Piece By Piece has a lot of fun with the creative liberties of the visual embellishment that takes Pharrell’s minifig deep under the sea and to the vastness of space, or turns Snoop Dogg to a LEGO dog. Even still, this collaboration between LEGO and Pharrell never completely ties together in a fully cohesive or deeply emotional way.

The superproducer and "Happy" hitmaker, responsible for changing the sound of hip-hop, tells his life story via Legos and Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville.

If it weren’t filmed entirely using animated Lego blocks, “Piece by Piece” would be a fairly routine music documentary, in this case a profile of the protean hip-hop producer-performer Pharrell Williams.

Pharrell Williams and director Morgan Neville chat with USA TODAY about "Piece by Piece," a biopic on Williams told through Lego animation.

This film’s topic, singer-songwriter-producer Pharrell Williams, seems somewhat inappropriate at first glance. Many of the songs he recorded, wrote, or produced do not lend themselves to a PG-rated movie treatment.

For Lego, making 'Piece by Piece' was its biggest gamble since stepping into feature films with 2014's 'The Lego Movie.'

Piece by Piece” is a bright, clever song-filled biopic about Pharrell Williams that's deep and surreal and often adorable.