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So I watched American Ninja<\/em> last week for several reasons: It has recently become available on Amazon Prime, and I wondered if it would be something I could watch with my boys who are not yet teenagers. I watched it on Showtime when we lived in the trailer park, many times because there’s not much to do in a rural trailer park, and I would have been only a year or two older than the oldest is now (because we moved into the trailer park one month before my thirteenth birthday because the trailer park would not let families with teenagers move into the park).<\/p>\n

Wait a minute, Brian J.<\/em> you say. Wasn’t the reason you watched <\/em>American Ninja Judie Aronson<\/a>?<\/em> “Shut up, Ted,” is my reply. One of the reasons, surely, but not the only reason.<\/p>\n

But American Ninja<\/em> is rated R. So I hesitate to show it to my children because they’re sensitive, or I like to think they’re sensitive, young people protected from screen violence. I’m watching American Ninja<\/em>, trying to gauge the violence and swearing, and it’s not so bad.<\/p>\n

I especially call it not so bad<\/em> because I followed American Ninja<\/em> with Kick-Ass<\/em>, which is also rated R. Which made the difference between an 80s R and a 2010 R very stark.<\/p>\n

Take a look at the violence in the final fight in American Ninja<\/em>:<\/p>\n