Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Newsreader: The toy company Lego's characters have ended up on the role list of several American films. Lego men and women play in scenes with sex and violence. The company now wants to stop this.
Carsten Mørk Jørgensen (speaker): It is all about sex, violence (1) and drugs (2). Strong social realism. These are the so-called Brick films (3): animation films where the actors are Lego men and women.
Jakob Stegelmann (cartoon critic): Animations like these use humor (4) which means they go to the limits and try something grotesque.
Speaker: But the Lego company is not at all pleased with the double-life of the Lego characters. Communications officer Thomas Reil says to TV2: "We clearly disapprove of this and we wish to stop it through legal action. It does not correspond to our values. This is a children's toy which should support children's playing and children's world. And these films don't."
(5) The films are often produced in the USA by amateurs and are shown at festivals and on the Internet. It is also here you can meet Rick and Steve - the happiest gay couple in the whole world (6) not to mention the disadvantaged/socially maladjusted (7) Lego girl whose father drinks and whose mother is a drug addict.
But Jakob Stegelmann does not quite understand the reservation of Lego: Jakob Stegelmann (cartoon critic): "I find their reaction strongly exaggerated. They ought to say: 'Thank you very much for using your imagination for something funny. This is not quite what we imagined - but we are happy, anyway.' Speaker: What's left is the question whether Lego will succeed in stopping the careers of the world's most happy gay couple, Rick and Steve, and their colleagues.
Newsreader: The story about Rick and Steve has received large approval in film circles. Among other places it has been shown at the prestigeous Sundance festival in the USA.
(1): sequence from 'Girl' - father committing suicide
(2): sequence from 'Girl' - mother sniffing drugs
(3): Brickfilms.com screen
(4): this is said with irony/sarcasm: "use socalled 'humor'"
(5): the Thomas Reil quotation is shown in text on the screen
(6): sequence "I must have more sperm"
(7): the Danish adjective "samspilsramt" is difficult to translate - 'disadvantaged/socially maladjusted' is the best bet
Translation by Kjeld
Newsreader: The toy company Lego's characters have ended up on the role list of several American films. Lego men and women play in scenes with sex and violence. The company now wants to stop this.
Carsten Mørk Jørgensen (speaker): It is all about sex, violence (1) and drugs (2). Strong social realism. These are the so-called Brick films (3): animation films where the actors are Lego men and women.
Jakob Stegelmann (cartoon critic): Animations like these use humor (4) which means they go to the limits and try something grotesque.
Speaker: But the Lego company is not at all pleased with the double-life of the Lego characters. Communications officer Thomas Reil says to TV2: "We clearly disapprove of this and we wish to stop it through legal action. It does not correspond to our values. This is a children's toy which should support children's playing and children's world. And these films don't."
(5) The films are often produced in the USA by amateurs and are shown at festivals and on the Internet. It is also here you can meet Rick and Steve - the happiest gay couple in the whole world (6) not to mention the disadvantaged/socially maladjusted (7) Lego girl whose father drinks and whose mother is a drug addict.
But Jakob Stegelmann does not quite understand the reservation of Lego: Jakob Stegelmann (cartoon critic): "I find their reaction strongly exaggerated. They ought to say: 'Thank you very much for using your imagination for something funny. This is not quite what we imagined - but we are happy, anyway.' Speaker: What's left is the question whether Lego will succeed in stopping the careers of the world's most happy gay couple, Rick and Steve, and their colleagues.
Newsreader: The story about Rick and Steve has received large approval in film circles. Among other places it has been shown at the prestigeous Sundance festival in the USA.
(1): sequence from 'Girl' - father committing suicide
(2): sequence from 'Girl' - mother sniffing drugs
(3): Brickfilms.com screen
(4): this is said with irony/sarcasm: "use socalled 'humor'"
(5): the Thomas Reil quotation is shown in text on the screen
(6): sequence "I must have more sperm"
(7): the Danish adjective "samspilsramt" is difficult to translate - 'disadvantaged/socially maladjusted' is the best bet
Translation by Kjeld
