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The Lego Pharrell Movie Has a Lego Black Lives Matter Segment
Some thoughts on Piece by Piece and the dangers of committing to the bit.
It’s a little disturbing to see the abs on mini-fig Gwen Stefani, but the Lego re-creation of the video for Wreckx-n-Effect’s “Rump Shaker” (for which Pharrell wrote the Teddy Riley verse) is delightful, as is seeing someone’s reaction to first listening to the Neptunes’ work visualized by his exploding into component parts. When Pharrell has his first encounter with Snoop Dogg, the meeting occurs in a haze of “PG spray” from a can, a cutesy joke that gets you wondering if the intent of that sanitizing gesture is because kids are somehow expected to watch this solipsistic endeavor, or because keeping it clean is a Lego requirement. This is, for all its mildness, a movie about a 51-year-old man, and when it gets around to his work on Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright,” and depicts Black Lives Matter protests being carried out by mini-figs, it’s enough to cause temporary delirium.
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