Youngsters’ Toys & Games

It’s no coincidence that many visual references to the work of Rene Magritte keep popping up. “Toys” is a surrealist film, and like all work of surrealism, it has a easy veneer over a more sophisticated message, one which defies clarification and works on the level of a dream. When Lieutenant General Leland Zevo inherits a toymaking firm and begins making war toys, his employees band collectively to stop him earlier than he ruins the name of Zevo Toys endlessly.