Dancing
Ninja (2010/Inception Media Group DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: D Main Program: B+
A
young boy, Ikki, found washed ashore as a baby is raised in Asia as a
ninja, but always felt he was slightly out of place. The legends of
the past predict a young boy born with a mark will save the world,
but when Ikki's master gets attacked by the evil LaDouche (David
Hasselhoff), he realizes his destiny is to avenge his master, but can
he become legendary Dancing Ninja to stop LaDouche and his henchmen?
Ikki
is outsider raised in the ninja clan, and he is the worst ninja in
the clan... until he starts dancing. Forbidden from training to
become a ninja, he is street trained by Dance Dance Revolution he
becomes unstop-able in Kelly Sandefur/Mitchell Klebanoff co-directed
riot Dancing Ninja (2010). After his master is killed by his
evil former student turned washed up action star, Ikki vows to avenge
his master. He journeys to America to stop LaDouche's evil plan
becoming the number one action star by killing all other action
stars. Ikki will have to use all his dancing skills to save the
world's stars (and get the girl) from LaDouche.
This
film was like Dance Dance Revolution with Ninjas, you might as well
of called this movie 'White Ninja's Can't Dance'. It makes fun of
dancing, that by dancing you can become the ultimate ninja. The main
character is a Caucasian boy playing an Asian role, an underdog
outsider who fights against the rules and traditions to become a
hero, and of course, save the girl. The most comical part was the
bad guy (David Hasselhoff), who played an egotistic narcissistic
former star aptly named LaDouche.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image and lossy Dolby Digital sound
are as good as they are going to get, but it was reported that this
film was not finished until technically now since they ran out of
money, so we can see why there are no extras.
-
Ricky Chiang
