Just came across this video. Watching you react to Small Soldiers was hilariously cute. We didn't even blink at this stuff back in the 90s, just laughed. It was a different time
Haha, yeah my mom never gave this to us when it came out but if she had I wouldn't have noticed any of this stuff either. I love covering these kids things in hindsight as a grown up because it becomes a whole different experience. 😂
haha the barbie scene freaked me out as a kid!! haha.................... BTW I like how your eye liner looks!! Thanks for the video!! definately a blast from the past lol
The barbie scene freaks me out as a full grown adult if it makes you feel better. 😂 And thank you so much! Makeup isn't my strong suit but if I can get my eyeliner relatively even then I feel victorious. 😊 Thanks for watching!
22:18 For some reason I can buy everything in this movie, but the idea that these sentient war-ready toys are just $80 is a steal. I'd totally buy one XD
Omg right?? This whole movie is a criticism of the military industrial complex and how it treats everyone including soldiers so like maybe that's the point but idk
This is one of those movie I grew up watching and looking back on it I agree with people who say it hasn't aged well. However I still love it despite how weird it is due to my childhood nostalgia.
I loved this movie growing up but it legit terrified me. I remember my parents got me the Chip Commando action figure for Christmas after we saw the movie together lol. I still don't understand why they didn't get me one of the good guys, just him and the dude that looks like Gunjack from Tekken 😂
2:22 They were actually given passwords to Globotech's database to get whatever they needed to make the toys appear as they did in the commercial. Jay Mohr's character forgot his and David Cross's character blurted out his password (Gizmo) and Jay's character used that password to order the chips
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff I really didn't expect that from something like this, but also, the effects and animation aren't bad, especially for the time, from what I can see anyway. It appears the film had a lot of love put into it!
I went to the set of this movie way back. It was at Disneyland in California and I was there on vacation. I think my Chip Hazard figure is still in my mum's attic. I loved this movie. It started my love of Joe Dante movies. Plus, I love anything Phil Hartman was in, dude was great.
I remember when this movie came out when I was a teen everybody I knew went to see it and thought it was shit but I didn’t get to see it because. My and my family had school and work saw it on my channel in Canada at first I didn’t know what to make of it but saw it again a few years later saw the talent envolved loved the boy got kissed by a girl me to anyway I thought it was pro anti war also in 2024 Germany created the therminator a robot dog with a flamethrower for a head aw we so needed that in this movie anyway good reaction could you do vr troopers or masked rider or beetleborgs thanks
What the actual fuck is this movie? I remember watching a video about it in the past, but damn I forgot how insane this is. It's beautiful, strange, violent, wholesome, and is just a gem of a thing
The military technology for the civilian living is something this movie borrowed from robocop. It also is a parody of real life where a lot of thw technolgy that people used today was develped (or at least a predicessor was) for military use first. Far from everything the military develops is weapons with a lot of common use solutions being made with the execuse of military budget to back it. Duct tape, super glue and enelope sealant are just a few examples we technically owe to military development practices. The satire is in the more loose regualations pertaining to the induction of such products into the free market later. What is to stop a company from developing something with military industrial funding by the government and then marketing it directly to civilians in ways that may not be best for them or isn't so civilian friendly. They werent really putting weapons into the toys..but they were putting failed A.I. chips, programmed with agressive war based strategies of cammand and conquer into them because it was cheap and an idiot who never should have had the power to was enabled soley through a buisness mindset. The company that made robocop basically had the power to buy the police through their lucrative government development partnership and the militant technology to use that postion of power to take over. It wasnt that they planned to sell guns commercially to the public but could do so on the black markey as well as turn them agaisnt the same people they were making them for.
I just realized how good the graphics were for Small soldiers like that movie looks like it could have been released this year I mean script wise let's hope that they would have done a little bit better but like visually it's really good
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff yeah the only thing left to remind you that it's a '90s movie is the graphics and some of the very 90s things like the satellite dish or talking on a home phone but then again it could just be set in the 90s so.
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff it was for the ps1 dont think it had anything to do with the movie you just fought stuff as archer and the others it was fun from what I remember
Military grade means two different things to the military and the public. The public think military grade means some awesome technology veterans know that means the cheapest but best equipment they could find.
