And while we could obviously draw comparisons to failures like Battleship and The Emoji Movie, which attempted to use name recognition and brand awareness as justification for a movie’s existence, the example of The Lego Movie shows that a property doesn’t need to have an existing story to tell a great new one.
On the one hand, unlike Masters of the Universe, View-Master, which allows you to see all kinds of images, like landscapes and tourist attractions from around the world, seems pretty thin on story.