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OttselSpy25 wrote: I don't see any evidence that they planned this entire movie out as a play-[s]ession of some kid. There's scenes of pools of lava flooding streets, complex bat-robots transforming and flying away, huge sets that no one could actually be able to build in real life... Fair enough. There seems to be a balance in this film between blatant this-is-at-least-meant-to-remind-you-of-playing-with-LEGOs-as-a-child and things that might go against that, like complex sets and pieces and jokes a child would likely not think up, or even think of, in some cases. And there's even some fourth-wall-breaking at the beginning and end, as you've said above.

It's at once a self-contained universe, so it seems, and a "child's plaything" (You! Are! A Toy!) where Commissioner Gordon has the hilariously non-creative lines of "Thank you" and "Goodbye". And yeah, that's part of the humour of the movie. And I think it's brilliant, personally. But it leaves it a bit unclear for us, at this point, as to whether this is "real" or, as you say, a merely "play-session" we're seeing come to life.