Playmobil: la película

The film is very formulaic and essentially one big advert for playmobil. Despite that I did just about enjoy it given it had just about enough laughs and a crazy enough storyline to keep me involved as an adult. I imagine young kids would enjoy it even more also. Not the worst kids film you'll see although certainly not the best your kids will enjoy it and you won't completely want to tear your hair out so worth a family trip out on a rainy day.

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.

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 find it ridiculous how many critics trashed this movie. I went into this film with very very low expectations, like Chicken Little levels. But its accually a cute film. It is no Finding Nemo, but a quick paced little story of adventure. It moves quickly and kept my kids attention. There were more moments where I thought this was really good. Jim Gaffigan did a great job. It is a musical with a lot of action. As a Dad who is a classic film buff I would watch this again and yet again the critics are aweful. Its not Lego movie, but it is harmless fun. On top of that the movie is $5 per ticket due to an experimental pricing experiment. Please do yourself a favor at this price, go see this with the family. And ignore the critics who can this but throw high numbers at whatever Disney throws up.

My first review! But I couldn't not...I'm 42 male and actually make films myself and yes this is not written to take you on deep inner journeys or will it make you ponder life and will it win Oscar's no..but after seeing such bad reviews and from critics, is it not about time we let the kids review kids films. I asked my daughters 12, 9 and son 5 what they thought after the cinema and they really enjoyed it. So my 6/10 is from them!