They're the worlds most fearsome fighting team...heroes on the half shell...if you still don't know who I'm talking about then just where the hell were you in the late 80's and early 90's? Because honestly, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were such a huge part of my young life that, to this day, I still watch the original live action TMNT movies on VHS that I'm actually really surprised still work considering they're older than some of siblings.
Now, this post was originally going to be me going on and on and on about how this new TMNT movie looks like crap and how I won't be seeing it. Well...I've done some thinking and reconsidered. No, I haven't done a complete 180 and am now going to be plugging the hell of it...but I will say I'll give it a chance.
My first impressions of this movie were not good ones, I will say that. The very first trailer I saw for this movie gave away literally nothing about the movie...so I was still cautiously optimistic.
Then things went a little south when I saw the next movie trailer. (Keep in mind these were my first thoughts after seeing the first long trailer) The Turtles themselves looked a little off, Splinter looked like a fox instead of a giant mutant rat, Splinter's voice just sounded odd, Casey Jones and April O'Neil look like they're rejected character models from the movie "The Incredibles", I didn't see the Shredder or the Foot clan anywhere, and the only villains in the movie seemed to be random ass monsters "from another dimension". After coming to those conclusions, it's pretty easy to see why my feelings for TMNT turned from cautious optimism to utter disdain rather quickly.
But then I took a step back, put down the Hater-aide and decided to take a closer look at the trailer and the movie itself. After some quick sleuthing, I found out a few things that changed a few of my first impressions.
First, I found out some more about the plot which put a few aspects of the trailer into perspective. Apparently, this movie takes place after the very first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie where the Shredder has been taken out by the Turtles and the Foot is in disarray. Some years after this, a billionaire tycoon starts amassing an army of other worldly monsters and uses what remains of the Foot and his army of beasts to take over the world....somehow. Now, the plot has taken shape somewhat and some of my original gripes have been answered - even though following this storyline the events of TMNT2: Secret of the Ooze never happened which is pretty lame, in my opinion. But at least is clears up just what in the hell is up with the monsters and the Foot clan.
Next, and you'll have to pardon me as I can't find the source where I got this info, but it seems that TMNT is going to be following the old comic Turtles storyline, in regards to Master Splinter anyway. It seems that in this movie, Master Splinter isn't the rat owned by Hamato Yoshi, Shredder's old adversary - rather, in this story, Splinter IS a mutated Hamato Yoshi...which doesn't really make sense to me since I've never read a single Turtles comic but whatever. Now I can't be sure if this is true or totally false but it could explain why Splinter looks the way he does.
In the end, though, I'm still not really excited for this movie. Just because I was a huge Turtles fan back in the day, doesn't mean I'm turning my back on my childhood idols by speaking ill of a movie based on a franchise that hasn't had a meaningful contribution to the series since Tokka and Rahzar (The monsters from TMNT2: Secret of the Ooze for those of you not "in the know"). I'm just sick of people giving me looks like I kicked a puppy when I say "I'm not so sure about the new TMNT movie."
Just because it's a new TMNT movie doesn't mean it will be good. Remember the third live action Turtles movie? Because I wish I didn't.
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