Piece By Piece, the animated Pharrell Williams Lego biopic, has been getting rave reviews from the critics.
The film uses Lego toy blocks to bring the story of the recording artist, producer, songwriter, and fashion designer’s story to the screen, and arrives in theaters on Friday, Oct. 11.
The biopic has 33 reviews and a 91 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes as of Wednesday afternoon, with most critics embracing the unusual concept for the Morgan Neville-directed film.
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Kevin Bourne of Shifter magazine said, “Piece By Piece is one of the most inspirational movies we’ve seen in a very long time.”
Radheyan Simonpillai of The Guardian felt the film works because Pharrell and the rest of the cast are “natural orators with terrific origin stories to tell.”
Isobel Grieve of The Mary Sue geek girl website wrote, “an excellent experiment in musical documentary filmmaking that works fantastically well with Pharrell Williams’ incredible life story and impressive discography.”
However, Robert Daniels of RogerEbert.com wasn’t as impressed, writing, “The overstretched and underthought ‘Piece by Piece‘ is always struggling to check the boxes of its genre requirements.”
The star-studded voice cast also includes Daft Punk, Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, Pusha T, Snoop Dogg, and N.O.R.E. — all in Lego form.
Below is the official trailer for the film:
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