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The LEGO Ninjago Movie is a spinoff film of The LEGO Movie, based on LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu released on September 22nd, 2017.

Plot[]

A young boy ventures into an old relic shop, where he meets its mysterious owner, Mr. Liu, who begins to tell the boy the legendary story of Ninjago. Ninjago is a city that is frequently attacked by the evil Lord Garmadon, who is the father of Lloyd Garmadon and husband of Koko. The city despises Lloyd for this relationship, which puts Lloyd in emotional stress. They do not know that Lloyd is part of the Secret Ninja Force, consisting of Nya, Zane, Jay, Cole, Kai and their master, Wu, who always stop Garmadon from taking over the city. On Lloyd's birthday Garmadon attacks the city once again, only to be defeated. He escapes and throws many of his generals out the volcano for failing to help him. He then beings to form a big attack to conquer Ninjago, and decides to build a gigantic mech that is immune to weapons.

Meanwhile, Lloyd and his friends see the return of Master Wu, back from his long trip. Master Wu tells them they aren't real ninjas if they use only mechs and machines. He discusses with the Ninja of their respective powers: Nya's power over water, Kai's power of fire, Jay's power over lighting, Cole's power over earth, and Zane's power over ice. Wu then states that Lloyd is the green element, only to be confusing Loyd with that topic. Master Wu tells Lloyd he must not be angry at Garmadon; he must use his mind to fight. Wu mentions an Ultimate Weapon, giving Lloyd an idea to finally defeat Garmadon once and for all, despite being forbidden to use it. The next day Garmadon attacks the city with his giant mech. He successfully defeats Lloyd and his own mech. As Garmadon declares his rule over Ninjago, Lloyd returns with the Ultimate Weapon. He fires it, revealing it to be a laser that attracts a real-life cat named Meowthra. Meowthra starts destroying the city, while trying to get the laser. Garmadon points the laser to make the cat destroy the other mechs, before Lloyd breaks it. As Garmadon celebrates his victory, Lloyd reveals that he is the green ninja, and tells Garmadon that he wishes he wasn't his father, leaving Garmadon speechless.

Lloyd meets up with his friends and Master Wu, who are all upset with him for using the weapon. Wu tells them they must use an Ultimate Ultimate Weapon to stop Meowthra from destroying the city, which they would reach by crossing the Jungle of Lost Souls, the Bridge of Fallen Mentors, The Canyon of General Unhappiness, and the The Temple of Fragile Foundations. Garmadon overhears Wu talking about the weapon and follows close behind. He meets up with Wu and fights him, only to end up in a cage, defeated. However, Wu loses his balance and falls off a bridge into a river, telling Lloyd he must use inner peace before getting swept away. The ninjas decide to continue on, with Garmadon leading them much to Lloyd's disappointment. They are caught by Garmadon's former generals, who want revenge. The ninjas try to fight but are easily defeated; they retreat leaving Lloyd and Garmadon behind to be caught by the generals. The generals begin to fire Lloyd and Garmadon into a volcano, however the rest of the Ninja save the day using stealth fighting. They all work together with Garmadon to escape the angry generals by building a makeshift helicopter, and Lloyd and Garmadon bond together in the process, like teaching Lloyd how to catch, drive, and pops his arm back onto his body.

They eventually crash down onto the Temple of Fragile Foundations. Garmadon reveals that it is his home, as well as revealing to Lloyd that Koko formerly being a ninja warrior herself, her cover name being The Lady Iron Dragon, Nya's idol. He reveals to Lloyd that he wishes he had stayed with him and his mom after deciding to conquer Ninjago, but he couldn't change so he had to stay behind. The ninjas find the Ultimate Ultimate Weapon, consisting of a set of trinkets, only to have it stolen by Garmadon who still wants to take over the city. He wants Lloyd to be his general, but Lloyd rejects his offer. Out of fury, Garmadon locks all of them in the temple as it begins to collapse, while saying that he should have taught Lloyd how to catch. Lloyd realizes that inner peace means for them to unleash their power within, and they successfully do this, escaping from the collapsing temple. As they fall of a cliff, Wu saves them with his ship, and they head towards Ninjago. Garmadon arrives and tries to control Meowthra with the weapons but Meowthra eats Garmadon instead. Lloyd and the crew arrive and begin fighting Garmadon's army. As Lloyd approaches Meowthra, he reveals to everyone that he is the green ninja, and realizes that green means life, which brings everything together. He comforts Meowthra, and tells Garmadon he forgives him, and that he's sorry. Garmadon cries tears of fire, which causes Meowthra to spit him out. After Garmadon's reconciling with Lloyd and Koko, Meowthra becomes the mascot of Ninjago, and Lloyd is hailed as a hero. As Mr. Liu concludes the story of Ninjago, he tells the boy that he will start to train him as a ninja.

