Ninja in the Real World

I've never seen The Real World, but I get the jist of it. From the look of this movie, it's not necessary at all to 'understand' the comedy. Any sort of reality put-them-all-in-the-same-house tv show knowledge will do, and even then.. I'm not sure it would help things. After all, Tuna Hematoma movies tend to be rather free of the constraints of the logical or familiar. Rest assured, this does not stray far from that tried-and-true formula.

The story opens with Ninja relaying his frustration over someone eating his 'broccori' in the week prior. You see, Ninja speaks in a very thick, unflattering Asian accent. Leprosy Man plays the Canadian of the bunch, or at least the one who speaks like a Canadian, and Qaz plays the relative straight man. Alexander and Patrick are only there for a few lines, and don't really affect the movie in any particular way.

It appears as though the cast of Ninja's Real Life are set to go on a vacation in the rain forest, and they argue over what to wear and.. well that's about all the preparation there is. Leprosy Man is left out of the shenanigans because, well, he has leprosy. In the highlight of the movie, Qaz stays behind because he's on strike. While that has no comedic value of its own, this movie was created when Qaz was, in fact, on strike outside of his workstation and had previously showered the board with the pictures and antics of his co-strikers. Seeing Qaz as a totem pole with a sign on it was certainly smirk-worthy. Also noteworthy in this release is that we finally learn how to actually pronounce Qaz. Apparently it's not 'caws' after all, which breaks my heart. Watch the movie to learn the correct pronunciation!

The humor of this movie is pretty bland, which is surprising of a Tuna release this side of Retrospection. Big Warrior Dood and the Mom/Dad series revel in unexpected humor and what amount to prop-jokes (And yes, poop jokes, too). These were few and far between in Ninja; the humor was oftentimes predictable and just plain lame. Why again was Leprosy Man a purple container? Maybe that's one that I just didn't get... but yes, as anyone could guess, he ended up 'losing his head' in this episode.

The animation was bad, relying on default scenery (From all of 3dmm's incarnations) and cheap default prop tricks to get actions across. Certainly this movie didn't take a long time to create. Even the voice work, in the past one of Tuna's strongest points, was only average. Most everyone sounded like Tuna, and while the accents brought a degree of humor to the movie, they only saw moments of proper use. As for music... was there any? Same goes for sound effects.

I'm beginning to get the idea that this movie was never one intended to be properly reviewed. Its production values are among the lowest outside of joke movies, and it couldn't have taken more than 30 minutes to make outside of the recording room. In fact, this writeup probably could've been spent on creating an entire sequel. It's no honor to say that you're probably better off just reading this text than watching another installment.

Don't get this if you are intrigued by the word 'ninja.' There's really nothing ninja about it. Get it if you are into 3dmm iterations of Real World or are really intrigued about how to pronounce Qaz. Beyond that, however, what was Tuna thinking? And I actually enjoyed works like Amazing Grace. Still, regardless of what has been said about this, I'd watch any new movie Tuna releases. So c'mon, release one again.

[Tuna Hematoma]

hahahaha,

Not sure if you know, this was for the short film festival (or something similar) and on this day we had to make movies with either of the characters, so I chose all and smashed them all in this super-fantastic movie.

[Gorosaurus]

Haha well I did figure that it wasn't meant to be a for-real solo release