[go: up one dir, main page]

    Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV News
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightFamily Entertainment GuideIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsPride MonthAmerican Black Film FestivalSummer Watch GuideSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign In
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
  • FAQ
IMDbPro

Ninja Cheerleaders

  • 2008
  • R
  • 1h 21m
IMDb RATING
3.4/10
1.9K
YOUR RATING
Trishelle Cannatella, Maitland McConnell, and Ginny Weirick in Ninja Cheerleaders (2008)
Three college cheerleaders (and after-school go-go dancers) use their martial arts skills to save their Sensei from mafia kidnappers, but must keep their extracurricular activities a secret to realize their Ivy League dreams at Brown.
Play trailer1:44
1 Video
24 Photos
Martial ArtsActionComedy

Three college cheerleaders (and after-school go-go dancers) use their martial arts skills to save their Sensei from mafia kidnappers, but must keep their extracurricular activities a secret ... Read allThree college cheerleaders (and after-school go-go dancers) use their martial arts skills to save their Sensei from mafia kidnappers, but must keep their extracurricular activities a secret to realize their Ivy League dreams at Brown.Three college cheerleaders (and after-school go-go dancers) use their martial arts skills to save their Sensei from mafia kidnappers, but must keep their extracurricular activities a secret to realize their Ivy League dreams at Brown.

  • Director
    • David Presley
  • Writer
    • David Presley
  • Stars
    • Trishelle Cannatella
    • Ginny Weirick
    • Maitland McConnell
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    3.4/10
    1.9K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • David Presley
    • Writer
      • David Presley
    • Stars
      • Trishelle Cannatella
      • Ginny Weirick
      • Maitland McConnell
    • 25User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • Videos1

    Trailer
    Trailer 1:44
    Trailer

    Photos23

    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    + 17
    View Poster

    Top cast63

    Edit
    Trishelle Cannatella
    Trishelle Cannatella
    • Courtney
    Ginny Weirick
    Ginny Weirick
    • April
    Maitland McConnell
    • Monica
    George Takei
    George Takei
    • Hiroshi
    Michael Paré
    Michael Paré
    • Victor Lazzaro
    Michael FitzGibbon
    • Red
    Larry Poindexter
    Larry Poindexter
    • Detective Harris
    Natasha Jai
    Natasha Jai
    • Kinji
    • (as Natasha Chang)
    Omar J. Dorsey
    Omar J. Dorsey
    • Manny
    Eric Stonestreet
    Eric Stonestreet
    • Beergut
    Richard Davalos
    Richard Davalos
    • Don Lazzaro
    Max Perlich
    Max Perlich
    • Jimmy 'The Snitch'
    Jullian Sonteay
    • Harry 'Gunshow'
    Dion DeRizzo
    • Al 'the stepfather'
    Curtis Jackson
    • Professor Stevens
    • (as Curtis C.)
    Lateef Crowder
    Lateef Crowder
    • Karate Bully
    Daniel Ash
    • Roland
    Louise Stratten
    Louise Stratten
    • Monica's Mom
    • Director
      • David Presley
    • Writer
      • David Presley
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    User reviews25

    3.41.8K
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10

    Featured reviews

    5ronnymiller-1

    Stupid but funny

    Seriously this is one of the worst movies ever and yet it is entertaining in a way I can hardly describe. First: The Title. A movie titled "Ninja Cheerleaders" is just a "gotto see this movie" to me. Anyway - the story is incredibly stupid (cheerleader strippers fight to get back the strip club of their ninja master against Michael pare - and to top it, they have to win a strip contest to get money for college....ha ha ha ha). This is a great setting for a really funny but stupid film, but the camera work, the directing work, the music, the actors - everything is just so bad. It is so badly made, it is sometimes hard to watch. But the girls are cute, they are brutal, they beat up everything they can - and then their is Captain Sulu as the master and Michael Pare. I want to like this film - if it was better edited and directed, it be a classic trash one - like this, it is just a film for men, who wanna see babes beat up guys.
    4delibebek

    Cute

    Cute. The girls are cute. The fight scenes are cute. The red VW Beetle is cute. Etc.

