Legoland Reviewed The Georgia Straight
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In this hilariously dark take on adolescence and pop culture, Penny Lamb (16) and brother Ezra (12) recount the tale of their difficult adjustment to Legoland, the world outside the hippie commune where they were raised. When their pot-growing parents are imprisoned, the young Lambs subsidize a trip across the U.S.—to meet Penny's boy-band idol—by selling the Paxil and Ritalin they've been prescribed. Jacob Richmond's wildly original script features a Jeffrey Dahmer puppet show and a description of sex as "the Devil's Pilates". Amitai Marmorstein adopts a wonderful deadpan as Ezra; nerdy and nihilistic, he looks like Woody Allen's abandoned love child. Celine Stubel's Penny is so charismatically complex—such a vixen yet so innocent—that you can't take your eyes off her. Best line: "Wrestling is real. It's the world that's set up."
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