Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers
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| Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers | |
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| Directed by | Howard E. Baker |
| Written by | Tom Rogers |
| Produced by | Lawrence Kasanoff Jimmy Ienner Kristy Scanlan Joshua R. Wexler |
| Starring | Ryan McPartlin Yvonne Strahovski Jeff Glen Bennett Roger Rose Paul Michael Glaser Christopher Emerson Gregg Berger Alex Desert |
| Edited by | Michael D. Black |
| Music by | David and Eric Wurst |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Countries | United States Denmark |
| Languages | English Danish |
| Box office | $69,229 [1] |
Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers (also known as The Adventures of Clutch Powers) is a 2010 Danish-American CGI animated comedy-adventure direct-to-video film. The film is based on the concept of the Lego toy series.
The film stars Ryan McPartlin, Yvonne Strahovski, Roger Rose, Jeff Glen Bennett, Paul Michael Glaser, Gregg Berger, Christopher Emerson and Alex Desert.
This was the first feature length Lego movie ever made, and it was produced and animated by Threshold Animation Studios. The studio is run by Lawrence Kasanoff and Jimmy Lenner, who also produced the movie.
Plot
Clutch Powers tunnels underground in search of a crystal and finds one, but the Crystal King guarding it wakes up and chases Clutch to an underground Power Miners base. Clutch escapes into a tunnel after temporarily slowing the monster, but finds out that the crystal is actually a baby rock monster. He returns it to the King, who gives a crystal to Clutch. Clutch then returns to his base in Lego City and gives it to his boss Kjeld Playwell who assigns him some new teammates: Brick Masterson, a firefighter, Peg Mooring, a biologist, and Bernie von Beam, an engineer. Playwell informs of an incident on the Space Police prison planet when chaos occurs regarding to the imprisonment of the three most wanted criminals in the galaxy. Clutch and his team investigate the situation at once, despite the team's lack of cooperation and Clutch's intent of working alone. They soon arrive at the planet.
They see that someone is stuck in one of the prisoners' cells, but they are attacked by an unseen wizard, who was one of the criminals leading the other two. The criminals then disappear and Clutch and his friends break the person out of the cell, revealing himself to be the Watch Commander. Clutch and his team attempt to go after the criminals, though the Watch Commander comforts them by stating that he removed the spark plugs of all ships to ensure that the criminals will never escape from the planet. Unfortunately, the criminals have taken the team's ship (due to the team having left it open after squabbling with each other) and destroy the other ships, inciting the Watch Commander to berate the team for their arguing and their lack of cooperation. Again the team shows their lack of cooperation when they attempt to create a ship, but the ship they create is a disaster and Clutch decides to build the ship for the team alone after declaring that a team arguing with each other while being ordered to do their tasks is the sole reason why he always works alone. During the trip back, the team is confronted by Playwell in a video call about what happened on the prison planet which starts an argument about whose fault it was, but Clutch intervenes in the argument and claims responsibility for the team's failure. He appoligizes for being distracted by the symbol on the Watch Commander's prison pod which referred to Omega, one of the two criminals led in the prison escape by the evil wizard, Playwell then informs the team that the criminals have gone their separate ways following the escape. Playwell also informs that the evil wizard who planned the escape is none other than Mallock the Malign, infamous for terrorizing a medieval planet named Ashlar. The planet's ruler, the late King Revet, sacrificed his own life to ensure his kingdom's safety and Mallock's previous imprisonment. He left his son Prince Varen with his powerful golden sword to rule, despite Prince Varen's incapability of preparing in battle. Playwell then orders Clutch and the team to travel there to capture Mallock. The team manages to get to Ashlar, but their ship accidentally knocks down Lego-Henge (a spoof of Stonehenge). They get off and take refuge in a seemingly abandoned medieval mine with extra parts, but not after witnessing a group of armed skeletons marching down the forest, realizing that Mallock has gained a stranglehold of Ashlar around his fortress with a joint skeleton/goblin army acting as his own forces. As Peg, Brick, and Bernie build a battle chariot, Clutch leaves to get Prince Varen to convince him to fight against Mallock. Meanwhile, in the fortress, Mallock learns of the team's presence and orders his two skeleton cronies Skelly and Bones to go after Clutch so they can find the prince and the golden sword to finalize his takeover of Ashlar. Back in the forest, Clutch ends up at a bridge but a troll named Hogar refuses to let him across until Clutch answers three riddles. Though Clutch gets them all right, Skelly and Bones catch up with him after a failed attempt to trap him, demanding Hogar to surrender Clutch to them. Hogar attempts to fight off the skeletons by hypnotizing them, but they don't fall for it, prompting an annoyed Hogar to swallow Clutch. He hits the skeletons with his club and runs away to a secret doorway that is painted like the forest to escape the skeletons.
