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10 Awesome Easter Eggs From The LEGO Batman Movie

The LEGO Batman Movie has followed on from 2014's The LEGO Movie in being a huge critical and commercial success. They both share a fast-paced energy, quick wit and big dollop of metafictional humour. In The LEGO Movie, that took the form of presenting the characters and their world as the creation of a little boy, while LEGO Batman is full of winks and nods at the Caped Crusader's history.
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Published: Feb 13, 2017 09:06 pm

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3) Classic (And Obscure) Movie References

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It’s not just Batman (and the odd Superman) movies that are referenced in LEGO Batman, however, as there are some fun nods to classic – and not-so-classic – cinema as well.

A boxing-themed Batsuit in the Batcave, for instance, is labelled Raging Bat – a take on the Robert DeNiro film Raging Bull. Another with Wolverine type claws is called Clawed Rains. This is a slightly more obscure nod to Claude Rains, the classic Hollywood actor who appeared in such films as Casablanca.  

Further on in the film, Batman lists off superhero teams. One of these is Fox Force Five, the name of the TV pilot that Uma Thurman’s Mia starred in in Pulp Fiction.  By far the most oblique reference in the movie though occurs when Robin builds a makeshift skateboard and Batman tells him to “gleam the cube.” Gleaming the Cube is a 1990 skateboard film starring Christian Slater.

We’re not sure how many of the LEGO-loving kids in the audience appreciated these jokes, but we imagine that the film buffs out there got a kick out of them.

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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered. Since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester, he has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade. The MCU is his comfort place but, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is The Incredibles.
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