If you enjoy playing with Legos and listening to music, or just like good movies, then you should watch Piece By Piece (2024). This is a 93-minute long biographical movie about famous musician Pharrel William’s journey through life and upcoming fame in the music industry represented with LEGO animation. Piece By Piece has a cast full of stars with some being Pharrel Williams, Chad Hugo, N.O.R.E., Daft Punk, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, and Gwen Stefani. There are many other celebrities and people in the movie that were important in Pharrel’s life like his parents and grandmother.
This film is directed by Morgan Neville. Neville is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He mainly focuses on topics like music, politics, media, and culture in movies like Best of Enemies (2015) and The Cool School (2008).
Pharrel Williams wanted his story shown with Lego pieces because it was a natural way for him to express himself. “This is the best way I can really be my purest self without feeling weird,” Pharrel said during an interview with the director Morgan Neville.
He has synesthesia, which means he associates different sounds with colors. “It’s not something that you see with your physical eyes, it’s something that you see in your mind’s eye,” Pharrel explains the feeling of synesthesia “beautiful hues of light cascading.” This is shown throughout the movie when Pharrel hears music, colors start to fly around in colorful patterns. Another example of his synesthesia being shown is when he makes new beats or music, he could hold them as bright lego pieces of many different shapes and colors that he could disassemble and mix with other beats.
The ratings for Piece By Piece are very reasonable. It got a 7/10 from IMDb, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, and 90% on Fandango.
Piece By Piece came out in theaters October 11th 2024 and now can be streamed on YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play Movies & TV, and Fandango at home costing $19.99 on all sites. This movie is rated PG, so if you don’t mind some mild language, mild profanity, and some suggestive material, then this is a great movie to watch with family.
