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Do you know this exists?
I
Didn't know this existed until very recently when I found a giant advert for this film on the side of an enema bus
I mean, I guess it makes sense the lego movie was an
Outstandingly fresh movie idea with some witty humor crazy story and greatly detailed animation even frame by frame
so, of course it only comes naturally that Legos unwanted cousin will try and take a piece of the pie to I guess the
Playmobil movie a friend of mine told me that this film was commissioned about three weeks after the lego movie came out and I'm not
even gonna fact-check it because it sounds about right this movie is blatantly and
Shamelessly trying to recapture the magic that the original lego movie had will it reach the big screens of whopping 5 years late?
the Playmobil movie has had a rocky production period to say the least with it originally planning to come out two years ago in
2017 and thanks to companies going bankrupt the US distribution rights are also problematic. So if you're in the u.s
You get to wait until all the way into December before you get the glorious. I saw hitting your screens, but don't worry
I'm here for you. I came to watch this film so that you don't have to yes. You're welcome
and I know I am part of the problem for buying tickets to this unearned cash grab but hey money I spent is money you
Don't have to so let's actually delve into this film a little bit. Shall we the premise of the movie?
Is that our protagonist soon to be orphans Marla and Charlie are sucked into the Playmobil world and must take on adventures to reunite
Escape and fix their relationship after the death of their parents four years ago already
It sounds bare bonsly interesting enough of an idea
If not, just son and get another generic Issei KY anime of this decade
but what spits it apart from all the rest is its creative use of
Absolutely, nothing nothing about this film is wholly original and it genuinely feels like you're being bashed around the head with an Argos
Catalog thank you to whoever wrote that amazing description
This film was very much written by people who wanted to make another lego movie, but had no
Conceptual idea of what made the lego movie genuinely good part of what made the lego movie good was the way that it?
encapsulated that lego a world and feel without looking like one giant product placement a simple one to go by the
Animation of these two films both are fully CGI'd but the lego movie goes above and beyond with its
Presentation by making every single frame looked like it could have realistically been made through Lego stop-motion
Head pieces disappear and reappear and even when showing off the ocean it's not made of water
It's made of blue Lego bricks to represent water
Meanwhile, once the Playmobil movie goes into the Playmobil world. Everything's just animated. That's about it
Really the water looks like water the characters look like claimable characters. Sure
but everything else just looks normal and maybe that's just because the blamable set designs do just look like basic and plastic and
Uninteresting, but even if everything looked more plastic and fake, it could have been at least a little bit more interesting
It's after a while
Even the characters stop looking like claimable characters and just look like a new style of another generic
kid-friendly animated movie
It just becomes normal looking all the visual charm of the lego movie is entirely lost in the Playmobil movie
but let's stop getting ahead of ourselves and start at the very beginning the Playmobil movie very much likes to take its
inspiration from the lego movie by also showing off a hybrid genre of live action along with
Animation though instead of starting out in the toy world and expanding out into the real world like the lego movie does
The Playmobil movie chooses to start from real-life and dive in later and this whole set design for the live-action
Segments for some reason just feel like it's been plucked right out of a Disney Channel film
It'll just look so plucky in fake. Anyway, it's here. We meet Mara and Charlie some happy-go-lucky people
Marla is about to head off to college
But she actually dreams of traveling the world seeing the sights and filling up all the pages in her passport
Wouldn't that just be a dream, you know?
If only there was a simple way to explain
That desire of wanting to get out there and do more with your life than simply going back into education
Easier than just saying that life's boring if you don't go anywhere and don't do anything
capya this whole prologue scene is one crazy long explanation of Marla's dream to go on a
Gap year though for the life of her she can't actually articulate those simple words and must explain it in a pretty poorly written
Dialogue exchange for Charlie although something to note. Did you know the Playmobil movie is a
Musical I didn't watch any of the trailers properly for the blameable movie and pretty much went in entirely blind
But it certainly wasn't what I was expecting when Marla leaps onto her bed and sings her heart out about the big old exciting adventure
She wants to have over a simple boring educational life in a stagnant Lea moving existence
Now the film only feels more like something out of the Disney Channel also
Why exactly is this movie a musical?
do you think the writers just saw that a lego movie had that one song and figured that they should do the same but with
more if it is inspired by the lego movie then this is about as close to a
Translation error as you can get cuz the lego movie is not a musical. Hey, I guess Playmobil
Just wanted to really appeal to kids with that extra little kick
the shame that none of the songs of any real appeal to stick into people's minds and it's just a bit of
exposition and Evi jerks
Anyway, we're now like five minutes into this film and we haven't seen anything claim a bill related just yet
But don't get too excited cuz we next get a ham-fisted little play scene with Marla and Charlie playing with the claimer bill
You know
Like every little family has been known to do
they show off their OC characters and finish their little quest with some super cool move that you can totally expect to show up at
The end of the film to hit that acceptable writing quote or whatever and then like Disney clockwork. There's a knock at the door
It's the police
You can tell because the officers chose to turn off their blinding lights, even though they're just parked outside
They come with a news that Marla and Charlie's parents have been in a car accident and have since now died
Congratulations your real protagonists now and then we cut to four years later man
There's a distinct lack of play 'mobile going on right now four years, really?
