Playmobil, le Film

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.

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.

Obviously you are going to compare this to the Lego movies and yes it very similar but it is still a fun film. It has a good story and the live action framing at the beginning and end of the film serves it well. in-fact the framing does point the way to a potential sequel that could flip the story round. I do have one negative thing to say, the songs do derail the film in places but fortunately the film quickly recovers so no harm done.

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.

Was surprised when I saw the crazy low critics score, its really not too bad. As a parent I have had to endure so many bad childrens movies and I must say this was quite entertaining at times. I would say even more entertaining than lego movie 2.