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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe production design deserves Academy recognition. But at the most fundamental level, Toys is a film not quite sure what it's about.
- 60EmpireAngie ErrigoEmpireAngie ErrigoA 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.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe script is a problem. It's mundane when it should be magical.
- 50Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversTo cut Toys a minor break, it is ambitious. It is also a gimmicky, obvious and pious bore, not to mention overproduced and overlong.
- 50Washington PostRita KempleyWashington PostRita KempleyToys is a misguided missive from director Barry Levinson about an attempted military coup at a whimsically run toy factory.
- 50The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinIf 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.
- 50NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenThe 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.
- 37Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonUnfortunately, it has no story. Toys is deader than a doornail.
- 30Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenYou've got to admire a movie that's willing to journey down paths that have no clear antecedents in the creation of a modern whimsical fable, but you don't have to admire the fractured results.
- 0Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe film is a jokey, nattering fiasco, as awful as Hudson Hawk. And yet, like that famous disaster, it never loses its aura of precocious self-satisfaction.