Beverly Hills Ninja

First the good news: Sniggering David Spade does not appear in the new Chris Farley comedy. Of course, the bad news is that there's a new Chris Farley comedy. Farley -- one of the few comedians who could ever be justly accused of debasing the pratfall -- has made a film that's tantamount to watching an overweight man slip on a banana peel for nearly 90 minutes. Here the Saturday Night Live veteran plays Haru, a hefty ninja wannabe who as an infant washes up on the Japanese shore. Rescued by a clan of clandestine ninjas who believe he's the long-prophesied Great White Ninja, Haru is trained in the lethal arts. The movie's one, very long joke is that Ha...