Aaron1375

Played this on an emulator and it was alright. A very short beat em up game that does a few things differently. Its presentation is unique as the sprites look like Muppets and at the start of the game the ninja kids appear to be on strings like puppets. It was pretty fun, but really short.

The story has an evil organization with plans to raise Satan himself! Despite this premise, the game is definitely on the lighter side as you fight waves of enemies and some bosses. There is a bit of a story as you make your way through five stages to meet up with Satan!

The game play has you fighting with some different weapons depending on your choice of ninja kids. I used the red ninja kid and he used shurikens. Also, you have a special move which gets more powerful as you collect scrolls to make it more powerful like in Golden Axe. No life loss for using your special, that was very prevalent in arcade games of the time.

So it passed some time and it was okay to play. I thought the presentation was different. I laughed a bit as some of the characters look exactly like Bert and Ernie! This game is nothing to take seriously and something to play to fill in twenty minutes of time.

I watch films to be entertained, escape and think of something other than the fact my everyday life is not very good. So, suffice to say, I did not really enjoy this film. I literally have nothing in common with any of the players here as I am childless, do not take substances of any kind and I have never really had any friends, let alone the types to offer me drugs. So this thing was not hitting home for me and it does not help that you know how it's going to end right from the start, so when it looks like Richie might turn things around, you know something is going to create a stumbling block for him and he is going to revert. So all in all a bit of a downer film all around.

The story has a kid named Richie's funeral already in progress. Suffice to say, the movie is showing us how he was killed. His friends played a huge part; however, none of them seemed to let the drugs overwhelm them like Richie did. His parents are pretty supportive, the dad does begin to get angry and want to beat down Richie, but who could blame him? This film just really has nothing to impart as the only thing they didn't do is counseling and I really doubt a session with a shrink would have accomplished anything.

The cast is good, they play there parts well especially Ben Gazzera and Robbie Benson. Clint Howard is in this too, at first I did not recognize him, but then I thought it might be him and it was!

So, not a movie I will rewatch too often as it was depressing and offered little in the way of actual entertainment. I am sure most people who smoke pot would scoff at this as it is one of the drugs Richie was taking and blame everything on his pills, but pot is not as bad as they used to say; however, it is not as beneficial as they make it out now. It also does have the harmful side effect of literally making a person less empathetic to the point of not having any if smoked all the time, which is why Richie thought only if himself and did not care what his habit was doing to the ones he loved. So check it out if it sounds good to you, not my cup of tea.

This film is a film about wildlife striking back like in Kingdom of the Spiders, Day of the Animals or another bee film, The Swarm. This one, however, seems to play it out in the same fashion as those films and at other times seems to want to go in weird directions like in the ant invasion film Phase IV. Then there is the music that seems to think the film is a straight up comedy. Kids and adults being stung to death in a park, you get music that makes it sound like someone has just been hit in the face with a pie. Bees taking down military planes and helicopters, music sounds like the A-team has just eluded capture in hilarious fashion. The film also has a lot of dead space, where there are no bee attacks, but instead we get hitmen!

The film starts out with a father and son stealing honey, because when I want to eat that is what I go for. The kid dies so everyone attacks the place releasing the killer bees! A husband dies but his wife survives and she brings bees back to John Saxon and John Carradine. Meanwhile, somehow the bees have increased in number that they form a dark cloud and begin killing. Plans are devised as we see the bees attack, then no bees and finally super smart bees!

John Saxon and Carradine are good in this and make it more enjoyable than it should be considering the plot. The effects are pretty good, but at times it looks like the actor are being pelted with popcorn. Once again, the music is terrible as it seems as if it were lifted from a comedy caper film and it really undercuts the bee attacks.

So the film was entertaining enough to watch, but it is not good by any means. At times they try to make the film seem light-hearted, but the film starts with a boy being stung to death and ending up face down in a river. Stupid plots involving hitmen and a bit too much downtime after the initial batch of bees is defeated make this one feel totally uneven. Then you get a strange Phase IV type ending that worked for that film but is out of place here.