Playmobil: Der Film

If you read the reviews, you could get the impression that the main flaw of the Playmobil movie is the fact that it's not the Lego movies. Yes, thank you, we know that.

This movie does NOT try to be a clone of the Lego movies. Strangely, most reviews I have read seem to have a problem with that. The Playmobil movie is not full of meta jokes or references to other movies. The movie does not make fun of the quirks of old Playmobil sets. It's not self-aware. The characters don't know that they are toys. The fairy godmother behaves exactly like a fairy godmother; she's not behaving oddly or making sarcastic jokes. If you are expecting all those things, you are simply in the wrong movie.

The Playmobil movie is exclusively targeting children, not adolescents or adults. From this point of view, it's a solid movie. The 3D animation looks a bit outdated but it brings very well the look and feel of the Playmobil toys to the big screen. The story is okay but I think it would have been better to spend more time on the characters instead of rushing through the different sceneries. There are locations that don't contribute anything to the story (e.g. the scene with the lava and the dinosaurs on the road), while potentially interesting characters like the fairy only have a short appearance. But again, that's me as an adult overanalyzing a children movie. Children will probably enjoy to see all their favourite Playmobil themes.

I have no nostalgia for this. I would've been about the right age to watch it when it came out, but I think between the overwhelmingly negative reviews and the fact that I never really cared for Playmobil. It just seemed like a rip-off of LEGO but with none of the creativity, incredible detial, or any other recognizable IPs attached. In that sense, this is the perfect representation of Playmobil.

This is nothing new. That's the case with a lot of things. Not everything can do something first, yet still we have an expectation that they bring their own two cents to the conversation and bring the idea forward. Playmobil: The Movie is perhaps less evolved than the childrens films (with expection). Though it is not without, I wouldn't say redeeming element, but being a decent kids movie. It's not a good movie, but when you're playing to a certain audience, I can't be that annoyed when the movie doesn't appeal to me.

The humour is pretty juvenile, but there's a few good jokes and that does say that they tried when making this, just not that hard. It's colourful. Most movies fail to grasp that if you have colour on screen, then things look better (it not that impressive, but by that low bar, it at least does that). They have good actors, Anya Taylor-Joy and Daniel Radcliffe, even if their performances aren't great they're appropriate to the movie they're in. I wouldn't pay to see it again but if my younger cousins were watching on the TV I wouldn't leave to room. I am neither offended nor disappointed at the movie being the way it is.

That's it, now I give every nice thing I have to say back to the blaring negatives. It's a musical, barely but they are song thrown in. The songs are so infrequent and so forgettable that I constantly forgot that it was a musical. I was so disappointed whenever they started singing another mediocre song because I was reminded that I was watching a movie that didn't need to be a musical, couldn't do it well, and persisted in having song. The characters end up being sadly shallow. They given goals and destinations yet they fail to make me care about this because we never get to learn to care about them before we can care about their struggle. The world is boring, playmobil land is just a collection of time periods and genres thrown together. I hate to sound like a broken record and speak of others that have done it better so I will say I never felt any danger in any given circumstance there. Applying comedy to situations has pros and cons and it can lead to things feeling inconsequential. In the rarest of circumstances the opposite can happen but that's not the case here. The comedy isn't quite good enough to offset this so that's unfortunate end result.

I don't feel like this was quite as bad as it was made out to be. I intend to forget about this tomorrow and I don't plan to ever come back to it and neither does the studio.

I sat down to watch the 2019 animated "Playmobil: The Movie" with my son. I hadn't even heard about this movie prior to stumbling upon it. And since I grew up playing with Playmobil, and my son now does so as well, of course we sat down together to watch this movie.

The movie is a little bit slow to start, but once the main characters become changed into Playmobil things brighten up and the movie takes a turn for the better.

First I will say that the storyline was pretty good. Sure, this was a children's movie first and foremost, but it actually had enough contents to it so that I, as an adult, actually always enjoyed the movie.

The CGI was just spectacular, and it was such a blast to watch Playmobil brought to life on the screen in this manner. There is an abundance of details in many scenes, and you'll probably not even notice half of them. My son, for example, he didn't even notice the Ghostbusters vehicle on the express way. So there is a lot to take in, and I believe that fact alone actually makes this movie well worth watching a second time. The first time is for the storyline, whereas the second is to take in all the details.

There is a good feeling to the storyline, and the movie is definitely enjoyable. Not only because of the good CGI and the storyline, but also because of the characters. There was a good amount of nicely fleshed out characters throughout the course of the movie. And while this is an animated CGI movie, having a good and talented cast for the voice acting is a must. And they definitely had that for "Playmobil: The Movie".

It was nice to see Playmobil put in a chip on the animated movie market with this movie, and it was a much needed breath of fresh air from all the Lego movies. Not that there is anything wrong with Lego, not at all, but variety and a change of scenery makes a great change.

"Playmobil: The Movie" is well worth sitting down to watch, and I am rating it a six out of ten stars.

This film tells the adventure of two youngsters in Playmobil land.

The animation is good, and the story actually is quite fun. There are lots of fantasy themed lands, and they are visually appealing. I think it is a good adventure for young children. It is a pity that it will be in the shadow of "The Lego Movie".

Since this is a film about Playmobil, you can't expect anything else than a promotion of their toys. But still the story is reasonable, the action is good, the comedy is funny (for the target age group) and the visual effects are good.

Go see it without unreasonable expectations and let yourself be entertained. If your kids like playing with Playmobil, then they'll like watching this film.