3 Ninjas

Name: 3 Ninjas
Genre: Action, Sport, Comedy, Family
Released: August 7, 1992
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 36
Cast: Alan McRae, Chad Power, Joel Swetow, Kate Sargeant, Margarita Franco

1992

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Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: August 7, 1992 | PG

Starring: Alan McRae, Chad Power, Joel Swetow, Kate Sargeant, Margarita Franco, Max Elliott Slade, Michael Treanor, Professor Toru Tanaka, Rand Kingsley, Victor Wong

Summary: Each year, three brothers, Samuel, Jeffrey and Michael Douglas visit their grandfather, Mori Tanaka, for the summer. Mori is highly skilled in ninjutsu, and for years he has trained the boys in his techniques. After an organized crime ring proves to be too much for the F.B.I., it's time for the three ninja brothers! Using their martialEach year, three brothers, Samuel, Jeffrey and Michael Douglas visit their grandfather, Mori Tanaka, for the summer. Mori is highly skilled in ninjutsu, and for years he has trained the boys in his techniques. After an organized crime ring proves to be too much for the F.B.I., it's time for the three ninja brothers! Using their martial artistry, they team up to battle the crime ring and outwit some very persistent kidnappers!… Expand

Director: Jon Turteltaub

Genre(s): Action, Sport, Comedy, Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 84 min

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Jay Carr

3 Ninjas is a skilled balancing act, a throwback to Disney's old live-action family films, starring and targeted to pre-teens. [07 Aug 1992, p.30]

Monica Eng

Despite the obvious rip-offs of other films, the cartoony, slapstick humor does generate enough charm to pull chuckles from a young audience. But too much of the action - the sword-fighting and basketball stunt scenes, especially - looks distractingly fake. [08 Aug 1992, p.26]

Kevin Thomas

A lively, good-looking kiddie action comedy best left to those under 10. Although their attention may wander, parents can be grateful that there's some substance as well as fun in this Disney release, for martial arts is presented as a matter of defense rather than aggression, emphasizing that it is a matter of mind and spirit as well as body and requiring resourcefulness and discipline. Read full review

Time Out London Nigel Kendall

Can the trio use their ninja secrets to escape? Will granddad defeat the gun-runner in hand-to-hand combat? If you can't guess the answers to these questions you are under 11 and will absolutely love this film, with its amazing fight scenes, bungling Home Alone kidnappers and thoroughly nasty bad guys. Send mum and dad shopping. Read full review

Stephen Holden

The film can't seem to make up its mind whether it wants to be a comedy, a fantasy or an adventure film. Mr. Kingsley's villain gnashes his teeth and snorts, I love being the bad guy. Those who displease him are threatened with the tearing out of a heart or liver. The character ends up being neither scary nor funny, while the boys are so busy demonstrating their superhuman skills that no personalities emerge. Read full review

Pamela Bruce

3 Ninjas is basically harmless, but it's not entertaining enough to fully engage adults or the under-12 set -- especially once the popcorn and sodas have been polished-off. Read full review

Desson Thomson

Even in this conglomerate era of marketed, predigested mediocrity, this Disney movie slips instantly into the humdrum. Read full review

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harvdog03

Oct 30, 2018

One of the greatest movies from my youth. I like it and I dont care how cheesy it is.

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