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Bionicle: The Legend Reborn

Year:

2009

Duration:

USA:80 min

Genres:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

IMDB rate:

5.4

Director:

Mark Baldo

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2009-09-15

Cast

Actor

Character

Marla Sokoloff

Dee Bradley Baker

Skrall / Bone Hunters / Vorox (voice)

Jeff Bennett

Strakk (voice)

Jim Cummings

Ackar (voice)

Michael Dorn

Mata Nui (voice)

Mark Famiglietti

Gresh (voice)

David Leisure

Metus (voice)

Armin Shimerman

Raanu (voice)

Fred Tatasciore

Tuma (voice)

James Arnold Taylor

Berix (voice)

Did you know?

Trivia

The planet of Bara Magna and its two moons, along with the two dagger-like curved "swooshes" of space-dust on both sides represent the Bionicle symbol of Unity, Duty, and Destiny.

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Even though the Bionicle characters that appear in this movie are 85% organic and only 15% of their bodies is actually mechanical, all the characters look like fully mechanical robots. They designed them this way intentionally. The little Scarabax beetles however do look mostly organic.

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The sequence where a horde of intrigued Scarabax beetles are wandering through the desert and stumble upon a new arrival, Toa Mata Nui (in the form of a mask that has just crash-landed) and witness his rebirth is very similar to the first scene of the first Bionicle comic book, where a group of Ussal crabs can be seen gathering around the coastline where the capsule carrying Toa Kopaka has been washed ashore and watch as he builds his bodyparts back together.

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Goofs

After Kiina leaps into the air and sends a burst of water from her trident at a nearby rock, she takes an exceedingly long time to reach the ground. Considering she cannot fly, nor can we notice any signs that would show she stayed aloft by bursting water underneath her, it is impossible for her to stay that long in the air.

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When Mata Nui is fighting with the Bone Hunters and knock one of them off the rocks, the second Bone Hunter appears "under" Mata Nui due to a layering error.

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In the wide overhead shot of Metus and Mata Nui speeding towards Vulcanus in their chariot, the vehicle is visible as a dark silhouette through the various giant LEGO pieces jutting out from the cliffs above them.

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Quotes

Ackar: So, stranger, what are your plans?

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Ackar: Hey... What you did with the Vorox tail and... Click, could it work with these?

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Mata Nui: [we see a tropical island paradise, in the middle of a beautiful, endless ocean] It is said that all endings are merely beginnings, waiting to be born.

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Faq

How does this movie follow the other three BIONICLE movies?

It isn't a direct sequel to any of them. The three years' worth of storyline described in the BIONICLE books, comics and serials of 2006, 2007 and 2008 didn't receive movie adaptations, and this movie was meant to follow those stories.

What happens in the introduction scene?

The opening shows the Great Spirit robot, called Mata Nui, rising up from beneath the Mata Nui island. The robot is then taken over by the spirit and mind of the evil Makuta Teridax, who proceeds to banish Mata Nui's spirit into the Mask of Life, ejecting it into space.This adaptation of the scene as described in the earlier BIONICLE comics and novels contains many inconsistencies. For one, the island is shown to be a lush, tropical paradise, but in the story, it had already been turned into a barren wasteland. It is unclear why the creators decided to disregard this bit of continuity.

Was there to be a sequel to this movie?

Yes, the ending very clearly indicates that this movie was written to act as the first episode of a multi-part series. However, LEGO put the BIONICLE line on hiatus shorty after its release due to declining toy sales, and so the sequel was scrapped. The story was concluded in the BIONICLE comics, the last BIONICLE novel that LEGO released for free on their website, and in other online content.

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