Fresh and Exciting

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

People this show is for kids, your taking it to seriously. I use to beg my dad to rent this movie on VHS when is was like 6 or 8 and now I'm 20 and still love the movie as well as the books. Yes there is a book to this movie, and if you're the type of person that likes to read books based off a film or just likes fantasy, I'd suggest it. I understand the movie better now that I see some of the thoughts and reasoning behind the characters actions. Also, there are scenes from the book that are cut or shortened in the movie that should not have been. It would have helped the viewers understand it better.Anyways... I just recently got my 10 year old cousin with autism and my younger sister who is 8 to watch it.... and guess what. THEY BOTH LOVED IT! This show is great for younger kids because for one there is not any gore. The fight scenes are pretty amazing considering the time and budgit. And the villain can make you laugh at how insane he is! Plus, it's your typical good vs. evil story where the good guys win. If you're an adult you won't like the movie (maybe some do, myself included), the dialogue is corny, the movie comes across as rushed, the plot is predictable, and there will be parts in the movie where you will be like "What the heck?!" But the point is that this is a good movie for children and not a movie that adults should expect to be blow away by. I give this movie a solid 8.

Warriors of Virtue is a rather strange movie, but I find it a great bore. While the idea of martial art marsupials seems goofy and stupid, but at least it would be entertaining. This movie, however, seems to have a consistency of dragging dialogues, confusing setups, and poor delivery. It takes forever for the action to start up, and when it does, the cinematography is unnecessary and often hard to make out. The very idea of the movie may sound silly, it had promise to at least be ridiculously entertaining, but the slow route it takes and the basic "nothingness" it envelopes kind of makes it not so much a good movie. However, the one thing that always brought me back to this film was the villain. The acting in the villain's case is just so over-the-top and enjoyably hilarious that he makes the film worth watching. Give him props because he was starred in other movies like "Titus."

I stumbled upon this one basically by accident. While channel surfing at midnight, this came on, and saw an ordinary world kid in some pretty ancient looking forest, exploring it with a "where am I?" face, so I pretty much could tell this was some outsider boy who lives adventures in a fantasy world.If you haven't noticed from the mere cover of the movie, this is no Lord of the Rings. Even worse, it doesn't live up to cult classic fantasies like Krull, Willow or Dark Crystal.I'm a big fan of fantasy movies that deal with what I like to call "the outsider myth": some kid magically travels to a distant land and lives adventures (who wouldn't like to?), so I was left hypnotized with the potentially entertaining story and, (forgive me) the Elysia character.However, one of many flaws with this movie are the Warriors of Virtue themselves. They're kinda rat or kangaroo-looking people with great martial arts knowledge. Rather out of place for this type of fantasy, and when you see them in action, it just doesn't work. It's like watching sports mascots practicing kung fu. Much more laughable than exciting.This can be a turn off if you expected classic sword and sorcery swashbuckling, for instead, it delivers martial arts in flurry costumes.The sets are awful, with no variety. No exploration of this fantastic (sarcasm) land is ever done, and all you see is a forest, an evil palace lair, the same forest and huts on trees in (you guessed it) the forest.The main villain, one girly, over-the-top emperor, is both campy and not so evil. There appears to be a major battle to occur between his soldiers and the good guys, but no real sword fight ever occurs. Instead, you see more fluffy karate. The Evil Emperor inexplicably splits into five guys and fights all five warriors. If you thought that would be boring, they even show it in blurry vision, just another sign of the movie's inappropriately low budget. And by the end, the bad guy somehow has amnesia, forgets he was so cruel and joins the good guys (to make things even more yawn inducing). Like you could actually care. An underrated score by Don Davis helps the movie from falling completely into oblivion, but not an entirely new sound.The mythology might sound good, so maybe a remake some decades later could squeeze some more juice to the premise. But, until that happens, you can keep "Warriors of Virtue" on the shelf and pass it on.

Alright, let's get the joke out of the way first of all:"Crouching Glam Guy, Hidden Wallaby", anyone?Seriously, I rented this movie expecting your typical late-80's fantasy with cheesey dialogue and bad special effects and annoying child actors. Well, to that end I got my money's worth. However, while this is nowhere nearly as good as, say, "the Neverending Story" or "Labyrinth", it's not nearly as bad as I expected.Curiously, this is one of the few movies I've seen that might have been a *lot* better animated. Kung-fu kangaroos isn't exactly a concept best realized in live action. However, the crappy effects belie the clever premis. Give it a look.