Cast[]

Soundtracks[]

  • "Welcome to the Jungle"
  • "The Power"
  • "Heroes"
  • "Still D.R.E."
  • "It's a Hard Knock Life"
  • "Found My Place"
  • "Everything is Awesome"
  • "Dance Of Doom"

Related media[]

Trivia[]

  • The plot diverged from the television series. However, according to show Producers Kevin Hageman and Dan Hageman in a Tweet, the show designs will have some changes to match movie designs.
  • Following the tradition of other Jackie Chan movies, bloopers are included at the end.
  • The ringtone on Lloyd's phone is the theme song of Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (2011), on which this movie is based.
  • This movie was first hinted at in a bonus feature on The Lego Movie (2014) Blu-ray, called "Enter the Ninjago". In the short, an executive changes several scenes in The Lego Movie (2014) to feature Lloyd, because "kids love ninjas". Emmet suggests that instead of changing the movie to add a ninja, they just make a movie about ninjas, which the executive claims is a great idea. The rest of the short becomes a trailer for this untitled movie, which they claim would go on to be a major bomb at the box-office.
  • In the U.K. version, local television presenters Kate Garraway and Ben Shephard replaced the voices of Robin Roberts and Michael Strahan, respectively.
  • This is the second time Dave Franco has been in a Lego movie. He had a cameo in The Lego Movie (2014).
  • Lloyd asks if he can be the gold ninja instead of the green. In the television show, he actually becomes the gold ninja.
  • Lloyd is aiming at a bad guy on a bridge to save a school bus. When you see him aim you can hear the tune of "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie (2014).
  • When Master Wu (Jackie Chan) is holding the child's Lloyd figure, it only has one arm, which becomes a plot point later in the movie.
  • When Garmadon (Justin Theroux) shows the book he wrote, the cover features a volcano similar to the book Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard.
  • During The Scene where the kids move to the other side of the bus when Lloyd sits down, Ferris Bueller from Ferris Bueller's Day Off can be seen on the Far Right Corner (his jacket and hair are a dead giveaway), and John Bender from The Breakfast Club can be seen at the back of the Bus (the one with The Mullet and The Jean Jacket). This scene is also reminiscent of Speed (1995), in which everybody had to move to one side of the bus to stop it from tipping over.
  • Each Lego movie has a bad father and needy son dynamic.
  • The second Lego movie to be released in 2017, after The Lego Batman Movie (2017).
  • The 1st theatrical Lego film to not have any DC Comics characters.
  • When Nya arrives on her bike in the school, she makes a slide like the one Kaneda makes in Akira (1988). This also imitates the way that Lucy (Elizabeth Banks) first operates the motorbike that she and Emmet (Chris Pratt) use to escape from Bricksburg in The Lego Movie (2014).
  • Sensei Wu is one hundred sixty-seven-years-old and Lord Garmadon is one hundred seventy-four-years-old in this movie.
  • The first Lego movie to neither have a Tomatometer of at least ninety percent, nor be certified fresh by Rotten Tomatoes.
  • Kumail Nanjiani and Zach Woods appeared on Silicon Valley (2014).
  • Olivia Munn is only five years older than Dave Franco, who voiced her on-screen son. However, since they voiced animated characters, their age difference doesn't matter.
  • Kumail Nanjiani and Michael Peña appeared in Hell and Back (2015).
  • Jackie Chan's second animated movie outside of DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda movie franchise, after The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature (2017).
  • Dave Franco (the voice of Lloyd), is married to Allison Brie, who provided the voice for Unikitty in The Lego Movie (2014) and its sequel.
  • This is the third theatrical movie based on a Cartoon Network show. The others being The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002) and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008).
  • The last Warner Animation Group film to feature Warner Bros. Pictures logo with "A Time Warner Company".
  • The second-to-last film in the LEGO Movie franchise to be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
  • Joseph Bologna's last film before his death on August 13th 2017 at the age of 82 due to pancreatic cancer and this film was dedicated to his memory.
  • Deleted scenes (on DVD) have a full fight scene of Green / Lloyd in Jackie Chan style (jumping, rolling, using furniture) which was originally what attracted Chan to sign on: a smidgen of it is left in the released film, in Lloyd's aspiration sequence where he (Green) uses a fridge-freezer (door) against a Garmodan minion.
  • Main trailer shows some aspects not in the final film: most significantly, the married couple running from Garmadon's attack machine, and when the Ninjas' machines return to base (warehouse), Red (Fire)'s is shown first turning (á la Transformers' style) into a giant armchair for him to rest in.
  • As Master Wu drifts down the raging river, Nya says she thinks he said they had to find inner peace. Inner peace was a key plot element in Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), which also featured Jackie Chan.
  • One of the two theatrical movies based on an animated television series of 2017. The other being My Little Pony (2017), which also featured Michael Peña.
  • Both Michael Peña (Kai) and Randall Park (Chen the Cheerleader) featured in Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018).
  • The tenth theatrically released fully CGI film to be based off already existing animated media after Jonah: A Veggietales Movie (2002), TMNT (2007), The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggietales Movie (2008), Astro Boy (2009), The Adventures of Tintin (2011), Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014), The Peanuts Movie (2015), Ratchet & Clank (2016), and Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017).
  • One of the three theatrically released animated films of 2017 to be based off already existing animated media, the previous was Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) and the later would be My Little Pony: The Movie (2017).
  • This film premiered on Cartoon Network on December 13th, 2019.
    • Alongside that, said channel, along with the other Turner channels has this film rated TV-PG-V.

Spoiler alert

  • Each of the first 3 Lego films have the villain turning nice at the end.
  • When Lloyd and Garmadon are captured by all of Garmadon's general number ones and about to be thrown into a volcano, one says the lava in it is fifteen million degrees Kelvin. This translates to nearly twenty-seven million degrees Fahrenheit, as hot as the center of the sun.
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