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Small Soldiers
1998
· Movie
· 110 min
C
MEANRANK
63/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3595
- IMDb #3905
- Google retired #518
- Rotten Tomatoes #3814
- Letterboxd #2807
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3778
Every rating
30–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 30, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 51, everyone else 64.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A new line of action figures is equipped with advanced military microchips. These chips accidentally give the toys a conscious ability to think and act on their own. The soldier figures, programmed for combat, declare war on the peaceful monster toys and the human family that owns them, turning a suburban neighborhood into a battlefield.
Details
- Director
- Joe Dante
- Writers
- Adam Rifkin, Gavin Scott, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio
- Released
- 10 July 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $40.0M
- Box office
- $54.7M
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