3 Ninjas (1992)

User Rating:

4.6/10   

Director:

Jon Turteltaub

Writers:

Edward Emanuel (screenplay)
Kenny Kim (story)

Release Date:

7 August 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Family | Sport

Plot:

Each year, three brothers Samuel, Jeffrey and Michael Douglas visits their Japanese grandfather, Mori...

Plot Keywords:

FBI | Martial Arts | Grandfather | Brother | Ninja

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Victor Wong	...	Grandpa Mori Tanaka
Michael Treanor	...	Samuel 'Rocky' Douglas Jr.
Max Elliott Slade	...	Jeffrey 'Colt' Douglas
Chad Power	...	Michael 'Tum Tum' Douglas
Rand Kingsley	...	Hugo Snyder
Alan McRae	...	Samuel Douglas Sr., FBI
Margarita Franco	...	Jessica Douglas
Kate Sargeant	...	Emily
Joel Swetow	...	Brown
Professor Toru Tanaka	...	Rushmore (as Toru Tanaka)
Patrick Labyorteaux	...	Fester
Race Nelson	...	Marcus
D.J. Harder	...	Hammer
Baha Jackson	...	Bully
Scott Caudill	...	Darren the Bully

Also Known As:

3 Ninja Kids (UK)

MPAA:

Rated PG for martial arts action, mild language, and theme.

Runtime:

84 min | Germany:93 min | Sweden:98 min (uncut version) | Argentina:87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Iceland:12 | Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:L (original rating) | South Korea:All | USA:PG (Certificate #31916) | Australia:PG | Germany:16 | Sweden:11 | UK:PG (cut)

Filming Locations:

Santa Monica High School - 601 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, California, USA

Company:

Global Film Enterprises

Trivia:

Hammer wears a Metallica shirt and puts up stickers of the different Metallica albums in the phone booth.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The kids use a tin can telephone throughout the movie, but both ends are mounted on lamp stands with the cable being loose. Tin can telephones only work if the cable is taut. Otherwise, the vibrations wouldn't reach the other side.

Quotes:

Fester: Well, my dangerous buds, tomorrow is another day. And those little dudes are ours. Slurpee?
Hammer: Radical!
Fester: Slurpee?
Marcus: Dude!
Fester: We're outta here.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Under the Influence (2008)

Soundtrack:

Kid Power

It doesn't stink, for a kid film

Somebody posted complaining about how three kids cannot beat up 30 or 40 bad men. Well if you were a kid, you'd adore this film. I first saw this film when I was I believe five years old. I grew up watching the movies along with the rest of the series: 3 NINJAS KICK BACK and 3 NINJAS KNUCKLE UP. I'm not trying to sound cheesy or anything. I rather watch the series than watching Teenage Ninja Turtles. I think every generation of young kids would have liked 3 Ninjas if they are really interest in Martial Arts. Sure, the film will probably fade away from our interests as we grow up. But in my own opinion and my experiences, I think 3 Ninjas was one of the excellent film of early 1990s that young viewers would enjoy. Now I'm a teenager and I laugh at the thoughts of how obessed I was with 3 Ninjas but that doesn't mean I shouldn't destroy it existence.