The Lego movie has made $69.1m (£42.1m) in its opening weekend at the US box office – the second biggest February opening of all time, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The film sees Emmet Brickowski (Chris Pratt), an ordinary blockhead, mistaken for a "master builder", an anarchic construction expert capable of working at great speed on any design in the Lego universe, even the ones that need adult supervision. Meanwhile the evil Lego tyrant President Business, played by Will Ferrell, is plotting to glue the world together. Emmet, with fellow pieces voiced by Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth Banks and Jonah Hill, must click a plan into place to stop him.
The Lego movie has achieved the biggest opening weekend of 2014 so far. It builds on the success of last year's Frozen ($67.3m) and Despicable Me 2 ($83.5m) to suggest that children's animation is still a huge market for US studios. A breakdown of the Lego movie's audience, though, would suggest it's not just kids and their parents heading to the box office: 59% of the weekend's cinemagoers were over 18, while males made up 55% of the audience.
