Review – Small Soldiers

If you go into this Joe Dante picture expecting to see a revamp of Gremlins, then you’re going to get more or less exactly what you bargained for. The amazing thing is, it still works. You have to be willing to meet it halfway, since it’s the usual Dante parade of sappiness and stock actors, but if you give it just a little leeway you can have a lot of fun with it. Oh, and there are more inside jokes and sub-references in it than you can shake a stick at. I like that in a movie, especially when I get the jokes. Worth seeing