screenit review ninja turtles out of the shadows

#Screenit review ninja turtles out of the shadows movie#

I understand that the film wants to explore issues relating to the brothers and how they've failed to truly unite as a team, even though they did before (but that's irrelevant), but I just don't think it works in this setting of a live-action Saturday morning cartoon. There's a problem with this approach and that is the fact that the story is a complete Saturday morning cartoon cheesefest. Not saying that it doesn't embrace humor between the brothers, but it just doesn't embrace it enough. I can say the same thing about this movie, the relationship between the turtles is way too fucking serious for its own good.

Like I thought the first film attempting to be darker in terms of the turtles and their interactions, while also trying to embrace the absurdity of the concept, wasn't a good look. I think there's some issues that are shared with the first film. I would say that this is, really, average at best. It's not by much, for certain, but it's still a better movie.

#Screenit review ninja turtles out of the shadows movie#

Having said all of that, however, I'm genuinely surprised to find out that this was a better movie than the first one. Plus, in spite of the fact it was financially successful, it's not like the movie made such a great first impression that people would instantly want more of it. I mean the first movie was certainly financially successful, but it wasn't necessarily the greatest story ever told. For one reason or another, someone decided to commission a sequel. This brings us to this sequel of a below average 2014 reboot of the TMNT franchise. I wouldn't mind, but I don't think there would be anything in the way of nostalgia. This is normal, as you get older you start having other interests and I've never really bothered to give the TMNT franchise a look back. As I grew up and matured into a man, I didn't really continue my TMNT fandom. I can't say that happened to me with TMNT. It can make even the worst of movies seem amazing in your mind, even if you haven't revisited them in decades. Everything about it was great, nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Sometimes when this happens, people grow up looking at their favored franchises from their youth with rose colored glasses. So, yea, I was a big fan back in the day. I remember watching the cartoons and I also had some TMNT video games and toys.

I don't know if I saw all three of them, but I'm certain I saw, at least, the first two. But I digress, I remember seeing the live-action TMNT films. TMNT and the Terminator, as far as I remember, came first and the Power Rangers came later. TMNT, along with the first two Terminator films and the Power Rangers were some of my favorites as I was growing up. I went into this a bit in my review for the original 'reboot' movie, but the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were one of my first loves as a young lad.