As moviegoers will no doubt remember from this year’s Captain America: Civil War, Steve “Captain America” Rogers and Tony “Iron Man” Stark did not exactly see eye to eye on the issue of superheroes registering with the government. Simply put, Stark was in favor of it, Rogers was not, and it turned into a whole thing. Characters from throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe chose up sides, and it took 147 minutes and $250 million before the dust (sort of) settled. Was all that necessary? A witty new stop-motion animation film by Keshen of Custard Productions suggests otherwise. Made with toy building blocks and scowling plastic minifigs, Lego Civil War distills the superhero-on-superhero conflict to under four minutes and still manages to pack in plenty of violence and destruction while getting some jokes in as well. For those with short attention spans, this could even be considered a satisfactory substitute for sitting through Civil War.
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