<em>The Lego Movie 2</em> Skewers Modern Pop Culture—And Chris Pratt’s Career

According to (which bears the cute subtitle ), everything that’s gone wrong in pop culture over the past five years can be mapped onto the arc of Chris Pratt’s career. When the actor voiced the hero Emmet Brickowski in 2014’s , Pratt was still part of the cast of and often played avuncular sidekicks in rom-coms such as . In other words, he was ideal casting for the role of a plastic everyman who cheerfully sings along to ’s earworm of a theme song, “Everything Is Awesome.”