a special one, with heart of red

“Benny gets everyone back to bricksburg with the power of autism.” There is nothing else beyond this point. All else is irrelevant in the face of true comedy.

Fun fact: octan has been a fake lego brand since 1992

Took this man 9 minutes to put lego movie and Adolf Hitler in the same video

- The power of heterosexuality - The power of misogyny - The power of autism These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect movie. But LEGO accidentaly added an extra ingredient to the movie: - The power to turn hearts and minds towards sympathetic ends

Barbie had 3 times the budget, 10 years of hindsight, and 1 times the Will Ferrell

"This is how cops are made in real life" had me dying

I can't believe how long it took me to get the "security cameras, all history books, voting machines... Wait a minute-" joke. I never got it till I was like 17

"Thankfully they are prevented from being sent to room 101 through the power of Heterosexuality" Absolutely Banger line

The unstoppable power of autism is something that I just have to use more regularly

as an autistic guy, i can confirm we become incomprehensible when allowed to engage in our hyperfixations

"Comrade there's political dissonance in Lego Utopia" 👮‍♂"Heeeeeyyyyy!" "Build the Gulag" "Round up the enemies of the proletariat and give them a pickaxe!"

The piece of resistance is clearly a metaphor for reading theory, as it tends to make it difficult to move thanks to a massive protrusion from your body.

I think it's also really interesting how Emmett is completely oblivious to the redundancy of voting machines until he says it out loud, as if President Business is the only President there has ever been for quite some time.

I love it when benny's like "it's spaceshipin' time" and spaceships over all those guys

"Don't know what the fuck is up with the dude throwing the tomohawk" It's a dude. Throwing a tomohawk. In an old timey saloon. "Cowboy and Indian" lego sets were numerous.

remember when stalin built the double-decker couch? hundreds died....

the birds being not real in this film is a reference to the fact that birds aren't real irl

A bad kids movie has no deeper message for its story a good kids movie has a deeper message that older watchers can get and a great kids movie can tell that message in a way that even young kids can understand without sacrificing quality, that's what the lego movie is I loved the movie many years ago, and even though I wasn't very old, it managed to still get its point across while still being an amazing movie, even if I maybe didn't know all the terms and whatnot like I wouldn't say it told me "Communism is good and any other economy is bad", but it at least told me the message that capitalism isn't perfect by any means and that corporations aren't selfless entities but are more often then not some level of evil

You can be anti corporate and not communist. These things are barely in similar paradigms.

Guys I have a theory!!! Octan: Began in 1992 Cold War: ended in 1991

When we were being taught about 1984 in highschool. At one point during analysis of the book I had an epiphany and I said out loud that the story, themes and messages in 1984 reminded me a lot of the LEGO movie. I then went back and rewatched the movie after finishing the book and it all made so much sense. The LEGO Movie is the true movie adaptation of 1984

,,after everyone hugs and congratulates themselves on ending capitalism, we are immediately met with an even bigger threat, women" this killed me

I wish you'd mentioned that Lord Business's cape is actually a giant red tie, like the one a businessman would wear

I'll give this, the anti democratic title got my attention. Now it's getting my ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️

11:00 "prevented from being sent to room 101 through the power of heterosexuality" why did that joke get me?

15:40 Funny thing that, Octan was not invented for this film. Octan is a fictional fuel company that's been popping up in just about every single LEGO product line since 1992. While originally just a stand in for when LEGO couldn't license the rights to Shell or the like, it since became a piece of crossover establishing iconography and branched out into businesses other than fossil fuels. When working on this film it was just obvious to the people working on it that they could use the already established megacorporation from the old toys and add some lore beyond a color scheme and logo.

I used the lego movie in an eglish paper once in high school. I had to write about how fictional dictatorships relate to real world ones. I got a B

chris pratt voicing the most regular guy in the world makes s much sense

this title goes so hard like what do you MEAN taco Tuesday is included in a communist manifesto? thats crazy

I would way more argue that this story feels way more like 1984. Replace lord business with the government there and violla, Lego movie. It is certainly about individualism, but that stands in stark contrast to the ideas of communism.

I can’t believe the goddamn Lego movie is the greatest piece of modern socialist media but I’m so glad it is

22:02 "Benny gets everyone back to BricksBurg with the unstoppable power of autism." I'm dead 😭

Personally I would argue that it's flipped the other way around and that Bricksburg is a parody of communism in the worst case scenario (more especially the authoritarian aspects common in a few east asian countries), not a parody of an absolute monopoly in capitalism.

man art analysis really is a load of hippy dippy baloney

I remember watching this in theatres, the movie hits the ground RUNNING with its comedy, the theatre was laughing out loud before our main character is even introduced.

