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Movies that feel likeSmall Soldiers (1998)

When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.

If you loved Small Soldiers, the closest films we have are Alienoid (2022), Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013) and Big Trouble in Little China (1986). All three share Small Soldiers' epic and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

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Alienoid
2022 · dir. Choi Dong-hoon
🍅 87%★ 6.3science fiction · action · fantasy

Both land scale and dream logic at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

Gurus in the late Goryeo dynasty try to obtain a fabled, holy sword, and humans in 2022 hunt down an alien prisoner that is locked in a human's body. The two parties cross paths when a time-traveling portal opens up.

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🍅 94%★ 6.7action · fantasy · adventurePrime Video

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than Small Soldiers does

In a world plagued by demons who cause great human suffering, young demon hunter Tang Sanzang must fight against monstrous demons, as well as contend with a beautiful demon hunting woman on his path to enlightenment.

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Big Trouble in Little China
1986 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 65%★ 7.2action · adventure · comedy

Comedy with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.

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Hot Tub Time Machine
2010 · dir. Steve Pink
🍅 64%★ 6.4science fiction · comedy · adventure

Both lean on ideas more than on adventure

Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Nick is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past after a night of heavy drinking in a ski-resort hot tub results in their waking up in 1986.

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Monster Hunt
2015 · dir. Raman Hui Shing-Ngai
🍅 68%★ 6.1comedy · fantasy · adventure

Witty fantasy in both cases

Young monster kids try to make peace between the world of humans and the world of the monsters.

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The Man from the Future
2011 · dir. Cláudio Torres
★ 7comedy · fantasy · science fiction

Science fiction built on play, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Small Soldiers does

Zero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions causes him to travel back in time to 1991. Having taken the opportunity to change history, Zero returns to own time to find totally changed.

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Pixels
2015 · dir. Chris Columbus
🍅 18%★ 5.6action · comedy · science fictionPeacock

Epic action, and it commits to that

Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

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The Myth
2005 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 20%★ 6.1action · adventure · comedy

Comedy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Small Soldiers does

When a fellow scientist asks for Jack's help in locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact.

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Evolution
2001 · dir. Ivan Reitman
🍅 44%★ 6.1comedy · science fiction · action

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the only people standing between the aliens and world domination... which could be bad news for the Earth.

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Reign of Fire
2002 · dir. Rob Bowman
🍅 42%★ 6.2adventure · action · fantasyPrime Video

Both lean on momentum more than on adventure

In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to global dominance after centuries of rest underground. The Brit—leading a clan of survivors to hunt down the King of the Dragons—has much at stake: his mother was killed by a dragon, but his love is still alive.

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The Time Machine
2002 · dir. Simon Wells
🍅 28%★ 6science fiction · adventure · action

A 2000s answer to the same itch

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.

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The Brothers Grimm
2005 · dir. Terry Gilliam
🍅 38%★ 5.9adventure · fantasy · actionParamount+

Fantasy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.

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