No if you're ever caught in an unbelievable situation and you need police support ASAP report something that's actually believable... I mean definitely make it extremely violent say there's someone walking around main Street waving a gun shooting at passers by or something like that but and maybe say he's got body armor on but never tell them what is actually going on because they will never believe you in a million years
The movie is a satire actually lol It was intentionally made that way. The opening commercial is suppose yo set that up when it says it's making military grade equipment affordable for the whole family. Also the music choice in interviews was chosen to be satire on the scenes they are in, while also making it feel like an action flick using popular generic music from the time. The commandos are made to look like trigger happy war monger jarheads. While the gorgonites are aliens of different color and all look very different, yet are made of the same metal and wire as the commandos. If it were made today people would call it woke and uninspired, yet the creators have stated it was a satire and also made to be a anti war piece and how strong military nations typically will wipe out anything and anyone in their way.
I totally get that it's satire and I actually really do love this movie. But it is so funny that most people went in thinking it was a normal kids movie because when you go in expecting that it's bonkers. I mean, it's bonkers anyway but...in a good way.
When I was a kid I saw this come on, got scared, and changed the channel. I still don't know if this was really meant to be a children's film 😅. Especially since the lighting is so dark and the figures are really harsh.
I read that initially it was more of an edgy teen movie but when they couldn't get funding they, "made it a kids movie". Similar to how the live action scooby doo movies were, "kids movies". 😅
Thank you! I slept with curlers in like my gramma always tells me to do and it didn't go as planned but I was proud of my effort. XD EDIT: I don't know why I thought this comment was on the last video...clearly I need to go to bed lol. But thank you! I really appreciate the kind words.
Lol guess what you're hair looked great in BOTH !! thats so sweet my grama always used to wear curlers in her hair at night and i thought it was so cool 😊
It is weird that you keep calling Kirsten Dunst "love intrest girl." Lol It's not her best role but it has been interestkng to watch her grow up as an acrress from Jumanji to this to Spiderman. It kind of gits that Mary Jane is also an asiring actress who is moving up the ranks through her life because it kind of was the role of Kristen's own life. Lol She also has worked with some real legendary actors..Phil Hartman and Tommy Lee Jones in this, Robin Williams in Jumanji and William Defo in Spiderman..
Alright where is the comment where someone says the girl destroying her barbies is a metaphor for her fighting against the Male patriarchy. EDIT there it is,
Disclaimer: I'm not Jack saint either, and it's been a long time since I've seen this film. But I think there's something maybe feminist about the whole barbie scene. It's clear that the imperialist army men see the barbies through the lense of the male gaze, sexualizing them, then the army men literally erect a machine that forces the barbies to change their bodies to suit the purposes of imperialism, akin to how women's bodies are policed and harrassed if they dont fit into the patriarchal heteronormative ideal, which as a reminder is a big part of imperialist/fascist tendencies. The 14 words that many of the fash quote incessantly/live by consign women to only reproductive and domestic labor roles, and the eugenics movement in the US, was very much about the "right" women reproducing to secure an overtly white supremacist future. In the film, the young woman who had been collecting barbies is literally taken hostage by these exaggerated versions of femininity, repurposed through an imperialist male gaze (which is why they are all talking in super sexualized ways, while simultaneously engaging in murder, a version of the madonna whore complex.) Of course the metaphor breaks down when she is initially rescued by a male, but ultimately, she herself destroys the barbie toys, perhaps as a symbol of destroying patriarchal expectations of herself in her own life, and freeing herself to live authentically to her own desires. thanks for coming to my ted talk.
Damn, I didn't even think about that! I like this metaphor. It's funny because even though Alan runs in and finds her she really fights her own way out so when she tells him he saved her it's really funny. 😂
After 20 years, I realize that magic potato chips didn’t bring them to life… they were talking about microchips.
I loved this movie so freaking much as a kid. this shaped my childhood, omfg. lmao. thank you so much for covering it.
I was very grateful my friend told me about it because I totally missed out as a kid 🤣
haha, this was wild as hell when I watched it.
