Just watched it for the first time...

And...

AND...

I didn't like it all that much. Nevertheless I did like the classic-brickfilm feel it had to it, and I thought it was well made.

Well, let me tell you. This film is something else. It reaches into you, and touches you in places you didn't know you had. It starts with the heart. I don't mean that nasty blood-pumping organ, no sirree. I'm talkin' about the place your mother resides. I'm talking about the happy thoughts. I'm talking about that place that lights up inside of you when you hear a kind word. I'm talking about that part of you that loves. Because that's what COTY does, kiddies. It not only gives you love, but compels and allows you to love it back. Love is not a one-way street with COTY, everybody, no, it most certainly is not. It's a two-way street, congested with cartloads of pure AFFECTION travelling to either side.
You may think that sounds like a lotta hooey. You may also think babies laughing is a small thing. You may also think when a man and a woman love each other very much, they should cut it out. Well let me tell you something, you cold-hearted cynics. There's enough pain and strife in this world without you refusing to give a REAL brickfilm a chance. Does it have a white expanses? No. Does it have two guys named Jim and something else that no one gives a hoot about? No! Does it feature walk cycles by rich kids trained in a smelly cave over a span of some decades in the art of animation by Shaolin monks? Hell no!
What it DOES have is a little hard to describe, aside from the obvious (touching story, brilliant script, awesome characters, and playful execution - we know of these already). It touches that special place, lifts you up, makes you go higher, higher, until the clouds are but a carpet at your feet, your only companion the sweet sweet whisper of the wind, like a long-lost lover comforting you with the greatest and most eloquent pillow-talk you're ever going to have enter your earhole.
Look, Frankenstein made kids weep out of fear. I never had that reaction with that film. I had it with COTY. Why? Because I was afraid. I was afraid the power would be cut to my house and I'd never be able to see it again. But I didn't weep for long (well, I did, but those later tears were born of joy). Because COTY reached out and comforted me. I knew even if the power were cut to my house, I'd be alright. Because COTY had already changed my life. From that day forward, I was no longer a boy watching LEGO movies. I was a man who had seen Great Things.
Everyone who sees it is touched. Maybe to some it means more than others. Maybe some deny its significance. I dunno why they profess not to like good things. That's for their therapist to find out. All I know is that it cured my leprosy, helped me ask out that 'special girl' (I think we all know one of those, fellas), and GOT me that sports scholarship. So watch The Citizen of the Year today, kiddos. See what it can do for you.

- Shale ('Like a Rock')

When they start curing leprousy.