Playmobil: The Movie

Playmobil: The Movie is a 2019 live-action/animated adventure comedy film based on the German building toy Playmobil. The film was directed by Lino DiSalvo (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Blaise Hemingway and the writing team of Greg Erb and Jason Oremland. The film stars the voices of Anya Taylor-Joy, Jim Gaffigan, Gabriel Bateman, Adam Lambert, Kenan Thompson, Meghan Trainor, and Daniel Radcliffe. The plot follows a girl who tries to save her brother from a Playmobil world that the two are sucked into and becomes involved in the midst of a population-capturing scheme by Emperor Maximus.

Playmobil: The Movie premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 10, 2019, and was released in France on August 7, in the United Kingdom on August 9, and in the United States on December 6. The film was panned by critics for being a perceived feature-length advertisement; most criticisms were directed to its poor storytelling, musical numbers, characters, tone, and worldbuilding problems, with several unfavourable comparisons to The Lego Movie (2014), although some praise focused on its animation and voice acting. It was also a box-office bomb, grossing $16.3 million on a $40–75 million budget, and in the United States had the worst opening weekend ever for a film playing in over 2,300 theaters.