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I see dead people.

Silent green is evil.

Need my sister and my daughter.

Rosberg.

What's in the box?

Hi, this is Dana Steven Slate's movie critic, and we are here with a Slate spoiler special on Lego Movie 2, The Second Part, the new film from Phil Lord and Chris Miller, creators of the

Lego franchise.

I am joined you today by Forrest Wickman, Slate's

Culture Editor. Hey, Forrest. Hey, Dana. Nice to see you. And joining us from San Francisco, the Bay Area by phone is Ingu Kang, a Slate culture writer. Hey, Ingu, how are you? Hey, Ingu, how are you? Hey, Dana. All right. So we have all seen Lego Movie 2. Forrest, you and I saw it together a couple nights ago. We're careful not to say anything about our response to it afterwards coming

out. So let's just go saw it together a couple nights ago. We're careful not to say

anything about our response to it afterwards coming out. So let's just go around real quick and have a

thumbnail response. Yes, no. Forrest you first. If it's yes or no or thumbs up or thumbs down,

I'd be thumb up somewhat unenthusiastically. I mean, it's not as strong as the first one. I think

that's pretty clear. The first one was a movie that no one thought could possibly be good, but Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the directors and writers of that movie, and just the writers of this movie are like masters at working miracles on projects that seemed like they couldn't possibly be good. So, you know, 21 Jump Street, the movie seems like it couldn't possibly have been good either.

And then they made it great.

But they only wrote this one.

And I feel like this is going to sound like one of those grown-worthy puns of which there are many in this movie.

But the pleasure of the original Lego movie, so much of it was in the world building.

And there's just like not as much world building left to do in this movie.

Right. There's no get the gang together kind of element that there was in the first one.

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