Saw Lego Batman last night. Just a bunch of fun through and through. It's one of those movies that honestly is fun for the whole family. And they did a great job digging through Batman's history to bring a little bit of everything into it. When Joker was listing off villain after villain he'd gotten to join him, I was begging for a particularly obscure one to be included, but he wasn't. But then cut to the next scene and there he was!
Add me to the group. Seems most horror movies anymore (or was it always that way) are about the gore and the cheap jump-scares and the like rather than building up of tension and going after your mind. I think it's really neat when they can make you question what's real, or perhaps what's moral.
When I saw the trailer for it, my immediate thought was "oh, another foreign IP getting the generic Hollywood treatment." Looks like my impression was spot-on.
Honestly, I get the problem with whitewashing as a general trend, but considering the subject matter of the movie and how the artwork representing the character in the animation doesn't scream "Japanese", I really don't have a problem with a Caucasian woman playing the lead role. That said, I probably wouldn't have cast Scarlet Johansson; I think I'd have preferred a fresher face. Maybe use the money saved to buy a script that doesn't sound like a Robocop ripoff.