Toys (1992)
Directed by Barry Levinson
Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.
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Between his tree-shaped goatee and military uniform, Steve takes Christmas a little too seriously, running things like he would a military operation, which calls to mind the mismatched Zevo brothers of Barry Levinson's "Toys" (a holiday turkey perhaps only the folks at Aardman are generous enough to love).
My weary cynicism blinded me to the parallel the “Digger” trailer had to Robin Williams’s 1992 disaster, “Toys.”