Same here, even tho some parts used to scare me
Just came across this video. Watching you react to Small Soldiers was hilariously cute. We didn't even blink at this stuff back in the 90s, just laughed. It was a different time
Haha, yeah my mom never gave this to us when it came out but if she had I wouldn't have noticed any of this stuff either. I love covering these kids things in hindsight as a grown up because it becomes a whole different experience. 😂
Really wish we still had batshit crazy movies like this.
I mean, blood and honey is a thing so in a way we still do.
Well at least the toys didn’t run him over with a snowplough.
The password “gizmo” is a nod to Dante’s other creatures run amok film, Gremlins.
Still working on the video for that one. 😅😅
8:25 - 8:37 Well, this was the 90s.
Totally forgot this movie even existed. Loving your uploads, as always 😊
Thank you!
The "Its only a flesh wound" Monty Python reference seems like the only good thing to come out of this film XD
It's such a weird movie. I feel like there's no emotion I don't feel while watching it. 😂
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff 🤣🤣🤣🤣
When a hippie and a cigar-chomping 80's producer decide to remake Toy Story
Exactly! 😂
Gremlins + Toy Story = This movie.
Accurate 😂
I remember seeing this as a kid and can't wait to see War for the Nekron
haha the barbie scene freaked me out as a kid!! haha.................... BTW I like how your eye liner looks!! Thanks for the video!! definately a blast from the past lol
The barbie scene freaks me out as a full grown adult if it makes you feel better. 😂 And thank you so much! Makeup isn't my strong suit but if I can get my eyeliner relatively even then I feel victorious. 😊 Thanks for watching!
Genius and insane..Joe Dante! I'm sure the Pirates line Johnny Depp had to say was talking about ol' Joe.
22:18 For some reason I can buy everything in this movie, but the idea that these sentient war-ready toys are just $80 is a steal. I'd totally buy one XD
Omg right?? This whole movie is a criticism of the military industrial complex and how it treats everyone including soldiers so like maybe that's the point but idk
All i can think of when i see Rex Dunn is Mr Witwicky from Transformers.
This is one of those movie I grew up watching and looking back on it I agree with people who say it hasn't aged well. However I still love it despite how weird it is due to my childhood nostalgia.
Maybe part of it is just because of how weird and violent this movie is.
awesome !! my fiance and i loved this movie now that u reminded me of it im gonna show it to our boys!!
Yay! I'm so glad! It's like no other kids movie I think I've ever seen. 😂
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff ruclips.net/video/4KmA7FaVPLU/видео.html next time
This movie was just Joe Dante reliving the glory of Gremilins but with aTerminator 2 Twist.
I loved this movie growing up but it legit terrified me. I remember my parents got me the Chip Commando action figure for Christmas after we saw the movie together lol. I still don't understand why they didn't get me one of the good guys, just him and the dude that looks like Gunjack from Tekken 😂
Oh no! That's horrifying! I didn't even realize there were toys made. O_O
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff At least they aren't sentient. *Yet*
2:22 They were actually given passwords to Globotech's database to get whatever they needed to make the toys appear as they did in the commercial. Jay Mohr's character forgot his and David Cross's character blurted out his password (Gizmo) and Jay's character used that password to order the chips
YOU PUT MUNITIONS CHIPS IN TOYS?!?!?!
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff
"It was just a prank"
The prank
Holy shit this movie really has David Cross, Denis Leary AND Kirsten Dunst. Im in for a wild ride!
I know, the cast is truly amazing!
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff I really didn't expect that from something like this, but also, the effects and animation aren't bad, especially for the time, from what I can see anyway. It appears the film had a lot of love put into it!
@@FreggFaerieyeah this movie may be insane but it's clear that it was a bit of a passion project for them
I went to the set of this movie way back. It was at Disneyland in California and I was there on vacation. I think my Chip Hazard figure is still in my mum's attic. I loved this movie. It started my love of Joe Dante movies. Plus, I love anything Phil Hartman was in, dude was great.
That's so cool! This movie really took a risk to make something they cared about and I respect that.
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff Same. Even as a kid I recognised this movie was nuts.
now how I would tell the story is, so one of my friends gave me a movie, it’s about war, war never changes... where was I at, oh yeah small soldiers.
