Taken on their own merits Dollman and Demonic Toys are fairly enjoyable B-movies from the ultra-busy Full Moon production line of the early 90's, however throw the title characters in a movie together and add in the shrunken nurse Ginger from Bad Channels and what have you got? Why, it's one of the most blatantly pointless crossover cash-in's of all time - and it's the first time Charles Band would use such an idea to try and squeeze more blood from the proverbial stone by inserting numerous longwinded clips from the original movies to pad out the movies mere 64 minute runtime. It wouldn't be the last time either.

Toyland factory has been pretty quiet for the last little bit as those dastardly "Demonic Toys" were defeated by policewoman Judith Grey (Tracy Scoggins), but things are soon to change when a homeless man, deciding to take shelter from the rain, has an accident and splits his head open on the floor. Seems all the toys needed to return was some fresh blood and soon after being resurrected they're exchanging wisecracks (courtesy of Baby Oopsy-Daisy who's as foul mouthed as ever) and gunfire with a snooping Judith who had returned to the factory due to her doubts about the toys truly being defeated.

Realizing she's not strong enough to defeat the toys on her own, Judith goes off in search of Brick Bardo (Tim Thomerson), an alien cop who's been dubbed "Dollman" due to only being thirteen inches tall on Earth. Finding Dollman hooked-up with Ginger (Melissa Behr, reprising her role), the three of them return to the factory to try and defeat the toys which leads to Oopsy-Daisy kidnapping Ginger in order to try and mate with her so his master can become human (or some such hokum).

Dollman Vs. The Demonic Toys is proof of Full Moon's "marketing before quality" attitude of the time (something Band continues to do with his new company, Wizard Entertainment) and while it's a cool idea to crossover characters from some of their more popular series there's never really any point to all of it. There was absolutely no effort taken to try and even write a script that makes sense, there's way too many "flashback" scenes, and it can't even reach a level of comic book goodness that could have possibly been attained with such a silly premise.

Tim Thomerson gets to spout plenty of painful one-liners while shooting and battling the toys (some of them really bad "man in a suit" ones, like the G.I. Joe inspired soldier), but the Brick Bardo character is certainly no Jack Deth. Thomerson was the pinnacle of cool as the character in 1985's original Trancers movie - here he's just a pale imitation and I felt sorry for him. Scoggins is completely wasted, as is Behr, but that's okay because generally the entire movie is a waste.

When I was younger I was a big fan of Full Moon's movies and I would rent them as soon as they came to my local video store. At the time I looked at Dollman Vs. The Demonic Toys as another dopey romp and didn't realize it for what it was: an insult to all the fans who'd loyally supported the company up to that point. They've taken three generally decent movies and blended then into a movie that not only manages to be dull (a feat considering it's barely 60 minutes minus credits) but also a complete waste of money. Followed by Puppet Master Vs. Demonic Toys. (Chris Hartley, 11/12/05)

Directed By: Charles Band.
Written By: Craig Hamann.

Starring: Tim Thomerson, Melissa Behr, Phil Brock, Phil Fondacaro.