The MacGuffin of the story is the status of “Queen of the Stories”. Why is it significant? How can it help conquer the "Darkness" that’s also never explained? What were they on when they made this? Some things we’ll never know.
We have over a dozen characters randomly thrown in while the story is running with little to no purpose, character, or motivation. They just lift them straight out of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and smashed them together in a boiling cauldron that moonlights as a chamber pot. They're not characters. They're afterthoughts designed to occupy the space of a scene. They play so little significance for the amount of screentime they got that you could cut the numbers down to half and still retain the story.
And when I say story, I am just being polite. It’s a loose progression of events made up of dolls awkwardly shambling and talking about things that should have at the very least leave you mystified and interested even if it doesn’t make any sense (it doesn’t). It’s not engaging in the art of story-telling. At best, it’s merely explaining why one thing happened or needs to happen. At worst, it’s just plain nonsense.
This is just nonsense. It's amazing how, in trying to give conventional structure to a source story hailed as literary nonsense, they made it even more nonsensical.