At this point the most we get is the occasional Playmobil character severed in a drawer or something, and it doesn't really translate
Well, if they were somehow magical characters watching the events like Toy Story or something
then it would at least be a little bit more interesting but
Instead. It just feels like awful product placement to remind you that you did. In fact spend way too much money to see this
Damn film anyway
Now the kids are depressed Marla's abandoned her dreams to look after Charlie and their relationship is strained
Charlie storms into his room and we soon enough find out that he's run away
Panicked Marla chases after him and traces his phone
This doesn't really come up again like there's a faint element of overprotective parenting and later
Charlie does half complain about the tracker by asking how enough she found him, but he never gets addressed again
So forget that little plot point it's only there to move the story forward. Xeni way. Yeah used to that
So charlie is heading over to a friend's place judging by his phone call
But he gets distracted by a giant t-rex
Model being carted into the back of an upcoming toy complex and he follows in cuz why wouldn't he although that phone friend?
Yeah, you can forget them too by the end of the movie. Their existence is vanished as well inside the complex
Charlie finds a massive Playmobil gallery with a giant world all placed around the hall
Marla soon catches up and confront Charlie who is
enamored by the room even going as far to say that the layout is
Exactly the same as the world they used to play in back in the day. What are the chances?
He also whips out his OSI Playmobil character cause of course
He still has on a keychain even after four years have passed and realizes there's even a spot for his character
It's almost like fate has brought them here in this exact time and place
So yes
While the lego movie mostly explores all about the magic of imagination the Playmobil movie goes into real-life magic
Honestly, I don't hate that too much. It's a nice divergence from the lego movie that could go in some interesting directions
Why did fate bring them to this point? Is it all just to solve Marla's depressing growth from grief?
is it some kind of parent intervention from the afterlife are every paper bill toy is enriched with magic what controls the magic and what's
its purpose
Don't think about it too hard, cuz that's not gonna be answered either which I guess is fine
Sometimes that works for this film
It just feels like it's only there to move the plot forward not even a hint is given it's basically forgotten by the end
So Charlie places his character into its spot and the Playmobil lighthouse captures both of them and spits them into the Playmobil world
Probably a solid 20 minutes into the film and finally it can actually begin
All the baggage is out of the way
mama plops in as herself the quirky every woman that has funny things happened to her and
Charlie crashes in as his OC Viking Knight for some reason I
Can't tell if it's because he brought his toy or because he still has his playful side. It's not really explained
So now comes the one along theme of watching events pass by never to be introduced again
Marla struggles to work out her new body struggling to move her legs because they don't have knees which int falls slightly funny
But give it 30 seconds and she's running perfectly fine cuz she has to run away from the middle of the barrel
They've appeared in between it's between the Vikings and these Scots
mala
hides in fear whilst Charlie joins the fight discovering his new
Superhuman strength with his help the Vikings win and the Scots flee never to be seen again the Vikings
Hallo, Charlie as their strongest soldier and celebrate for him now
It almost looks like that could be a rivalry brewing with the second strongest Viking being a leader who's overshadowed but no
Instead some evil pirate grunts are spying for the strongest Viking they pick charlie and Charlie
Accidentally steps on a catapult flinging him right to them how awfully convenient to move the plot again
Marla panicked and wanting to get pack chases Charlie on horseback and those Vikings
Well, they don't chase Charlie. I figure they just sit at their benches and eat more chicken
Gonna be seeing them again apart from a cameo at the end of the film
You'd have thought a Viking army would want to retrieve their strongest soldier and would come blazing through in the finale to rescue him
Maybe even the Scots were charged in calling for revenge or something like that
But no
It's just a stepping stone to be used and forgotten
Kind of like a Playmobil toy when you're waiting for your Lego set to be delivered
so anyway
Marla chases the captured Charlie who's been thrown into a cage into a
Vehicle and reaches a giant highway with all sorts of vehicles and mish-mashed themes
I actually quite like this mashup because it felt like the worlds were all connected and random but as for the sequence
Marla's chasing them up hops between cars at one point destroys the livelihood of a guy in a truck trying to sell in chanted hade
To pay off a debt and loses sight of Charlie who seems to have vanished in thin air
Everyone's upset especially truck guy whose name is del, by the way
And Marla wanders off into the western wall to find someone who can help her
Oh, hey, the second major location is a big old western
This really did start off as a lego movie fan fiction didn't there in the Western?
