Synopsis
Marla is forced to abandon her carefully structured life to embark on an epic journey to find her younger brother Charlie who has disappeared into the vast and wondrous animated world of Playmobil toys.
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Cast
- Anya Taylor-JoyMarla
- Jim GaffiganDel (voice)
- Gabriel BatemanCharlie
- Adam LambertEmperor Maximus (voice)
- Kenan ThompsonBloodbones (voice)
- Meghan TrainorFairy Godmother (voice)
- Daniel RadcliffeRex Dasher (voice)
- Paloma RodríguezValera (voice)
- Maddie TaylorGlinara (voice)
- Lino DiSalvoRobotitron (voice)
Recommendations
- 50
Screen Daily
It is a manic, hit and miss affair complete with slapstick antics and wisecracking one-liners. - 42
The A.V. Club
Playmobil: The Movie isn’t as funny as some of the direct-to-video Lego-related movies, either, and that’s very much the field it competes in, theatrical release or not. As children’s entertainment goes, this is a harmless distractor, but it’s also poorly conceived at every story turn, unable to even stick to a particular generic message to make up for its extremely basic humor. - 40
Empire
Maybe it’s fitting Playmobil: The Movie is old-fashioned, stiff and only suitable for those between the ages of four and ten, but it sure isn’t much fun. - 40
Variety
An attempt to do for the smiling, claw-handed Playmobil collective what “The Lego Movie” did for the humble plastic brick — but without that blockbuster’s dizzy, self-aware wit and visual invention — Lino DiSalvo’s hyperactive film never transcends its blatant product-flogging purpose. - 40
The Guardian
Disappointingly, it is a borderline dopey, sentimental children’s adventure mostly without the wit and spark that converted grownups and kids to the Lego films. - 38
RogerEbert.com
It does not even work as a commercial, never showing us why these toys could be especially fun to play with. - 38
Movie Nation
The animation’s not bad, the songs aren’t much, the jokes are even less. Tiny, tiny tykes might find something to like about it. But long-review-short here — it’s too dull to sit through, too noisy to sleep through. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
To the director’s credit, the animated sequences are richly rendered, making the most of the rather stiff and plain-looking originals (though, if you want to get nitpicky, an early gag poking fun at the fact that Playmobil legs are unbendable is soon forgotten) and offering up a plethora of settings that help compensate for the lack of good writing.