I remember when this movie came out when I was a teen everybody I knew went to see it and thought it was shit but I didn’t get to see it because. My and my family had school and work saw it on my channel in Canada at first I didn’t know what to make of it but saw it again a few years later saw the talent envolved loved the boy got kissed by a girl me to anyway I thought it was pro anti war also in 2024 Germany created the therminator a robot dog with a flamethrower for a head aw we so needed that in this movie anyway good reaction could you do vr troopers or masked rider or beetleborgs thanks
More 90's goodness please 😍
Keep an eye out on Saturday for a new episode of Saturday Morning Cartoons featuring all the 90s nostalgia. 😊
Can't wait! ☺️
I admit, when I saw this movie being advertised for theaters, it was one of the earliest memories I have of the emotion I call "why is this a thing?"
Totally forgot about this movie. the cast is insane. David Cross, Jay Mohr, Phil Hartman, Tommy Lee Jones, Kirsten Dunst.
I know! The cast is great. David Cross and Jay Mohr are a great pair in this one.
What the actual fuck is this movie? I remember watching a video about it in the past, but damn I forgot how insane this is. It's beautiful, strange, violent, wholesome, and is just a gem of a thing
I know right?? It's like if Toy Story decided to critique the military industrial complex and how it mistreats everyone but make it ✨90s✨
The military technology for the civilian living is something this movie borrowed from robocop. It also is a parody of real life where a lot of thw technolgy that people used today was develped (or at least a predicessor was) for military use first. Far from everything the military develops is weapons with a lot of common use solutions being made with the execuse of military budget to back it. Duct tape, super glue and enelope sealant are just a few examples we technically owe to military development practices. The satire is in the more loose regualations pertaining to the induction of such products into the free market later. What is to stop a company from developing something with military industrial funding by the government and then marketing it directly to civilians in ways that may not be best for them or isn't so civilian friendly. They werent really putting weapons into the toys..but they were putting failed A.I. chips, programmed with agressive war based strategies of cammand and conquer into them because it was cheap and an idiot who never should have had the power to was enabled soley through a buisness mindset. The company that made robocop basically had the power to buy the police through their lucrative government development partnership and the militant technology to use that postion of power to take over. It wasnt that they planned to sell guns commercially to the public but could do so on the black markey as well as turn them agaisnt the same people they were making them for.
This is a top tier movie lol especially when I was a kid. Highly recommend
I was very glad my friend asked me to make this video. 😊
I just realized how good the graphics were for Small soldiers like that movie looks like it could have been released this year I mean script wise let's hope that they would have done a little bit better but like visually it's really good
Yeah you kind of forgot it's a 90s movie since the graphics are pretty good for the time
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff yeah the only thing left to remind you that it's a '90s movie is the graphics and some of the very 90s things like the satellite dish or talking on a home phone but then again it could just be set in the 90s so.
Loved this movie I had small soldier pajamas a blanket the video game and alot of the action figures
Now I really want to play the video game 😂
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff it was for the ps1 dont think it had anything to do with the movie you just fought stuff as archer and the others it was fun from what I remember
@@robbyboy9793 I love archer! He's the best 😊
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff yes I definatly agree
Military grade means two different things to the military and the public. The public think military grade means some awesome technology veterans know that means the cheapest but best equipment they could find.
I totally believe it
what if the small solder toys are replats with transformers toys
If my girlfriend's Barbie dolls set me on fire I would also run away and never return.
True, I can't say I blame him. 😂
No if you're ever caught in an unbelievable situation and you need police support ASAP report something that's actually believable...
I mean definitely make it extremely violent say there's someone walking around main Street waving a gun shooting at passers by or something like that but and maybe say he's got body armor on but never tell them what is actually going on because they will never believe you in a million years
It's not really that crazy to have military tech trickle down to the civilian marketplace.
GPS navigation is one such technology.
I'm pretty sure this was Phil Hartman's last film and it came out after he was murdered.
That's so sad! 😢
Yeah. Killed by his wife.
The movie is a satire actually lol
It was intentionally made that way. The opening commercial is suppose yo set that up when it says it's making military grade equipment affordable for the whole family. Also the music choice in interviews was chosen to be satire on the scenes they are in, while also making it feel like an action flick using popular generic music from the time. The commandos are made to look like trigger happy war monger jarheads. While the gorgonites are aliens of different color and all look very different, yet are made of the same metal and wire as the commandos.
