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A cute idea that does a good job depicting Pharrell's outsized influence on pop music, although its novelty eventually wears out.

A LEGO music documentary now exists.

Paradoxically, the Lego approach gives the film a far more imaginative visual range than traditional documentaries, even as it robs us of the thing we most want to see: human faces.

Morgan Neville may have made the latest in a long line of giant LEGO commercials, but he's made one with real human decency and soul.

There are glimmers of insight here, often in the brighter moments (for instance, the sweet story of how Pharrell devised his massive hit, "Happy," and the emotional response triggered by its success). But despite touting an inventive concept, the whole thing remains fairly surface level.

While inventive, Neville's doc can't quite avoid the trappings of the celebrity-produced biopic, and is expectedly marked by typical hagiographic evasiveness.