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Movie Info

Young martial artists face their grandfather's foes when they accompany him to Japan to deliver a priceless dagger.

Rating:

PG
Genre:

comedy, kids and family
Original Language:

English
Director:

Charles T. Kanganis
Producer:

Arthur Leeds, James Kang, Martha Chang
Writer:

Mark Saltzman
Release Date (Theaters):

May 6, 1994 wide
Release Date (Streaming):

Jan 2, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA):

$10.1M
Runtime:

1h 33m
Production Co:

Colgems Productions Limited, Sheen Productions Inc., Three Ninjas Japan Inc., Ben-Ami/Leeds Productions
Sound Mix:

Dolby, Surround, Stereo

Cast & Crew

Victor Wong
Grandpa Mori Shintaro

Max Elliott Slade
Jeffrey 'Colt' Douglas

Sean Fox
Samuel 'Rocky' Douglas Jr

J. Evan Bonifant
Michael 'Tum Tum' Douglas

Caroline Junko King
Miyo

Sab Shimono
Koga

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Critic Reviews for 3 Ninjas Kick Back

All Critics (13) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (11)

3 Ninjas was a surprising box-office hit with the Saturday matinee family crowd, earning the highest cost-to-profit ratio of that year and instantly mandating this all-too-unnecessary sequel.

June 4, 2013 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Jeff Shannon
Seattle Times
3 Ninjas Kick Back is just as lively and engaging as the 1992 original

June 4, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
Fantasy is one thing. 3 Ninjas Kick Back is something else entirely: junk food laced with testosterone.

June 4, 2013 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

John Petrakis
Chicago Tribune
Clearly made with an eye on the international market, this movie is set for the most part in Japan, shrewdly adding a female ninja to the three boys, thus broadening the potential demographics.

January 31, 2006 | Rating: 1/4

Emanuel Levy
Variety
Instead of exalting physical grace and virtuosity, this film's slapdash action sequences resort repeatedly to the old trick of accelerating the action to the speed of a silent-film chase.

May 20, 2003 | Rating: 1/5

Stephen Holden
New York Times
All movies hope to turn a buck, though few of them actually attain this goal (at least, not in any substantial measure). Then there are movies whose only goal is to turn a buck.

January 1, 2000 | Rating: 0/5 | Full Review…

Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
Immature humor, sexism in trite '90s sequel.

February 18, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Brian Costello
Common Sense Media
Loud, callow, jejune, infantile, puerile and annoying as hell.

June 4, 2013 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

Stephen Hunter
Baltimore Sun
Worse than the first one. These kids are no Spy Kids.

July 14, 2003 | Rating: 0/5

Fred Topel
About.com
Even worse than the original ... which was pretty dire to begin with.

July 29, 2002 | Rating: 1/5

Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com
If this first sequel is any indication, however, the 3 Ninjas franchise has already run out of steam.

January 1, 2000 | Full Review…

Chris Hicks
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)

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Audience Reviews for 3 Ninjas Kick Back

Jul 04, 2012

First sequel to 3 Ninjas offers nothing new to the series except a lot more pointless and awful entertainment. This film does nothing to be effective entertainment and is a very forgettable film. The performances are wooden, and uninteresting, and overall it fails to really entertain, and offer the viewer something thrilling to watch. As a family film, this sequel like the first film offers nothing good. The script is horrible; the cast is bad and the directing awful. 3 Ninjas Kick Back is one of the worst family films that you can watch, and it makes you wonder why they even made this trash in the first place if the first film was just as bad. This sequel is nothing new, it possesses a clichéd formula that we've seen in the firs at film, and it's clear that it doesn't work. Maybe kids will enjoy this, but as someone who grew up when these films were made, I look back at these films as trash, uninspired filmmaking that doesn't work, and it simply fails to be effective, memorable entertainment. This film is pointless, the story is just not interesting and ultimately it fails to be fun. The film is far too silly to be fun, and entertaining. The only thing that you can do with this film is forget about it. This is poorly constructed entertainment and it doesn't work. Don't expect a good family film with this one, as you'll be disappointed.

Alex r Super Reviewer
Sep 03, 2011

Don't ever watch it!

Sylvester K Super Reviewer
Sep 06, 2010

Oh, goodness not another 3 ninjas movie. This series was just trying to make a Karate Kid copy cat, but with cuter kids. My little brother made me watch them all with him!

Aj V Super Reviewer
Feb 29, 2008

Just saw this the other day, it had been since the 90's since the last time I watched it. I remembered it being an epic journey going to Japan and all, but this shit was hard to watch cuz it was so bad, I mean the first one was like an Oscar performance compared to this dicksuck.

Lenny M Super Reviewer