Everyone is heated up for the upcoming release of Sam Taylor-Johnson's Fifty Shades of Grey -- and we mean everyone, including the two Lego figures playing naïve college student Anastasia Steele and the brooding billionaire Christian Grey in this hilarious remake of the Valentine's Day film's steamy trailer.
Lego remake specialists Antonio and Andrea Toscano, known for their Lego versions of the Iron Man 3 trailer and the viral "First Kiss" YouTube video, have done it again. This time, the Lego lovers have aimed their prowess at making films made of the plastic toy bricks for all the Fifty Shades of Grey fans out there, who will greatly appreciate the Toscanos' keen and ultra-meticulous attention to detail.
This could be the pair's best work yet and, as anyone who has seen the real movie trailer would know, this one is filled with the whips and chains and those suggestively witty one-liners uttered in the throaty voices of actors Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan. There is one major difference, though. Seeing the plastic figure Ms. Steele and Mr. Grey share that wanton kiss inside the elevator is much better than seeing them in the human flesh.
The Toscanos really made sure to include each and every juicy bit of the film's trailer into their work, right down to Mr. Grey's gloriously drawn six-pack abs and sexy look, which the Lego filmmakers have thankfully decided to show us two times.
Of course, the blindfolded Ms. Steele is not about to give up all the attention to Mr. Grey, as the video closes with her tied to a post inside the uncomfortably plastic red room of pain, a husky gasp escaping from between her lips. It truly is right up there with writer E.L. James' material, only a hundred times more awkward.
The real Fifty Shades of Grey is expected to debut in theaters worldwide on Feb. 13, making it the perfect film to get the guys and gals hot under the collar in time for Valentine's Day.
In the United Kingdom, the film has been handed an R-18 rating, meaning audiences below 18 years old are banned from seeing the film in theaters, because of the portrayal of "strong sex" and "sado-masochistic practices." In the United States, however, audiences under 17 can still watch the film but with the supervision of an adult, although we could imagine all those teens and adults squirming in their seats during the entire 20 minutes of the film's sex scenes.
In the past, critics have panned the film, saying it glorifies violence against and sexual abuse of women, but Dornan defends the practice of sado-masochism as simply a sexual fantasy that some people have.
"It's far more common for men to be submissive," he told GQ. "And it's consensual! There's weirder shit than that. I think plane spotting is far weirder than S&M. That I really don't get. I can understand why people are into S&M, but standing outside Heathrow Terminal 5 waiting for Ryanair to come in?"
Below is the original trailer:
