L.O.L. Surprise: The Movie

I have mixed feelings about this 'film'; on one hand it is chaotic, nonsensical and has subzero storyline. The premise is about filming 'the perfect ending' to a movie (that premieres "that night" I might add). It bounces from scene to scene with no cohesion and revolves around makeovers and in your face advertising for the movie merchandise. And shame on Netflix that they had a promo for this movie that was NOTHING like the movie. Not even close. The promo for Jurassic Park would have been closer.

BUT, on the other hand, my kids love these dolls. While my 11 yr old confusedely asked 'what was that even about. Tell me that was not the movie?", my 8 yr old seemed satisfied with it enough to watch it another 4 times since then. For younger viewers it can assist with them imagining their own dolls from this collection 'coming to life' and in that sense this movie does have some value. Just keep your expectations realistic. The animation was excellent, just a shame the writers missed the mark by miles on an opportunity to integrate these products into the TV platform, in the same way MGA has done their Rainbow High collection.

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.

Very cute movie for kids. My grandchildren really enjoyed it. Fun watch. And pretty fun for adults too! We all watched it together and really had a fun Friday night. Would recommend this movie if your kids or grandkids want something easy and cute to watch on the weekend. It had some really sweet themes as well.

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.