I went and saw the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie today, and was somewhat disappointed. After the awesomeness that was the original live action movies, I was expecting some really good stuff from this CGI epic. However, the humans were very stylized (yeah yeah, it’s going for cartoony not realistic), to an almost ridiculous point. Another thing was the accents of the Foot Clan leader (not Shredder, he dead) and Splinter were very annoying. Not standard, stereotypical, cliché asian accents that we all know and love, but strange accents like a stereotypical accent but then under-pronounced, like the voice actors couldn’t be bothered to do a good job.
On a brighter side, the action sequences were pretty good, especially the Leonardo/Raphael battle scene (sorry if that’s a spoiler, but I’m not telling you the outcome so yeah). The plot moved very fast at the beginning, to an extreme amount, but it’s aimed at already hyperactive kids high on sugar and popcorn (by the way, the theater was filled with a low-level din for the entire film, due to it being packed with little kids).
All in all, it was a good movie. A little lacking visually, and not nearly enough ‘dudes’ ‘cowabungas’ and not a single instance of the famed ninja rap:
Too bad, but still a good movie. It had a rap called ‘shell shock’ which I guess is the replacement for GO NINJA GO NINJA GO!
Please don’t trash-talk Mako (Master Splinter) again, or I may have to unleash my nunchaku upon you.