[Movie] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie

Tried searching for it, but the last thread about it seems to have been made several months ago, and didn't want to revive it (although mods, feel free to merge this with the other one if you deem it necessary).

Anyway, I just saw it tonight, not expecting much at all. After all, this is yet another CGI movie coming out in the middle of spring, so it can't be that great right?

I was surprised by it actually. While the look of the characters takes a little getting used to, they still feel like the turtles and everything. The CGI is pretty well done considering that I've never heard of the company that did the work on it (I can't even remember their name atm). At times I could've sworn that they must've been using the rubber suits from the live action movies again, but the turtles almost feel realistic.

The storyline was pretty interesting (bad guy wants to takeover the world, and somehow the Foot Clan and aliens are involved, but if you're familiar with Ninja Turtles, then it shouldn't be that radically different from stuff you've seen before), and the character development for some of the characters was pretty sweet.

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Like the fight between Raphael and Leonardo. I haven't read all the comics or kept up with all the new cartoon series, but I've never seen them so angry at each other that they were on the verge of killing each other. Filmmakers take note, this is how you develop character lol, by actually making people care about the character and why he does what he does.

Granted, Donatello and Michaelangelo unfortunately don't get terribly much development, but they do play their support roles pretty well, esp. Mikey. He's definitely classic ninja turtles.

Even the main bad guy, who's not Shredder, has an interesting motive for wanting to do what he does, as explained in the beginning of the movie, but I won't spoil it anymore than what I said here. His backstory goes in well with the Turtle's "Brotherhood" ties.

The movie felt a little short, especially towards the end, when you could start to tell that it was probably rushed. But everything before that seemed somewhat well paced, and often kept you on the edge of your seat as to what could happen next.

There were a lot of kids in the theater I was in, but strangely enough, many of them were quiet for most of the movie. In fact, my friend who was sitting next to me was more annoying with his attempts at making witty comments throughout the movie, but that was usually drowned out by laughter from the comic relief scenes (and there are plenty of them, despite the movie's "dark" feel).

Oh yeah, one other thing I thought was badass:

Spoiler:

Splinter finally kicks some ass. Not terribly much, but at least he does something other than preach to the turtles on how they should be moral and what not. At least here you get a small sample of seeing him kick butt, kind of like Yoda in Star Wars.

I would definitely recommend seeing it if you're a Turtles fan, or just like watching decent CGI movies (I'm so glad that they didn't just stick to comedy the entire time in this movie. I wish we had more CGI movies in America with a wider variety of genres in them. And yes, there are a lot of funny parts, but usually it fits in well with the scene, so it doesn't feel too out of place).

Jam it back in, in the dark.