"It's the smartest, funniest and most dazzlingly inventive children's movie to come along in years."
— Rafer Guzman, Newsday
"A clever, vividly imagined, consistently funny, eye-poppingly pretty and oddly profound movie ... about Legos."
— Dana Stevens, Slate
"Is this a glossy feature-length advert for toys? Nope, it's a whimsical and hilarious piece of animated nostalgia from Phil Lord and Chris Miller."
— Chris Blohm, Little White Lies
"The brightly-imagined Lego Movie is a wickedly smart and funny free-for-all, and sassy enough to shoot well-aimed darts at corporate branding."
— Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"The Lego Movie has enough wit and wisdom to send a recession-age message to families on the importance of thinking through problems with creativity."
— Maricar Estrella, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
"State-of-the-art software has been used to make the characters look like actual plastic figurines brought to life through the magic of stop-motion animation. In other words, this is a digital movie with an analogue soul."
— Jake Wilson, The Age (Australia)
"The visuals are spectacular, the 3D technology is artfully used and the story is jam-packed with so many funny lines, it's hard to catch all the jokes that are delivered in rapid-fire succession -- constantly tweaking many popular culture icons."
— Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times