to expand a bit, and I'm really not looking for a fight or anything - it's really nowhere near my field of expertise to get into a tiff over
but here goes:
A little research tells me that I've just watched the second of three films, I saw it in 2D, on a TV, via Netflix. It looks like there is a game - but its a lego game (if that makes any difference).
From the off, there was a strange highlight around characters in the foreground. Nothing terribly dramatic, but odd in a film I understood they spent a spectacular amount of money on. Then, about 15 minutes in there was a sequence where some bees fly into shot from close range, buzz about a bit and then fly off in to the distance. They had no part in the story whatsoever (unless I missed some nuance) and at this point, 15 or so minutes in I began to notice things more and more that didn't obviously help the film along. The 'levels' statement is exactly what I meant but had clearly poorly articulated. I don't know much about computer games (apologies, it's not snobbery, I just drifted away from computer games when they put colour over asteroids) but that's what it looked like to me.
There was a scene with barrels, jumping in and out of barrels killing baddies. It had one barrel bouncing along a line of baddies and then spinning and then had a (hobbit? dwarf?) character jumping in and out of it. I was half expecting some coins to appear or Mario to overtake them.
Then there was a scene where two characters ended up sliding down some chutes in the mine and were in mine carts suspended on wires. They didn't actually do anything, so I guessed that was another level in a game. Similarly, another character rides down a flow of molten gold in a wheelbarrow.... Levels in a game.
Elsehwere, when the wizard guy was talking there were dandelion seeds (or somesuch similar thing) blowing around for no obvious reason other than to remind us it was 3D (was my guess).
All in all, quite distracting, I found myself watching the screen for quirky shit, rather than following the story.