The dated '90s phrases and bad stunts stick out like a sore ninja kick to the head. But is it still a foundational part of '90s kid entertainment history? Absolutely.

| Mar 26, 2024

For the most part it works well as a movie that is funny, fun, and fairly painless.

| Apr 22, 2017

3 Ninjas isn't a movie, it's a concept for a preview.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 16, 2014

A lively, good-looking kiddie action comedy best left to those under 10.

| Jun 16, 2014

A miserable ripoff of The Karate Kid.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 16, 2014

You'll love this movie, if you're a 10-year-old boy. Or 8 years old. Or even 13.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 16, 2014

Brazenly exploitative stuff, stirring in anything which has done the business in kids' movies previously, this, of course, should have its target audience laughing like drains.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 16, 2014

The movie is saddled with a junky visual style, haphazard editing and occasional out-of-focus shots.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 16, 2014

It's just a pity that the three martial arts kids are so charmless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 16, 2014

An entertaining, though hardly original, action comedy for youngsters ages six to twelve.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2014

The fortune earned by Home Alone proved to Hollywood that Americans arc crazy about cute little boys, especially ones who dispatch villains with a sadistic glee bordering on the sociopathic.

| Jun 16, 2014

If you are under the age of ten, this movie was made for you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2010

Director Jon Turtletaub and editor David Rennie keep things zipping along.

| Mar 27, 2009

Can the trio use their ninja secrets to escape? Will granddad defeat the gun-runner in hand-to-hand combat? If you can't guess the answers to these questions you are under 11 and will absolutely love this film.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 11, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 14, 2004

The film can't seem to make up its mind whether it wants to be a comedy, a fantasy or an adventure film.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

Loud and mindless mini-chop socky stuff.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 4, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 26, 2002

Even in this conglomerate era of marketed, predigested mediocrity, this Disney movie slips instantly into the humdrum

| Jan 1, 2000