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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Screen DailyAllan HunterScreen DailyAllan HunterIt is a manic, hit and miss affair complete with slapstick antics and wisecracking one-liners.
- 42The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe A.V. ClubJesse HassengerPlaymobil: 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.
- 40EmpireOlly RichardsEmpireOlly RichardsMaybe 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.
- 40VarietyGuy LodgeVarietyGuy LodgeAn 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.
- 40The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawDisappointingly, it is a borderline dopey, sentimental children’s adventure mostly without the wit and spark that converted grownups and kids to the Lego films.
- 38RogerEbert.comRogerEbert.comIt does not even work as a commercial, never showing us why these toys could be especially fun to play with.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe 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.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerTo 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.
- 20The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinNo 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.