Lego music doc Piece By Piece is only missing “puff” from its title

The Lego Movie, the 2014 cartoon from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, challenged a lot of preconceptions about what a movie based on a toy line could be—and, as such, became a text of permission for plenty of middling-to-bad ideas. At the center of these new misconceptions was the idea that maybe Lego wasn’t just a brand of high-end plastic building toys, and maybe it wasn’t just the vehicle for a particular style of manic but self-aware comic animation that looks like stop-motion (but isn’t). Maybe it could serve as a whole new medium, man. It’s still theoretically possible that Lego will one day produce an animated movie that exists far outside of the slightly diminished-returns comfort zone established by The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie and blazes its own inventive trail beyond family adventure-comedies. The pop music puff piece Piece By Piece would like very much to be that movie…