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Cape Town – The Lego Movie 2 opens in South African cinemas on Friday, 1 March.
Following the events of the first film the citizens of Bricksburg face a dangerous new threat when LEGO DUPLO invaders from outer space start to wreck everything in their path.
The battle to defeat the enemy and restore harmony to the LEGO universe takes Emmet (Chris Pratt), Lucy (Elizabeth Banks), Batman (Will Arnett) and the rest of their friends to faraway, unexplored worlds that test their courage and creativity.
HERE ARE 10 AWESOME FACTS ABOUT THE MOVIE
1. Chris Pratt, who continues to star as the voice of Emmet, does double duty on The Lego Movie 2 by also voicing Rex Dangervest.
2. New character Rex Dangervest named himself in honour of Emmet, because Emmet was his hero and always wears a vest.
3. The new movie features nearly a dozen original songs, plus two different versions of the original hit Everything is Awesome.
4. The shapeshifting Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi (Tiffany Haddish) changes into 40 distinctly different looks.
5. The character with the most different hairstyles in the film is Lucy, aka Wyldstyle.
6. This is Lego Batman’s third time starring on the big screen, voiced by Will Arnett. Batman previously appeared in The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie.
7. The film’s colour palette uses 76 official Lego colours, including unique materials such as transparent and glitter bricks.
8. There’s a new Lego colour for 2019 that appears in the movie, called Vibrant Coral.
9. Stephanie Beatriz (General Mayhem) has a tiny scar on her eyebrow from falling in her room, as a child, to avoid stepping on a Lego environment she had built on the floor.
10. Writer/producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller met director Mike Mitchell when they moved into an office he had just vacated. When Mitchell returned to collect some of his things, they started talking and discovered how much they had in common creatively.
