Playmobil: The Movie
The brief
This painfully generic toy commercial masquerading as a movie feels like someone fed The LEGO Movie into a broken AI and got back corporate mush. Anya Taylor-Joy tries her best with material that wouldn't challenge a Disney Channel reject, while the animation looks cheap and the songs are aggressively forgettable. The whole thing moves with the energy of a PowerPoint presentation, hitting every predictable beat about family and believing in yourself without an ounce of wit or heart. Skip this unless you have very young kids who specifically love Playmobil toys and you've exhausted literally every other animated option.
The verdict
If you're a parent of very young Playmobil fans who need something to occupy the kids for 99 minutes, this will get the job done without being actively harmful. If you're looking for clever family entertainment with genuine wit or heart like The LEGO Movie, skip this aggressively bland toy commercial and find literally any other animated option.
Watch with
- 🧒 Very young Playmobil fans only
- ⚠️ Adults will find it painfully dull
Heads up
- Child disappears into toy world (brief)
- Mild peril and chase sequences (brief)
Credits
- Director
- Lino DiSalvo
- Cast
- Anya Taylor-Joy, Jim Gaffigan, Gabriel Bateman, Adam Lambert, Kenan Thompson, Meghan Trainor, Daniel Radcliffe
Official 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.
The Double
Make a night of it
Pair this with The Garfield Movie (2024)
Both animated family adventures about siblings reconnecting through fantastical toy worlds.
Total runtime: 1h 39m + 1h 41m = 3h 20m
