Synopsis
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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Cast
- Robin WilliamsLeslie Zevo
- Joan CusackAlsatia Zevo
- Michael GambonLt. General Leland Zevo
- Robin WrightGwen Tyler
- LL Cool JCaptain Patrick Zevo
- Jack WardenOld General Zevo
- Debi MazarNurse Debbie
- Donald O'ConnorKenneth Zevo
- Arthur MaletOwen Owens
- Jamie FoxxBaker
Recommendations
- 63
Chicago Sun-Times
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
ReelViews
The script is a problem. It's mundane when it should be magical. - 50
Rolling Stone
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
Washington Post
Toys is a misguided missive from director Barry Levinson about an attempted military coup at a whimsically run toy factory. - 50
The A.V. Club
If Levinson weren't so intent on cramming whimsy and joy down the audience's throat for two punishing hours, he might very well have succeeded in his very noble ambitions. Whimsy is a tricky thing: too much can become oppressive. - 50
Newsweek
The failure of Barry Levinson's Toys is of a different order: it's the kind of folly only a very fine filmmaker could make, a labor of misguided love. - 37
Washington Post
Unfortunately, it has no story. Toys is deader than a doornail.
