This is the fifth TMNT movie but it’s a reboot of the
series, so it has nothing to do with the previous movies. It’s also a lot more dark and serious than a
turtles movie should be.
First of all, the movie takes way too long to introduce us
to the turtles. For the first 20 minutes
or so, we’re watching April O’Neal (Megan Fox) working as a news reporter. She wants to report on the big stories, but
she’s stuck doing fluff pieces. When she
witnesses the evil Foot clan trying to rob a shipping dock, she sees a
mysterious vigilante thwart the crime.
She tries to tell her news director (Whoopi Goldberg) who doesn’t
believe her.
It’s obvious the filmmakers were trying to make this as much
like Transformers as they can. The
problem is this is a movie for kids, and I think they would be bored by
it. We should be excited to meet the
turtles, and when we finally do, they’re a letdown. The CGI is good – unlike the 1990 movie,
their shells don’t bend when they fight – but the characters are too harsh and
sinister. Michelangelo is the only one
who cracks any jokes, and he made me laugh a few times.
The story is so convoluted.
There’s a rich scientist who turns out to be a villain, and he has a
master plan to release some kind of toxic gas that will kill everyone in New
York. The movie also adds a backstory
that links the turtles with April and her father, and I’m pretty sure that
backstory didn’t exist in the cartoon or the comics.
This should have been a fun, lighthearted movie with some
laughs and instead it’s dreary and dull.
I was bored the entire time. I
think TMNT fans are going to be very disappointed.
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