In his bat lair, feasting on microwaved lobster thermidor, watching Jerry Maguire as if it were a comedy, he’s the ultimate male who won’t commit, a cowled mask of solo cool whose only loyalty is to Gotham City - but deep down, he’s doing it for his own glory. This Batman, still scarred by the loss of his parents, roots his competitive identity in being a lone avenger, valiant and guarded, with no feelings, no vulnerability, no need for anyone else. “We’re going to punch those guys so hard,” he growls, “words describing their impact are going to spontaneously materialize.” The movie opens with Batman offering the play-by-play of his own film (“All important movies start with a black screen”), followed by a sequence as madly choreographed as anything in an Indiana Jones film, as he takes on a screenful of famous and obscure villains led by the rascally but secretly sensitive Joker (voiced by Zach Galifianakis). He somehow combines the voice of Clint Eastwood, the conceitedness of Derek Zoolander, and the fast-break observational avidity of Stephen Colbert. Will Arnett is back as Batman in The Lego Batman Movie with a deep low husky rasp and with a narcissistic personality disorder that’s fantastically out of control. In The Lego Movie Will Arnett was terrific as a G-rated take on Frank Miller’s “the God-Damned Batman”. Most delicious of all: The Lego Batman Movie comes on like a kid-friendly sendup of the adult world, yet there’s a dizzying depth to its satirical observations that grows right out of the spectacularly fake settings, which are hypnotic to look at but have the effect of putting postmodern quotation marks around everything. The characters are Lego minifigures with pegs for heads and crudely etched faces that barely move, yet they have more personality than the majority of human actors. The movie uses digital animation to create the illusion that it’s set in a herky-jerky universe of plastic Lego bricks - but it has such a kaleidoscopic, anything-goes flow that it trumps the imagination of just about any animated feature you could name. The movie looks simply fantastic, even if the 3D is wholly unnecessary, and the frame is filled with endless bits of visual imagination and genuine wit. Again just like The Lego Movie the majority of The Lego Batman Movie moves at such a breakneck pace that it almost becomes wearying, as the picture occasionally feels like high fructose corn syrup being injected directly into your veins. The second thing to say about it is that, like The Lego Movie (2014), it’s a kiddie flick that’s been made in a sophisticated spirit of lightning-fast, brain-bursting paradox. The first thing to say about The Lego Batman Movie is that it’s kicky, bedazzling, and super-fun.