The sheriff is busy. And everyone else is unfriendly Dells there again trying to sell
Hay but it turns horses into Pegasus's with an acid problem
Arias Dells amused by Mara's plans and watches her attempt to gather a posse
She flaunts some gold coins Charlie one from the battle and suddenly everyone turns on her
Alright, there's not a lot of good jokes in this film the wit of the lego movie certainly hasn't translated, too
Well here but the best one is this one and it got exposed in the trailer
anyway
Everyone in the Western world gives off that
Standoffish east air including the baby and the chicken every cowboy now wants to kill her for that money
So her and Dale escape by truck off into the sunset
Changing his mind del agrees to help Marla and given that he gets the money to pay off his debt
Moving over to these slightly more interesting plot points. Charlie has been taken to
Constantinople, as' a kind of modern-day Coliseum now with giant spotlights and a big old sporty overhead banner again
I really enjoyed the set designs of some of these places and concepts but that's about as interesting as I guess it
Genuinely makes me wonder how coliseums would look these days if they were revived and upgraded with modern technology
But that's not important the film
So what's going on is our main villain Emperor Maximus has captured the strongest of each archetype of character
I mean, he doesn't say it, but it basically what he's done
He's got a pirate an alien bounty hunter a caveman and Amazonian women and ninja and a Viking
I guess it's the closest that blamable could do to having all sorts of trade marketing characters either way
Don't get too attached to them
This film suffers from Sonico sick syndrome where there's so many different branches to develop that none of them actually
Get developed and they're just not gonna do much ill film the ninja even dies
immediately after being thrown into a Coliseum match by the big beasts
We're not allowed to see just yet
Maximus also has a whole song number about his plans and it's okay if not a little screechie
but again, it's just not memorable it just
exists
Back to mala and to find more help they find rex
Dasha, a douche bag spy who you don't find he finds you and yeah, he just sort of shows up
I guess he's supposed to be a big parody of overpowered spies
But he very much
Overstays his welcome and you just sort of learn to kind of ignore him where you can he's also got this annoyingly repetitive theme tune
That's the closest thing to a real ear worm. You can get from this film
If you count just saying the words Rex - or a thousand times a real song
Anyway, next there's a whole sequence about sneaking through some evil headquarters to get CCTV footage of the vehicle disappearance
And I actually like the joke that premises this sequence showing how it's an undercover evil base disguised as a flower shop
You can't tell just by looking at it, but if you look up to the roof you see a cluster of satellite dishes
Clearly not fitting for a flower shop. There's also a joke about the acronym of scold the evil grunt guys, but it's not that great
Grainy enough to be put in the trailer though
apparently this sequence is
OK Rex - sure being the master of disguise has mana pretend to be the big bad evil lady
She gets in and tells the freeze ray people to use more ice on the freeze ray when the Astro device
Hilarious and eventually, she gets her footage and escapes one way or another this whole organization
Never comes back big evil lady isn't relevant. The freeze ray is only used to escape again
And there's a throwaway mentioned joke death submarine thing, but that never pops up either again. It's just a location to move the plot forward
Nothing witty nothing smart with it all being a big over-the-top parody
There could have been like I don't know some other guy being captured or about to be tortured that Maura interrupts
but doesn't save because she's busy on this current escapades or something an extra little nod to make a parody out of the genre and
Being a little bit witty and funny too, maybe
Whatever, they all escaped by car and Rex - leaves the group even though he easily could have stuck around and is captured by those
Pirate grunts again. Just got a move on with that plot
Meanwhile, Charlie and the gang escape their cell with their one-dimensional character traits of zapping guards sniffing fish and pointing at a ship
this is literally the only things most of these guys do on board the ship Charlie does the commanding does it wrong and they're all
Recaptured and that's the whole progress of that sequence. Although not before Charlie celebrates with the very fresh joke of bloody flossing
the floss dance was invented in August
2016 this bloody joke is literally three years old
Now you literally cannot get more unoriginal and outdated than this
And in fact, this isn't even really a joke Charlie. Just does it saying I bet my sister will be proud of me
That's not funny. That's so lazy and boring and idiotic
The CCTV footage marner obtained show that the villains vehicle did teleport as anyone who actually watched the film could have told you 40 minutes
Ago and del recognizes that it's the work of special tech through the power of zoom and enhance
Turns out the same threat pushing del for money also salt pat tech
So they confront her and del intends to pay with all of Mona's money. But Marla lied about how much he has. Whoa
Glen ara is the evil threat, by the way
She's a job at the hot ripoff - or is this supposed to be some tasteful reference instead?
