Pocket Ninjas
Pocket Ninjas
| 25 March 1997 (USA)
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Somewhere in New Jersey, a group of masked rollerblading children "save the universe" by training to fight the evil Cobra Khan through a series of action-packed montages. Along the way they hypothesize some slapstick hijinks in a balloon factory, and save the day through a hypothetical Sonic Virtual Reality battle. A real treat!

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FeistyUpper

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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CrawlerChunky

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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Voxitype

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Allison Davies

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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JoeMarshallSamuraiCop

This movie makes the 3 Ninja's movies seem like the Lord of the Rings trilogy.There is literally nothing done right in this movie. The acting is so amateur. The sounds affects are super cartoony but not in a good way. A good third of this movie is full of lame training montages. Id try and explain the plot but I got lost while watching it. There is absolutely no back story with any of the characters so you couldn't care one bit about anybody.I can't imagine another movie quite like this. It definitely has to be considered one of the worst movies ever. It seems like they shot it all in one day.Bottom line is if your not a fan of bad movies then stay as far away as you can from this garbage. However if you do like really bad movies there is a few scenes that will have you laughing. A scene where a lady chases a coupon for 2 minutes is pretty funny how dumb it is.

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sinister_prog

Let's start with an irrelevant montage of karate training that consists entirely of fresh-air punches and kicks. The cover on the DVD bears no resemblance to the movie, which is much worse, but let's cut to a montage of the same karate training with crappy music. Plot? Ha! There's 3 annoying kids who who communicate entirely in sarcasm talking about a white-dragon character/crime fighter but it's difficult to know if he's real or not because we've just cut to a montage of fresh-air karate training again (really the same 3 kids just wearing masks). Now Just when you think the plot gets going somewhere, there's another cut to the bad guy (presumably the bad guy, he's really a scrawny kid) with his henchmen dropping nun-chucks on their feet and weather he's real or not isn't entirely clear as we cut once again to the 3 main characters and another training montage that is entirely identical to all the others before it. The music sounds like a theme to some crappy kids TV show and just makes you want to bury your fist through the TV speakers after hearing it for the 1000th time.And apart from a truly bizarre fight sequence in a carnival tent involving Robert Z'Dar and a lot of balloons, that really is the entire movie. But just to finish off, cut to a training montage of fresh-air punches and kicks. I gave up counting after the 6th repeat.

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tonymurphylee

What can i really say that hasn't been said about this movie before? This film is a mess. This is a film that is lacking in continuity, plot details, plot points, developed characters, and sense. I hate to say this about a low budget film, especially when i know that the creators are trying, but I couldn't get into this. I could only finish this after twenty separate attempts. Still, I'm a movie lover, and i can find something good about any movie. This film has it's moments. There is a unique fight sequence that takes place in a balloon room that is worth seeing. There's some interesting humor in some exchanges between two of the main characters, and when the film is over, there are some well done credit images. Other than that, unless you're a die-hard montage fan, there won't be much you'll like about this poorly done film. I'm not a big fan of concepts involving child ninjas, but I'm sure a good film can be worked out of it. 3 NINJAS almost worked, i loved the film when I was 2, but it lacked some appeal. POCKET NINJAS just doesn't have any redeeming qualities for most, if not all, viewers. Overall, not worth seeing. It gave me a headache. Hopefully they'll get it right next time.

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MaskedMarauder

My favorite scene is the one where the White Dragon fights one of Cobra Khan's minions in a carnival building. Also, when Gary Daniels tries to woo the woman in the blue spandex, the outpourings of poetry from his mouth makes me wish it was I that he was speaking to. I once saw a movie called "Manos: The Hands of Fate," and thought it was pretty good. After I saw "Pocket Ninjas," I realized that "pretty good" was just not good enough. I have no wish to turn this review into a panegyric or paean to the beauty and incomprehensible, stunning visual conceptualization of this cinematic masterpiece, but truly, you need to see this if you are ever going to consider yourself a true connoisseur of film. Mmm. I think I'm going to slide it into my DVD player right now. . .

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