Warriors Of Virtue

But it seems that Warriors Of Virtue's producers, the four Law boys, Hong Kong born medical doctors now based in L.A., are confident that our children will buy this strange, mix and match metaphysical drivel.

Why kangaroos? Why indeed! We've seen roos before, in Tank Girl a few years ago, although there was no hint in Warriors Of Virtue of the bestial sex romps that must surely have occurred between the somewhat seamy Tank Girl and her feisty and lusty furry friends.

Kangaroos must, quite rightly, encourage the fantasic thoughts of fantasy writers.

And there's more. What language do these creatures in Warriors Of Virtue speak? The roos, who are I understand mute in the paddock, in Warriors Of Virtue must squeak in Japanese (or Chinese), seeing as how their boss is a Pat Morita (Karate Kid) look alike played by a Chinese man called Chao-Li Chi, but they instead obviously have a great facility with Americanese, with which they converse fluently on screen.

But that's really nit picking. This is the movies after all and anyway not many tickets will be sold if subtitles have to be added.

And we all know that all that oriental "you can be as free as bird, as long as you believe in yourself" philosophy is just a set up, engineered for one reason only; to allow a good bash up, without guns, to occur.

Actually the brawl at the end between the roos (there are five of them) and the bad bloke Komodo, played by the obviously oriental Angus Macfadyn (Robert the Bruce in Braveheart) is pretty effective, with some fine swooping camera work and nimble editing.

The roos are appealing too, even though the animators must wear out a heap of batteries twisting those long ears about with every expression, a movement which became annoying after a while.

But stay at home rather than see this fantasy adventure and don't take your children either. The children might then be a tad less confused on the philosophical front.

Take them out to the bush and show them a few real kangaroos instead.