This movie's completely out of control but it's incredibly entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2025

This movie's a fun time; although there's a lot of disturbing stuff in this...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2025

Small Soldiers is no Toy Story, but director Joe Dante delivers a moderately entertaining movie with high production values and low-brow parody.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 19, 2025

Care matters in toymaking. Small Soldiers, all together a solidly good—if uneven—picture, shines in making that argument.

| Jul 10, 2023

“Small Soldiers” also joins “Godzilla” in another way. They compete now for the worst film of the year with “Godzilla” ahead, but not far enough to out distance the horrid “The Big Hit.”

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Feb 6, 2023

Begins cynical and sleek and stays that way — and the subtext here is that militarism disguised as kids’ entertainment can backfire, or open fire on you.

| Original Score: B | Sep 2, 2022

Small Soldiers deserves to be re-evaluated, which fortunately also means that it can finally be enjoyed, too.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 8, 2014

Works as an adventure film and another fine Joe Dante creature feature...

| Oct 7, 2013

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

Smart satirical action-comedy about talking action toys.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 7, 2007

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

An infomercial with the schmaltz that passes for emotion in family-aimed films.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 20, 2005

Typical of Dante's films, Small Soldiers is an unbroken string of pop culture in-jokes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

It looks like the movie was edited down from a much meaner version, to our loss.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2002

...an entertaining romp...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2002

The animation is excellent, and the voice cast alone is worth the price of admission...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2002

...this smells like a script slapped together around a toy-product launch.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 27, 2001