Pocket Ninjas [1997]

At only an hour and 17 minutes, you could think this movie would want to utilize its time well. Alas, this movie was at least 30% montage. We also hoped that the title would imply a kind of Toy Soldiers movie. No. They're not tiny; just kids. Losing already and the plot does not help at all.

Basically three kids at a dojo are given masks by their sensei and told to just go fight crime. This seems ridiculous until you realize it's even worse and the boss of the crime is also a kid (as possibly Robert Z'dar's kid in the film? Unclear). Most of the movie is about this with a little side plot with one of the kid's parents wanting to fuck the sensei and the day being saved by the one girl of the three wearing the sensei's mask instead and when she wins, she still doesn't get any respect from her male counterparts. Patriarchy, man. At that point the movie seems potentially over, but we randomly get this arcade fight sequence with the characters for reasons that are completely unclear.

We actually originally forgot to give this a spoon rating because we decided to instead watch some taiko drumming. 

Spoon Rating: 3