I am 29 yrs old and didn't think this was terrible.

I knew it better as mutagen than ooze.

Casey would be too many characters. Better to leave her for a sequel

Super Shredder sounds cool, hopefully the turtles will be allowed to use their ninja weapons this time.

I watched it in the theater, then rented the movie this last weekend. I can honestly say I liked it, but like you said, "this movie did have issues".

1. Splinter finding a ninjutsu book, and it looks like he had mastered it in a matter of days/weeks (based on how the turtles looked when he found it compared to when he started teaching them).

2. Leo's voice. Johnny Knoxville should not have been casted.

3. The turtles can crush just about anything, but Ralph can stand on a aluminum tricycle???

4. Shredders magnetic knifes.



I'm ok with them changing the story line a bit. Kind of nice not knowing what's going to happen. But some of the choices made weren't thought through.

I'm 28, I grew up a fan of the tmnt. The 80's version cartoon and the film's of the 90s.

This new version was highly flawed as everyone knows but I really liked it. The new designs of the turtles were great.
Shredder should have had that suit in part 2, I thought it was a little too much for the first time meeting him in this reboot. You never got a clue as to how he fights or that he even knows ninjitsu. The armor made him too powerful and his skill is lost in this. It could have been Eric in the suit for all I can tell.

Haha you said Casey was a she

But Megan Fox is just pretty poo so that ruined the flick...

1. Actually happened in one of the comic reboots. They've also had Shredder as an alien and a demon. Let's not blame a movie for using an actual comic origin.Besides it makes more sense story wise than "a few moments touching this ooze makes you a super mutant but we'll just dump it down a sewer, just 'coz" origin plot more commonly used.

2, I kinda preferred this Donnie to previous live action movies where he was given the least amount of character of the four. In this one his personal traits were more highlighted to be on par with the others. In previous incarnations he was the least distinguished and now all four are very distinguishable. He's supposed to be the nerdy one but previous movies barely showed this. Previously he was just generic turtle who occasionally pressed a key on a computer. In this he's the super-high tech one like he was supposed to be. I commend the movie for this.

3. In every Turtles comic featuring it the substance was always a mutagen and most called it such (albeit not at first). The second live-action movie also called it a mutagen too. It's what it is. Do you really think the science peeps who create it are going to call it ooze which has little meaning? No, they'll call it a mutagen because that's what it is. It mutates things.

4. He wasn't there at the beginning of any origin of the Turtles and was always a "later" character so why would this be any different? They had enough characters to work with. Let Casey arrive later, like in comics, in the sequel (which has been confirmed).

5. Why not? They were around then. Bluetooth's been around since '94 and cameras in phones a little later. You do realise that the whole camera in phones thing has been around almost 20 years now, right? Personally I don't recall them mentioning specifically what time period they're in, in the movie, but it's irrelevant. The technology if bluetooth and phone cameras, albeit much less common then as it is now, was around in 1999 so I fail to understand what point you're trying to make.

I will agree the movie had issues but what you list here aren't issues; just you being ignorant.

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I'm in the same boat as many posting here. Grew up on the first generation of the TMNT, and thought it was an okay movie. Yeah, it's hard to overlook the nonsense of their origins, but they did use their weapons, they have the part wagon, and the foot weren't just bumbling fools.

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34 and a fan since 1988. I don't get all the bashing this movie has taken, with the Razzies and what-not, and I'm not some fanboy looking at it through rose-colored glasses. I waited to see the film on Netflix because of all the bad publicity. The film is flawed, but it's just not that bad. Naysayers on imdb are to be expected, but this film really got pummeled by just about everyone. I just don't get it.

Yes, there are obviously weaknesses, but the film entertained me, and the manipulations to the source material didn't anger me enough to let it affect my enjoyment.

I'm also not a fan of making April a part of the origin. Maybe the turtles being her pets wasn't *that* bad, but having her save them from the fire and toss them into the sewer was ridiculous. Why wouldn't she just take them home?

The ninjitsu book was probably the single thing that annoyed me most. It made absolutely no sense, and was far inferior to the actual story. How can someone become a ninja master just by reading a book with some diagrams? Absurd.

Other than that, to me, the only weaknesses were Megan Fox's acting (which is to be expected) and some bumpy dialogue. I thought the humor was funny enough, the action was fun, and the effects were solid. I liked the turtles' design, unlike many. Will Arnett and Bill Fitchner were solid. I think Shredder was a bit over-designed, but it made him more intimidating.

I was happy enough with the film that I'll go see the sequel in theaters rather than waiting for Netflix.