By ALLERA HOWARD
STAFF WRITER

The Lego Movie is a predictable, yet fun and imaginative story celebrating the imagination and innovation of its Lego-loving audience. The family-friendly movie encourages viewers to use their creativity to embrace their individuality. The movie is not worth seeing in 3D because the Legos-only animation style is weirdly captivating in 2D. The grand adventure through wildly different worlds will keep viewers engaged as the movie hilariously pokes fun at the characters, pop culture and even Legos themselves.

The movie starts deep underground, where the wizened Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman, The Dark Knight) guards a relic called the Kragle. The evil President Business (Will Ferrell, Anchorman) then barges in and steals it. Then, Vitruvius prophesizes that someone called the Special will one day step forth and defeat President Business with a relic called the Piece of Resistance.

Eight years later, we meet Emmet Brickowoski (Chris Pratt, Her), another average Lego citizen from Bricksburg, a city that Lord Business controls. Emmet is a construction worker who one day sees a mysterious woman named Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks, The Hunger Games). Emmet is stunned by her beauty and decides to pursues her, but accidentally falls into a hole. Emmet lands deep underground where he finds the Piece of Resistance. Drawn to it, Emmet touches it and has a frightening vision before passing out.

Emmet then wakes up in an interrogation room with the overbearing but incompetent Bad Cop (Liam Neeson, Taken), a character who can rotate his head to be the kindlier Good Cop. Wyldstyle then breaks in and uses her amazing building techniques to help her and Emmet make an escape to a different world, called the Old West. The transition is strange and unexpected, but it still fits since it is a Lego movie.

Wyldstyle and Emmet then seek out Vitruvius, who explains that he and Wyldstyle are Master Builders, people who can build whatever they want. Vitruvius also explains how Lord Business hates how everyone “keeps messing with his stuff” and building whatever strange invention they conceive. In order to prevent this, he placed boundaries between the different worlds to keep everything in order.

Then Bad Cop and a company of policemen find our heroes and a wild chase ensues. They narrowly escape their captors with the help of Batman (Will Arnett, Despicable Me), who takes them to the ridiculously colorful and cheery Cloud Cuckoo Land. Emmet and company then meet with the other Master Builders and plan Lord Business’ defeat.

Bad Cop and his minions suddenly break in and begin capturing the Master Builders, but our heroes manage to escape. With their faith restored, Emmet then devises a plan to sneak into Lord Business’ office and defeat him. Moviegoers will definitely sympathize with the movie’s triumph of good over evil. In fact, viewers will feel like they have relived the Lego experience all over again, and young and old alike will leave the theater happily.