Movies Like Small Soldiers

If you liked Small Soldiers (1998), a comedy and adventure movie directed by Joe Dante, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023)
★ 7.3/10Also action and adventure
A nationwide manhunt for Hank Venture leads to untold dangers and unexpected revelations, while The Monarch is literally out for Dr Venture's blood. An imposing evil from the past reemerges to wreak havoc on the…
2
Hulk vs. Wolverine (2009)
★ 7.1/10Also action and science fiction
Department H sends in Wolverine to track down a mysterious beast known by the US Military as the Hulk, who is rampaging across the Canadian wilderness. Surveying the extent of the damage to a destroyed town, Wolverine…
3
Total Recall (2012)
★ 6/10Also action and science fiction
Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins…
4
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and action
An action epic that explores the origins of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force (better known as Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad,) who somehow become pitted in a battle over an immortal piece of exercise equipment.
5
Monsters of Man (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and action
A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing…
6
Hidden Strike (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also action and comedy
Two elite soldiers must escort civilians through a gauntlet of gunfire and explosions.
7
M3GAN 2.0 (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also action and science fiction
After the underlying tech for M3GAN is stolen and misused by a powerful defense contractor to create a military-grade weapon known as Amelia, M3GAN's creator Gemma realizes that the only option is to resurrect M3GAN…
8
Rage of Stars (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also action and science fiction
A story about a woman from the International Special Forces Unit, who has a premonition about the impending end of humanity.
9
Dick Figures: The Movie (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also action and adventure
Two best friends, Red and Blue, risk everything to find the greatest treasure of all time.
10
Drive (1997)
★ 6.2/10Also action and adventure
A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.
11
Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also action and science fiction
The troopers of two starships have joined forces to terminate a massive bug attack at a Federation outpost. Before the mission can be completed and the survivors evacuated, one ship abruptly departs and goes…
12
Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons - The Movie (2020)
★ 7/10Also action and adventure
The assassin Deathstroke tries to save his family from the wrath of H.I.V.E. and the murderous Jackal.
13
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and science fiction
In 1998, Beavis and Butt-Head are sentenced to Space Camp by a “creative” judge. Their obsession with a docking simulator (huh huh) leads to a trip on the Space Shuttle, with predictably disastrous results. After going…
14
Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also action and science fiction
Federation trooper Johnny Rico is ordered to work with a group of new recruits on a satellite station on Mars, where giant bugs have decided to target their next attack.
15
Real Men (1987)
★ 6/10Also comedy and science fiction
A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.
16
eXistenZ (1999)
★ 6.8/10Also action and science fiction
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
17
Demolition Man (1993)
★ 6.8/10Also action and science fiction
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak…
18
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and action
Amanda Waller's top-secret "Task Force X" — consisting of Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Killer Frost, Captain Boomerang, Harley Quinn, and Copperhead — is on a mission to retrieve a mystical object so powerful that they're…
19
Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and science fiction
Everyone’s favorite rascals, the Aqua Teens, and everyone’s favorite perverted neighbor, Carl, split up then get back together to fight everyone’s favorite corporate overlord, Amazin, led by everyone’s favorite tech…
20
Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
★ 5.9/10Also action and science fiction
Luc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When SETH, the supercomputer-controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can…