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''Small Soldiers'' is a 1998 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Joe Dante. The film revolves around two adolescents who get caught in the middle of a war between two factions of sentient action figures, the Gorgonites and the Commando Elite. Critical reception of the film was mixed. Critics complimented the film's special effects, but criticized some of the darker tone of the film, which had been marketed to a young audience, in spite of obtaining a PG-13 rating. ==Plot== The film begins with GloboTech Industries acquiring the Heartland Toy Company. CEO Gil Mars tells remaining toy designers Larry Benson and Irwin Wayfair to develop actual live-action toys capable of "playing back". Mars selects Larry's action figures, the Commando Elite, for the project and Irwin's educational toys, the Gorgonites, for their enemies. After Mars sees a commercial showing the toys doing activities they are incapable of doing, he accuses them of false advertising, saying Globotech delivers on what it promises. Mars then orders Benson to have the toys on the shelves in three months acting just as they do in the commercial or get fired. Faced with such a tight deadline, Benson forgoes safety testing, then uses Irwin's password and chooses GloboTech's overly powerful, X1000 intelligent AI munitions microprocessor integrated circuit to control the toys. Teenager Alan Abernathy signs off for a shipment of the toys at his family's toy store without his father's consent. He and delivery driver Joe activate the leaders for each group - Archer for the Gorgonites and Chip Hazard for the Commando Elite. Alan's neighbor and love interest, Christy Fimple, buys Chip as a birthday present for her brother Timmy. After Archer sneaks to Alan's home in Alan's backpack, Alan realizes Archer is sentient, but in the meantime, the Commando Elite awaken and apparently destroy the Gorgonites in the toy store. Alan calls the company and fills in a complaint. Later, when Larry and Irwin listen to Alan's voice mail, Irwin is terrified to discover the X1000 were designed for military purposes; they head to the facility were the chips are made, learning the AIs evolve over time. However, the chips can't stand an EMP since the shielding required to protect the chips was not cost-effective. Meanwhile, Chip and his squad pursue Alan to his home and attempt to kill him and Archer; unlike Archer, the Commandos don't understand they're just toys. Alan is attacked by Nick Nitro, whom he mortally wounds. The next day, Alan and Archer find the rest of the Gorgonites in a dumpster at the shop. At home, Alan learns the primary goal of the Gorgonites is to seek their homeland Gorgon, which they mistakenly believe to be in Yosemite. The Commandos, aware of Alan's interest in Christy upon intercepting a phone call occurring between them, decide to take her hostage. They invade the Fimples' house, incapacitate Christy's parents with sleeping pills, tie up and gag Christy's little brother and place him in a closet, turn Christy's collection of Gwendy dolls into auxiliaries and finally capture Christy herself after she returns home from a date. The Commandos send a video message to Alan, telling him to surrender the Gorgonites. Alan and Archer distract the Commandos and sneak into the Fimple house to save Christy, who warms to Alan for his courage. They are then pursued down the street by the Commando Elite in heavily armed kit-bash vehicles, but they are all destroyed during the chase - except Chip, who locates Joe's truck full of recalled Commandos. Alan and Christy return to his house, only to find Christy's parents, Phil and Marion and Christy's little brother, Timmy, are there and are waiting for them. Phil accuses Alan of drugging them, locking their son in the closet, vandalizing their house and kidnapping Christy. When Alan and Christy tell the truth, Phil refuses to listen. As Christy, Phil, Marion, and Timmy are trying to leave Alan's house, Irwin and Larry arrive and seek out Alan. At that moment, Chip returns and attacks the house with the Commandos from Joe's truck, equipped with large numbers of improvised vehicles and weapons, and a battle breaks out between the Commandos and the humans inside, cutting off the house's electricity supply. During the battle, the humans learn they can fry the toys' chips with an EMP blast. Alan heads out to destroy a nearby powerline to overload it and create such a pulse; Christy, Irwin and Larry head to the Fimples' house to turn on all of the electronic items inside and wedge the power transformers open to reinforce the pulse so it can charge up enough to destroy the Commando Elite. The normally peaceful Gorgonites exit the house and fight back against the Commando Elite. Chip flies to the top of the powerline pole to stop Alan, where he briefly battles and defeats Archer. But just as Chip claims victory, Alan seizes Chip and jams him into the powerline, triggering the EMP blast which kills Chip along with all of the remaining Commando Elite. The next day, while the police and firefighters are cleaning up, Mars arrives in his helicopter. He pays Joe, the Fimples, and the Abernathys for damages as well as buying their silence from the media, and orders Larry and Irwin to prepare the Commando Elite for sale to military forces in South America. Amongst the craziness of the aftermath, Alan and Christy part on highly amicable terms, and Alan later discovers that the Gorgonites have screened themselves from the EMP blast by hiding underneath the Fimples' large satellite dish. The film ends with him accompanying them into Yosemite National Park, where he sends them out in a large toy boat from his father's store to find their island home of Gorgon as he watches them sail away. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Small Soldiers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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