The son
of a small toy store owner wants to make his father a profit while
he's away so he decides to stock some new toys early. These new toys
are action figures which have a chip in them allowing them to think
and talk but they are also meant to fight with each other. Now all
hell breaks loose in his neighborhood because these toys stop at
nothing until they complete the job they were supposed to do: destroy
each other at all costs.
Joe Dante,
the man who directed GREMLINS, goes back to familiar territory with
this GREMLINS clone. It's actually quite enjoyable for about the
first half before ultimately crashing down in an overlong and overly
chaotic siege on the house, consuming about a half hour of
mindnumbing tedium. Sporting a likeable cast and outstanding special
effects, it has what it takes to be a good film, but it seems that
only the concept of the film was good, they just had nowhere to go
with it.
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