10 Movies Nobody Wanted To Admit Were Actually Remakes
2. The Lego Movie Is The Matrix For Kids
The Lego Movie was widely praised when it landed in theaters back in 2014 for turning what initially looked like a cynical cash-grab designed to sell toys into a crowd-pleasing animated blockbuster. With Phil Lord and Christopher Miller on script duties, the duo's signature subversive humor was almost a given, and they even managed to make a kid-friendly version of The Matrix without anyone noticing.
Both stories follow an everyman hero stuck in a repetitive day job who dreams of becoming somebody important, and the similarities hardly stop there. Both Neo and Emmet are recruited into an underground resistance movement by a mysterious female character, before being told by a wizened sage they they are the chosen one, with the power to save the universe.
Not only that, but both movies feature an interrogation scene with a shades-wearing bad guy and a hostage situation that leads to a daring rescue on enemy headquarters, before our hero returns from his apparent demise to save the day with his newfound fighting abilities.
If that still wasn't enough, then there's the obvious parallels in having the main character slowly come to realization that their entire reality is a construct, created by mysterious figures that exist on the peripherals of their existence. Which is pretty heavy stuff for a kids film, but also a hell of a lot of fun.
Maybe they should just embrace it and have Keanu Reeves kicking a** in The Matrix 4 to the sounds of 'Everything Is Awesome'.