    These girls fight for justice, righting wrongs, selling Girl Scout cookies - that is, when they aren't stealing swords in the middle of the night, cheering at their junior college, and dancing at a strip club, where they never actually strip.

    It's funny how a B-movie like this contains less action than it would if it were an A-movie. There is actually more acting in this movie than I expected, given all the background elements thrown in at random.

    I think this movie was more fun to make than it is to watch, but it was fun for at least one viewing.
    1tirkkanen

    It's bad. Seriously.

    I thought I should comment on this film, since it's really not as cute as it was probably meant to be. The film revolves around three girls who are determined to get into Brown College. To pay their tuition they strip at a local bar. The owner of the bar is a ninja master who lands into some heavy trouble and of course the ninja cheerleaders get involved.

    The first thing that's off is just the title: Ninja Cheerleaders. It kind of sums it up. I got fooled by the ninja part. Almost everything in the film is tacky. Plot, writing, directing, lighting, fighting etc. A few of the older actors do deliver nicely, but they can't salvage this shipwreck of a film. The biggest disappointment is actually the poor quality of the fights, since I'm a huge fan of martial arts.

    I'm thinking that the target audience for this film is young girls who need a strong role-model of a determined successful woman who doesn't need a man. Oh my god, did I really just write that? Another target group is probably teenage boys, who would be better off watching American pie, at least it has boobies in it.

    P.S. I might ask the film makers what's up with the topless women between scene changes? Of very poor taste and utterly irrelevant...
    6orion_ss1

    This IS what the title would lead you to expect

    Are there better B-movies on the market? Yeah, I think so.

    The title did NOT lead me to expect a Showgirls movie budget. Should George Takei, Larry Poindexter, and Michael Pare have held out for better roles? Maybe, maybe not. I didn't buy this movie based on their names, or the names of the girls ( frankly, I'd never heard the girls names ), but they ARE pretty.

    This is a B-movie, with B-movie values, and pretty girls with topless scenes ( not enough, but then there rarely are ). It kinda sorta had a plot, with few twists you really couldn't see coming.

    It is a fun movie. It's not Showgirls; it wasn't meant to be.
    2the_dead_guy6

    The perfect fun B-Flick for a seriously masochist man!!

    You should be honest here. If you come in to check out a flick with the title of "Ninja Cheerleaders", you're most likely expecting hot cheerleaders and sexy ninjas. Not much more. Certainly neither Grammy-worthy acting nor a real plot is required here. You do actually WANT bad jokes, bad acting, ridiculous action, tons of TnA and heavy cheesiness! :-) You've come to the wrong place my friend, Ninja Cheerleaders does not deliver on almost any of these points! In fact, it might surprise you with bad taste.

    Cheese factor is overwhelmingly great, so no complaints in that department. You will indeed get 3 hot all-in-one chicks karate-chopping the living hell out of some villain nuts. I kid you not when I say all-in-one! They're all super smart as well as the most beautiful women on earth who are made of steel, and on top of that they're also strippers, cheerleaders and A-grade college students. They are the essence of feminist perfection (I guess except for the stripper part, but it links in). Not only one of them is that awesome, but all three of them are MORE awesome than the other. I doubt they can even die! Every single dude in the whole school wants to get in their pants, whether jock or professor! In fact, it seems all the men on earth cannot resist them (except for their sage, wise, calm Japanese mentor and sensei... who also employs them as strippers in his club).

    Yet, while they're indeed pretty, I didn't seem to be struck by them in the same way the male characters in the movie were. I've seen hotter babes even in real life. Perhaps this whole crazy chemical reaction only happens to the brains of unfortunate males that ran out of luck when they inadvertently happened to be right in front of the killer girls? Poor guys, it must be the spirit of the ninja. So far, so good? Well keep reading.

    What baffles me is that with such a title and cover, you are targeting an audience of males looking for some goodhearted enjoyment through cheesy action and plenty of TnA. Yet, you never get any nudity from our katana-loving heroines: BOOOO!!! It gets even worse.

