The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
Always be yourself... unless you can be Batman.
A cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne must deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick.
In The Lego Batman Movie, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “lego metropolis”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing heroism, family, institution, identity, community.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)consciousness in objects · lego city
Christopher Robin (2018)consciousness in objects · toy-wood reality
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)consciousness in objects · animated toy realm
Pinocchio (1940)consciousness in objects · living-toy world
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)consciousness in objects · mythic feudal Japan
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)consciousness in objects · wartime puppet ItalySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)consciousness in animals · community, family
Finding Nemo (2003)consciousness in animals · community, family
The Grinch (2018)consciousness in monsters · community, family
Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! (2008)consciousness in aliens · family, heroism
Megamind: The Button of Doom (2011)consciousness in aliens · community, heroism
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · community, identity
