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Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.
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63
The production design deserves Academy recognition. But at the most fundamental level, Toys is a film not quite sure what it's about.
60
Empire
A riot of confused, clever and dazzling moments, Toys is a true formula-defying one-off for which the phrase love it or loathe it might have been coined, and one so audaciously zany that you will be captivated or enraged.
50
The script is a problem. It's mundane when it should be magical.
50
To cut Toys a minor break, it is ambitious. It is also a gimmicky, obvious and pious bore, not to mention overproduced and overlong.
50
Toys is a misguided missive from director Barry Levinson about an attempted military coup at a whimsically run toy factory.
