Passe teen romance and parental troubles aside, Small Soldiers maintains its enthusiasm and energy. So Small Soldiers is a whiff, if an entertaining one. Small Soldiers’ criticism isn’t that every kid needs one to keep up, but rather these toys exists at all… while going out of its way to make them kooky and fun to a specific, impressionable demographic. This mixes with processed, major studio antics focused on a small kid, who just like in Gremlins, finds a buddy in a gift only to fight against that thing’s nemesis. A company ad proclaims their products as, “Battlefield tech for the whole family.” Then later, an oblivious Phil Hartman suggests that maybe World War II was his favorite war, as if everyone shares a list of their top 10 global conflicts.
In retrospect, Small Soldiers’ seems right on the fringe of making its point, going so far as to mimic Paul Verhoeven satires in the intro. Small Soldiers maintains its enthusiasm and energy
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