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3 Ninjas: High Noon At Mega Mountain

1998, Movie, PG, 88 mins

3 NINJAS: HIGH NOON AT MEGA MOUNTAIN
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Loni Anderson in leather hot pants, Hulk Hogan in red tights and Jim Varney in eyeliner and a John Waters mustache: Only if you think your kids are tough enough for such sights should you allow them to see this action/adventure picture about karate-chopping youngsters who save an amusement park from dopey international terrorists. Smart-mouthed brothers Rocky (Matthew Botuchis), Colt (Michael O'Laskey) and Tum Tum (John Paul Roeske) have been spending summers with their grandpa (Victor Wong) learning the way of the ninja. But now 14- going on 15-year-old Rocky is imperiling family tradition, making noises about trading nunchucks for chicks. Little does he know how handy his martial-arts training is going to prove when he, his brothers and new neighbor Amanda (Chelsey Earlywine) have the misfortune to be at Mega Mountain when it's commandeered by the wacky Medusa (Anderson) and her gang of ninja nincompoops. With some help from fading TV action star Dave Dragon (Hulk Hogan), who's making a final live appearance at the park before his show is canceled, the four plucky youngsters whale the crap out of an assortment of baddies while the cops and the FBI stand by helplessly. Anyone whose age is in the double digits is a bit old for this picture, and in deference to young viewers the violence is aggressively soft-pedaled. That means bad guys brandish guns but don't use them, and huge scary creeps crumple when kicked by 8-year-olds, which is hardly a constructive fantasy to encourage. Otherwise, the best you can say is that it's all pretty harmless and pretty stupid. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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