god this film was horrible. hands down one of the worst i have seen. I mean like wtf, turtles interacting with humans/4 turtles that know martial arts & fighting villains, and their boss is a mouse..like wtf!
I know its an animated kids film but this was beyond awful and not funny at all
Agreed! yea very true, what century are you from lol
sharelol... guess he didn't grow up with the cartoons.
sharei never heard of the show before and when i first saw the film i thought it was one of the dumbest POS ive ever seen
sharewell, that explains it. you have to take a story about mutant turtles, who are ninja and also teenagers, with considerable grains of salt. As a child the show was easy to swallow because of suspension of disbelief. Also, the newest iterations don't seem to focus a lot on the complete ridiculousness of the premise, they're insistent on adding emotion and drama, making the story deeper than a story about mutant ninja turtles has any right to be. That said, it was still enjoyable to me.
Incidentally, how old are you? You must be pretty young not to have heard of the show... or perhaps you live in a foreign country?
i recently checked out and watched the television show on the web and found those much more entertaining, funnier and better than the film. The film just didn't work for me. I found the turtles more annoying than funny
shareWhich one, may I ask? The really old one from 1980, or the recent one from like a couple years back?
At any rate, I didn't think they changed the personalities THAT much from the TV shows... Raphael is still the hotheaded one, Donatello is still the intelligent one, Michaelangelo etc. There's not much more to the characters than that, you know. As for the film not being funny, shows that make it to the big screen are often darker than the original content. Take for example the Pokemon movies: show was light and fluffy, movie was extremely dark. Dragon Ball Z also did that with their movies.
That said, I think this movie was made strictly for fans who had seen previous iterations. You needed to know a lot of backstory to understand the personality clashes, among other things. That's all I've got to say on that. If you don't like it, you don't like it. Not gonna try to change your mind.
i grew up a turtle fan, i recently watched TMNT(1989) and Secret of the Ooze(1991), i remember as a kid i loved those movies so much and i was feeling a bit nostalgic. i just thought how horribly those movies have aged. i began to think about how the turtles would be with a new movie with all the technology available now that wasnt available in 1989. (compare the original batman movies with michael keaton to the dark knight version, so much better). then i remembered that a new turtle movie did come out in 2007, so i watched it. this TMNT(2007) movie was so bad. ive seen the revamps to the TMNT series from a distance with their new look and i guess i could understand that, but it seems like they strayed completely from the nature of the ninja turtles, which is kickin some foot soldier ass and trying to destroy shredder. the mythology aspect? who was that girl leading the foot clan? april is a news reporter, when did she become a martial arts expert? where was Shredder? foot clan are the bad guys, why were they in cahoots with the turtles at the end of the movie? what happened to the playful nature of the turtles, why were they so serious now? only mikey had that playfull attitude really. the 1989 movies were so good with keeping that ninja turtle feeling. i guess im just more upset that the new turtles suck, these are the turtles my nephews and sons are growing up on. and these turtles just suck so bad..
the line "a little bit too raph" still kinda makes me chuckle..
oh and "I made another funny"
but it seems like they strayed completely from the nature of the ninja turtles, which is kickin some foot soldier ass and trying to destroy shredder. the mythology aspect? who was that girl leading the foot clan? april is a news reporter, when did she become a martial arts expert? where was Shredder? foot clan are the bad guys, why were they in cahoots with the turtles at the end of the movie? what happened to the playful nature of the turtles, why were they so serious now? only mikey had that playfull attitude really. the 1989 movies were so good with keeping that ninja turtle feeling. i guess im just more upset that the new turtles suck, these are the turtles my nephews and sons are growing up on. and these turtles just suck so bad..
im a 90s kid.. the turtles i know and remember were the late 80s through mid 90s turtles.. around 95 or so when i was done with elementary school that was the last time i was into the ninja turtles.. but seriously when did april become a martial arts expert, where was shredder? just saying, i never remember the turtles flying through downtown like effin spider-man.. COWABUNGA!! and no i dont know anything about the turtles other than what i remember as a child, but judging from this movie im glad i dont..
but seriously when did april become a martial arts expert
where was shredder?
just saying, i never remember the turtles flying through downtown like effin spider-man
i dont know anything about the turtles other than what i remember as a child, but judging from this movie im glad i dont..
I thought this was the best turtles I've seen. I could never stomach the cheesy-as-hell stuff made for kids. My first experience with TMNT was in the BW comics where they were brutal as hell. Funny but brutal. Certainly not cartoon violence that it became. This one was much better and I thought the art rendering was top notch.