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06/24/06
Small Soldiers (1998)
48 %
Reviews Counted: 40 Fresh: 19 Rotten:21 Average Rating: 6.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Synopsis: A toy company believes it is onto something when it employs the latest government military technology in a series of action figures, enabling them to talk. They underestimate the power of the special micro chips they've employed, however, as the two opposing sides of the toy line start... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Phil Hartman, Gregory Edward Smith, Jay Mohr, Denis Leary
Director: Joe Dante
Screenwriter: Gavin Scott, Adam Rifkin, Terry Rossio, Ted Elliott
Producer: Michael Finnell, Colin Wilson
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Screenwriter: Gavin Scott, Adam Rifkin, Terry Rossio, Ted Elliott
Producer: Michael Finnell, Colin Wilson
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
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An infomercial with the schmaltz that passes for emotion in family-aimed films.
10/20/05
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04/09/05
Typical of Dante's films, Small Soldiers is an unbroken string of pop culture in-jokes.
06/12/03
It looks like the movie was edited down from a much meaner version, to our loss.
12/08/02
The animation is excellent, and the voice cast alone is worth the price of admission...
06/05/02
...this smells like a script slapped together around a toy-product launch.
04/12/02
Though it starts promisingly, the picture ends as a standoff between the affection Dante and company bring to the project and its increasingly frenetic and tiresome emphasis on what special effects can make its little people do.
02/14/01
Top Critic
G.I. Joe goes ballistic in Dante's smart, witty hybrid of Toy Story and his own Gremlins.
01/01/00
This live-action, animated feature has all the charm of the entirely animated Toy Story plus an audacity all of its own.
01/01/00
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