Taglines: Let adventure lead you home.
Marla was formerly a free-spirited girl who had grown up to be responsible yet overprotective in order to care for her brother Charlie, who had grown lonely and disconnected from her after the death of their parents. One night, Charlie sneaks out to visit a toy museum with a Playmobil exhibit. After Marla arrives and scolds Charlie for running away, a lighthouse illuminates them and transports them to the Playmobil world.
Marla and Charlie find themselves in the middle of a Viking battle, and Charlie helps them until he is kidnapped by some pirates. Frantic to find her brother, Marla goes to the nearest town hoping to ask for help, and runs into Del, the driver of a food truck whose client refuses to pay him over pink hay that causes the town’s horses to sprout wings. As Marla tries to form a posse to find Charlie, Del gets her out of trouble when she shows Viking gold to the whole town, and agrees to help Marla find her brother in exchange for the gold.
Marla and Del run into Rex Dasher, a secret agent and an old friend of Del. Rex explains that a number of characters have disappeared, and the group sneaks into a villainous spy headquarter to find information about the disappearances. Despite some issues, they successfully gather the data and escape, but Rex is later captured by the pirates. He is taken away to Constantinopolis and finds Charlie, who had been locked up with other characters by Emperor Maximus, who intends to have the prisoners fight to their deaths. Rex tells Charlie that Marla had been looking for him, which encourages Charlie to break away. However, he later allows himself to be recaptured so the other characters could escape.
Del recognizes that a device used by the pirates belonging to Glinara, an alien crime lord. After meeting with her in exchange for information, Del offers to pay twice as much as he owed her. Glinara agrees and reveals that she sold the device to Maximus. However, Del was unable to uphold his end of the bargain, as Marla only had two pieces of gold left.
Angered, Glinara captures them and attempts to drop them into a portal, but they are spared by Glinara’s robot servant Robotriton, who hacks the portal and drops the group into a forest. Del leaves the group, upset by Marla’s deception. Marla and Robotriton get lost in the forest until Marla accidentally hits a fairy godmother, who encourages her to continue her search and sends her to Constantinopolis.
Arriving at the city, Marla reaches a coliseum where Charlie is about to fight a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Charlie and Marla work together to fight off the T-Rex, but to no avail. Del soon arrives with his food truck, and Marla uses the last of Del’s pink hay to turn the T-Rex harmless. An enraged Maximus orders his guards to arrest them, but the guards reveal themselves to be Rex and the missing warriors, who then locks Maximus inside a cage.
As everyone celebrates their victory, Marla and Charlie use the T-Rex to fly back to the lighthouse and return to the real world, where it was revealed that they were missing for only five minutes. On good terms, Marla promises to Charlie that their relationship will be mended.
Playmobil: The Movie is a 2019 English-language French animated adventure comedy film based on the German building toy Playmobil. The film is directed by Lino DiSalvo, in his directorial debut, written by Blaise Hemingway, Greg Erb and Jason Oremland, and produced by On Animation Studios. The film stars the voices of Anya Taylor-Joy, Jim Gaffigan, Gabriel Bateman, Adam Lambert, Kenan Thompson, Meghan Trainor, and Daniel Radcliffe.
Playmobil: The Movie was released in France on 7 August 2019 by Pathé, in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2019 by StudioCanal UK and is released in the United States on December 6, 2019 by STXfilms. The film received negative reviews from critics, who compared it unfavourably to The Lego Movie.
Playmobil: The Movie (2019)
Directed by: Lino DiSalvo
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Jim Gaffigan, Gabriel Bateman, Adam Lambert, Kenan Thompson, Meghan Trainor, Daniel Radcliffe, Karen Strassman, Cindy Robinson, Maddie Taylor
Screenplay by: Blaise Hemingway, Greg Erb, Jason Oremland
Production Design by: Jean-Andre Carriere, Rémi Salmon
Film Editing by: Maurissa Horwitz
Set Decoration by: Martine Kazemirchuk
Art Direction by: Julien Rossire
Music by: Heitor Pereira
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: STX Entertainment (United States), Pathé Distribution (France)
Release Date: December 6, 2019
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