The Legend of Robert the Doll

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Alexandru M the storyline wasn't chronological, the effects were horrible Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/14/24 Full Review Audience Member Not as good as the toy maker. Make them more sexually stimulating please. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member The Revenge? of Robert the Doll - it's the second film, but it's set 70 years in the past. How is he avenging things that have not yet occurred? The first 30 minutes of the film have little to no bearing on the rest of the narrative; the only connection is through a nonsensical magical book that brings dolls to life for no reason. There's an abusive husband, a runaway wife, a psychopathic hitchhiker and an unassuming farmhand who is revealed to be a Nazi officer literally out of nowhere. It isn't until halfway through the movie that there is an onslaught of incredibly clunky and somewhat incoherent exposition and we are introduced to a toymaker with some of the worst old man makeup ever seen in film, along with the titular Robert the Doll. The doll and his pals then perform a series of nazi-murders and it is suggested that they single-puppeteered-handedly ended the Second World War. This car crash of a film ends with an inexplicable jump to the U.K. in 2012, in which the toymaker is STILL ALIVE?? I was left with so very many questions, and literally no answers. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Rod D If you're just expecting the standard evil-doll trope, you're going to get more (and less) than you bargained for, because "The Legend of Robert the Doll" is more a Nazi action-adventure flick than a supernatural thriller. At barely feature-length (eighty minutes), the best scenes of Resistance-versus-Nazi skulduggery have almost nothing to do with Robert and his animated-doll pals, who don't get involved until well past mid-point. They function merely as a deus ex machina to right the Nazi wrongs, an irrelevant afterthought long after we've lost interest. And that's the problem. Props for acting, production values, and some high-tension scenes - I'd love to see what Tarantino could do with this material - but there is so much missing from the narrative that might have made it more compelling. What is the source of this magical power? Where did the magic book come from? Why does the old toymaker control the power? How is the old man still alive sixty-five years later (he must be 130)? Who is Robert anyway? Even Chuckie had a backstory, and it's not like they didn't have the time to fill in some of these blanks. Instead, we're left with two competing genres lashed together by the thinnest of threads that cannot hold even for eighty minutes before the whole thing falls apart. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 04/10/22 Full Review Audience Member The worst movie ever it was a waste of time don't watch Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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