Toys is a 1992 American surrealist comedy film directed by Barry Levinson, cowritten by Levinson and Valerie Curtin, and starring Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright, LL Cool J, Arthur Malet, Donald O'Connor, Jack Warden, and Jamie Foxx in his feature film debut.

However, Leland's interest is piqued on hearing about corporate secrets potentially being leaked, and he hires his son, Patrick, a soldier with covert military expertise, to manage security.

One night, Leland and Patrick go into town, where they peruse a video arcade, watching children play intently at the flickering game consoles.

Unknown to Leslie, however, Leland is using the space to develop miniature remotely controlled war machines, aspiring to sell these to the military.

Leslie barely escapes the "Sea Swine" amphibious drone guarding an exit, and flees to Gwen's house to reveal his findings.

Owen continues to work at Zevo, and Patrick prepares to depart for other missions, but remains with the others long enough to attend a brief memorial for Kenneth.

However, the executives who had approved Levinson's script were replaced by a new management team led by Shirley Lansing which, unsure about the project's potential, put it in turnaround.

[6] Producer Mark Johnson noted that the development hell was partly because their intentions were never understood, because "we kept using the word 'whimsy'", while the studios "kept reading it as a black comedy".

The poster distributed to movie theaters featuring Williams in a red bowler hat against a blue, cloud-lined background evokes The Son of Man.

The film was publicized with a trailer that features Williams walking through a large undulating field of green grass, breaking the fourth wall and talking to the audience.

The website's consensus reads: "Like a colorfully overengineered gewgaw on the shelf, Toys might look like fun, but its seemingly limitless possibilities lead mainly to confusion and disappointment.

Even Robin Williams, so lively a voice in Aladdin, is on beatific automatic pilot here, preferring to be warm and cuddly when a little of his energy (paradoxically on splendid display in the film's teaser trailer) is desperately called for.

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas seems to have stripped the life from this film as well, leaving a pretty shell, expensive but hollow, in its place.

[15] The game is played from an isometric perspective, and involves the player, as Leslie, attempting to destroy the elephant-head security cameras in the factory, cafeteria and warehouse levels to shut down those defenses.