    Did I say "karate-chopping the living hell out of some villain *nuts*"? I meant that literally! There's WAY TOO MUCH testicle-crushing here for any normal dude's enjoyment or (even) comfort! At one point, the girls even threaten to shove a hose up a bad guy's anus to his intestines, while taunting him as to whether the water overflowing his intestines would hurt more or would it be the metal tip of the hose entering him! All this, of course, only happens after one of our protagonists crushes his testicles in her bare hands (even commenting on how cool the crushing of testicles sounds). Nothing gory or really vicious-minded, but definitely a most disheartening picture for a normal man (and foolishly, with such a title, normal men are the targeted audience!).

    The overly feminist overtones throughout the movie really ridicules the director David Presley. Our heroines explicitly utter things along the lines of "Men think they're superior so I *crush* their reasons to believe so" (with a big smile). Maybe at the time of the making of "Ninja Cheerleaders", Presley had recently undergone surgery below the belt that went really bad, and sought catharsis by making a ball-crushing movie.

    On a side note, the acting sometimes is surprisingly good! But then again, the audience for such a movie doesn't care about acting! In fact, within a certain style and range, the worse the acting the more we love it.

    I think this flick will greatly appeal to masochist men as well as feminist lesbians. Good, hot-blooded dudes, you should look elsewhere. The verdict: Good crazy action, heavy cheese factor, super-I-AM-YOUR-GOD-women, HEAPS of blatant feminist overtones, a serious lack of taste for a man simply looking for a fun B-Flick, and perhaps worst of all no real nudity. 2 stars for the cheese factor alone. Voilà!

    More like this

    La loi des arts martiaux
    4.9
    La loi des arts martiaux
    Oblivion
    4.8
    Oblivion
    Cheerleader Ninjas
    2.8
    Cheerleader Ninjas
    Legally Exposed
    4.6
    Legally Exposed
    PJ Party Secrets
    PJ Party Secrets
    Badass!
    5.4
    Badass!
    Fast Lane to Malibu
    4.8
    Fast Lane to Malibu
    Busty Coeds vs. Lusty Cheerleaders
    4.6
    Busty Coeds vs. Lusty Cheerleaders
    Phoenix the Warrior
    3.7
    Phoenix the Warrior
    Dr. Steve-O
    4.1
    Dr. Steve-O
    Housewives from Another World
    4.4
    Housewives from Another World
    Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains
    3.7
    Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains

    Storyline

    Edit

    Did you know

    Edit
    • Trivia
      Richard Davalos' final film appearance.
    • Goofs
      The cheerleaders are doing cheers on the basketball court within the field of play while the ball is in play.
    • Quotes

      Victor Lazzaro: You were in the war.

      Hiroshi: Yes.

      Victor Lazzaro: As was my father. Some glorious times.

      Hiroshi: Only one who was never there would say so.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Silver Screen Cesspool: Ninja Cheerleaders (2024)
    • Soundtracks
      Why Not
      Performed by The Wormhole Halo

      Written by Don Spangler & Christopher Goins

    Top picks

    Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations
    Sign in

    FAQ14

    • How long is Ninja Cheerleaders?Powered by Alexa

    Details

    Edit
    • Release date
      • May 10, 2008 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Ниндзя из группы поддержки
    • Filming locations
      • California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Hi-Fidelity Films
      • Mercurybar Productions
      • NCS Productions
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Tech specs

    Edit
    • Runtime
      1 hour 21 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

    Contribute to this page

    Suggest an edit or add missing content
    Trishelle Cannatella, Maitland McConnell, and Ginny Weirick in Ninja Cheerleaders (2008)
    Top Gap
    What is the Spanish language plot outline for Ninja Cheerleaders (2008)?
    Answer
    • See more gaps
    • Learn more about contributing
    Edit page

    More to explore

    Recently viewed

    Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
    Get the IMDb app
    Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
    Follow IMDb on social
    Get the IMDb app
    For Android and iOS
    Get the IMDb app
    • Help
    • Site Index
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • License IMDb Data
    • Press Room
    • Advertising
    • Jobs
    • Conditions of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Your Ads Privacy Choices
    IMDb, an Amazon company

    © 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.