Also I would like to point out that, because of the timer at the end of the movie, we know that *Mississippi is canonically a real place in the Lego world.*

I guess It's because I'm eastern european, but I think this movie has a lot of stuff that's pretty anti communist... Of course only under capitalism and fascism can bad things happen...

I do hope you know that the LEGO Movie is digitally animated. They took photorealistic scans of bricks, including fingerprints for maximum authenticity.

"after everyone hugs and congratulates themselves on ending capitalism, we are immediately met with an even bigger threat. wome-"

Honestly I think Benny’s representation of autistic hyper-fixation goes even deeper. Every time he says “spaceship!” but especially when he says it repeatedly when he actually gets to build and use one, I interpret it as him spouting out lots of technical terms and lingo, but since none of it registers with anyone else they just perceive it as him saying “spaceship!” Credentials: Have had many an autistic ramble myself that makes no sense to the average person.

Aren’t most of these arguments for it being anarchist propaganda?

I'd say instead of communist the movie is more just general anti-authoritarian. "Lord Business" is also functioning as the state, and Libertarians and Socialists agree- Corporatocracy is shit. (The point they disagree on is that Libertarians think less government will solve the Corporatocracy conundrum while Socialists think more government will solve the problem)

6:18 "his double-decker couch, his one original idea, only works with friends." *fu@# that is such a good little detail* seriously, the Lego Movie IS one of the best animated movies.

when emmett is listing off all the things octan makes he lists music with a clear punk singer and band in the background something very anti capitalist becoming something a capitalist makes just something i noticed

22:04 "With the unstoppable power of autism". As an autistic, I can confirm that with my autism, I am unstoppable!

“Oh, you like the Lego movie! What do you think is the best part of it?” “Well, I suppose it’s the subtle hints towards communism and the manifesto of ignorance being bliss, it very smartly hides this premise hidden within a silly funny story for kids. Speaking about the kids, the movie seems to make children aware of the differences between social classes and how the rich benefit off the poor, and how we should rise against our so-called ‘superiors’.” “…” “So why do you like it?” “…Lego funny”

And we even got Lego Batman Movie out of this AND a fun musical sequel.

14:22 to be fair, the prophecy does say “[…] this *master builder* […]”

Bro where did this amazing video come from? This video is incredible and just a great job all-around!

i lost my edging streak to this scrumptous vidéo i love u

I am genuinely unable to tell if this is a critique of fascism, communism, capitalism or all authoritarianism all at once.

the algorithm that keeps me trapped in an endless cycle of media consumption cooked with this one

I think you weren’t trying to tell us this was about communism, you just wanted to talk about the best movie ever

I hope you make another video essay someday, the sheer lack of fluff was so heartening!

i just thought how cool it would've been if the real life lego sets made to tie into the movie were only straight-and-narrow 'realistic' scenes that lord business wants. then you'd have to dissassemble them and ignore the instructions to get the fun mechs and cloud cuckoo land and whatnot. it undercuts the film a bit to give you instructions for the expressive, revolutionary builds. this could be taken as an analogue for corporations/governments that pretend to be gay/environmentally concious/morally sound, when in reality they are just trying to pull you back into the system.

“Benny gets everyone back to Bricksburg with the unstoppable power of autism” (22:02) - Maxmunich 2024

I didn't expect hearing "Ferrellussy" in a video essay about communist lego media but it became infinitely better because of that

You got all this from a movie about some dude wanting to glue his LEGO sets together?

13:59 “Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.” Is that line from Ratatouille or something?

There was absolutely no dead air in this video, big props for that

I wouldnt really think of lego movie as communist I would istead say that it certainly is anti authoritarian

I want more of this please

I remember watching the Lego Movie back in late 2014 when I was 7 and it first released On Demand. Now I’m 16 somewhat close to 17 and it’s still one of my favorite movies of all time. Absolute masterpiece and has so many hidden messages and metaphors. I have yet to watch The Lego Movie 2 though.

This is an amazing breakdown of what made the Lego Movie just.. stand out from the rest. I’m definitely on board for more and I can’t wait to see what else you can do. Here’s to 100k soon, you’d deserve it.

Can’t we just accept the fact that the message is “don’t glue your legos”?

Max you really have a talent for video essays, this video introduced me to your channel and I can't wait for more video essays.

What the heck, i watched this video full screen and was shocked after i zoomed out and realised it only had 1000 views, while i expected millions or smt, everything was top notch and made me think so much, just wow

>Modern dystopia that seems good on the surface until you realize what's really going on >Villain is a capitalist overlord AND capitalism itself in the real world >Main working class protagonist overthrows the capitalist villain and lives a happy life alongside everyone else >Perfect world where everything is quite literally awesome >"This is communist propaganda" >What did Max mean by this?

