Toys (1992)

Don't Believe the Hype

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Best movie along with best soundtrack by EPIC composer Hans Zimmer.You don't like the movie? Yeah, cos you're shallow minded and don't know how to appreciate art. You should stop reviewing any other movie for the rest of your life. You're disqualified.This movie is ahead of its time. It created an art direction. More importantly, it created a priceless memory for every children that watched it, well, except the non-artistic, non imaginary ones. I watched it again, and was still loving the movie. It actually surprised me with some very deep meaning that i wouldn't understand as a child. But i'm sure if i was an adult back then, i would still love this movie. Because i'm not like those brain dead critics who couldn't appreciate this movie. Or maybe they didn't even watched it, they were watching the walls the whole time.

I saw 'Toys' at age 12 and again last night, now being 16. Before seeing it last night I tried to drum up all of my previous memories of this film. I recalled it being wildly colorful, creative and entertaining, and it held an important message. Upon a re-watch, I realized that I still identify with most of my earlier observations, but being older and more mature, with more knowledge in general, I came to appreciate something else the film had to offer. As far as the message goes, as a child it seemed so concrete. But now older I find it hard to pin down. But it has something to do with the inner child being extinguished by the quote-unquote "real world." Robin Williams is in this film. I loved him as a child, I found him funny and entertaining as well as serious when needed. His face drums up memories of Jumanji and Bicentennial Man. In this film plays the son of an eccentric toy factory owner. Where is this toy factory? The location is never established, and I believe that is intentional. Any scenery outside of the toy factory consists of rolling green fields that stretch all the way to the perfect blue sky, meeting at the horizon. The factory within is even more colorful, with bright blues, reds, whites and yellows that reminds us of childhood with its brightly colored plastic toys. Many of which are featured in this film, especially around the climax. We also see many cute, nonsensical things, such as toy ducks crossing a hallway while some characters sit and wait in their car. Why do they wait for the ducks to cross? What would it matter if the car simply ran over the lifeless, plastic ducks? Or for that matter, why do the characters dress so brightly with unnecessary flares and silly gimmicks? (ex: Robin Williams's character at one point is wearing a jacket that produces smoke, a "smoking jacket") Of course this leads one to the question, what's the purpose of aesthetics or art at all? Here the film makes a valid and pressing point. I came to realize that it is not in fact purposeless at all. The purpose is that the character wearing the "silly" outfit wants it that way. That is how he/she prefers it. The characters here live in a world without judgment and are free to express themselves. I have a feeling that if people were given unlimited resources and freedom from judgment, they would dress like this in a world like this. Then I came to realize this: this film, with its rolling green hills and perfect blue skies outside of the factory, and pure unprejudiced creation within the factory, takes place inside the mind. If you had to draw the interior of the mind, how would you draw it? Then when I realized that, everything else in the film seemed to match up nicely with human thoughts. The factory in 'Toys' is our idea of a perfect existence, being able to do whatever we wanted, free of judgment, having as much fun as possible and never growing up. This is childhood. But as the reader knows, childhood is not forever. Eventually we grow up and act not in interest of having fun as much as acting to avoid judgment or avoid bad judgment. We want to move along in unison with the rest of the people who had grown up to want the same thing. From out of this idea we get our villain, the uniformed general and brother to the original factory owner. He's what we'd call grown up and here to destroy everything childish and have the factory start producing war toys. This is our mind reaching what is called maturity. Society tells us that maturity is good, even though we can feel our inner child dying (which is also illustrated in the film, by showing a graphic toy war with flying plastic chunks and sparks). Nonetheless, the film then turns around and does something most people growing up do not do. The general, symbolizing maturity, is vanquished and the characters go on with their happy existence. Following my simile about the human mind, this part can seem confusing. But after deliberation, I concluded that the mind in the film had rid itself of the need to mature, and therefor was forever happy, free of judgment and free to express. I have a feeling that if this film was understood by more people in the way that I do, the message would be followed religiously and the film labeled as a holy scripture. It's why self-help books are so popular and for that matter, it is also why religions like Taoism, Buddhism and other beliefs that promise enlightenment are so popular. If you are a Taoist and you understand this film like I do, it would seem to be a work of art, an achievement of bliss and a goal to strive for. I give it a 9 out of 10. The only unnecessary part was discovering that (SPOILER::) the sister was a robot. There is really no point to this, but having said what I did earlier about things that seem pointless, I will not complain.

I decided to watch "Toys" as it was missing from my childhood, I remember seeing the trailer on the "Mrs. Doubtfire" video (that was never out!) And I thought it looked good. So it was on TV and I recorded and thought it was definitely something different and which definitely does not LACK imagination! The visuals are the most impressive things in "Toys", it's as if life is inside a Dhali painting. Everything is surreal and tongue-in-cheek which is quite refreshing to see through the midst of countless films that all start to look the same. Films like this don't come around very often and maybe some of you think this is a good thing? But it's important that you open your mind when watching this and just enjoy the imaginative images that flourish before you on the screen.The visuals and directing style reminded me of a Tim Burton film, such as "Big Fish", it was very colourful with Burton-esque ideas and I really liked that. Although the film did sort of fall apart during the evil toys vs not evil toys due to the lack of direction and not focusing on the editing.Hans Zimmer's score was also very impressive. It lifted the child-like atmosphere. Robin Williams was mis-used however, he did have some very funny lines (the Mother Teresa bit is worth watching for those few seconds) but his talents weren't used to the extent.Weird and wonderful, "Toys" is unlike anything I've ever seen, and i also think that underneath this child-like exterior is quite a serious metaphor. The story-line is simple, the directing is driven and the visuals are stunning. "Toys" is definitely worth a watch if you have at least some imagination.

Watching Joan cusack and robin Williams in this stupid film islike watching 2hours of non funny people with severe learning and social difficulties. Annoying and absurd. She's so dumb and even her name is ridiculous. They all need locking up, along with the awful soundtrack which was stolen from some Irish pixie mushroom dance. Do not watch. waste of time. Boring. Now I must think of several more lines to bulk this out. Oh i do think LL COOL J is fab :):):):) also I'm pretty sure Lisa Simpson is in this.To say the film makes me feel nauseas is an understatement. I think the actors and writers let this film doooooooooown