3 Ninjas Kick Back 1994

John Petrakis, Chicago Tribune: Fantasy is one thing. 3 Ninjas Kick Back is something else entirely: junk food laced with testosterone. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: 3 Ninjas Kick Back is just as lively and engaging as the 1992 original Read more

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: 3 Ninjas was a surprising box-office hit with the Saturday matinee family crowd, earning the highest cost-to-profit ratio of that year and instantly mandating this all-too-unnecessary sequel. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Instead of exalting physical grace and virtuosity, this film's slapdash action sequences resort repeatedly to the old trick of accelerating the action to the speed of a silent-film chase. Read more

Lois Alter Mark, Entertainment Weekly: Filled with martial-arts action, bathroom humor, and slapstick, 3 Ninjas Kick Back even has a politically correct kicker: The champion ninja is a girl. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Who was this movie made for? Not for me, that's sure, but I have a hunch younger kids will find it satisfying. Read more

Emanuel Levy, Variety: Clearly made with an eye on the international market, this movie is set for the most part in Japan, shrewdly adding a female ninja to the three boys, thus broadening the potential demographics. Read more