Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 8, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
17
Negative:
15
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
58
Entertainment WeeklyKyle AndersonAug 7, 2014
Turtles is head-and-shell better than "Transformers." Cowabunga? Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Aug 6, 2014
What the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lacks is not fidelity, but a spirit of genuine boyish fun. Read full review
58
HitfixDrew McWeenyAug 3, 2014
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is about as predictable as movies get these days. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleWilliam GossAug 13, 2014
A consistently workmanlike helmer, Liebesman (Wrath of the Titans, Battle: Los Angeles) keeps the pace brisk and the overall tone closer to that of the recent G.I. Joe vehicles, infusing this glorified toy commercial with an almost aggressively knowing sense of humor and exactly one fun action sequence on New York’s most conveniently located mountaintop. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaAug 8, 2014
A dark, shaky, standard-issue superhero picture. Read full review
50
Washington PostSandie Angulo ChenAug 7, 2014
While this reboot is fun, it’s also forgettable and occasionally infuriating. Read full review
50
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreAug 6, 2014
The action beats are bigger and better than they’ve ever been in a Ninja Turtle film — brawls, shootouts, a snowy car-and-truck chase with big explosions and what not. But in between those scenes is an awful lot of chatter and exposition. For a film that aims younger (save for the die-hards who grew up with this franchise), that’s deadly dull. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweAug 4, 2014
The castmembers portraying Splinter and the turtles achieve a persuasive level of realism that was never possible with the elaborate puppetry required for the original film series and adequately fulfill expectations for their characters. Read full review
42
The PlaylistGabe ToroAug 5, 2014
It can't be overstated what kind of a marvel these Turtles are onscreen, however. As crude and unpleasant their design might be, they feel like living, breathing things, not special effects. Read full review
40
EmpireOlly RichardsOct 13, 2014
Heroes in a half-arsed shell. Read full review
40
SalonAndrew O'HehirAug 13, 2014
This extremely stupid movie, with its recycled Batman/Spider-Man-style plot involving a dead father, an evil scientist-tycoon (played by the reliably terrific William Fichtner) and a massive criminal underworld of masked thugs, also features the best action sequence of the summer, bar none. I’m not kidding! Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 7, 2014
Largely indistinguishable from any number of bloated superhero spectacles that have already graced our screens. Your kids may not mind it, but it’s more insistent than it is fun. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldAug 7, 2014
A certain kind of discipline and experience is at work here: It’s no accident that the action and dialogue seem blandly cartoonish, as if the moviemakers wanted to keep everything easy for all ages to follow. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenAug 7, 2014
Not out-and-out terrible enough to be completely dismissed, while also not particularly memorable either, perhaps the truest summation of the film is to say simply that the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a movie that exists. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 7, 2014
It's just kind of a mess, as unfocused and immature as the four mutant turtles at its core. Stuff happens, stuff blows up and this is probably a good time to mention that Michael Bay produced the film. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua RothkopfAug 5, 2014
Utterly inessential, this slightly cheap-looking reboot of the Turtles franchise is froth too — it might even be too tame for the kids who make up the target audience. Read full review
40
VarietyJustin ChangAug 4, 2014
Neither a particularly good movie nor the pop-cultural travesty that some were dreading. Read full review
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