Tucked in the closing credits of “Playmobil: The Movie” is a dedication to Horst Brandstätter, the German entrepreneur whose company began production of the now-iconic Playmobil toys in…
” never stalls: Like a child eagerly showing off their toy collection, it’s always got something new and sparkly to wave in our faces. It does, however, show up the distracted raggedness of the film’s storytelling, which is heavy on moment-to-moment activity and perilously light on consequential action.
Well, she has; Charlie gets to be a fierce, tattooed Viking warrior, immediately hero-worshipped by his fellow Norsemen for prowess in battle. Within minutes, he’s abducted by maniacal Roman emperor Maximus , who it turns out is building a gladiator squad of imprisoned heroes from other Playmobil lines: pirates, Amazonians and even Rex Dasher, a slick-but-dim 007 clone voiced by Daniel Radcliffe.
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