L.O.L. Surprise: The Movie

I've seen so many people with the same critique over and over again, " made to sell toys". Obviously! Its a toy brand, making a movie. The barbie movies where made to sell toys, the mlp movies where made to sell toys, toy movies are made to sell toys!!!! Look at it from a child's perspective. Do you think they care about backstory, or stuff making no sense? Maybe, but very often not! This movie is for children, and i think that children's views on the movie is important. Some may not like it, some may, but way to many people are talking about it as if children wont enjoy it even if it doesn't make sense.

This should have been just a product-placing piece of fluff. It should have been cynical, insubstantial, just plain dumb. So how did it end up with this much depth, this much nuance? Who asked that it include an extended De Palma homage, a vaporwave western fashion showdown, an action-packed comic-book-styled chase scene, with the disparate aesthetics held together by a series of vaudevillean stop-motion sequences? Sure, it tells of a young girl's reckoning with change through an imaginative interaction with a world of product -- but, goddammit, kids already live in a world of product; that is precisely how they engage with and overcome trauma. Somehow this movie knows that, knows how to work with the premise, and finds an inner directorial freedom to represent that engagement in all its chaotic fluidity, utterly keen to the power of misdirection and surprise. It speaks from a rich visual language, refreshingly free of immersion-breaking winks and nods to the grown-ups in the room. Kudos to all involved.

This movie is trying so hard to be the lego movie.

The story is chaotic,no logic NOTHINGGGGG.

Curse netflix curse lol curse everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Terrible, killed an hours worth of time for my daughter, but made me want to disembowel myself.

The whole thing is just an advert for lol surprise and unfortunately now this is all my daughter wants.

If not, dont watch this, cause it's garbage. Could be directed by a 5-yo who's mom has a fetisch for child beuty contests. The dolls are all worse than Barbie with the hip-waste-chest ratios and the editing is on par with Adam Sandlers worst movies from before he turned famous.

Everything seems to be focused around make overs and trying to look as "fabulous" as possible.