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Review

Writer-director Levinson must have dropped acid one day and walked through F.A.O. Schwartz to come up with this colorful but mind-boggingly leaden satire. Williams plays the son of a toy magnate (O'Connor) who loses his inheritance of the company when his father passes away. Instead, the enterprise is given to his uncle, a nasty general (Gambon) who plans to produce war toys. Eventually, militaristic Gambon and innocent Williams have a showdown, and the destructive toys go ballistic. Set in a netherworld populated by amusement park vehicles and magical machinery, the set design seems to have been inspired by the graphics of a video game.