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good back-story, and good acting

Don't Believe the Hype

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

I remember Small Soldiers when I was a child – I loved it. I remember having a pencil case set of Small Soldiers my mum bought me, so I do have fond memories of it, and I also do remember it being very popular back then. I actually use to thought back then that the soldiers were the goods guys, and that the gorgonites were the bad guys until I watched the movie. The movie was very good, enjoyable and watchable. Some of the scenes were really funny – I have to admit. It is a movie where you hope the soldiers will just get "toyed" with, but it wasn't as simple as that – not by a long shot!!! What I did not enjoy about this movie was just how weak the gorgonites were made out to be compared to the soldiers for the most part of the movie. It felt like the soldiers were in charge for the most part of the movie including over humans??? the soldiers were frightening despite being toys – I must say. I didn't like some of the cast though, however, such as the one that played "Alan" – his character was annoying as hell! they could've used someone better than Kirsten Dunst though she was very popular after her success in the Jumanji film. With better choice selections in terms of cast, and possibly a better storyline, Small Soldiers would probably have been an amazing movie. It's still a good movie nonetheless. Small Soldiers brings back a lot of memories, and is surprisingly underrated despite its initial popularity back then.

It does what its needs. Well paced, fun, and basic but easy to understand characters. The effects aged decently well and to this day I can enjoy it.Most of its current hate is "Better than thou" reviewer fans such as Nostalgia Critic slamming it to the point of MAKING UP STUFF to whine about.Want an easy watch fun action movie akin to ID4? This is your movie.

Small Soldiers tells the tale of a young boy who buys a new toy(voiced by Tommy Lee Jones) that comes to life as it has a special chip that brings the new toys to life. So its up to the young boy and his female friend(played by a very young Kristen Dunst)to stop them before mayhem occurs.I seen this a very long time ago as a kid and it wasn't that bad its sort of a film you would add in your guilty pleasure movies list. The plot is OK but it sorta rips off Toy Story actually the whole film is like watching Toy Story all over again.If you never seen it then give it a shot. OK

Small Soldiers is one of those B movies which you would probably skip if you heard the premise of it. I revisited it today since it was on the Encore Action channel at the cabin I am staying in, and I can say there's a reason I did not remember much of this movie since watching it in my childhood.So the premise is basically this: take Toy Story, mix it into a live action film, separate the toys into 2 rival gangs who fight each other, and finally, make the toys dumber and more aggressive than they were in Toy Story. Oh, and make it PG-13, because if there's any way to improve a movie with a premise which should be kid-marketed, it's by making that movie PG-13.While the CGI is poor and the "action" of the film doesn't necessarily entertain me, Small Soldiers has some good thematic material, although it is somewhat typical of an action film of this nature. A good amount of the thematic material has to deal with not surrendering, fighting/violence is not the answer, and so forth. A good one that goes beyond the typical themes in action films is that a line is revisited: "Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it isn't there" or something along the lines of that.The way they set up the premise for this film was pretty strange; two toy engineers came up with two different sets of toys – one alien, one a group of soldiers – and their boss had the great idea of making the two sets rivals. Then, the guy who created the soldiers ordered microprocessors for both sets of toys, which happened to be used by the military, which meant the toys became very dangerous once activated. They became a type of artificial intelligence, though one side character described it as being more like "actual intelligence." To avoid the entire nation being terrorized by the aggressive "commandos," the film conveniently made it so that one kid who worked at his dad's toy shop would be able to "test" these toys before their actual release. This kid is, of course, the main character of the film, and of course he got his own romantic subplot with a young Kirsten Dunst.This film was a little bit of an upset in my opinion – they could have waited a few years until CGI was a bit better, they could have made this more kid-friendly which probably would have made it much more profitable, and the plot was somewhat sloppily put together. This film has a good aesthetic and passes for a good B movie, but it is not a film I would revisit often.