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Disappointments temper triumphs in this story of Nathan, a young maths genius on the autistic spectrum, but in a way that is ultimately the opposite of disappointing.

Too often, the cataclysmic end of civilization in fiction functions as merely a fantasy about a certain kind of freedom. But not in this film, whose dramatic vision is not one of shaking off, as it were, the oppressive yoke of parenthood, but of growing up and taking it on.

The emotions on display, for all of their unworldliness, are disarmingly, overpoweringly sincere. What is even more impressive is that the film does not sag under its own emotional weight.

The Lego Movie opens with the life of toy character Emmet Brickowski (voiced by Chris Pratt), who is just another average Joe in Lego land. He lives to follow instructions: he obeys the speed limit,

This is the story of a negative assets manager.  He works under a lamp in a dim storage locker where the walls are lined with photographs of exotic places taken by other people.  His