About this episode
The eighth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2014 features our animation pick, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s The Lego Movie . Written and directed by Lord and Miller and starring Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman and Will Arnett, The Lego Movie is the first feature film inspired by Lego building toys. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from A.O. Scott in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/movies/the-lego-movie-toys-with-thinking-outside-the-manual.html ), Peter Debruge in Variety ( https://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-the-lego-movie-1201082797/ ), and Amy Nicholson in LA Weekly . Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosen Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 2014 episode, featuring Jason’s personal pick, Michael Tully’s Ping Pong Summer .