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Apparently, Dark Maze Studios<\/strong> of Champaign<\/strong> can\u2019t get enough of those stealth warriors from the East! Two brand-new home videos employ numerous ninjas armed with their most secretive weapon yet \u2013 humor \u2013 in the fight against corporate tyranny, dishonorable brethren, and horrible DJ mash-ups.<\/p>\n Just released to region-free DVD this past Friday, March 22<\/strong>, is the second full season of NINJA THE MISSION FORCE<\/strong><\/a>, Dark Maze\u2019s comedy pastiche pitting in-house actors against public domain material in an all-out war of giddy silliness. Interpol agent Cheetah Lee (Allison Pregler<\/strong>) steps in for Master Ninja Gordon (Ed Glaser<\/strong>) as Evil Ninja Bruce (Brad Jones<\/strong>) is resurrected by lightning before renewing the ninja feud! Unlike the direct-to-Internet Season 1, you will have to purchase the disc to watch the entire sophomore series although the premiere episode is free to view on-line.<\/a> In \u201cBruce Fights Back From the Grave<\/strong>,\u201d Cheetah Lee must stop the spread of Bruce\u2019s \u201cweaponized Emo-Dub-Country music\u201d with the help of diminutive informant Henry Hamster (voice of series creator-writer Meagan Rachelle<\/strong>) and stock footage from the Eighties television show THE MASTER<\/strong> starring Lee Van Cleef<\/strong> and Timothy Van Patten<\/strong>. The release includes all 10 episodes of Season 2, two commentary tracks, and something called \u201cThe Outlaw Script\u201d which the producers could not produce \u201clegally.\u201d Hmmmmmmm<\/em>.<\/p>\n Also in this set is the unadulterated widescreen feature, NINJA THE PROTECTOR<\/strong> (1986), a cut-and-paste Godfrey Ho<\/strong> effort that directly inspired the MISSION FORCE<\/strong> concept. However, Dark Maze regulars Glaser, Rachelle, and Jones decided to give a less fortunate Ho joint the funny business on a separate DVD release, NINJA THE MISSION FORCE RIFFS!<\/strong>, released a few weeks earlier on Friday, February 8<\/strong>. In this exercise, the trio mix MISSION FORCE<\/strong>-style voice dubbing with interjected commentary on the soundtrack to NINJA EMPIRE<\/strong> (1987). \u201cBruce Fights Back From the Grave\u201d also appears here as a bonus.<\/p>\n ~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n The ninja-craving lifestyle instills a strict code of conduct upon the faithful. It basically goes like this: “If it has ninjas, we will love it.” Well then, does Dark Maze Studios of Champaign, IL, have a double DVD dose just for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[911,164,165,962,824],"class_list":["post-5947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-videos-du-c-u","tag-brad-jones","tag-dark-maze-studios","tag-ed-glaser","tag-godfrey-ho","tag-ninja-the-mission-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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