Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / 2007 (Spoilers)

[Entropy]

Saw it last night. Overall, a lot better than I thought it was going to be. It dragged a bit in a few places and some of the writing was a bit, well, 1980s cartoon, but on the whole I enjoyed myself.

The animation (which I wasn't much of a fan of in stills) flowed well and looked good in action, as did the character designs (well, the human ones did. I thought that the turtles looked good from the get-go, and they very much capture the look of the original comics, especially in distance shots).

The plot was a little patchwork. Karai and the Foot Clan, cool as they were to see, seemed mainly tacked on for mythos sake, but the main villains and plot were interesting. I wished they had been explored a bit more indepth, especially the dynamic they set up of the villains family against the Turtles. Overall though, it was nice to see something different being tried.

I was a big fan of April's portrayal here, elevating her from the whole damsel in distress/sidekick persona to being someone who can play ball. Casey Jones was cool too, especially his combat outfit, but his persona needed to be a bit rougher I think.

As for the Turtles themselves, they did a good (but not great) job of portraying them. Leo was pretty spot on, so was Donny, but Raph needed to be a bit harder and biting I think, and Mikey just a bit less obnoxious. Still, they came off as the Turtles of old, which was nice.

In all, I enjoyed it for good fun, and I'm not opposed to the sequel that is blatantly set up.

 

[darkspider]

Re: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / 2007

I just got back from seeing this in theaters. My love for the turtles goes waaaaay back, so I was really looking forward to this film.

It was teh awesome. But I'm sure plenty of people would argue with me.

I agree. This was great. Eh, Shredder's kid, the Foot's leader chic, she was...iffy. It would've been great if they didn't add it.

When I saw the Leo/Ralph scene, at first I thought that they would fight, but only with Ralph being Nigh****cher. So we'd get cheated out of an awesome battle. But THEN they FIGHT. And Ralph, I'm sad to say, kicked Leo's butt. He broke his katana.
Poor Leo...

 

[Ice]

Re: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / 2007

I agree. This was great. Eh, Shredder's kid, the Foot's leader chic, she was...iffy. It would've been great if they didn't add it.

When I saw the Leo/Ralph scene, at first I thought that they would fight, but only with Ralph being Nigh****cher. So we'd get cheated out of an awesome battle. But THEN they FIGHT. And Ralph, I'm sad to say, kicked Leo's butt. He broke his katana.
Poor Leo...

If you think about it, Leo won the real fight. But that's just my view of it. He showed Raph that he does let anger take the best of him. He was about to almost kill him!

And that's why Leo really is better. Raph acts without thinking. But then that's also what makes him a great character. He's not like the others, making him really stand out.

 

[The Overlord]

What do you think the story for the sequal should be? I think it would be cool if they adapted "City At War" from the comics.

 

[Ice]

What do you think the story for the sequal should be? I think it would be cool if they adapted "City At War" from the comics.

I've never read the comics, so what's the story about? Can you tell me?

Don't forget spoiler tags.

 

[The Overlord]

I've never read the comics, so what's the story about? Can you tell me?

Don't forget spoiler tags.

Okay

Spoiler

In the orginal comics, the TMNT killed Shredder in the first issue, though the Foot had these worms that eat organs and recreate them, allowing them to create a clone of Shredder, (there was one perfect clone and 3 failed clones) then the TMNT killed him again in the "Return to New York" storyline and they burned the body so the Foot could not make another clone of him. This time he stayed dead.

Without their leader the Foot started to fall apart and fight with eachother. Years later these tensions result in a gang war between the different factions. The story begins with a Foot ninja blowing up a porn shop run by a rival faction. Anyway Leo wants the TMNT to get involved, because he feels responsible for the current violence, Raph, doesn't want to get involved and hopes the Foot factions merely kill eachother. However the descision is taken out of their hands.

The most dangerous Faction is called the Shredder Elite, which is atttacking the other factions at random. They are loyal only to the Shredder and not the Foot. Since Leo killed Shredder, they will not rest untill Leo has been killed.

The leaders of the Foot, in Japan, are trouble by the infighting in their American branch and send Karai there to sort things out. Karai makes a deal with the TMNT, kill the Shredder Elite and the Foot will no longer seek revenge on them. While Karai was meeting the TMNT, the Shredder Elite attacked Foot HQ and killed everyone in the building, including Karai's daugther.

Anyway, Karai dresses up as the Shredder and lures the Elite to burnt out ruins of April's old apartemnt and shop (burned down years ago by Shredder and the Foot) and after an instense battle, Karai and the TMNT kill the Elite.

There were also a bunch of sub plots, April moves back to LA with her sister, Casey marries a pregnant woman, who dies in child birth, so Casey decides to raise the child and Splinter is trapped in a mine shaft with only the Rat King to keep him company. To adapt this story some elements would have to be changed Karai has already been introduced, so her role will have to change somewhat and I think they will have to drop all the sub plots. They will also likely also have to tone down some of the violence.

 

[SSJmole]

What do you think the story for the sequal should be?

I would like a story similar to the giant battle from the new cartoon where shredder knocked leo through a window and the other turtles and splinter had to leave the city but they train hard return to city and face shredder going in to his base to fight him.

