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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, English, Subtitled, Spanish
For hundreds of years in Japan, there has lived a clan dedicated to a secret art of self-defense and survival, an art so lethal that it made the clan invincible. They were known as "ninjas." Twenty-five years ago, an ancient legend of this secret art came alive. It spoke of a foreign child who would become a ninja master like no other. Haru (Chris Farley), an orphan who is found upon the shores of Japan and taken to be raised at a secret Japanese dojo, could be just that child. The ninjas thought that this child would be the Great White Ninja of the legend, but they were wrong. They were very wrong.
"Lively and funny." Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"...the jokes keep coming..." Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
"[Chris] Farley has a flawless talent for physical comedy." Todd Camp, Fort Worth Star Telegram
Editor's Note
Chaos ensues when an orphaned Caucasian infant assumed to be the legendary "Great White Ninja" grows up to be a bumbling, zaftig mama's boy of a man. He is great, and he is white, but he's no ninja. Rock, who makes a career out of calculated incredulity, has ample fodder here.
Plot Summary
Chaos ensues when a bumbling, zaftig Beverly Hills mama's boy is mistaken for the legendary "Great White Ninja." He is great, and he is white, but he's no ninja. Rock, who makes a career out of calculated incredulity, has ample fodder here.
| Features | English Subtitles | | Korean Subtitles | | 5.1 Dolby Digital | | Pan & Scan Version | | Widescreen Version | | Chinese Subtitles |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 12/21/2004 |
| Running Time: 89 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 03950 | | UPC: 00043396039506 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Chinese | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 4:3/1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"...A satisfying and sturdy vehicle for Farley that ought to please his fans..." 01/20/1997 p.F4San Francisco Chronicle 0 of 10
Beverly Hills Ninja [is] not the kind of picture that gets respect from New York critics, but it's funny. The premise is as obvious as a 250-pound guy in a ninja outfit. That's the movie's one joke -- contrasting the precision of the ninja with the out-of-control physicality of comedian Chris Farley -- and it doesn't sound like much. But that incongruity is enough for three big laughs before the opening credits are even finished, and the jokes keep coming... Farley is at his best playing someone trying to contain an innate hysteria. That's why the ninja gimmick is an inspiration. When the young ninja accidentally finds himself onstage in a Beverly Hills strip joint, the kick is not just in watching Farley disintegrate into a wild man, it's in watching him struggle against his natural impulse. It's in knowing this character better than he knows himself. Farley plays Haru, who hopes someday to become the "Great White Ninja" prophesied in the sacred scrolls. Hired by a mystery woman (Nicollette Sheridan) to spy on her boyfriend, he pursues the case all the way to Beverly Hills, where he leaves his shoes outside his posh hotel every day -- only to have the maintenance man dispose of them. Beverly Hills Ninja is a silly movie, with silly jokes and a silly story. But the talents at work in it are not silly. The picture has, at worst, a 10-minute sag in the middle. But the rest of it is a pleasure. - Mick LaSalle
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