Warriors of Virtue (1997)

Warriors of Virtue (1997):Dir: Ronny Yu / Cast: Angus MacFadgen, Mario Yedidia, Marley Shelton, Jack Tate, Doug Jones: Represents the doing of good and prevention of evil but its violence is aimed at those poor folks who enjoyed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Both films resemble each other tremendously with the exception that this junk never caught on. That is due largely in part that this is eye candy crap. Children attending were introduced to such terms as "sh*t happens." A boy is sucked into a strange world and encounters the warriors of virtue. They resemble kangaroos and each gain power from nature via earth, wood, metal, fire, and water. Trained by their master to protect their village but the kid obtains a book that can render total power to the enemy. Overburdened with flaws including no plot. The violence is over the top and glorified to the delight of its young viewers. Director Ronny Yu is backed by fine production but the cast overact horribly. Among those who were suckered into starring in this crap are Angus MacFadgen, Mario Yedidia, Marley Shelton, Doug Jones, and Jack Tate. They provide no personalities to these kangaroo looking creatures and it is likely that their contribution will go unnoticed. The Ninja Turtles are slightly more entertaining and have personalities where these creatures do not. The result is a big pointless mess containing no virtue. Score: 2 / 10

Hokey over-sized Zen kangaroos using Buddhist philosophy and preposterous martial arts in cumbersome Halloween costumes (Who spray-painted the Barney outfit?) to defeat some demented creep in eye-liner while yakking interminably about virtue and Taoist theology.Short on warriors, shorter on virtue, the potty-mouth dialogue is anything but virtuous, especially in the scripted lines written for 12-year-olds. (Make that "by 12-year-olds".) This turkey ranks with "The Neverending Story"...minus the "story". I'll bet the studios are still looking for the guy that took them on this one.On your deathbed, you'll wish you had this 103 minutes back. If you haven't yet wasted your time on this bomb, repent of the notion while there's hope. Ralph Macchio should be thankful he was too old to be caught in the kid's role. Who writes this stuff???

This movie was horrible! The story is that this kid falls into a whirlpool (which we now call the Giant Toilet) and ends up in "Kangaroo Land" pretty much. He has to help his "Kanga-friends" fight the evil master who sleeps in half a clam shell. I think I've blocked the ending out of my memory. The movie is full of bouncing kangaroo-people and an evil leader who's hair is way too long and the director takes advantage of that, making him spin around and showing it in slow motion. Its so dramatic!!! Ugh, if you have to choose between watching this movie, and watching Kazaam! watch Kazaam! (And Kazaam isn't such a good movie in itself, to say the least.)

This movie was a riot! A laugh riot at that cause it totally sucked. The movie tried to capitalize on the animals-turned-human-turned-kung fu-masters-turned-heroes trend that was started in 1990 by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The animals that were chosen were kangaroos. Kangaroos do not make interesting characters in life and least in the movie.The martial Arts were o.k. but the rest of the movie was bad. so bad that I was asked to quiet down at the theater I went to see because I laughed out hysterically when I saw it. I'm telling you, not even Monty Python made me laugh as hard as the blokes that made this flick. It is awful. From one to ten, I rate it a ten-ten being the worst.