It did make me wonder if they were running out of material, though.
The film’s most memorable sequence involves a live-action cat clambering up a skyscraper while rampaging through a plastic metropolis.
You could take this to be a reference to Godzilla or King Kong, Warner’s original creature feature.
But parents of a certain age will wonder if the writers have been rifling through old episodes of The Goodies.
Hopefully, royalty cheques are in the post or Bill Oddie will be grumpier than ever.
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As Lego’s ninja sets aren’t particularly well known, the writers have had to shuffle their pieces to deliver broadsides at superhero and martial art movie cliches.
The setting is the vaguely Japanese island of Ninjago, perpetually under siege from Lord Garmadon (Theroux).
The four-armed supervillain is continually being thwarted by a gang of masked, colour-coded, element-themed, teenage, but not mutant, heroes.
The ninjas’ leader is Lloyd (Dave Franco), a confused young chap whose terrifying elemental power is “green”.
That’s the least of his worries. Lloyd is the estranged son of Garmadon, which gives his crime fighting duties a distinctly Freudian edge.
“You ruined my life,” Lloyd tells him.
“Well, that’s not true,” Garmadon growls.
“I wasn’t even there for most of your life, so how can I have ruined it?” Theroux isn’t known for his comic timing but he grabs his opportunity with both, weirdly cupped, hands.
Jackie Chan also seems to be enjoying himself, voicing the Yoda-like Master Wu, the ninjas’ leader who has an annoying habit of talking in “needlessly cryptic metaphors”.
Children should love the figures, the action and the slapstick.
For adults, there’s some surprisingly edgy dialogue.
It’s not been a vintage year for comedy but The Lego Ninjago Movie could be the funniest film of 2017.