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Alien vs. Ninja was directed by Seiji Chiba and stars Shûji Kashiwabara, Ben Hiura and Mika Hijii.

Plot:
Alien vs. Ninja is from the same production company who also made Mutant Girls Squad and the films are pretty much cut from the same cloth. Only that Alien vs. Ninja has no plot whatsoever other than: Some aliens happen to land in a forest where some ninjas live. The aliens start killing the ninjas, the ninjas kill them back, carnage ensues.

I have to admit that I expected grand things from a movie titled Alien vs Ninja, and the movie delivers. But I saw it right after Mutant Girls Squad and in comparison, Alien vs Ninja loses. It’s just not crazy enough.

It’s not that Alien vs Ninja wasn’t crazy – because it was. But apart from the premise itself, there were almost no weird ideas and it lacked the sheer density of “did they really go there” things that Mutant Girls Squad showed.

I’m sorry that I keep comparing those two movies, btw, but seeing them right after each other and the both of them aiming for the same audience with the same sense of humour, it’s hard not to.

Still, despite the superiority of Mutant Girls Squad, Alien vs Ninja is thoroughly entertaining. It gave us everything it promised, from nicely choreographed fight scenes to extremely silly jokes and weird looking Alien puppets.

And it was good enough that I wasn’t even tempted to fall asleep, although the showing I saw started at 2am (and it was the 5th film I saw in 12 hours, which tells you everything about my obsessiveness and the exhausting nature of film festivals).

Watch it. Just watch it before Mutant Girls Squad.