Alien vs. Ninja at Criticker.com (2025)

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A group of ninjas goes to investigate the site of a meteor impact near their village only to be attacked by a pair of slavering aliens that look like evil humanoid dolphins. It's a no-frills low budget actionfest mostly shot in a forest. You definitely get what they advertise, there's a ton of gory, competently choreographed aliens vs ninja action...but the plot is nonexistent, and the fat cowardly "comic relief" ninja is a wretched and pointless inclusion.

The right kind of ridiculous. Grab a few drinks, invite some people over and enjoy your collective bad taste in movies. The alien in question looks like a cross between pre-eyeball Sauron and a goddamn dolphin, which is such a mindblowingly bad decision that it implodes in on itself and becomes The Greatest Thing instead.

Well, I'm glad the heroes' hair made it out alive! I laughed, I cheered, I drank. Not a pass, but not a fail. Fuckin' dolphins.

At parts slow, but when it becomes awesome, it becomes EXTREMELY awesome. Like when someones head get's chopped off, and a crow picks its eye with a dry plucky sound

If dolphin-like humanoid aliens ever attack, I think I'll know what to do after viewing this film.

A completely silly and extremely entertaining film, don't expect much story or seriousness going in and just enjoy the videogame style action and humour.

In Medieval Japan, savage aliens smash into a forest full of the most brutal ninjas. You'll be taking bets on who'll win this intense battle for survival!

Of all the recent J-sploitation films, this is probably the most, for lack of a better word, normal. For example: there isn't any purposefully hilarious CGI, there's no terrible or OTT acting, there isn't even any, save for a few scenes, knee slapping dialogue. That isn't to say it's not some hilarious B-movie, it's called Alien vs Ninja fer chrissake! What it is, and you'll hear this is a lot, is an adult version of an episode of Power Rangers. I was sold once I saw the guy in the alien suit.

Despite my love of extreme cinema, the current wave of cheap, practical effect heavy schlock from Japan has mostly been poor for me, too cheap, too simple minded and without a subversive streak of someone like Takashi Miike. This is somewhat of an exception, turning into a gorier episode of Power Rangers half way through, which is not a bad thing. Where it not for the significant flaws - paper thin characters and the over-use of sped-up scenes - this could have been a fun piece of amusing tack.

cheesy, but funny; definitely watchable

Directed by:

Seiji Chiba

Writer:

Seiji Chiba

Starring:

Shuuji Kashiwabara

Genres:

Comedy, Sci-fi, Action

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese