10 Movies That Worked Despite Their Absurd Premise

Before anybody can get angry, it should be made clear that the absurdity of this movie lies in what it represents, rather than what it is. For what it's worth, the film tells a sincere story of overcoming the odds, managing to subvert expectation along the way and leaving audiences with an important message about conformity and having an individual voice.

What's so absurd about that? The movie's runaway success and genuinely great writing may make it easy to forget, but this is a LEGO movie. A film about those unassuming little bricks that everybody between the ages of four and 99 has played with at some point in their life. Upon its reveal, it was easy to dismiss it as a shameless advertisement with a runtime of 100 minutes.

What audiences found, however, was a heartfelt, passionately made adventure with gags of both visual and verbal nature being fired out at an impossible pace. Topped off with a beautiful message that captured the spirit of the source material and felt invaluable to the target audience, The LEGO Movie was much more than an advert. Perhaps the less said about The LEGO Ninjago Movie the better, though.