Letterboxd Showdown: Best dolls-come-to-life films
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“Oil up the tricycle and straighten the bow-tie: Barbie has us in the mood to celebrate dolls coming to life. From life-size real girls to small soldiers, what a legacy there is in the creation of cinematic child’s play. Whether puppet, porcelain or plushie, Billy, Annabelle or M3GAN, it’s the attack of the beast creatures and we’re not clowning around. So, babes in toyland, slap together your ten favorite films in which playthings take on a life of their own and chuck it at this Showdown. Come on, dummy, the toys need to make with and cause merry mayhem for the humans around them, but sure, we’ll let secret societies of toys slip…
Letterboxd Showdown: Best dolls-come-to-life films
boxd.it/2YM
“Oil up the tricycle and straighten the bow-tie: Barbie has us in the mood to celebrate dolls coming to life. From life-size real girls to small soldiers, what a legacy there is in the creation of cinematic child’s play. Whether puppet, porcelain or plushie, Billy, Annabelle or M3GAN, it’s the attack of the beast creatures and we’re not clowning around. So, babes in toyland, slap together your ten favorite films in which playthings take on a life of their own and chuck it at this Showdown. Come on, dummy, the toys need to make with and cause merry mayhem for the humans around them, but sure, we’ll let secret societies of toys slip through.”
I'm keeping the fidelity of *toys/dolls* coming to life in a universe where they are expressly understood to be inanimate objects. I don't count A.I., not sure if Lego Movie really counts, no stop motion, fantasy worlds, robots that aren't exclusively toys...Billy the puppet from Saw is not sentient... You get the drill
