Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers



""We build on each other.""

From Universal Pictures home video, LEGO: The Adventures of Clutch Powers is the LEGO Group's first feature-length animated movie besides the four Bionicle movies, and the first to feature the classic LEGO People living in a world made of LEGO bricks.

The plot of the movie deals with Clutch Powers, the best LEGO Explorer in the universe. He is assigned a team, to his chagrin, to investigate a possible prison break on another planet. It turns out three evil prisoners (the ONLY prisoners, as a matter of fact) have escaped, and are now wreaking havoc. While Clutch wants to pursue 'Omega', believing the villain to have information as to the whereabouts of his missing father, he and his team are instead assigned to the medieval world of Ashlar.

There, they must stop Mallock the Malign, an evil wizard who was defeated and imprisoned by the now-deceased king. He has now returned and seeks the Golden Sword which was used to defeat him before. To make matters worse, Prince Varen, the king's son, is inexperienced in battle and can't wield the sword properly. Thus, it falls to our heroes to train the prince and defeat Mallock.

But how can they do that when they can't work together themselves?

This movie contains examples of:
"Brick Masterson: It's like driving a fire truck...IN SPACE!"
 * Action Prologue: Clutch vs. the rock monster at the beginning.
 * And the team's adventure on the prison planet.
 * All Trolls Are Different: Hogar the troll seems mean, but is actually working to protect the young prince.
 * Awesome Moment of Crowning: Prince Varen being crowned king.
 * Character Development: Almost all the good guys go through this.
 * Chekhov's Gun:.
 * Come to Gawk: After being captured, Clutch theorizes that the reason why Mallock doesn't kill them is because he wants to display them like trophies.
 * Despair Event Horizon:  Everyone is on the verge of giving up. Cue the Crowning Moment of Heartwarming mentioned on the YMMV tab.
 * Dogged Nice Guy: Bernie.
 * Built With Lego: D'ur!
 * Fire-Forged Friends
 * Four Man Band
 * The Hero: Clutch.
 * The Big Guy: Brick.
 * The Chick: Peg.
 * The Smart Guy: Bernie.
 * Friend to All Living Things: Peg is this,.
 * Green Eyed Red Head: Bernie von Beam.
 * Heroic Sacrifice: The king of Ashlar performed one of these to imprison Mallock, losing his creation spark in the process.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Both Captain Awesome and Sarah Walker lend their voices to main characters.
 * Bernie is Johnny Bravo.
 * I Work Alone: Clutch's catchphrase, and the title of the opening song.
 * Incredibly Lame Pun: Skelly and Bones spew a lot of these as they watch the two armies fight.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Brick and Clutch, to an extent.
 * The Final Temptation: Mallock tempts Clutch with images of his father..
 * Lego Body Parts: Yes, characters can detach and reattach their body parts without any injury and feel fine. However, in this film at least, it is only demonstrated a few brief times.
 * MacGuffin: The Golden Sword.
 * Medieval Stasis: Ashlar. Lampshaded earlier when the HQ viewscreen marks the planet's "time continuum" as "Medieval Throwback"
 * Minion With an F In Evil: Skelly and Bones, Mallock's two skeleton henchmen.
 * Never Say Die: Rather than dying, your 'creation spark is extinguished'. They do say 'alive', though.
 * Parental Bonus: Kids likely won't get the reference to Bat Masterson in Brick Masterson's name.
 * Product Placement: Of course.
 * Recycled in Space


 * Rock Beats Laser: Clutch considers using a racecar or a spaceship to escape the rock monster before deciding on... a catapult.
 * Sequel Hook: In the beginning, three evil prisoners are released from the Prison Planet. Clutch and friends spend the rest of the movie tracking down only one, the wizard, with their boss telling them that 'Omega will have to wait'.
 * Shout-Out: To Indiana Jones, as Clutch's Disappeared Dad left behind a diary with clues.
 * This is not the man you are looking for...
 * Heck, hiding the Indiana Jones inspiration for the main character was obviously not one of the producers' goals!
 * Clutch's torso is the exact same as the one of Indiana Jones in his LEGO sets.
 * "Shut Up" Kiss:
 * Single Biome Planet
 * Sugar Apocalypse: D'awwww, look at the LEGO people! Now watch the evil wizard wreak havoc with an army of skeletons!
 * Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
 * Those Two Bad Guys: Bones and Skelly.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds