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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). 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. Plot Marla is a formerly free-spirited girl who has grown up to be responsible yet overprotective in caring for her brother, Charlie. Charlie has grown lonely and disconnected from her after their parents died in a car accident. One night, Charlie sneaks out to visit a toy museum with a Playmobil exhibit. After Marla arrives and tells Charlie off for running away, a lighthouse illuminates them and transports them to the Playmobil world. Marla and Charlie –who has been transformed into a Viking warrior– find themselves in the middle of a Viking battle, and Charlie helps them until he is kidnapped by a group of 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 several characters have disappeared, and the group sneaks into a villainous spy headquarters to find information about the disappearances. Despite some issues, they successfully gather the data and escape, but the pirates later capture Rex. He is taken 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 has been looking for him, which encourages Charlie to break away. However, he later allows himself to be recaptured, so the other characters can escape. Del recognizes that a device used by the pirates belongs to Glinara, an alien crime lord. After meeting with her in exchange for information, Del offers to pay twice as much as he owes her. Glinara agrees and reveals that she sold the device to Maximus. However, Del cannot uphold his end of the bargain, as Marla only has 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, Robotitron, who hacks the portal and drops the group into a forest. Del leaves the group, upset by Marla's deception. Marla and Robotitron 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 in 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 as Rex and the missing warriors, who lock 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 is revealed that they were missing for only five minutes. On good terms, Marla promises Charlie that their relationship will be mended. Cast Anya Taylor-Joy as Marla Brenner, Charlie's sister, who also voices Marla's Playmobil form. Director Lino DiSalvo cast Taylor-Joy for the "texture" of her voice, and described her performance as "believable and emotional" Gabriel Bateman as Charlie Brenner, Marla's brother, who also voices Charlie's Playmobil viking form. As DiSalvo explains, "when I met Gabriel, I totally saw a kid that Spielberg would cast" Ryan S. Hill plays a 6-year-old Charlie Jim Gaffigan as Del, a food truck driver who supports himself with several side jobs and is Marla's best friend Daniel Radcliffe as Rex Dasher, a secret agent who helps Marla. While normally reluctant to play spy roles in films, Radcliffe accepted the part of Dasher because "there is something incredibly fun about playing an unbelievably confident, kind of to the point of being an oblivious, person who is constantly undercut by other characters who make him realise that maybe he's not as smooth as he thinks he is" Adam Lambert as Emperor Maximus, the tyrannical ruler of Constatinopolis. Lambert explained that he played the character as himself "on a really bad day" Kenan Thompson as Bloodbones, a pirate captain. In addition to the role's Broadway-level singing demands, the nasally-voiced Thompson also had to perform his lines in a guttural tone, which gave him a "headache" Meghan Trainor as The Fairy Godmother, a fairy godmother who Marla encounters in a forest. It was Trainor's childhood dream to play a fairy character, but also a very difficult task: "I've never smiled so hard in my life to make this girl happy and I was jumping up and down." Trainor's involvement in Playmobil: The Movie began while writing "Run Like The River" for her album Treat Myself. "I remember meeting someone who was like, this should be in the movie," explained Trainor; and a week later, she presented the song to DiSalvo: "It looked like it blew his mind" Lino DiSalvo as Robotitron, a robot who works for Glinara Maddie Taylor as Glinara, an alien crime lord Kirk Thornton as Ook Ook, a caveman Dan Navarro as Viking Leader Cindy Robinson as Nola, an alien bounty hunter Paloma Michelle as Valera, an Amazon warrior Spike Spencer as additional voices Benjamin Diskin as Seadog Kellen Goff as Salty Dino Andrade as Scurvy Pete Production Development An animated feature film based on Playmobil figurines, produced by On Entertainment, Wild Bunch and Pathé, was announced in November 2014 and originally expected to be released at the end of 2017. The film ori.... Discover the Meghan Hemingway popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Meghan Hemingway books.