Local reviews of ‘The Lego Batman Movie’

'The Lego Batman Movie' Is A Love Letter To The Greatest Pop Culture Icon Of The 20th Century

by Dominic Griffin
DCist Feb 10, 2017
http://dcist.com/2017/02/the_lego_batman_movie_is_a_love_let.php

 

Pop Culture Happy Hour: LEGO Batman And Kids Who Cook On TV

Linda Holmes

NPR's Monkey See's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast February 10, 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2017/02/10/513978216/pop-culture-happy-hour-lego-batman-and-kids-who-cook-on-tv and https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/npr.mc.tritondigital.com/PCHH_PODCAST/media/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2017/02/20170209_pchh_ep334.mp3 

'The LEGO Batman Movie' Drags The Caped Crusader Out Of The Shadows (Again)

Glen Weldon

  All Things Considered February 8, 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2017/02/08/513979164/the-lego-batman-movie-drags-the-caped-crusader-out-of-the-shadows-again and
https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2017/02/20170208_atc_the_lego_batman_movie_drags_the_caped_crusader_out_of_the_shadows_again.mp3

and http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=513979164

'The Lego Batman Movie' delivers just the hero we need right now [in print as Bruce is loose: Here's the Batman we need right now].

By Kristen Page-Kirby
Express February 10 2017. p. 24
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2017/02/10/the-lego-batman-movie-delivers-just-the-hero-we-need-right-now/

'The Lego Batman Movie' is all fun with none of the standard Dark Knight drama

By David Betancourt
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog February 9 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/02/09/the-lego-batman-movie-is-all-fun-with-none-of-the-standard-dark-knight-drama/

'The Lego Batman Movie': Even greater than the sum of its many parts [in print as Holy Sequels, Batman!] 

By Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post February 10 2017, p. Weekend 27

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/the-lego-batman-movie-even-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-many-parts/2017/02/09/6a20f20c-ed50-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html

The LEGO Batman Movie is Another Great LEGO Movie [in print as Block-Buster].

Just like The LEGO Movie, The LEGO Batman Movie is way more fun than it has any right to be.

Tricia Olszewski

Washington City Paper Feb 10, 2017, p. 26

online at http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/music/blog/20851846/the-lego-batman-movie-reviewed