I don't in the movie knows the difference
anyway that force disagreement splits up the two of them cuz the plot demands ed and Glenn are attempts to kill them with a
Teleporter into some deadly environment, but Marla's dashing looks and kind personality. Can Vince's Linares servant robot that save them because it's in love
it's not like I'm trailing off have I been training off for like the last five minutes cuz
The movie very much feels like it's trailing off with another
Anyway, this is happening now event again and again and again
They end up landing in an enchanted forest Dell storms off and Mara wanders with the robots
The robot is also mostly unintelligible and doesn't do much Evo and mostly just falls apart
Don't get too attached to this guy
Even though he's like the third piece of the trio and I guess Charlie and the gang are reimprisonment
Rekt Dasher arrives to join them Rex tells of Marla's adventures to save Charlie inspiring him
Charlie's super strength breaks them free and they escape with Charlie now hanging back against soldiers for no real reason
This plot sure needs a lot of help to keep going doesn't know
Hector mana and her walking places her right back where she started again. So she throws her passport in anger
Which also appeared with her but some plot related reason?
She hits and beckons the fairy godmother yet another plot device used to make the story continue
Granting one wish released a somewhat plausible one
She inspires mana onwards gets her out of the forest gives her a pretty dress cuz that's what all the girls need to be happy
And to sell merch to kids later on pushes her to a nearby castle town tells her that she's already set for
Del and gives her a secret gift to help her become who she used to be this right here
Isn't just pushing the plot forwards. This is like some kind of roundhouse kick into the right direction
And it really feels wasted the fairy godmother isn't gonna come back again in the film and the castle in the distance
just exists to be
walked through I guess I thought this was leaning into a trap with how the
Civilians called Mara her majesty like it was leading to some sort of entrapment wedding that she didn't want or at age
But now just a happy-go-lucky
Keep going singsong
Like it could have gone in an entirely different direction
By getting some real character development going on where mala may be truly proves herself as being able to do things rather than just being
given
Magic and going on with it
Like there's a small moment of her fighting like a night with a couple kids on the way in
What if it was here that she proved herself as an actual knight and grew herself some help in the form of a knight army
to go crashing into Constantine
Ah police with no she's just given the easy route with a stereotypical girlie smile to go forth with also
It's at the top of this castle here that we learned that constant innopolis is seriously nearby
Anglin era told them Charlie would be there
Oh and Muller is given a flying carpet or banner to take her on the robot there
This isn't a roundhouse kick of a plot device anymore
It's more like being hit by a bloody bullet train into the right direction
Of course the place they teleported to his right next door to the Coliseum. And of course she has a flying carpet
there was a whole element of
Constantinople s being inaccessible due to being on a distant island surrounded by an impenetrable wall
Which I perceived as meaning it was in another room to the Playmobil room
But no it was just over a footpath across a single body of ignorable water
Wow everything sure girls solve real quick
It's like the film was running out of time after exhausting so much of its resources on a slow live-action opening
Charlie is being held and prepped for the Coliseum match against the giant beast soldiers sprinkle herbs and peppers on Charlie to make him tastier
Hilarious remember he's only in this predicament cuz he decided to stop his gaping
Malas robot partners one other deed in the film comes in here as he helps mana climb a tall wall in constant innopolis
They wouldn't a flying carpet be able to place her on top of that wall or even just directly into the Coliseum itself
Yeah
whatever
mana sneaks in taking her disguise and using the occasional spy gear because she's always had that I guess the robot is left behind because
Apparently he looks too conspicuous
finally she reaches the Coliseum where Charlie is being thrown into battle against a
Giant t-rex just like the one in real life
Mana at some point put on her secret gift from the fairy godmother a full suit of dolphin armor
It's Marla's ancient Playmobil OC from four years ago. Literally who she was four years ago Wow
The to avoid the t-rex as best they can but do very little to hurt it and soon enough in swoops Delon the robot both
in truck
We quickly hear in the background that Dell's wish he was able to pay off ganar and fix all his problems off-screen great
Storytelling there and I yes
he also managed to get his truck back and find the robot who was just standing in the middle of the
Constantinople s marketplace anyway in the trunk is Dells enchanted
Hay and using the super duo cool move the to use back when they were playing with toys in the real world
Mana and Charlie managed to feed it to the t-rex
The t-rex becomes docile and flies about angering Maximus who calls for the guards earn income several guards, but instead
It's Charlie's gang who appear in the Coliseum to just stand around and celebrate
really the final member the pirate captures Maximus and
Cages him
With Maximus his guard either running away or signing back with the pirate captain. I guess I mean
What a boring an anticlimactic ending. The t-rex isn't defeated just subdued Maximus isn't killed
He isn't pushed into the Coliseum and he isn't eaten by his own giant beasts
He just gets put in a cage and there's no real twist here. Either with the skull gruntal being pirates
I was half expecting the pirate member to be the true villain of the film
But instead the grunts were just going against the main pirate but returned to him afterwards
Apart from two who chose to die by piranhas instead there could have been so many more
Directions for this ending to see what is the Vikings game pouring back into the Coliseum? What if the Scots showed up?
