A young girl, Jo, gives two boys a kiss on the cheek and another boy a kiss on the forehead to thank them for finding her father.

One of the goons attempts to stab Rocky with a butterfly-knife but fails.

Jo's father is seen tortured and interrogated by Jack Harding's goons.

The 3 Ninjas use make-shift ninja weapons on Jack Harding's henchmen.

In the beginning of the movie we see people protesting and a riot breaks out. In one scene a man pours soda on the shirt of a young girl, Jo, then he shoves her to the ground. Martial arts violence is throughout. A lot of slapstick comedy.

types of name-calling - "Dog meat", "Idiot" (x2), "Stupid", and "Butt-head". other questionable exclamations "Hell" (x2), "Shut-up" (x3), "Getting cocky", and "Kicking butt". religious profanity/exclamations - "God" (x1), "Oh God" (x3), and "Jesus" (x1).

In one scene a man is holding a beer inside a pizza parlor. In a separate scene one man smoking a cigar and is instructed by another not to smoke because "it's bad for your health, and besides I quit".

In one scene a man is shown swinging a knife at a boy, but the boy grabs the knife from the man and tells him "you shouldn't play with knives, it's a bad example". Jo's father is seen tied to a chair when the children come to rescue him. Later, Jo is kidnapped by a biker gang hired by the evil man running the town, in hopes to deter her father from giving secret information about the landfill to the courts.