Small Soldiers
1998
**
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith, Frank Langella, Tommy Lee Jones
A stupid, noisy and clumsy film about two kids whose action figures come alive. The premise is clever but the end product is very much like Joe Dante's criminally overrated Gremlins and its sequel. The sole surprise in the story is that the aliens turn out to be the good guys the soldiers are the actual villains.
