2014 - 0/5
I loved TMNT when I was younger, and I’m watching this movie purely on a nostalgic basis considering the trailer didn’t look good.
Do you need to see this movie in 3D? No.
Do you need to see this movie at all? No.
I’m at a loss with what to say about the look of the turtles. They don’t look fun, they look hideous. They were so jacked as if they were on steroids! The turtles looked way better in the early 1990s movies. Splinter didn’t look good either. They all looked terrible and I’m sure this had a big budget, so I’m surprised how crappy the CGI was.
This was very much Michael Bay influenced. On paper, he was a producer, but the action scenes and Shredder were very
Transformer-esque. He must have dipped his hand in the cookie jar on this one and guided the director in which direction to follow. For example, all the action sequences and Shredder’s costume. He tries to make it look cool and impressive, but it never amounts to anything. An IMDB reviewer summed it up perfectly: “Michael Bay proves to have no creativity and no imagination as this movie looks and feels like his just as crappy
Transformers movies.”
Ugh, Megan Fox. I guess I should say something about that. So from what I read in the Trivia section of IMDB, there were 3 other actresses that wanted the roll of April O’Neil. Why they didn’t get it, I don’t know; but just judging by looks, any of them would have been better than Fox. She was not at all believable as a reporter... or an actress for that matter!
I had no idea Whoopi Goldberg was in this movie. She wasn’t in it much, and I was fine with that. I think she overacted her part and it didn’t seem natural. I can’t say I like Will Arnett, and I think he did a decent job with his character, but the character itself was stupid. William Fichtner is not a good actor. That is all.
This movie was made for kids, with no consideration of the older audience that would watch this movie because they were fans as kids (such as myself). There were no attempts to entertain adults watching this. You never saw Leo be the leader, Raph putting out the tough guy façade was shoehorned in, Donnie was overly geeky, and Mikey was supposed to be black? These small details ruined what I remember as a kid to be true.
The script and plot were god awful. Anything and everything, even if it wasn’t explained, was added to move the story forward, so it turned out to be so clunky. This review is longer than it needs to be, so I’m not even going to get into it.
Overall, there were no redeeming qualities. As a viewer, you don’t care about the plot, script, acting, or CGI. Because I was a fan of TMNT as a kid, I felt a huge disconnect with this movie. All of which leads me to say that this was a complete waste of my time and money.
***SPOILER ALERT***
It’s so stupid that Shredder has so many knives and the turtles have their own weapons (nunchucks, katana, sia,), yet there is no blood. It’s obvious that they wanted to keep it at a PG13 level in order to make more money from it. But why would you add SO many deadly/sharp weapons so excessively, and not have any gruesome deaths. In my opinion Michael Bay is a cop out: he went for money and sacrificed quality to do it.
I didn’t get why Eric Sacks’ house was covered in snow. He couldn’t have lived that far away from Manhattan, NY. Obviously that was added as a means to allow the turtles slide down the hill with their shells.
I just wanted to ask if anyone else noticed this (from IMDB); because I did:
“Originally, Michelangelo had a gold chain around his neck, but was ultimately changed after receiving criticism of being a stereotype towards black people. It was then digitally replaced with a seashell necklace to better represent Michelangelo's outgoing surfer & skateboarding personality.”
Lets just casually mention that Raphael wants to leave his brothers, but he becomes super sappy about near the end. That was laughable.
