Going in, there's at least a slim reason to believe that Warriors Of Virtue might not be a terrible movie. Hong Kong director Ronny Yu made the weird, hypnotic Bride With White Hair, and the movie starts off as a competent, if unextraordinary, pre-teen melodrama about a boy with a leg brace who just wants to fit in with the popular kids. Then he falls into a sewer where a mysterious rescuer—unseen except for flashes of a pair of long ears and a long tail—saves him from evil soldiers. At that point, we realize there's a chance the hero will spend the remainder of the movie with a band of kung-fu-fightin' kangaroos. Which, tragically, he does. Warriors Of Virtue, the plot of which involves the boy saving the land of Tao from an evil warlord while learning a valuable lesson, is a nearly incomprehensible mix of Willow, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and those late-cycle Godzilla movies with Godzilla's talking son. If it weren't a terrible movie—and by the time the aged kung-fu master speaks mournfully about how it's what's inside a person that counts while the kangaroos prance about madly, all hopes have been dashed—it would be a toy maker's dream and a parent's nightmare. As it is, it's just a nightmare, a grisly, confusing film likely to repel all but the most troubled children.