What if Mara invaded with a knight army or Maximus was given any real punishment?
Imagine being able to see a real fight with all the good guys using their abilities against hordes of guards
Anything to give plenty of characters their proper screen time moment
There's a whole giant Coliseum arena for some big action sequence
But all that happens is a t-rex steps around for a while eat some. Hay and starts flying instead
Absolutely. Nothing satisfying at all is to be had here everyone then also just stands around happy for a
Really extended amount of time del is joyous over people wanting to eat food from his food truck
That's a that's a great joke
I'm glad they kept that one in the script and eventually Marla and Charlie ride, the Pegasus t-rex all the way back to the light
We see several areas beneath them which I guess is okay. It's a cameo opportunity for those Vikings that film it long for gone
I guess though the Pegasus horses from the Western world surprisingly
also
don't join the t-rex like you would have thought they would and
Mara and Charlie reappear back in the real world having only past five minutes of real time
Apparently the Playmobil said around them has moved and Manas passport is now filled with location marks
They leave satisfied and happy as a functional family again
Forget the phone tracker or Charlie's phone friend or the whole magical fate element at all
It's bedtime and it all ends with Maximus escaping entrapment
Thanks to the IRL guard moving him from the floor, which wasn't where he was in the Playmobil world anyway, and with all that
Q the credits
Yikes, I don't see a sequel coming out anytime soon
Nor with those scores this film very much plays out like the career of the Playmobil toys it
Flops in comparison to Lego and will always be cast away in its shadow
It was doomed from the very start of its inception
But even then the directions it chose to take were all wrong
losing out on the witty humor the ability to keep any kind of good pace on the film and just
filling the time star with cheap
Poor quality jokes and plot devices to string together something that resembles a plot
The animation is nothing special
Stylistically and just looks like another generic animated action film with all of the action muted away and avoided by the end of it
I'd be lying
If I said that this film really had some potential but almost every direction it took was lackluster all wrong
The use of magic and fate could have been interesting the set designs could have been more creative than just archetypes
Though claim evoke kind of cornered themselves there on that front considering all their toys are bland and basic and the plot
Could it be more interesting that explored something else entirely?
What if the Vikings were the bad guys and it was wrong to side with them first? Why does del have a den?
I don't really care of that one. What if the castle town was a trap or a chance to grow a knight army?
what if the whole fate thing linked into the Playmobil world like a
prophecy of a golden knight to appear and take the title one day like the castle town was can
and Marla was a mistranslation of King Arthur or what if there was a big
Bombastic battle with all of the hoards of characters somewhat developed or at least appearing in the film
Imagine if characters are given more development like every member of Charlie's gang or the robot
Servants and my god just stop on all the ham-fisted plot devices and pushing moments
What if Del's truck was later able to be upgraded with the teleportation tech in order to get to?
Constantine oculus
after discovering the source and outwitting Glenora or something a cool techy sense of progress and a nice cyclical plot way better than just a
fairy tale godmother showing up and fixing the world's problems, but
Ultimately, the Playmobil movie was just not that kind of film and just from glancing in its general direction
He can tell that from the very start really this was just one big cash grab trying to hit the magic of the lego movie
Without any real talent or understanding of what actually made it so good. This was a ham-fisted
Unoriginal and incredibly disappointing example of a modern-day movie title, and I'm glad to be seeing the back side of it
This was fun. Don't come back claim a bill
And as for you American viewers do look forward to having this
undercooked mistake hitting your big screens ready for Christmas this
December or just come back to this video to learn all there is to know
Maybe I'll hit that super red double wave of YouTube views
Huh? It was worth a try later
