![]() They fight a gang of villains called The Foot Clan, led by a razor-sharp ninja called The Shredder, and by god in heaven they eat a lot of pizza.īut then there are the unnecessary changes, and few of them are an improvement. Leonardo leads, Donatello does machines (that’s a fact, jack), Raphael is cool but admittedly crude, and Michelangelo remains – as he always must – a party dude. They are still named Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael. The heroes are turtles who have been mutated into teenaged ninjas. Related: Comic-Con 2014 Interview with Director Jonathan Liebesman But although Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fails as a proper movie it does at least capture a certain childish energy that has a place in popular culture and in which I can find no particular fault all by itself. Movies for children can be just as coherent and dramatic as movies made for any other demographic. None of these failings were necessary to bring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to life, naturally. The action sequences are occasionally nifty – there’s a really cool high-speed chase down a mountainside – but typically bloated and ridiculous or at least, more ridiculous than they really have to be. The character development is nonexistent. The pace is so fast your brain would need a high-speed internet connection to simply follow along (or at least an awful lot of sugar). ![]() ![]() The plot is insipid, both simple and unnecessarily complicated in equal measure. Related: Comic-Con 2014: Interview with TMNT Creator Kevin Eastman The only difference is that now the adults of the 21st Century actually expect a movie called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (of all things) to appeal to them. Jonathan Liebesman’s reboot of the movie franchise attempts to relate to the children of today in very much the same manner that the cartoons, comics and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies did back in the 1990s, by flaunting the pop culture obsessions of a new generation and baffling all the adults in the process. So that this new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was made specifically for kids should come as no surprise. ![]()
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