LEGO Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick

LEGO Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick is a LEGO-brick mini-movie spoof loosely based on Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Revenge of the Brick premiered on the Cartoon Network on Sunday, May 8th, 2005, at 7:00 p.m. EST. The mini-movie now can be seen in QuickTime format on the LEGO website or directly downloaded. It was also released with the Clone Wars Volume Two DVD as one of its special features. The film also appeared on October 2, 2005, at the 2005 Woodstock Film Festival, in the "Animation for Kids" category.

It was produced by Treehouse Animation, which has since collaborated again with Lego on producing Batman mini-movies similar to it. The mini-movie now can be seen in QuickTime on the LEGO site or directly downloaded here. A "making-of" narrated by Mark Hamill can also be viewed on the site.

Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the original trilogy of Star Wars films, was involved in the creation of this project. According to Hamill, "as the original Luke Skywalker, I think I know something about making Star Wars movies. So the fit with Treehouse [Animations] made perfect sense."

Presentation style
The mini-movie is basically a very tongue-in-cheek look at the important happenings of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and is presented in a 3-D computer animation format, as is Treehouse's specialty.

The spoof features stylised versions of the Lego Star Wars Episode 3 building toys in fantasy situations, portraying the interactivity of Lego in various hilarious scenes. Lego's classic mini-figures are also made more 3-D in their detail, with more flexibility in movement portrayed to facilitated the film's action sequences.(i.e sqash and stach.)

Synopsis

 * The following is a detailed overview of the mini-movie's plot, which is considered non-canonical.

Space battle above Kashyyyk
The movie begins with an opening sequence taking place outside Kashyyyk. Two craft appear. The camera then switches to the Trade Federation droid control ship from The Phantom Menace. Inside is Count Dooku using a remote to show General Grievous, sitting on his chair and getting up. The sequence shifts to the battle in space, as enemy ships appear.

The camera shifts to Anakin Skywalker's craft (an ARC-170), copiloted by a clone trooper and a clone rear gunner. Anakin turns left and the ship goes upside down and the camera shows Anakin and a scared clone pilot flying down the trench to engage the enemy fighters, a reference to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. A droid trifighter fires on Anakin, but misses. Anakin goes away and the two flanking fighters explode from friendly fire.

Another enemy fighter aims at Anakin's craft and fires an orb, which hits his ship! Out of the orb comes a maniacal Buzz Droid, and attaches itself to the ARC fighter. The rear gunner uses buzz spray to repel it, but the droid gets close to Anakin's window. Anakin presses a little blue button activating the windshield wipers to get rid of the pestering machine. The Buzz droid avoids them and attaches itself to the fighter's starboard engine, and begins to cut into it.

Count Dooku is watching a TV screen but gets only static. General Grievous acts as an antenna. Dooku points his LEGO finger at Grievous to Grievous at the exact position that shows a clear picture of the battle outside. The movie then shifts to another sequence. Obi-Wan Kenobi's Jedi interceptor flies into view as a vulture droid fighter fires two missiles at Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan uses the Force to momentarily disintegrate his fighter, letting the missiles through destroying two other vultures.

The camera shifts to Anakin. Turbolasers from the control ship shatters Anakin's ARC fighter. Anakin exits the remains of the craft, floating in space. He rebuilds his fighter with the Force. Realizing that he created a bi-plane, he demolishes the plane and rebuilds it again in a speeder-like fighter (he is still exposed to the vacuum of space). One of the clones is onboard as well. (There is no sign of the other.) Anakin uses the Force power to control the buzz droid to cut an opening into the Trade Federation droid control ship. Inside the flagship, droidekas fire at Anakin from a platform, trying to stop his advance. Anakin uses his lightsaber to destroy the platform the droidekas are standing on, while the clone trooper desperately clings to the side of the fighter.

The sequence shifts back to Obi-Wan's craft. A trifighter fires on Obi-Wan and takes out his starboard wing. Obi-Wan uses his Force powers to demolish the enemy craft. Obi-Wan then pulverizes another trifighter and two vultures. He then used the pieces to remodel his fighter into a Y-wing. Obi-Wan advances on the control ship and destroys some of communications devices the on top. The sequence shifts to Anakin leaving the flagship, clone trooper still clinging to the side. The flagship explodes. Anakin and Obi-Wan then proceed to Kashyyyk (resembling Earth).

Battle on Kashyyyk
On Kashyyyk, Yoda spots some battle droids. The droids also notice him and surround him. Yoda disassembles several droids with the Force, mixing their parts in the process. Yoda brandishes his lightsaber and dismantles the droids. A Turbo Tank arrives with Mace Windu and clone troopers. The Wookiees join the clone army in the fight with Chewbacca leading them. Anakin and Obi-Wan soon arrive and join the battle.

The clone troopers and Wookiees keep fighting valiantly. A Clone AT-RT is destroyed in battle. A Wookiee is attacked by a Confederacy tank and is almost run over. He reassembles his shattered rocket launcher just in time to fire a rocket just as the tank turned around to run over him. The damaged vehicle skids to a stop near him, and he faints.

Almost all the clones and Wookiees have been neutralized. Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Mace and Chewbacca are the only ones left, and are surrounded by battle droids. One of the droids says "Uh oh" when Wookiees reinforcements arrive in a Wookiee Catamaran and destroy the droids. They drop missiles and destroy many droids and tanks forcing the droid army to retreat.

The next sequence begins with the bar scene remeniscent to the Mos Eisley Cantina scene in A New Hope. Everyone is here (Grievous is the bartender, apparently having quit his general job.). Ponda Baba and some Jawas are present, too. And, although you only get a fleeting glimpse of him, so is Count Dooku. Yoda (R2-D2 rolls past Yoda) uses the Force to get the drinks R2-D2 is carrying on a tray attached to his back. Mace, Obi-Wan and Anakin are at the bar. Chewbacca takes a picture of Anakin and Obi-Wan. Chewbacca sees the picture of Darth Vader and Old Obi-Wan in a lightsaber battle (reference to A New Hope) instead of Anakin and Obi-Wan standing together, happily. Chewbacca collapses. Greedo is standing behind him, and watches him fall. The mini-movie ends. The end credits show, accompanied by a clip of Darth Vader conducting the clone army orchestra to play the Imperial March. Darth Vader uses his lightsaber as a baton.

Release
In addition to its TV airing and release on the internet, the short film was released on a promo disc in Europe, and was released on the DVD for Clone Wars Volume II on December 6, 2005 for the rest of the world.

Characters

 * Darth Vader
 * Obi-Wan
 * Anakin Skywalker
 * Count Dooku
 * Yoda
 * General Grievous

Species
Human Wookiee

Kaleesh

Other

Locations

 * Kashyyyk
 * Mos Eisley Cantina

Behind the scenes

 * While Count Dooku is trying to tune his television, the screen intermittently shows a test pattern similar to the Indian Head test card, with the words "Please stand by" and "Treehouse" along with bullseye images and horses.