I loved this movie as a kid and would love to watch it again. I don’t remember the plot exactly but I do remember a school that was built on mud that is slowly sinking overtime, a girl inside a red postbox, a town filled with cardboard cutout people, a hedge maze and a huge unfinished puzzle with one missing piece that the bad guy has hung up above his head. I remember the bad guy kind of looking like Sacha baron Cohen or Jason Schwartzman, though that might just be my memory, and it having an adventures of Tintin style 3d animation, though that also could be my memory. The film was probably made around 2010’s ish. I have been looking for this for month, finding it would be very much appreciated.
was this in english? did you see it on dvd? can you remember anything else? was the puzzle a big piece of the movie?
It was in English, I remember seeing it on Netflix or Stan (an Australian streaming service). I am just now remembering more of the details with the puzzle piece. It was missing from a huge puzzle that was in the town with cardboard cutout people, and there was one person living there trying to help the kid protagonist (possibly uncle) The kid runs off through the huge hedge maze to the bad guys lair where he see’s the tiny puzzle piece in a frame hung up.
it was definitely a movie, and the kid looked fairly normal, brown hair I think, anywhere from 10 to 14, thanks a lot for helping me.