It’s like spoofing or subverting movie tropes was too hard, so director Chris McKay and the long, long list of writers ultimately decided to settle for making a plain old superhero movie - just, you know, with Legos and jokes. Yet by this point all the self-awareness has drained out of The Lego Batman Movie, and nobody even comments on the sky-portal cliché. Traffic reports in superhero movies are like, “looks like there’s another Giant Sky Beam, so plan for some congestion around the middle of our New York-type city.” This has become such a cliché that last year an article written in the voice of a literally self-aware “giant beam of light shooting into the sky in every superhero movie” ran at, with the energy beam smugly remarking “I am a portal to another dimension, probably” and offering observations like: Just a standard-issue computer-generated swirly energy portal to another in-universe dimension (the Negative Zone) like practically every superhero movie these days. And it’s not a Lego portal either, or a gateway to the non-Lego world like the swirly-energy frontier in The Lego Movie. Would you believe … a giant swirling energy portal in the sky? Clearly, something subversive has to happen to kick things out of superhero-movie business as usual and challenge Batman to his core. “Probably worth a Google.”ĭespite the villainous full-court press, Batman’s victory is so assured that no one is even worried about it. “Nope, they’re all real,” smirks the Joker (Zach Galifianakis).

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