If it were made today people would call it woke and uninspired, yet the creators have stated it was a satire and also made to be a anti war piece and how strong military nations typically will wipe out anything and anyone in their way.
I totally get that it's satire and I actually really do love this movie. But it is so funny that most people went in thinking it was a normal kids movie because when you go in expecting that it's bonkers. I mean, it's bonkers anyway but...in a good way.
When I was a kid I saw this come on, got scared, and changed the channel. I still don't know if this was really meant to be a children's film 😅. Especially since the lighting is so dark and the figures are really harsh.
I read that initially it was more of an edgy teen movie but when they couldn't get funding they, "made it a kids movie". Similar to how the live action scooby doo movies were, "kids movies". 😅
Also i love your look, Fancy lol
Thank you! I slept with curlers in like my gramma always tells me to do and it didn't go as planned but I was proud of my effort. XD
EDIT: I don't know why I thought this comment was on the last video...clearly I need to go to bed lol. But thank you! I really appreciate the kind words.
Lol guess what you're hair looked great in BOTH !! thats so sweet my grama always used to wear curlers in her hair at night and i thought it was so cool 😊
@@cee3poh888 thank you so much! 💛 That's so adorable. I love it! 😊
They roofied the parents 😂😂
A normal thing that happens in all children's movies. 😂
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff what a cliche move! Haha ☺️
It is weird that you keep calling Kirsten Dunst "love intrest girl." Lol It's not her best role but it has been interestkng to watch her grow up as an acrress from Jumanji to this to Spiderman. It kind of gits that Mary Jane is also an asiring actress who is moving up the ranks through her life because it kind of was the role of Kristen's own life. Lol She also has worked with some real legendary actors..Phil Hartman and Tommy Lee Jones in this, Robin Williams in Jumanji and William Defo in Spiderman..
Avatar before Avatar
Yah if my toys came alive I am royally @#$%^&*.
😂😂😂
Kristen Dunst is so young in here
Ikr??
What exactly is a kids movie supposed to be?
I honestly don't know 😂 I've covered a ton of them and they are all varying degrees of terrifying haha.
Alright where is the comment where someone says the girl destroying her barbies is a metaphor for her fighting against the Male patriarchy.
EDIT there it is,
Disclaimer: I'm not Jack saint either, and it's been a long time since I've seen this film. But I think there's something maybe feminist about the whole barbie scene.
It's clear that the imperialist army men see the barbies through the lense of the male gaze, sexualizing them, then the army men literally erect a machine that forces the barbies to change their bodies to suit the purposes of imperialism, akin to how women's bodies are policed and harrassed if they dont fit into the patriarchal heteronormative ideal, which as a reminder is a big part of imperialist/fascist tendencies.
The 14 words that many of the fash quote incessantly/live by consign women to only reproductive and domestic labor roles, and the eugenics movement in the US, was very much about the "right" women reproducing to secure an overtly white supremacist future.
In the film, the young woman who had been collecting barbies is literally taken hostage by these exaggerated versions of femininity, repurposed through an imperialist male gaze (which is why they are all talking in super sexualized ways, while simultaneously engaging in murder, a version of the madonna whore complex.) Of course the metaphor breaks down when she is initially rescued by a male, but ultimately, she herself destroys the barbie toys, perhaps as a symbol of destroying patriarchal expectations of herself in her own life, and freeing herself to live authentically to her own desires.
thanks for coming to my ted talk.
Damn, I didn't even think about that! I like this metaphor. It's funny because even though Alan runs in and finds her she really fights her own way out so when she tells him he saved her it's really funny. 😂
@@AveryTalksAboutStuff lol she still credits alan? I guess for all of its willingness to talk about violence it cant escape being a 90s kids movie.
@@nsalegit9482 they made an attempt 😅
Man you got so many details wrong in an effort to sound like CinemaSins or Doug Walker making jokey jokes.
I was going for more of a Drew Gooden vibe actually 💀
This movie HORRIFIED me as a child! I dont think I ever watched it again 😆
It's really quite terrifying 🤣