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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Interesteg

What makes it different from others?

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Ploydsge

just watch it!

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Beystiman

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

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Kodie Bird

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

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Dylan Greenberg

Since everyone seems to be putting this movie down, I'm going to say some GOOD things about it first.1- There's Gary Daniels. He's a pretty cool action star, and it was strange seeing him in this movie, as he starred in a theatrical release before and after this straight to video movie. Nevertheless, he's a good actor and a good martial artist.2- The cinematography. I don't care what you think, the cinematography was good. There were interesting angles, and the film stock genuinely looked nice.3- The lighting. This movie was supposed to look like a cheesy comic book, and I think many people miss that point. The whole thing uses extreme colors in it's lighting, with streaks of red over blue. The whole movie is lit like a 1960's Batman episode, which I like.4- It's supposed to be laughable. It's a freakin comedy, and obviously a lot of it is tongue-in-cheek. The directors were clearly having fun making this.Okay, now that I got that out of the way, here's the bad stuff: 1- The acting. Yes, the acting was not very good. Of course, this was a low budget movie featuring a large cast of child actors, so you shouldn't expect Oscar material anyway.2- The plot. The plot is all over the place, but at least they have a good reason. Donald G. Jackson was originally hired to film footage for a different kids movie, and then he was canned, and a new director was hired with a new script using the same actors to wrap around the old footage. If it weren't for the firing of Jackson, the plot would have been much easier to understand.3- Not enough Robert D'Zar. D'Zar must have quit in the middle of production, because he never actually shows up at the end, which is a real shame.4- The training scenes. There are too many that go on for too long.That about wraps it up. I say go watch this movie out of curiosity, but don't expect gold.

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JaredGilman

Pocket Ninjas is one of the worst movies mankind has come across. I normally like to watch bad movies just to laugh at them so when I saw this inside the bottom 5 I thought that I would nearly die in hysterical laughing while watching this movie. Yes I did laugh at it for about half of the movie. The reason I say half is because the rest of the movie are training sequences that use the same footage over and over again. By the fourth training sequence I was literally praying that these tedious sequences would come to a close but they didn't. Now to the rest of this junk. The acting was by far way worse than those cheesy commercials on TV. In fact, the acting in this "movie" made the acting in the commercials on TV look Oscar-worthy. All of the actors looked really bored on screen. The story is literally nonexistent. There are countless amounts of huge plot holes and continuity issues in Pocket Ninjas. So much that you'd think it was made to be a parody. But it isn't. Anyways, I wouldn't recommend this crap to anyone.

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Karin Ishida

Sometimes I watch movies from the "Bottom 100" to laugh a little, but this "film", if it is actually allowed to call it this way, outclassed everything I have ever seen before. It is not funny like "plan 9" or "the claw" it is sad. It really hurts to see acting, that could be outclassed by every kindergarten theater group on this planet.The biggest problem of the movie is the "numbing-factor", your brain will be switched off by the movie and you will be stunned until the credits start.Even though the movie has a story, too stupid for any 1st-grader, it doesn't really follow these. The actors are just fooling around for 80 minutes. Trust me and do not watch this movie. If you did, demand refunds from the director. If you didn't pay to watch the movie, then sue him for solatium, for this is mental cruelty on tape.

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wynonasbigbrownbeaver

I am digging deep on finding a god-awful movie such as this one. Dave Eddy, congratulations man! You've made the worst movie ever. I bought this film without knowing what I was about to get myself into. It was on sale for 50 cents at Amazon.com with the shipping price of $2.98. The remarks column said "Discontinued by Manufacturer."I never got a kick out of watching a fight scene, (more like a "Let's Play Patty Cake" scene), where the white dragon and that retarded Kobra Khan are fighting with balloons. BALLOONS MAN! BALLOONS! Too many Looney Toons Gimmicks dumb this fight scene down to the point that even the mentally handicapped would start crying.So this is where the creators of the Napoleon Dynamite got their kick-ass 8 bit Nintendo soundtrack. The background music is so sloppy and poorly edited. It seemed way too retro to be late 90's flick and it looked like it was the 80's with those super cool mullets. I have never seen so much hardcore choreography as this. These supposed kids were supposed to be black belts when they look like they should be wearing yellow belts. So many roundhouse kicks to the face and so many reused sound effects. Flailing their arms and spinning back kicks in play fighting, it looked like they used the 4 inch rule so they don't hurt each other. Pure FAMILY "FUN"!The training montages were lazy at best with more Looney Toons gimmicks just make want to say F___ you to this movie!They've roundhouse kicked my ass with their super cool virtual reality gear. They sedated me with with their virtual fight scenes to the point of being lulled to sleep. Was that it? Everything was resolved by the Pocket weasels beating the evil Cubby Khan in a virtual reality fight? This movie is one giant "Butt-Whiff!" that I had the balls to watch from start to finish.If Hell had a BlockBuster or a Netflix, Pocket Ninjas would be the only choice movie!All I got to say is WOW. Dave Eddy, man you took one for the team!

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