"met with an even greater challenge: *WOMEN* " is incredibly funny 🤣

It's only communist propaganda if you thought Emmett was the villain.

An interesting fact about about Octan is that actually has been appearing in Lego sets for decades as a generic company.

15:26 "He really does put his whole ferrellussy into this persona" made me do a double take lmao

I'm stealing "Unstoppable Power of Autism" as it's a pretty adapt descriptor for myself. Also, fantastic video. I clicked thinking it was going to be some hit-piece against the Lego Movie, because some people love going "Communism is EVIL." But instead it was a well made, well spoken, thought provoking video. And made m realize I missed a lot of the deeper parts of the Lego Movie. To bring it back to why I made this comment: this movie activated my Autism and the entire I just thought "hahah lego animation :)"

Lego Movie *talks about Hitler at some point* how the actual fu-

Big issue: This isn’t a capitalist society. Everything is run by a single corporation. There is no free market. The society is endgame corporatism.

I love how incredibly straightforward this is. no intro, gets straight to the point, various random "this doesnt prove any point that im trying to make i just love it" bits throughout, the wonderful social commentary, the just general awesomeness of the video, the line "the unstoppable power of autism" this is one of the best videos ive watched so far this year. it, and im autistic so i mean this as a compliment, exudes autism energy. like before you proofread or edited it you wrote in in one stream of consciousness infodump. incredible.

Fun fact: Octan was a fuel company in old Lego sets before the Lego Movie came around

To me the Lego Movie can also be interpreted as being a movie about self-improvement culture and the Andrew Tate community, years before any of those things became popular. I mean think about it, Emmet is just some ordinary Joe who all of the sudden becomes a hero and escapes the process, going through hardship and suffering to get there and doing the things he specifically doesn’t want to be doing. I mean Andrew Tate and other people in the masculinity space always talk about how the matrix and the system is trying to suppress people and stop them just like Octan and the system of conformity is in the Lego Movie. I mean what Emmet does to become a master builder and win going from an average man in the crowd to a champion using discipline and the self-fulfilling prophecy is exactly what these guys in the manosphere talk about. Guess The Lego Movie has even more hidden meanings and messages than we thought.

I'd like to point out something I only just now noticed. Benny builds the spaceship in the same amount of time it takes for the entire group of Master Builders to build the base of the sub. (Which was like maybe five seconds.) So, either Benny gets hopped up on meth levels of autistic stimming, or he's genuinely just *that* fast.

the starting scene of emmet rising from a lying position is clearly a reference to lenin's masoleum in of which it is visually similar to a bed...... the lbeisrlas are coming

14:45 This map looks creepy af. Like my brain immediately assumed that this is Europe, with the communist Eastern Block being Bricksburg (GDR reference, with the half-German name lol), and Vladek's realm is the Soviet Union 💀🗿

“Be communist! (But buy our products)”

Had you submitted this as a written essay to my university, i would have graduated you on the spot. /s but truly, this is far above the kind of reflection i expect from youtube at breakfast times. And its consise aswell? Im astounded.

