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Of course, all of those were completely ignored to go with the most generic and obvious plot choices. Nickelodeon and Platinum Dunes had no small collection of Ninja Turtles stories to adapt when launching their triumphant new Turtles franchise. Most of the respect the Turtles get is from little kids who can appreciate the silliness and goofiness of the property or from nostalgic nerds now staring down at middle age who still want to be little kids.ĪHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! WHAT IS THAT? WHAT IS THAT? These green heroes are flexible vehicles of exploitation, shilling cash from across the generations. Those lovable Turtle personalities and screams of "cowabunga" only existed to get your parents to buy you turtle-themed crap to shove inside your turtle-themed lunchbox which would fit neatly inside your turtle-themed backpack. The Turtles were there to sell toys and Dominos Pizza three decades ago, and they're here again in 2014 to sell toys and Dominos Pizza all the same.
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Their origins might have come from a relatively respected comic series (which I've never read and is basically completely forgotten anyway) but their popularity was built on the 80s cartoon. I'm not going to hold any illusions that the Ninja Turtles are "above" this kind of movie.
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There's a quote to put on your DVD box art: "Not quite the worst movie of the year. The only positive I can give "TMNT" is that it is not actively the worst movie of 2014 as I feared it would be. It is a movie that nobody actually wanted to make, but made anyway because there were hundreds of millions of dollars on the table to be horded. Nobody cared one bit about the movie they making, nobody wanted to tell a compelling story, nobody wanted to make exciting action scenes, nobody even wanted to make a tone-appropriate movie for the children. It is a passionless project that makes even the whorish merchandising and toyetic elements of the 80s cartoon seem principled and sincere. "Ninja Turtles" is the kind of bad movie so lazy that you cannot even find a way to laugh at its incompetence. Instead of ripping off Transformers "Ninja Turtles" is exploring new ground by ripping off " The Amazing Spider-Man". The Turtles are mutants again, as the trailers were all to proud to point out, mocking the idea of alien ninjas*.
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What has our victory gotten us? Well, " Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" looks nothing like a Transformers movie, or even a Michael Bay movie. Thanks to production issues and negative public reaction, that old version of this movie was thrown exactly where it belonged, in the trash. The Internet reacted probably in the most appropriate way, by rioting furiously from the safety of their deskchairs. The Turtles were aliens, April O'Neil and Casey Jones were in highschool, and to accommodate Bay's military fetish, Shredder was a Colonel in the US Army involved in a dark evil conspiracy. Just cross out "robot" and put "turtles". copycatting the plot of the Michael Bay Transformers movies, essentially word for word.
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It was not long until this truly creative project had its original spec script leaked out to the public. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has its ups and downs leaving a picture that just slides on by.A few years ago, it was announced that Michael Bay's production company, Platinum Dunes would break out of its usual forte of trampling over classic horror films with mindless remakes, and would instead jump into a new original project of: trampling over an 80s cartoon with a mindless blockbuster reboot. Thanks to the lack of time focused on the turtles, the voice-work takes getting used to however, it is much better than watching any of the human characters. Megan Fox and Will Arnett have terrible characters and too much screen time in comparison to the real stars of the show, the 4 turtles. The mixture of CG and real life characters don't work all that well. The CG allows for some adrenaline packed material, but at the same time, there isn't enough down-to-earth martial arts choreography. Highly stylized and heavy reliance on CG is both its shining moment and downfall. The problem is that the back-story is poor, the characters aren't built up, and the plot details are too simple for its own good.Ī ton of action explodes its way onto the screen. Aside from a mediocre 15 minute opening, the pace picks up and moves at a quick stride the rest of the way. Sliding in at a mere 90 minutes, it is a quick viewing. Jonathan Liebesman dishes out the plain old cheese pizza in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.