Warriors of Virtue
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Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video
• Full Screen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 02 May, 1997
DVD Release : 19 January, 1999 |
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Order, Loyalty, Wisdom, Righteousness, Benevolence ~ "This Is Tao"
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The '97 film The Warriors of Virtue' has borrowed from a plethora of other movies that fall within the children/family genre. It starts out well with the introduction of the lead character Ryan Jeffers (Mario Yedidia), a young lame adolescent suffering from poor self-esteem due to his inability to physically perform like the rest of the kids his age. It gets even better moments later when his friend and Taoist mentor Ming (Dennis Dun) appears. Ming is a gifted kung fu practitioner who utilizes the ancient art in his skillful, aerobatic approach to cooking, holding the position of head chef in a Chinese restaurant. At this point I thought "This is really going to be good." Unfortunately Ryan is soon magically transported to the otherworldly land of Tao and Ming is left behind. My interest in the story slowly declined from that point on.
Negatives: The biggest problem with this movie is that there is too much replication of what has been already seen or done in previous films. The script is borrowed from The NeverEnding Story' ( 84), the villains costumes come direct from the Power Rangers' ( 95) wardrobe department and the five talking ninja Kangaroo warriors are the Teenage Mutant ninja Turtles' ( 90) without the shell. If that weren't bad enough, there are far too many Star Wars' ('77) images and characterizations to even attempt to list.
Positives: The attempt to instill Taoist values and philosophy in Warriors of Virtue' is commendable and that alone makes the film worth the watch, however some of the lessons that are meant to be passed on may be over the head of the target audience that are most likely to be attracted to this movie. Bottom line, if you're a male ten or younger you'll probably love it. Otherwise I'd pass. |
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