Having escaped Skelly and Bones, Hogar spits Clutch out on the other side of the wall and shows him the way to the castle of Prince Varen, telling him about the history of his father and the golden sword. Hogar also tells Clutch that he was the only troll who was on the kingdom's team and that he was assigned to protect Varen. Back at the medieval camp, Bernie has a relationship on Peg, who leaves to look for the animal that made mysterious tracks, but instead encounters and befriends a dragon. Back at the castle, Clutch finds Prince Varen and helps him wield a sword. However, Varen fails and gets furious at Clutch. Clutch protests that he was trying to help him defeat the wizard's forces, but Varen rejects him, confessing that he's not his father and no match for Mallock no matter how Clutch trains him. Fed up, Clutch goes back to the camp and sees that a dwarf will help them so they set out to confront Mallock.
Eventually, Prince Varen, Hogar, and their knights decide to help Clutch and his team in their battle against Mallock. Varen and Clutch sneak in the back of Mallock's castle by disguising Peg as Varen. Unfortunately, Mallock plays wise to their moves and traps them in a bone cage above a lava lake while the skeleton army forces the knights to retreat after they were no match for them. Attempting to avoid a Troll battle machine, Brick, Peg, Hogar and Bernie crash the chariot into a ditch. Back in the castle, Mallock makes a screen in front of the clouds to show them that Clutch and Varen will be executed unless the golden sword is surrendered to him immediately. With no choice, Hogar brings the golden sword's chest to Mallock so he can free them, only to find that it's empty at the last minute. Enraged, Mallock traps Hogar in lightning and projects him back to the edge of the wall surrounding Varen's castle, leaving him trapped. Varen and Clutch send a message to the team so they can rely on themselves. Bernie gets fueled up by hope and they rebuild their broken chariot (which resembles the high-speed attack jeep used by Dr. Inferno's henchmen from the Lego Agents theme). They reunite with the knights and they attack the skeleton army. Back in the castle, Peg summons the same dragon she encountered and has it to destroy the cage, freeing Clutch and Varen, who then retrieve the golden sword that Varen dropped earlier, since Mallock didn't bother to search for it. After much convincing from Clutch, Varen finally decides to face his fear of Mallock to ensure his kingdom's safety. Around the same time, Mallock attempts to trick Clutch into giving the sword to him by promising to lead him to his father, but Clutch refuses, saying that "I already found him!".
As Clutch watches Varen using the golden sword to fight against Mallock, Brick uses a jet pack to land on Mallock's fortress, where he fights Skelly and Bones. Although Brick is no match for Skelly and Bones, Bernie helps him by throwing a gear at the skeletons and they get knocked apart. Back inside the fortress, Mallock taunts Varen of retaining his title as Prince of Ashlar as he uses his staff to attack Varen. However, Varen finally takes enough power from Mallock's staff into his sword, allowing the sword to unleash its full power, much to Mallock's surprise. Taking the opportunity, Varen uses the sword to trap Mallock with a glowing chain, declaring Mallock under arrest and himself the new King of Ashlar. Following Mallock's defeat, Hogar is freed from his restrains and the skeleton army dissolves into smoke, leaving Clutch's team and the knights to celebrate their victory. With peace declared open in Ashlar, Varen is then officially declared the new King, and when Clutch and his team pack up to transport the chained Mallock back to Lego City, Varen thanks him for being loyal and for being part of the team. The team then returns to Lego City, allowing the authorities to send the imprisoned Mallock in a cage back to the prison planet. Congratulating the team for their efforts, Playwell tells them that Omega and the other unnamed criminal are still on the loose, and they have gotten reports of the unnamed criminal's location on another planet. Encouraged with a new-found belief of teamwork, the team head onward to a new adventure to capture the criminal.
Cast
- Ryan McPartlin as Clutch Powers
- Yvonne Strahovski as Peg Mooring
- Paul Michael Glaser as Kjeld Playwell
- Roger Rose as Brick Masterson
- Jeff Glen Bennett as Bernie von Beam and Artie Fol
- Gregg Berger as Watch Commander and Rock Powers
- Stephan Cox as Mallock the Malign
- Christopher Emerson as Prince Varen
- Alex Desert as Skelly
- Chris Hardwick as Bones
- Richard Doyle as Hogar the Troll
- John DiCrosta as Lofar the Dwarf
- Scott Weil as Villagers and Knights
- Matt Kasanoff, Jake Barton, and Cody Taylor as Cub Scouts
- Dennis Edwards, Howard Baker, Steve Tavernia, and Michael D. Black as Extras
Reception
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At the meta-critic site Rotten Tomatoes, there is no established score by official critics.[2] Common Sense Media gave it a 3 out of 5 stars saying it was a "Clever, witty adventure--but also one big Lego ad." [3]
References
- ^ Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers on Box Office Mojo
- ^ Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers at Common Sense Media
