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1. Teenage mutant ninja turtles 2014 shell shocked movie#
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Teenage mutant ninja turtles 2014 shell shocked movie#

The movie is far from perfect (“generic” is perhaps the most appropriate term), but it’s exactly what a Turtles film has always been: silly fun. The new Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is also a time capsule, in a sense - a film you could watch decades from now and know, definitively, what action films were like in 2014: flashy, frenetic, and fraught with explosions.

Teenage mutant ninja turtles 2014 shell shocked series#

The most recent Nickelodeon cartoon series is a blend of colorful 3D animation with stylish 2D interstitials and characters with large, anime-inspired expressions. The 1990s live-action trilogy was an amalgam of Jim Henson puppetry, bad perms, and Vanilla Ice. (That review, by the way, had a TMNT-themed Pizza Hut banner ad next to it - as did his 1-star review of TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze, which is a very entertaining read.)īy chance or by choice, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has always been a reflection of its time. It supplies, in other words, more or less what Turtle fans will expect: the Ninja Turtles, subways, pizzas, villains, a rudimentary plot and an explanation of how the Turtles met their Zen-master, a wise old rodent." But this movie is nowhere near as bad as it might have been, and probably is the best possible Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie. For that matter, I did not walk out afterward with my spirits renewed.

"I did not walk into the screening with a light step and a heart that sang. The entire piece is as applicable now as it was then: While researching this review, I came upon Roger Ebert's 2 1/2-star (out of 4) review of 1990's live-action Ninja Turtles.