids movie and has to be reviewed as such. If you're an adult and even an adult fan of Lego you won't get a huge amount out of this. The movie has some nice touches such as a scene inspired by the alien movies and the post-opening intro song is actually pretty good. However it really does seem the main aim of this movie is to sell more Lego than to entertain, they have tried to cram in just about every current Lego range in (rock monsters, space police, city and castle) before rather strangely deciding to base the rest of the movie in the Castle universe. The animation is OK, but not really much better than any of the cut-scenes in a Lego game and the whole movie did have the feel of an extended computer game scene. I couldn't help feeling this would be better suited to a 15-20 minute episode format on kids TV. The voice cast is actually not bad, Ryan McPartlin and Yvonne Strahovski (sic?) are well known for their work together on Chuck and are well cast. Overall a fun kids film to kill an hour or so for a young Lego collector, but ultimately too shallow and lacking lots of the humorous touches that featured in other Lego offerings such as the Lego Star Wars games that made them fun for adults too. Worth picking up when it inevitably appears in the £5 section of your local supermarket, but still a million miles better than the Bionicle movie.

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• Yo! Lego Team To The Rescue!

  strong-122-4788852015-09-15

  Clearly nothing more than just a cute "kiddies" picture - The one thing that I liked about this Lego production was the squat appearance of all the Lego characters (and their plasticized hair, too). It was especially when these thick-set characters were on the run that I got my chance to chuckle at the awkwardness of their limited movements. To me, that was about the best thing that this CG adventure tale of bungling heroics and dumb wise-cracks had to offer. Unfortunately, when it came right down to this picture's actual storyline - I'd say that it could've been a bit more original, than what was poorly presented here. I found this Clutch Powers' story to be just stale and predictable nonsense that's been so obviously recycled about 1000 times before. And, due to this, it became something of a chore for me to stay focused and remain interested in what I was watching on the screen. Anyway - Strictly from an adult's perspective - This particular Lego production was, at best, "OK" as far as entertainment goes.

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• The greatest Lego movie devised by man

  nio-374982017-08-18

  This movie is the magnum opus of reality itself, after 13.8 billion years of celestial progression and biological evolution. The fact that other critics are not rating this a full 10/10 baffles me on a spiritual level, but it just goes to show how blind our current society is to the truth. Clutch Powers is my hero, my idol, and he is owed all of the respect in the world. First off, the Adventures of Clutch Powers does an unspeakably excellent job of depicting the fragility of man, and how our souls are weighed down by Earth's gravity (Sieg Zeon). From start to finish, this interplanetary adventure showcases an astounding amount of philosophical value that I will not get into in this review simply because this review is weighed down by a maximum of 1,000 words, much like how our souls are weighed down by Earth's gravity. The only minor gripe I have with this film is that the other characters are not as good as Clutch himself, so they tend to hold him back from his true potential at times. But aside from that, the plot is well thought out and riveting, the animation is of a level of quality several orders of magnitude greater than what you'd see from Pixar, and the soundtrack is perfection incarnate. Spoilers: I still believe that Kjeld Playwell was the one who murdered Clutch Powers's father. I wish this were expanded upon in the film, but the sequel may explain this and set my soul at ease. I highly recommend this film to anyone and everyone, it is a cinematic masterpiece in every sense of the word.

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• The Lego Movie: The Bad One

  pmalexmckenny2015-03-23

  It was certainly very hilarious, ultimately a bad movie, but hilarious. I don't know whether it was the inconsistent and downright weird story, the awkward embarrassing characters who despite the efforts of the writers, come off as cliché, or the weird childish humour that even actual children would find contrived and condescending. The animation, although fluent, looked almost sub-par and made me get chills form looking at character's creepy faces. So why did I give it such a high rating? Because when I watched it with my friends back when we were kids, I saw that it definitely has the potential to become a cult film, think "The Room" for kids. My friends and I found ourselves laughing our asses off, not at how good the movie was, but laughing as one would laugh whilst watching "Sharknado" or "Birdemic: Shock and Terror". I could see drinking games created from this movie, drink every time a failed reference to Lego is made, or drink every time a character says "We build on Each Other" (That line alone made the movie for me). If I ever have to babysit children, and they ask me to play the Lego Movie for them, I would play this one just for kicks. Clutch powers is legendary, and is so under-rated, it should be up there with all the other big cult movie titles out there. 10/10, 10/10, 100/100, best movie, BEST MOVIE! Show everyone this, we need to get the word out to the world that this movie exists!

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