As is tradition, to celebrate Chris’ birthday with a ridiculous martial arts movie, Zach, Chris, and special guests Addam, Justin, Asa, and Janice watched the 1994 classic, 3 Ninjas Kick Back. 

A favorite here at Everything Action, Sidekicks is a wonderfully cheesy and weird fusion of The Karate Kid and various Chuck Norris movies and you can watch the entire thing in the latest Everything Action Theater, thanks to YouTube.

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach, Chris, and special guest Addam enter The Octagon with Chuck Norris.

Even though 2013’s GI Joe: Retaliation was a pretty significant step-up from its predecessor, Rise of Cobra, Paramount and Hasbro decided to start from scratch with Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins but it doesn’t generate the same level of optimism as Bumblebee did for the Transformers franchise.

Henry Golding stars as GI Joe’s resident ninja Snake Eyes for this July’s reboot of the GI Joe movie series, showing Snake Eyes’ training with the Arashikage and his relationship with friend/future enemy Storm Shadow, played by Andrew Koji.

An American businessman, Paul Racine, is visiting Nagoya, Japan and meets a woman in a hotel bar. Returning to her room, 3 ninjas kill her and wound him, but he sees the ninja boss’s face. Now, he’s the prime target of a dangerous ninja cult and gets help from a group of samurai who have battled the cult for generations.

One of the many ninja actionfests that Cannon Films put out in the 80s, American Ninja stars Michael Dudikoff as Pvt. Joe Armstrong, an Army soldier and secret ninja who discovers a black-market arms dealer and his army of evil ninjas are operating in the Philippines near where he’s stationed and he becomes determined to stop them.

Trained from childhood to be a Ninja Assassin, Raizo rebels against his clan and teams up with Europol agent Mika Coretti to stop them once and for all.