As I mentioned before, watching The Secret of the Ooze with Patrick over the weekend put me in the mood to watch the new Turtles film. It surpassed my expectations, although frankly my expectations weren’t very high.
This is definitely the best of the Turtles movies in an objective sense. There isn’t any sense of VHS nostalgia with this film like with Part 2, but it’s actually a reasonably entertaining movie as opposed to a so-bad-yet-so-integral-to-your-childhood-it’s-good one like the show and the older movies are. Meant more for an 11 year old than a 23 year old, but still fun.
The animation is decent, and the director uses the computer animation to create a lot of over-the-top, physically impossible shots of the action. I particularly liked the shot where one of the turtles jumps off a roof, and the camera is sort of perched on his shoulder, pointed at the building and showing the action going on inside as he plummets. Cool.
The action is good and it has a goofy sense of humor. The plot, however, is needlessly convoluted. There seem to be 3 or 4 premises fighting for control of the plot, and none of them really pay off in any satisfying way. I was particularly disappointed at how the plot introduces a bunch of evil monsters at the beginning, then basically forgets about them by the halfway point.
Still, worth it if you liked this crap when you were a kid.
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