Too much of everything

Memorable, crazy movie

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

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

My kids were acting like little monsters, so I was going to just have them sit down and watch Spykids, but are DVD player wasn't working, so I turned on the VCR and made them watch a video from my best friends VHS collection. I never saw the movie before and neither did my kids it took about 20 mins before the kids realized how bad this movie truly was! I said, "fine don't watch", but then they were acting up again. So, I sat them on the couch and told them they are going to watch the whole movie, til dinner was ready.Lets just say from now on, when I really want to punish them, I put them in the basement and make them watch the movie as punishment. My kids have never been so well behaved.

WOW -- this thing is so weird, so bad in many ways that it is a cheesefest for bad movie lovers. Now, Ronny Yu is a talented director - his magical fairy tale THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR is beautiful and wonderful. I also know many horror fans enjoy his FREDDY v.s. JASON (I haven't seen it) but this film - an odd attempt to mesh a kiddie film, an adventure, martial arts, evil villains, music video art direction AND KANGAROOS that can kick butt with karate and ninja moves - has to be seen to be believed. There is a mopey kid with a bad leg who longs to play football - he is teased by the jocks who convince him to try a physical dare and he falls into a sewer plant's whirlpool (you with me??) and sucked into a magical world where HIS LEG IS OKAY - and gosh, once you have a group of kung-fu kangaroos, life is sweet. The make-up or masks - whatever they did to make the kangaroos' faces - well, its just plain creepy. And the villain in the fantasy world is played by Angus MacFayden who has gone on to be good in Braveheart and as Orson Welles in Cradle Will Rock- but, um,,,Angus gives a performance that is so over the top it is jaw-dropping. Major ham and cheese sub job. It's funny how an actor will know he's in some trainwreck and many times will just sleepwalk through it (or drink through it) and just mumble their way through it dead-eyed BUT sometimes they figure, Aw - what the hell - I know the movie's crap but I'm gonna have fun! And he does - made up to look like the lead singer of The Cure, he screams and pouts like a fey King Lear. It's wild. The movie has so many strange things in it that I highly recommend it for fans of cinema oddities.

This movie is quite possibly the stupidest kid's film ever made, and don't get me wrong, I like many films made for kids (Cloak & Dagger, Goonies, The Sandlot, The Dark Crystal, etc, etc). The story and whole premise is completely idiotic, and the Kangaroo costumes must have been left overs from the equally horrible Tank Girl adaptation. I don't even know how one would come up with the concept for this film, let alone get a budget for it. Anyway, this film doesn't deserve any more of my time (or yours for that matter) and I just hope that those reading this heed my warning and stay clear of this waste of raw materials. (I mean it, don't even rent it for your kids, they don't deserve such treatment at such an age.)