"The Lego Movie" is a story about becoming who you are, realizing you are unique and exploiting your strengths to become who you are supposed to become. Oddly enough, it happens to be in a utopian dictatorship that this story takes place, yet by the end it all makes sense and you are left feeling good inside because the right stuff happened when it needed to. The “happy ending” that we are accustomed to in Disney movies is apparent of course, as well as the saving of friends followed by the hero saving everyone. This is and has been almost like a trademark for kids movies since animation became a thing and for good reason what kid wants to watch a guy who they now think is awesome lose everything? No one. I am going to start this a little differently, beginning with our Mulan discussion. It was about gender, and what it meant to be the perfect man, or woman or parts of a story that make a man or a woman perfect. In the Lego movie we join the conformist Emmett a hard working construction worker who lives life by “The Instructions” which is a code of life to be happy and healthy always set forth by the “evil” President Business. He is a regular Lego so we will start with him he makes himself different by wearing this big fiery costume that has giant tall legs, flaming cups on the top of his head, and all these strange other world “relics” as he calls them. This is his way of making himself the perfect villain, someone who is tall powerful and intimidating, also he is a guy. Does this mean girls aren’t able to be evil? “Adults were treated to a smart drama about toys that exploit their toyness and the other toys don’t realize they aren’t human.” (Halberstam 274) Is a good quote by Halberstam for this point because all of these Legos don’t actually know that they are just being manipulated by humans, they think they are real yet it’s a father and sons basement set of Legos. Enough of that back to the intro, we have our good construction worker Emmett who is the opposite of what you would think a hero would be, also male yet not this big tough perfect one, in fact he is mostly your average joe kind of guy, no one notices him really he is just invisible because he is so plain. This is our heroa regular guy who believes in himself rescues everyone and achieves his destiny. Next we have Batman the Lego, he is the perfect man, cool, smart, strong, deep voice, and he starts with the girl but does he end with her? No. He isn’t the hero in this story but it sets you up to see him as the perfect male. Now let’s get on to the one female in the entire movie. Wild Style, is that a DJ? That was a joke. Anyway she is the only girl and on her Lego is an hourglass shape, like the perfect specimen of female which could be misconstrued as sexist, but it probably won’t be because no child notices that, this movie has a lot of great representations of perfect males and