![]() Nonetheless, it also is not at all very good. As a result, Turtles is not frantically edited, incoherently shot, or bloated. Oh, and they're up against someone with evil plans for world domination which involve feeding the people dangerous toxins and then being the only one who can sell them the antidotes.Īs producer, Bay does not assert his brand of filmmaking over the movie, allowing seasoned young South African director Jonathan Liebesman ( Battle: Los Angeles, Wrath of the Titans, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) to do things his own way. The Turtles have a mutagen coursing through their veins that gives them great power. Not much more needs to be said about the plot. And while you might be relieved to see Fichtner playing something other than a villain, that sentiment is premature. She brings this news to the attention of the company's namesake and CEO, Eric Sacks (William Fichtner). ![]() April's independent investigations lead her to discover that she actually knew these turtles as a child and that they were part of an experiment conducted at the company of her late father. But, when she digs deeper and discovers that the vigilante is actually a group of four mutant turtles named after Renaissance artists (Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo), she is laughed right out of a job (by a scarcely featured Whoopi Goldberg). April would actually love to be taken seriously as a journalist, but for now she is stuck with frothy remote assignments along with cameraman Vernon Fenwick (Will Arnett).Īpril thinks she's got her big break when she spots a stealthy vigilante standing up to the Foot Clan that has cornered New York's organized crime business. ![]() O'Neil, who loses her signature yellow jumpsuit but keeps her profession. We open with some Turtles mythos: the four human-sized, super powerful ninja turtles live in New York's sewers and, per the instructions of their master/father, human-sized rat Splinter, avoid ascending to the surface. Bay, who had a public falling out with original Transformers leading lady Megan Fox (who likened the filmmaker to Hitler), would patch things up with the actress and give her the top-billed human role of April O'Neil, the Turtles' reporter friend. That approach had worked for Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Smurfs, both of which spawned blockbuster films with major global appeal.Ī new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles finally arrived this summer, modeled less after those PG-rated family comedies than the Transformers series, whose director/executive producer Michael Bay would serve as first-billed producer here. Still, it was easy to view the Turtles as a fondly-recalled '80s property that was ripe for being discovered by a new generation. They even got a major motion picture in 2007's CG-animated TMNT, which opened strong but faded fast. The Turtles have maintained a presence on television, mostly in animated form, for all but a few years at the turn of the millennium. ![]() The franchise that began in 1984 with a little comic book, became an animated television series and popular toy line, and peaked with an early '90s trilogy of live-action films never really went away. People have been wanting to reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for a while. ![]()
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