These days it seems like politics and ideological divisions are spilling over into every aspect of American life.
Case in point: the new Lego Movie, which opened on Friday to rave reviews.
So what could possibly be the issue with a movie based on plastic bricks?
According to Fox News, the movie’s villain, appropriately named President Business, represents a cruel caricature of the American business executive and looks too much like Governor Mitt Romney.
This is despite the fact that Lego Movie is probably the most thinly veiled toy marketing movie in recent memory. What’s more capitalist then making a hugely profitable movie that also promotes your other products?
Of course, every movie will be impacted by the perspectives of those who made it; that’s a big part of what makes movies valuable as an artistic medium.
But it seems to us at USDemocrazy that maybe we should just LEGO of all the political posturing and enjoy Lego Movie for the harmless entertainment that it is.
Does Hollywood have a problem with liberal bias? Or is Fox grasping at plastic straws here?
