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Screen International by Allan Hunter
It is a manic, hit and miss affair complete with slapstick antics and wisecracking one-liners.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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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.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Jordan Mintzer
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.
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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.
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The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
No child deserves to be subjected to this kind of blaringly witless branding bombardment; as for adults, I felt like I was being beaten around the head with the Argos catalogue.
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The Observer (UK) by Wendy Ide
While The Lego Movie is all about creativity and invention, Playmobil shamelessly steals ideas.