At some point a studio needs to create the Fisher Price Little People movie.  (We all need to see that black-and-white freckled dog driving the tugboat on the big screen).  We’ve seen LEGO movies (two that were top-notch films) and movies based on UglyDolls, Pokémon, Bratz dolls, and even Clue and the Battleship board game (not to mention G.I. Joe and Transformers).  So the only question we should be asking is, “Why not Playmobil?”  This Christmas you can find out.

What does the new animated Playmobil: The Movie have going for it?

It may be worth watching just for the Viking character.  Beyond that, legions of Harry Potter fans may want to see what Daniel Radcliffe has been up to lately.  He voices the lead character, a suave James Bond type named Rex Dasher.  The film co-stars Anya Taylor-Joy, the current young go-to actress who seems to be in every franchise lately, from M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass to Marvel’s The New Mutants to The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.  Plus it includes an odd assemblage of people you might not think of for their voice roles in animated shows, like Meghan Trainor, Kenan Thompson, and Jim Gaffigan.

If you grew up with Playmobil–as hundreds of millions of people around the world have since the toy brand’s creation in 1974 and its creation of 3 billion figures to date–you may think a movie may be worth a try, even if that means waiting for it to arrive on Netflix.  In case you missed it, here’s the trailer for Playmobil: The Movie:

Tripped up by problems with its distributor, Playmobil: the Movie will finally arrive in theaters December 6, 2019.

C.J. Bunce
Editor
borg