Tagline: “Crosses Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Home Alone!”

Really? Because then I would expect Shredder entering the turtles’ sewers and instead of using weapons, the turtles use pizza boxes to construct sophisticated traps, leading to his incarceration. But I guess it would be like Kevin from Home Alone had training in karate.

Summary: We have three kids (Rocky, Colt, and Tum-Tum) who are 1/4 Japanese and learn karate and some weaponry (which they don’t use) from their Japanese grandpa, a former FBI operative. The villain, Snyder, who happens to be the grandpa’s ex-partner, decides to hold them hostage because their father is leading the FBI investigation to crack his illegal operations. Yeah, it would be so cool if my grandpa taught me the art of assassination. It’s more of a martial arts comedy, like a kid version of Jackie Chan films.

Apparently, there’s an international version of the film featuring uncut scenes. Wow, I’d love to see what kind of violence they’d put in a kid’s movie! But for this, I watched the American version.

I remember watching this as a kid and having goals to become a great karate master one day. Tum Tum’s my favorite: always has some sort of comfort food without getting any fatter. The grandpa is the weirdest, yet coolest character. It’s a shame he doesn’t do any of the karate moves during the fight scenes. It’s a painfully obvious stunt double.

Minus all the plot goofs, cheesy kid humor,  and overuse of wacky sound effects, it’s still a fun, beat-em-up, childhood movie to watch. But why the hell do the ninjas wear goggles??

Afraid to get something in your eye? YOU’RE NINJAS!!! They were all white and they carry guns too. WTF?!

The three idiots who speak “surf” brought out the most comedy in the film.

I did notice one thing I haven’t before:

Tum Tum’s playing Super Mario Bros. 3!! OMG!! And if you notice, every time they cut to it, he’s in radically different levels. So he must be a super mastermind of the game. Or they had to redo this take 100 times.

Queer Factor: Sorry, there aren’t any attractive looking guys in this movie. Nobody who shows off a 6-pack either. It’s a bunch of kids! And no, I’m not a pedophile. =P Well, there’s a weird instance of a ninja licking a sword. (O_O)

Rating: Watch on a lazy day or if you’re feel like you didn’t do anything cool during your childhood.

Trailer:

Photos from: Amazon.com, me watching the DVD

Video from: MoviesIveSeen08