Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (Post-release)

[Vivek]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie discussion with spoilers.

You can find the pre-release discussion thread here.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Trailer #2 - YouTube

Release Date: August 08, 2014.

Synopsis: Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April O'Neil and her cameraman Vern Fenwick to save the city and unravel Shredder's diabolical plan.

Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Writers: Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Evan Daugherty. Peter Laird & Kevin Eastman (comic book).
Cast: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, Pete Ploszek, Johnny Knoxville (voice), Jeremy Howard, Noel Fisher, Alan Ritchson, Danny Woodburn, Tony Shalhoub (voice), Whoopi Goldberg, Minae Noji, Abby Elliott.

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291150/

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[Jeyl]

MobieBob reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

"This is the Worst thing to happen to turtles since Cannibal Holocaust."
- Bob Chipman

 

[JoeG]

As a fan of the original comic book: No. Just, no.

 

[The Mad Professor]

Oh that review hit on everything that I could have possibly thought to be wrong with the movie. The minute I heard Michael Bay was doing the movie and that they cast Megan Fox as April, I KNEW the movie was doomed.

He hit on one major point that I've been saying since day one: April O'Neill is trying to get her big break and be seen for her talents, not her looks. This I get. However, casting Megan Fox was a bad move because she's trying to do the same thing... and failing miserably. I could get behind it if they cast someone who is both beautiful AND talented, such as Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lawrence, or Nina Dobrev, but the only thing that Megan Fox offers is a vapid expression and a once-smoking, but now practically emaciated and poorly inked body that's about five plastic surgeries away from looking like an extra in Night of the Living Dead.

 

[cayman shen]

MobieBob reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

"This is the Worst thing to happen to turtles since Cannibal Holocaust."
- Bob Chipman

That is one of the most sublime one liners in the history of cinema. I'm friggin' dying :lol

 

[niennumb1]

What I don't get about some of what people say is criticizing others of wanting a good film by responding that it's a movie about turtles who are ninjas and people shouldn't take things so seriously, yet out of the older movies people say TMNT3 was garbage compared to the other 2...... But why should that matter because it's a movie with turtle ninjas and shouldn't be taken seriously, right?

I think anything can be done with a great story and that's what makes a film hold up in the long run is a well done movie from story to character development and action. We're moving away from brains and heart and going for shallow and lifeless.

I know people are getting tired of comparing our latest GotG film getting rave reviews, but that was a film with all kinds of weirdness done so well on many levels and the people are responding by seeing it again and again. It's not so bad giving a film some heart and depth.
Niennumb1

 

[DARKSIDE72]

Garbage... May it bomb.

 

[crabra comander]

I'll just say it was better than TMNT 3 and the ending was better than Secret of the Ooze leave it at that.

Shredder was who he was supposed to be. The turtles personalities remained intact. I don't care about Mikey hitting on Megan Fox. It's the same way in the kids cartoon, not blatantly sexual or anything.

The biggest misstep in this film is that there is absolutely no motivation to move the story forward or explain why things are the way they are. No explanation for Shredders upgraded suit, we just see him appear, no explanation for the backstory of Shredder, he's just there. Alot of things are just never explained or fleshed out. LAZY STORYTELLING.

Even TMNT 3 had back-storytelling.

I will say that some fight scenes turned out better than expected, despite the turtles being able to demolish foot soldiers in one hit....BUT, the camera angles detract from the action pieces. Weird angles detract from solid martial arts techniques on display. Like, WTF, I came to see them perform martial arts not fast cut to a dude flying across the screen.

Shredder was totally fine in his role. He will return as well

Shame really, alot of wasted potential. If the story had been done right every other part of this movie would have been fine. The turtles grow on you, master Splinter is a nasty ass rat though...he's just not cool to see...

 

[seelsa73]

^^^^ Finally, a fair and objective view from someone who's actually seen the movie instead of all the incessant Bay-bashers who's refusal to see it has more to do with his involvement than anything else.

 

[Dessa]

I liked Turtles 3... (won't watch this, though)

 

[crabra comander]

Good job, way to add to the conversation and singlehandedly remove your credibility all at once.

I liked Turtles 3... (won't watch this, though)

 

[Paul Andrew]

I like turtles.

 

[infymys]

Yay for free passes, because, I don't think I could have justified even spending matinee price on this movie. At least I could somewhat get behind the origin but we completely lose the Hamato Yoshi and Oroku Saki dynamic. And speaking of Saki, do we even know it's even him as the Shredder? Karai being in the movie could hint towards it but once again, we lose that dynamic without Hamato.

The CGI fight scenes were decent but I couldn't stop rolling my eyes at that Shredder suit. It was so....... shiny. I'm also surprised he couldn't fly with all that tech in it. I can go on about all the plot holes but that would require a lot of typing.

An finally, how the hell do they fit into the manholes?

 

[DuneMuadDib]

It wasn't as bad as I expected, but it wasn't exactly enjoyable either. I'd give it a half-hearted "meh."

The personalities for the turtles were fairly well executed. I liked that Raph wasn't a complete a-hole but still a contrarian. Mikey and Leo were spot on, Donnie was a bit too C-3P0 with constantly spouting off statistics. Megan Fox was serviceable, felt like Will Arnet and William Fischer were slumming it though.

The evil plot was utterly stupid, no clue what Shredder has to benefit from that unless he's just money hungry. I have no idea how they expect to rule NYC, let alone why they'd want to. The emotional moments weren't earned at all, no matter how the soundtrack tried to bolster them. The movie clearly uses the same physics that Peter Jackson's Hobbit films do, oddly pulled me out of the finale fight. The cgi for the turtles is okay, but lousy on Splinter; the same could be said of their designs. Iron Shredder was stupid, and what's the point of shifting the personal vendetta away from him?

At least it has a decent pace, the action wasn't bad, and was good for a few chuckles. I feel with another pass or two at the script and some better people doing the cgi they could have had a somewhat good film.

 

[The Mad Professor]

Wow... here's an image of the Bay-Turtle action figures.

I'm... not impressed.

Is it just me, or does Raph look like he is trying to work out a complex mathematical formula in his head while taking a crap?

 

[AJTaliesen]

Is it just me, or does Raph look like he is trying to work out a complex mathematical formula in his head while taking a crap?

He's crapping out the script to Bay's next travesty.


And yes, I know it's become vogue to bash Bay's films, but frankly, there's a reason for that. Lot's of them.

 

[EyeofSauron]

soooo, how much reshoots did they do to get oroku saki in there? cause if you leave him out and just make sachs shredder, literally nothing changes. the whole shredder thing felt like they just reshot it so that the fan cryouts are silenced. also, why else would they have announced sachs as shredder like a year ago and never said that he wasnt after?

 

[nitrox]

I'm going to have to say this was a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, the turtles personality was what I remembered from my childhood.

Sure its not golden globe material, and I do have a few gripes with the film, but honestly I had a good time.

 

[ecl]

The turtle designs look okay to me, but honestly tired of the schizo ADD cgi-fest.

 

[Shadow345]

This movie was actually pretty good. Because of the negative reviews I was waiting the whole time for the movie to get bad and it never did.