Saw Revenge of the Ninja. It was no better than what you'd expect. The word 'juvenile' kept running through my head as I watched it. The movie is juvenile in a lot of ways. During one fight between a little boy and a grown man the boy uses the phrase "Look, it's Superman" to distract the fully grown, adult man. There is a woman who functions mostly as a lingerie/wet-shirt model, the most Native-American henchman in the world, and a bad guy who gutturally cackles periodically throughout the climactic showdown. A fetishistic level of attention is given over to the props and toys of ninjas (all the little plastic-looking throwing stars, all the little knives and ropes and whatnot.) One fight actually takes place on a playground. Eventually I began to suspect that this level of childishness was intentional and that perhaps this movie was camp, intending its own mockery. If so, bravo film-makers. There is so much that is gloriously absurd about this film.
Hilariously, this film is banned in Norway.
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