10 Greatest Fake Out Endings In Movies
6. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Roughly 80 minutes into the second Lego Movie, it seems like the film is going to angle for a dark cliffhanger ending in the vein of, say, The Empire Strikes Back or Avengers: Infinity War.
But alas, the filmmakers instead decided to have fun with this trope, as when the Lego heroes - including Emmet (Chris Pratt) and Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) - get put in the Bin of Storajj, the grim scene cuts to a seemingly final title card reading "The End."
After a few moments' pause, though, Wyldstyle pipes up and assures the audience that the movie ain't over yet, saying, "This isn't one of those things with a downer cliffhanger ending," and the film continues for another 25-or-so minutes.
It's just as well that the movie wasn't earnestly aiming for a cliffhanger ending, though, considering that it was one of the more unexpected box office bombs of the last few years and effectively killed the Lego Movie IP overnight.