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3 NINJAS: HIGH NOON AT MEGA MOUNTAIN
(1998)
Starring Hulk Hogan,
Loni Anderson &
Jim Varney



Rocky, Colt, and Tum Tum team up with Dave Dragon to battle Medusa and Lothar Zogg.  Is this a new episode of Pokemon?  No, it's the latest (& hopefully the last) adventures of the 3 Ninjas!

Kid-hating bad guys take over an amusement park and threaten to speed up some rides and pull the emergency brakes on others ("oh no, please don't!"), unless they're paid off by the park's owner.  The three young caucasian martial artists, who were taught by their Asian grandfather, intend to stop the evil doers by themselves.  However, they get help from a failed actor, Dave Dragon (Hulk Hogan in a bad wig).  The brothers and their hero proceed to kick butt and squeeze nose of the idiotic terrorists.

The movie is sickeningly sweet and annoyingly cheesy.  You'll definitely get your fill of prepubescent "Hi-Ya's" and kicks to the crotch.  There's some horrible story elements/editting mistakes, like shadows in a supposed pitch black room, or focusing on a girl's fingers at a keyboard, even though it's painfully obvious she cannot type.

So, I bet you can guess who wins the battle for Mega Mountain amusement park, and of course no one gets hurt, although I was hoping someone would put the youngest ninja out of his misery.  By the end of this movie, I was hugging my toilet, dry heaving.  You would think the low point of Jim Varney's career was the 27th Ernest movie, but I would nominate this Hanson-meets-the-Karate-Kid piece of juvenile junk.
 

Tagline from the box: "Saving the Day the Ninja Way"
 

Quality: 2.0  Visuals: 4.0  Intensity: 2.5 Laughability: 3.5 
OVERALL RATING: 3.0

reviewed 1999