Box office The Lego Batman Movie grossed $175.8 million in the United States and Canada and $136.2 million in other territories for a worldwide gross of $312 million, against a production budget of $80 million. It earned $2.2 million from Thursday-night previews and $14.5 million on Friday. It went on to open with $53 million, finishing first at the box office. In its second weekend, the film grossed $32.7 million (a small drop of 38.4%), again topping the box office; with the additional
President's Day holiday on Monday, it made a total of $42.7 million for the weekend. In its third weekend of release, the film dropped to second at the box office, behind newcomer
Get Out, grossing $19.2 million (a drop of 41.2%). Outside North America, the film was simultaneously released in 61 countries, and was expected to gross around $40 million over its first three days. In the United Kingdom, the film topped the box office for three weeks until it was dethroned by
Logan in its fourth weekend. Meanwhile,
The Lego Batman Movie opened in China with $3.7 million and ranked in fourth place behind the latter film, ''
A Dog's Purpose and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter''.
Critical response On review aggregation website
Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of based on 314 reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critical consensus reads, "
The Lego Batman Movie continues its block-buster franchise's winning streak with another round of dizzyingly funny—and beautifully animated—family-friendly mayhem." It was ranked the 23rd best superhero movie of all time on the site. As of January 2025, it has fallen to 30th. On
Metacritic, the film has a score of 75 out of 100, based on 48 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by
CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale. Mike Ryan of
Uproxx gave the film a positive review, praising its comedy, and saying: "
The Lego Batman Movie isn't the same experience as watching
The LEGO Movie, but I also don't think it's trying to be. It's trying to be a fun superhero movie with clever callbacks to previous Batman films (every single Batman movie all the way back to the 1940s serials are referenced) that can, at least, provide DC superhero fans with a taste of fun amidst all the doom and gloom. (That can either be a reference to 'the real world' or the current
DC Cinematic Universe films, you can choose either one you want or both.) And at that,
The Lego Batman Movie succeeds." Chris Nashawaty of
Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "B+" and wrote, "
Lego Batman revs so fast and moves so frenetically that it becomes a little exhausting by the end. It flirts with being too much of a good thing. But rarely has corporate brainwashing been so much fun and gone down with such a delightful aftertaste." Tara Brady of
The Irish Times earned a 4 out of 5 rating, saying, "Under the direction of
Robot Chickens Chris McKay, Arnett relentlessly prods at Batman with a welcome helping of
BoJack Horseman-brand misery and narcissism." In a 3 out of 4 review, Moira MacDonald of
The Seattle Times said, "Kids will enjoy the vivid colors and clever use of Lego shapes (the characters shake hands by interlocking their pieces), as well as the dialogue, which has the cheery, slapdash feel of having been written by extremely clever 12-year-olds." Tom Huddleston of
Time Out earned a 4 out of 5 score and wrote, "The inept egomaniac is a time-honoured comedy archetype - think
Jack Sparrow,
Daffy Duck or
Donald Trump - but thanks to razor-sharp writing and Will Arnett's snarling, impossible-to-hate vocal performance, this Batman is fresh and fun."
Owen Gleiberman of
Variety said, "Your average
Pixar comedy thumbs its nose at a great many things, but
The Lego Batman Movie is a helter-skelter lampoon in the daftly exhilarating spirit of
Mad magazine and the
Naked Gun films."
David Ehrlich of
IndieWire gave it a "B+", describing it as "2017's only good story about a self-obsessed cartoon billionaire who gets money from
Steve Mnuchin."
Robbie Collin of
The Daily Telegraph earned a 4 out of 5 scoring and said, "While it never achieves, or even reaches for,
The Lego Movies unexpected profundity and emotional bite, in purely logistical terms,
The Lego Batman Movie is a thing of wonder. There are around four (great) films' worth of action and jokes here, crammed into a story so streamlined it might have been assembled in the
Lockheed wind tunnel." Justin Chang of the
Los Angeles Times was positive in his review, saying, "In its best moments, this gag-a-minute Bat-roast serves as a reminder that, in the right hands, a sharp comic scalpel can be an instrument of revelation as well as ridicule." J. R. Jones of the
Chicago Reader wrote, "A movie of endlessly hurtling momentum, this is
Mad Max: Fury Road for five-year-olds, and not nearly as much fun as snapping those bricks together." Peter Howell of
The Toronto Star gave the film 2.5 out of 4 stars, saying, "First-time director Chris McKay, late of the
Cartoon Network's
Robot Chicken, throws at the screen seemingly everything his committee of screenwriters scripted." Michael O'Sullivan of
The Washington Post praised the film for its heart, humor, and action which "snap together, with a satisfying click." ==Accolades==