 

[Random]

I would like a story similar to the giant battle from the new cartoon where shredder knocked leo through a window and the other turtles and splinter had to leave the city but they train hard return to city and face shredder going in to his base to fight him.

Switch Leo with Ralph and you have the first movie

 

[SSJmole]

Switch Leo with Ralph and you have the first movie

true but I meant do it different. But might just be silly.

 

[thee great one]

I just seen it and it was great fun.

 

[Void.M]

What do you think the story for the sequal should be? I think it would be cool if they adapted "City At War" from the comics.

Rumor is that it would be about shrederrs return

 

[Ice]

Okay

Spoiler

In the orginal comics, the TMNT killed Shredder in the first issue, though the Foot had these worms that eat organs and recreate them, allowing them to create a clone of Shredder, (there was one perfect clone and 3 failed clones) then the TMNT killed him again in the "Return to New York" storyline and they burned the body so the Foot could not make another clone of him. This time he stayed dead.

Without their leader the Foot started to fall apart and fight with eachother. Years later these tensions result in a gang war between the different factions. The story begins with a Foot ninja blowing up a porn shop run by a rival faction. Anyway Leo wants the TMNT to get involved, because he feels responsible for the current violence, Raph, doesn't want to get involved and hopes the Foot factions merely kill eachother. However the descision is taken out of their hands.

The most dangerous Faction is called the Shredder Elite, which is atttacking the other factions at random. They are loyal only to the Shredder and not the Foot. Since Leo killed Shredder, they will not rest untill Leo has been killed.

The leaders of the Foot, in Japan, are trouble by the infighting in their American branch and send Karai there to sort things out. Karai makes a deal with the TMNT, kill the Shredder Elite and the Foot will no longer seek revenge on them. While Karai was meeting the TMNT, the Shredder Elite attacked Foot HQ and killed everyone in the building, including Karai's daugther.

Anyway, Karai dresses up as the Shredder and lures the Elite to burnt out ruins of April's old apartemnt and shop (burned down years ago by Shredder and the Foot) and after an instense battle, Karai and the TMNT kill the Elite.

There were also a bunch of sub plots, April moves back to LA with her sister, Casey marries a pregnant woman, who dies in child birth, so Casey decides to raise the child and Splinter is trapped in a mine shaft with only the Rat King to keep him company. To adapt this story some elements would have to be changed Karai has already been introduced, so her role will have to change somewhat and I think they will have to drop all the sub plots. They will also likely also have to tone down some of the violence.

Wow. That's really good. I wouldn't mind seeing that as a movie.

 

[Sacred&Profane]

I really enjoyed this. Now I want to re-watch the older trilogy, though I've never seen the third one.

I can't wait for another. Pure, unadultered fun.

 

[Lynx]

I really enjoyed this. Now I want to re-watch the older trilogy, though I've never seen the third one.

I can't wait for another. Pure, unadultered fun.

Don't. Its a terrible movie.

As for this one, I think it was a worthy successor to the first two Turtles movies. I'd definitely check out a sequel (Shedder's return would be awesome).

 

[Random]

I really enjoyed this. Now I want to re-watch the older trilogy, though I've never seen the third one.

I can't wait for another. Pure, unadultered fun.

I saw a clip of the opening action scene of the second movie a few weeks ago, where they were fighting the criminals in the mall, and Donetello did this hilarious bit with one of those balloons you punch and it stands back up. I was serious laughing my *** off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzPf2tywRQo

 

[SSJmole]

I really enjoyed this. Now I want to re-watch the older trilogy, though I've never seen the third one.

I can't wait for another. Pure, unadultered fun.

Don't. Its a terrible movie.

As for this one, I think it was a worthy successor to the first two Turtles movies. I'd definitely check out a sequel (Shedder's return would be awesome).

Agreed the third film is bad. Still watch it though

now the third film has more meaning since this new one has no shredder and neither did 3rd film it will mean more when he returns.

plus Ice posted about a cool sounding little easter egg (or what ever you want to call it) about something from third film been in new film

I saw a clip of the opening action scene of the second movie a few weeks ago, where they were fighting the criminals in the mall, and Donetello did this hilarious bit with one of those balloons you punch and it stands back up. I was serious laughing my *** off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzPf2tywRQo

my favourite scene in the mall on II was mikey with the yo yo makes me laugh every time

 

[Ice]

plus Ice posted about a cool sounding little easter egg (or what ever you want to call it) about something from third film been in new film

Yeah, that basically is an easter egg. Definet cool one.

 

[SSJmole]

Yeah, that basically is an easter egg. Definet cool one.

yeah and thank you for pointing it out. I'll be looking for it.


like the second (of many) times i saw episode III of star wars in the cinema I was looking out for the millennium falcon

 

[Lynx]

Yeah, that basically is an easter egg. Definet cool one.

Showing Splinter's trophy wall, with Shedder's helmet, the ooze canister and the various things from the third movie was awesome. I'm really glad they decided to tie it to the first three.

 

[Ice]

Showing Splinter's trophy wall, with Shedder's helmet, the ooze canister and the various things from the third movie was awesome. I'm really glad they decided to tie it to the first three.

Yes, the other easter egg. I really enjoyed that. Even seeing the scepter.