Review of Ninja Cheerleaders (2008) by Dwain P — 01 Nov 2009

There's campy, really campy, over-the-top campy and then there's "Ninja Cheerleaders." The story is actually even dumber than you would expect: a ninja played by George Takai runs a dojo by day and a strip club formerly owned by a mobster jailed for tax evasion by night.

The mobster wants his strip club back and kidnaps Takai to force him to give him the deed to the club...instead of killing him and buying the club when it went back on the market. All that stands between Takai and certain death are his ninja apprentices, three hot cheerleaders/strippers/Honor Roll students trying to get into Brown at Los Lomos Malas Community College.

The girls have an even more personal reason to find their sensei: the mobsters stole his safe containing the $200,000 they have saved from six months of stripping (!) for Brown. OK, put simply, this movie is STUPID.

To its credit, though, it realizes that it's stupid and embraces its stupidity with glee. In fact, perhaps one of the funnier moments in the movie occurs when the cheerleaders stop looking for Takai to dance in a $50,000 stripping contest.

The movie actually comes to a so that the police officer interrogating the cheerleaders can comment on just how ridiculous it is. The film works for what it is, a Z-grade straight-to-DVD martial arts comedy with T&A appeal.

Check your brain at the door and you can have some fun with it.