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Playmobil: The Movie (Musical Hell Review # 129) (Patreon)

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John Vinals

It's frustrating how Emperor Maximus has nothing to do with any of the larger themes in this story. Like usually in stories, the villain is supposed to mirror or generally resemble the hero's internal conflict as well as being a source of their external conflict. In "Les Miserables" and "Anastasia", Javert and Rasputin are symbols of the grief and trauma of the past that Valjean and Anya respectively are forever trying to outrun/escape. In "A Song of Ice and Fire", Euron and Cersei and Ramsay and Joffrey and Littlefinger etc are symbols of the cruel and nihilistic "power for power's sake" worldview that's the source of all the problems in Westeros and Essos and against which Dany and Jon and Arya and Bran and Sansa and Ned and Asha and Arianne and Brienne are all struggling. In "The Owl House", Belos is a representation of the callous, indifferent neurotypical world that wants to force people like Luz and Eda and King and Hooty into conformity. In "The Dead Zone", Greg Stillson and Frank Dodd both represent the temptations of power with which Johnny Smith spends the entire story struggling. In “Stranger Things”, Vecna is kind of a manifestation of Eleven's rage and pain and desire for control over the world around her. In "The Little Mermaid", Ursula's venality and greed and seeing everything as a resource to controlled is a strong contrast to Ariel's wide-eyed idealism and desire for knowledge of the human world. "Centaurworld" explicitly makes the Nowhere King a parallel to Horse’s body dysmorphia and overly externalised sense of self as well as being the source of her war trauma. Maximus, however, represents nothing. What does him kidnapping warriors and making them fight dinosaurs in his gladiatorial colosseum/Flavian Amphitheatre have to do with Marla and Charlie needing to reconcile with each other in the aftermath of their parents' deaths? There's like a throwaway line about him trying to honour the legacy of his father and grandfather (and by the way, the Roman Imperial Succession to the Position of Princes generally ran on an adoption/apprenticeship system more than a father-to-son hereditary succession system, the latter of which wasn't that present until King Gaisarix of the Vandals made it standard when the Western Roman Empire was on its last legs), but it's not explored to anywhere near the extent that Andrias' complex relationship with Leif, Barrel, and Aldrich/The Core as a whole is in "Amphibia" and it's not like these games/Munera represent a false dream that either Charlie or Marla is pursuing to the detriment of their real lives/what they already have. His attempts to keep his people isolated and afraid of the outside world could be seen as a metaphor for Marla's own fears of being trapped in a stationary/sedentary life until she herself dies, but it's not like there's any real scene of the Constantinopolitans getting to see the outside world and the movie treats the siblings fooling around in the Playmobil world as a perfectly legitimate substitute for world travel and experience. I have never seen a villain this Ineptly handled before apart from maybe the Viceroy dude in the "Chadam" animated miniseries from 2010. Just...no substantial connection to any real-world themes or larger ideas, no actual menace, no compelling or interesting characterisation. Just your run of the mill generic tyrant figure who's called "Emperor" just because he's a Roman dude and the word "Emperor" sounds cool and menacing. Just…wow! What a disastrous villain!

Kristin I.

Oh no! What happened to the video?

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Unfortunately Vimeo not only removed the video, but my entire account. I am working on a copyright-friendly re-edit, but it will take time especially as I am working on the next episode as well.