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How do you take an intellectual property and turn it into a full-length feature film? Who cares? Matchbox: The Movie just looks like a lot of fun, whatever its origin story. The same kind of fun you had as a kid playing with Matchbox toys on the carpet in front of the TV.

For a long time, everything has been something else. It started with the arrival of “Stranger Things,” which was so indebted to 80s horror and Steven Spielberg/Amblin movies that it teetered on the precipice of pastiche from the very beginning of its run. Now, everything — from music to books to movies — is just…