I know its a bit of a joke in reveiws to say "X" is communist/capitalist propaganda. But I don't think that sort of semi-ironic tone really does the analysis justice. Here are my honest thoughts on why I think the Lego Movie is so memerable. The Lego Movie is the heros journey; perfected. I mean, it has all the clichés, but it's written so well, it's incredible. A prophecy, a dying mentor who comes back as a ghost, genaric loose cannon love intrest, exceedingly boring protagonist whoes just like a normal guy, worthless animal sidekick, sappy inspiring speech to tell the citizens to think for themselves, greedy corperate/political villan ect. It isn't even using these tropes ironically or deconstructing them. It full-heartedly embraces them. Only when irony starts being introduced in Lego Movie 2 does the whole thing fall apart. How come it does everything right to make such a boring story work so well? I think one of the best reasons is that everything is carefully designed to support the main motifs of creativity as an escape from a society. Emmet is a backseat rider for the majority of the plot and letting the more colorful charaters take the wheel, while emmet himself serving as comic relief, and also serves as a reminder of the evil the resistance is battleing. Id imagine he would get annoying if he took the spotlight for the middle third of the movie. Despite the bulk of charaterization comming from a trickle of new quirky charaters, and Emmet being a backseat protagonist for the middle third of the movie, we still get to learn about his journey. The audience has sutle hints dropped to him that he has some sort of untapped creativity.(The double-decker couch bit that ends up saving everyone, the fact that his mind is so empty that there is nothing to clear in the first place, ect) This conflict is echoed on 3 separate levels; scocietal, literal, and personal, and all of them are resolved in the exact same beat at the climax. First, the scocietal. "Honey, Where's my Pants " show is just like the "Ouch my balls" show from idiocracy. What's funny about it is that Emmet nearly thinks for himself in like the first 5 minutes of the movie. The famous line "What was I thinking? Eh, I don't care. " It is nearly explicitly clear that that is designed for the populace to stay conforming and to ignore how the people in power hold onto that power. From the only music on the radio being a dong about not worring. "Everything is awesome! Everything is cool when you're part of a team!" Are very orwellian lyrics when you co sider the state the scociety is in. In Mr Presidents Tower, the robot minions draw a lot of parallels to the citizens of Brixville. The robots behave in a way that is litterally indistinguishable from the citizens at large. The logical next step for this society is to reach a litteral state of conformity, which is the main evil plot that drives around, but it serves as a more methe story on a more surface level. They need to stop the bad guy from freezing people into place. It is a much more concrete goal than freeing the citizens from their shackles and letting them think for themselves. Mr. President literally plans to glue the citizens into position. This conflict is echoed a third time when the dad charater gets mad at his son for playing with his lego models. He sees it as just someone messing up his perfect world, but comes to realize that his son is just expressing his creativity. The big strategical mistake that the President makes is that he had subdued his own men to the point where stealth is trivial. Emmet is hard to track because his face is "too generic." Emmets plan is to"follow the instructions" a weakness that allows them to infiltrate the tower. Of course, a bold and bombastic plan where you build a super mega rainbow cannon would fail. Mr. President built up an organization that is a foil to creativity. Part of the reason why Emmet is special is because he is not, because he's just like everyone else. In the possi3 of master builders, he is a new perspective. The reason he is the chosen one is because he lived a life of conformity. Through his style of work, he is the only one to see that he can use conformity as a means to an end to trick the villan. The reason I think it's a good story is because it's a tight thematic ship. Each conflict goes to support the moteif of conformity vs. creativity. Just like a good joke. It makes the audience think of multiple things at once. Every conflict supports a singular message on the battle between free expression and order. This battle between "free expression" and "building the perfect world" is sort of emblematic of legos as a toy. We all mashed together some ugly multi-colored spaceship as kids. When we get older, we might enjoy the simple joy of following the instructions to assemble something like an owl sculpture or a movie set. But we lose some of that creativity which makes legos fun. Its okay to be the Dad, as long as we don't force order on others. A simple message, but one I think the lego movie makes quite well.

I am happy to see you got this finished. I remember watching this movie when it came out, it was like the perfect age for me to watch this movie and I still fondly remember it. Hope this video gets more views because it's well deserved for the time and effort you put into it.

I don't really get the communist propaganda title, the movie criticizes fascism and corporate authoritarianism. Great video though, loved the movie as a kid, and does hold 10 years later

Man, i love these videos, geunine comentary without sacrificing context and context without being a play by play and insane good writing

I think honestly that the Lego Movie focuses more on themes of will and the self rather than any form of socialistic positivity. Hell, I could easily argue the opposite comparing Brickburg to Stalins USSR, the CCP's dictatorship etc. Marx himself, a stan for Hegel considered society before the individual, himself saying that "the so called rights of man are nothing but the rights of the member of the civil society, " Honestly, I think that the writings of Kierkegaard offer some interesting insites that the Lego Movie also deals with. While I don't agree with this video, and I think that some of the arguements brought up don't really work, I'm glad to see somebody else who likes the movie as I do.

ok- im only 2 minutes in and you've convinced me to bookmark this video, watch the movie again, and then come back to this. great work dude!

16:36 “this is how cops are made in real life” 😭

"bro its just a dumb movie about legos" "you wouldnt understand.."

The most important Marxist theory: Das Kapital, Principles of Communsim, The Communist Manifesto, State and Revolution, what is to be done, and of course the Lego Movie.

(Construction) Workers of the World, Unite!

"Octan make good stuff. Music, Dairy Products, Coffee, TV shows, Surveillance systems, ALL history books, Voting machines!" "....Waitaminute"

"I will not be talking about the Lego Movie 2 because I haven't seen it and I don't want to"... Probably an unpopular opinion here, but I actually liked The Lego Movie 2. Sure, it's not as groundbreaking as the first one as it already had big shoes to fill, but the underlying themes within it were still fairly well executed. Anyone that grew up with younger siblings (or has a few young children themselves) would probably relate to it on some level.

"this movie is so good with childhood memories" 1 minute later "this means that the Lego movie has an underlined saying for communism ☭"

Hey so usually I don't like to comment about "oh this has so few views crazy" but like, damn bro. This is some good content. God speed. Edit: called it

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"Thankfully, Emmett and Wyldstyle are prevented from being sent to Room 101 through the power of heterosexuality" lol