Then again, neither are kids under eight or so, who likely aren’t going to get most of the non-bathroom-and-butt-related humor.īasically, those who are batty for this stuff will positively devour all the Easter eggs that whisk by. I was more into Superman as a kid, mostly because of Lois Lane-but I was a loyal admirer of the campy ‘60s Batman TV series (referenced here via its “na-na-na-na” theme song, cheesy villains and the pop-art “POWs!” employed during a fight scene-a bone thrown at us oldsters). Granted, I will never be mistaken for a diehard Batman fan. Are you thinking what I am thinking about how they might just build that border wall-namely, one Lego brick at a time? Although Batman scores points for often beat-boxing rather than tweeting his self-praise.īut besides an implacable me-first disposition, the synthetically molded superhero and a certain White House dweller also have a financial patron in common: Treasury secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin, who earns an executive producer credit on this spoofy spinoff.

Of course, if I wanted to spend a morning with a narcissistic grumpy billionaire who claims he and he alone can bring law and order to the world while bragging incessantly about his accomplishments, I could have simply skipped the screening and turned on any cable news channel instead. When Will Arnett throatily growls his lines in this Lego version, it is usually in the service of derisive mockery that only semi-regularly hits its mark. When he sneered, “I’m Batman,” it contained true menace. I also haven’t really been truly fond of a big-screen Caped Crusader since Michael Keaton’s inspired outside-the-box interpretation of the role. It’s a not-uncommon malady, one that seems to be also affecting even the stars of these repetitive enterprises as witnessed by current Bat surrogate Ben Affleck when he couldn’t summon the enthusiasm to also direct a sequel to last year’s critically maligned “ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” It could simply be that I suffer from superhero fatigue these days.

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