PLAYMOBIL: THE MOVIE (U)

WHO’S IN IT?

Anya Taylor-Joy (Glass), Gabriel Bateman (Child’s Play), Jim Gaffigan (Duck Duck Goose), Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Meghan Trainor (Smurfs: The Lost Village), Adam Lambert (Bohemian Rhapsody), Kenan Thompson (Good Burger), Wendi McLendon-Covey (Bridesmaids), Lino DiSalvo (Bolt)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Lino DiSalvo (film debut), director; Blaise Hemingway (film debut), Greg Erb (Senseless) and Jason Oremland (film debut), writers; Moritz Borman (Snowden), Dimitri Rassam (Nobody from Nowhere), Aton Soumache (The Prodigies) and Alexis Vonarb (Sweet Valentine), producers; Heitor Pereira (Despicable Me), composer; Maurissa Horwitz (film debut), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

After her younger brother Charlie (Bateman) is whisked away to the vast and wondrous animated world of Playmobil toys, Marla (Taylor-Joy) is forced to leave her carefully constructed world behind and leap head-first into the same realm in order to find and rescue him, with the help of a food truck driver named Del (Gaffigan) and suave secret agent Rex Dasher (Radcliffe)…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

In the spirit of The LEGO Movie comes the first feature-length movie to star the numerous figurines of the Playmobil line of toys, with an all-star voice cast that includes Daniel Radcliffe, Meghan Trainor and even Adam Lambert.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 9TH AUGUST 2019

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