Playmobil: The Movie

Playmobil: The Movie
Directed byLino DiSalvo
Screenplay by
  • Blaise Hemingway
  • Greg Erb
  • Jason Oremland
Story byLino DiSalvo
Based onPlaymobil
Produced by
Starring
Edited byMaurissa Horwitz
Music byHeitor Pereira
Production
companies
Distributed byPathé Distribution
Release dates
  • 10 June 2019 (2019-06-10) (Annecy)
  • 7 August 2019 (2019-08-07) (France)
Running time
99 minutes[2]
CountryFrance[3]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$72 million[4]
Box office$16.3 million[5][1]

Playmobil: The Movie is a 2019 English-language French computer-animated adventure comedy movie based on the German building toy Playmobil. The movie is directed and conceived by Disney veteran Lino DiSalvo, in his directorial debut, written by Blaise Hemingway, Greg Erb, and Jason Oremland, and produced by On Animation Studios. The movie stars the voices of Anya Taylor-Joy, Jim Gaffigan, Gabriel Bateman, Adam Lambert, Kenan Thompson, Meghan Trainor and Daniel Radcliffe. The film follows a girl named Marla who tries to save her brother from a Playmobil world the two are sucked into and becomes involved in the midst of a population-capturing scheme by Emperor Maximus.

Premiering as the opener of the June 2019 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Playmobil: The Movie began theatrical runs in France on 7 August 2019 by Pathé. Playmobil: The Movie was panned by critics for being a perceived feature-length advertisement; most criticisms were because of the poor storytelling, generic songs, and worldbuilding problems, with several negative comparisons to The Lego Movie. It was also a box-office bomb, grossing $16.3 million on a $72 million budget, and in the United States had the worst opening weekend ever for a film playing in over 2,300 theaters.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Playmobil: The Movie (2019)". The Numbers. IMDb. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "PLAYMOBIL THE MOVIE (U)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  3. ↑ "Playmobil, le film (2018)". unifrance.org.
  4. ↑ D'Alessandro, Anthony (7 December 2019). "'Frozen 2' Already Past $300M+ Leading Dreary December Weekend With $34M+, 'Playmobil' Plummets To $702K". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  5. ↑ "Playmobil: The Movie (2019)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  6. ↑ "'Playmobil: The Movie' Bombs, Worst Opening Of All-Time In 2,300+ Theaters". Cartoon Brew. 8 December 2019.