Mel Simons (Marko Ritchie) — a ninja in pink — and the evil boss of all ninjas — he’s the one in yellow — (Mike Abbott) are fighting over the ownership of the manual that allows one to become the ultimate ninja. The evil ninja pulls out a gun and kills Mel, but it was all a dream.
That said, the dream makes him think that he should get rid of the ninja manual.
For some reason, Mel gives it to his ex-wife Cindy (Morna Lee), who needs the help of another ninja named Steve, who kindly ties her up for the night, then unties her. She makes him breakfast. They fall in love. These things happen.
But then Cindy’s friend Winnie breaks into this romance and reminds Cindy that she’s not yet divorced from Mel. This leads to a game of badmitton and that’s not a sexual euphamism. A game of badmitton in which ninajs attack, no less.
Also: Steve is only hiding in Cindy’s house because he attacked the man who is sleeping with his wife. Who knew ninjas had this much drama? Well, when you wear pajamas all day, you can’t stay out of trouble in bed, I figure.
My notes for this movie are comical in their scattered chicken scratch, but foremost among them is a sentence all in caps: FIND THIS DISCO E.T. REMIX. Thanks to Ninjas All the Way Down, I can happily tell you that it’s by the Italian disco band EGO.
If you like trying to learn what music is in Godfrey Ho movies — and I do — you’ll be happy to know that “A Day” by Clan of Xymox and “Sirius” by Alan Parsons Project are in this.
The ending of this movie is so abrupt that you may be tempted to watch it over and over again. In no way does it pay off the movie you watched or answer any questions that you may have. Godfrey Ho’s movies do not cast you in the role of omniscient narrator. Instead, you only have the most limited of power over what you see and you may wonder forever what you lost the opportunity to experience in the lives of people you barely get to know.
I have no idea if you will like this movie. I love it because I watched three of them in a row in a state of barely being awake and I feel that this may be the best way to watch Godfrey Ho’s work, as if you are just a new blank page for him to tell you a story that makes no sense, that never adds up and that somehow combines two movies into seven eighths of one.
You can watch this on Tubi.