A Fantástica Jornada de Robby e Toby

This 2016 remake is as bad as it gets. Whoever knows the original Series will instantly know what I am talking about. I have no idea what the production team was thinking - they obviously tried to scramble up all successful elements from children-movies throughout the last decades, and created exactly that a scramble of nothing. The story line is terrible, boring and the characters could be replaced with any type character. Characters' personalities are not only weak but pretty much non existing - If there is a character or personality emerging it's forced. I think I mentioned the weak story-line with it's all over the place elements. Terrible story book. There is literally nothing left from the original series, which was simple, had strong characters and a great story-line. This one tries to be complicated and fast paced but losing breath within the first 10 minutes never getting to the finish line. If that wasn't enough - the voices of the main characters (Tobbi especially)are not only annoying but sound like the tele-tubbies... Film-making should elevate the audience or at worst give some decent entertainment, not pull them down onto a level of a single cell animal. Terrible and absolutely horrendous.

The movie is a prime example of a trend throughout german kids movies in the past few years.

1. The story is weak with over the top villains that are evil because the script tells them to 2. One of the main characters is your typical shy kid that gets overlooked and bullied 3. Almost all adult actors overact as hell 4. The look is clean, colorful and sadly not at all original 5. Dialogue is as on the nose as it can get

There are of course other problems with these movies, but you get a good picture with just these points.

So what makes this movie that horrible?

Well first of all the camera work seems to be ripped of from your typical german crime movie - the mainstream movie landscape is pretty sad in germany, sorry:( Anyway, while I was watching this movie I got a headache - not only because of the cinematography, but mostly.

I do not want to comment the acting any further than it deserves. It's non-existing.

The story is boring, bad paced and the script is poorly written.

You might have noticed, that I have not compared this movie to the old tv show from 1972. That is because the only things they have in common are Robbie, Tobbie and the Fliwatütt. And at the end of the day the 1972 show is simply better in every single aspect.

Though I am willing to say one good thing about the new movie: The vfx effects are decent and not at all bad.