Lego Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick

LEGO Star Wars:
Revenge of the Brick
LEGO Star Wars:; Revenge of the Brick
Directed by	Royce Graham; Pete Bregman; Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release date	May 8, 2005
Running time	5:16
Countries	Denmark; Belgium; Germany
Languages	English; Frisian; German

Lego Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick is a

EST. The movie can now be seen in QuickTime

format on the Lego website or directly downloaded. It was also released with the Clone Wars Volume Two DVD as one of its special features.

The spoof was produced by Treehouse Animation, which has since collaborated again with Lego on producing Batman short films similar to it.

original trilogy of Star Wars films, was involved in the creation of this project and narrates a "making-of" feature on the website.^[1]

According to Hamill, "as the original Luke Skywalker, I think I know something about making Star Wars movies. So the fit with Treehouse Animations made perfect sense."

The film also appeared on October 2, 2005, at the 2005 Woodstock Film Festival, in the "Animation for Kids" category.

Presentation style

The short is a very tongue-in-cheek look at the important happenings of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and is presented in a 3-D computer animation format, as is Treehouse's specialty.

The spoof features stylized versions of the Lego Star Wars Episode III building kits in fantasy situations, portraying the interactivity of Lego in various scenes. Lego's classic mini-figures are also made more 3-D in their detail, with more flexibility in movement portrayed to facilitate the film's action sequences.

Plot

The following is a detailed overview of the mini-movie's plot, which is considered non-canonical.

Space battle above Kashyyyk

The movie begins with a short

Kashyyyk, and that Jedi Knights

have been sent to stop the invasion and restore peace.

Two Republic fighters appear above the planet and fly towards a

Trade Federation control ship (from The Phantom Menace). Count Dooku watches from inside, and then, smiling, presses a button, which turns a revolving chair with General Grievous

sitting on it.

Back outside,

Buzz droid

at the ARC-170, which lands near the clone trooper rear gunner, who uses a can of "Buzz Spray" to dislodge the robot. The Buzz droid moves over to Anakin's window, and after being removed by Anakin's windshield wipers, the droid lands on the craft's engine and begins to cut into it. Back inside the control ship, Count Dooku tries to watch the battle outside on his television, but only receives static or intermittent test patterns. The shot zooms out to reveal General Grievous balancing on top of the television, acting as a living antenna.

Meanwhile,

droidekas standing on a platform. As his clone trooper pilot hangs onto the wing for dear life, Anakin throws his lightsaber like a Boomerang

, which destroys the platform's support, sending it tumbling down.

Obi-Wan's Jedi interceptor is hit by enemy laser fire, and his right wing is destroyed. However, he uses the Force to disassemble several droid fighters to their individual pieces and attaches them to his craft. He pilots his y-wing towards the Trade Federation control ship and fires a few well-placed shots at it, causing a giant explosion. Anakin's ship escapes from an access tunnel just in time as the control ship spectacularly explodes, and Obi-Wan and Anakin head down to Kashyyyk.

Battle on Kashyyyk

The sequence shifts to Kashyyyk.

A5 Juggernaut arrives, and Mace Windu

and the clone troopers come out of the vehicle and attack, joined by the Wookiees under Chewbacca, Anakin and Obi-Wan.

As the battle commences, Chewbacca dodges an enemy droid tank, which skids to a halt and turns to charge again, determined to run him down. Chewbacca hastily assembles a rocket launcher out of spare Lego pieces and shoots a rocket at the enemy, hitting one of its tracks. The tank skids out of control and almost hits Chewbacca, who faints from shock.

Almost all the clones and Wookiees have been destroyed or have run away; Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Mace Windu and Chewbacca find themselves surrounded. But then Wookiee reinforcements arrive and beat the droids back. The remaining droids retreat in a demoralised rabble.

Epilogue

The next sequence takes place in a setting similar to the cantina in A New Hope, including its famous soundtrack, with General Grievous acting as the bartender and several other Star Wars characters in attendance. R2-D2, carrying some drinks on a tray strapped to his back, passes Yoda, who uses his force powers to deliver the drinks to the next table. Obi-Wan and Anakin are drinking happily when Chewbacca takes a photo using a Polaroid of Anakin and Obi-Wan. Seeing that the picture is actually of Darth Vader and Old Ben Kenobi in a lightsaber battle (instead of Anakin and a younger Obi-Wan standing together happily), Chewbacca faints yet again, ending the film.

The end credits show, accompanied by a clip of Darth Vader conducting, with his lightsaber as a baton, some clones in the famous

Imperial March

.

References

^ Mark Hamill (narrator). Revenge of the Brick: A Look Behind the Scenes (Featurette). Treehouse Animation. Archived from the original on February 7, 2007.

External links

View the film at the official LEGO site

[bts-1] Mark Hamill (narrator). Revenge of the Brick: A Look Behind the Scenes (Featurette). Treehouse Animation. Archived from the original on February 7, 2007.

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