Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 8, 2014

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Humza5Aug 8, 2014

really Great and awesome, glad i watched it, screw you meta score and get lost, you don't know a good movie even if it hit you in the head like the Avengers got a below 70 !?!?!?

5 of 26 users found this helpful521

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ToddAwesomeAug 8, 2014

It is clear to me that Anything Michael Bay touches has a target audience of children with autism. The movie is over the top stupid.out of the 6 TMNT movies that have been released (including the direct to video one) this one comes in 10th.It is clear to me that Anything Michael Bay touches has a target audience of children with autism. The movie is over the top stupid.out of the 6 TMNT movies that have been released (including the direct to video one) this one comes in 10th.

CONS:
Megan Fox can act her way out of a TMNT lunch box.
William Fichtner is clearly phoning it in and his character is complete unbelievable.
Johnny Knoxville does an awful job voicing Leo.
The explosions look more like fireworks than explosions.

Overall very disappointing.… Expand

8 of 16 users found this helpful88

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ZarnoldAug 8, 2014

This movie completely satisfied me and set itself up for a great sequel. It had great CGI and facial animation which made the turtles seem like actual characters. It had amazing fight scenes and actually made me say, DAMN! great new story andThis movie completely satisfied me and set itself up for a great sequel. It had great CGI and facial animation which made the turtles seem like actual characters. It had amazing fight scenes and actually made me say, DAMN! great new story and it made me laugh out loud several times. I can't wait for the second.… Expand

26 of 73 users found this helpful2647

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brykotykAug 8, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ultimately it’s just kind of… there. It’s bland. Most of the things that make the TMNT franchise feel special have been sanded off to make a very generic modern superhero movie, but one that does almost everything worse than the rest do. There’s a brief action scene that’s sort of like a key early sequence in Batman Begins, just… worse. The origin backstory for the Turtles and Splinter and the entire climax scene are photocopies of The Amazing Spider-Man, just… worse. They add nothing to what came before. None of it’s memorable. It’s just there.
If I can give some praise, I’ll give it to Noel Fisher. He’s a good Michelangelo. The few times I found myself smiling, it was because of his performance. Easily the high point.
The script is awful. Nothing makes a bit of sense. Eric Sacks’ evil master plan is to pump the city full of deadly gas and use the curative properties of the mutagen (a shoehorned-in aspect of the IDW comic series that’s just kinda… there, overcomplicating things for no specific reason) to play the “saviour” and cure everyone, and also receive a big government payday. He’s doing it to get rich, even though he’s clearly already crazy rich, with a palatial mountain estate and his own corporate tower in Manhattan. He has no additional motivation. And his actual plan is laughably stupid - he has the Shredder pump the bright red poison gas out from the top of his tower in the city… which would be immediately noticed by absolutely everyone and reveal that he was behind it all along. How does this plan end with anything but him in a prison cell?
The Shredder himself? He doesn’t need to be in this movie. He serves no purpose. He’s just there to fight Splinter and the Turtles, nothing more. He has no motivation and no character. And even then, he’s almost comically bad at being the big bad villain - he just leaves characters “for dead” twice, who of course turn out to be alive, for no good reason at all. Just, welp, I’m leaving now because whatever. Just to give the movie some cheap drama.
This movie doesn’t really have much of a plot to speak of. I think it might have more plot holes than actual plot. Plot holes you could drive a Turtle Van through. (Hey, how’s that for a DVD pull quote?)
It also doesn’t have any real characters; they’re all pretty broad, basic archetypes at best. There’s no real character development or “arc” for anyone. They try to shoehorn one in for Raphael at the end, but the only setup is a very brief scene early on where he threatens to abandon his family. Not much more comes of it, and his big “emotional breakthrough” falls totally flat. They’re trying to have a big character moment without doing the work to set it up.
In fact, there are a number of attempts at “serious”/emotional scenes that were completely laughable. There was nothing to sell them. They weren’t earned and fell flat. The movie does almost nothing to make you care about these characters - it’s assuming you already do, and that makes it fail on the most basic story level.
The mo-cap technology used is impressive on a technical level, but the directing make it impossible to believe they’re “real”. Part of that is because all of the shots with no humans in them (and there are a bunch) are in full CGI, and there’s no “real camera” to speak of. The way the digital camera zooms in and flies around looks incredibly fake and downright physically impossible, which makes all of those scenes feel like a cartoon or a video game. It doesn’t match up with the “real” footage at all, so it’s a really jarring, distracting fit that highlights how unreal the Turtles are. In a movie like this, it was the worst possible choice they could have made.
The action sequences are obnoxious. In fact, the entire movie seems to be directed by a 12-year-old with ADHD. The camera is constantly swooping in and out and tilting into dutch angles and spinning around and shaking with no rhyme or reason. There’s a scene where some random schlub answering a phone gets a dramatic camera swoop. It’s insane. There are no real storytelling skills on display here; it’s just trying to be as busy as possible so you won’t notice. At times it’s downright incomprehensible.
There’s really not that much more to say about it. It’s a bad movie. It’s pretty forgettable. You can barely even call it a movie, or a story, at all. It’s a bunch of mediocre video-game cut scenes sloppily cut together as a movie. But worst of all, it doesn’t do anything to stand out from the most generic superhero-style action movies out there. And for a TMNT movie, that’s probably the worst thing that can be said about it.
And that’s the thing… none of my main criticisms have anything to do with the changes to the Turtles’ designs, or the changes to the backstory, or Megan Fox, or any of the other reasons that have set the fanbase on edge. It’s all to do with this being a poorly-written, poorly-made movie on its own merits. There’s nothing worthwhile about it.… Expand

28 of 42 users found this helpful2814

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Pacific_InfernoAug 8, 2014

This is a complete bastardization of a beloved childhood franchise, in fact it's Transformers 5, but instead of robots you have turtles. If you must go to a movie, see Guardians of the Galaxy instead.

If you want to see new TMNT, tuneThis is a complete bastardization of a beloved childhood franchise, in fact it's Transformers 5, but instead of robots you have turtles. If you must go to a movie, see Guardians of the Galaxy instead.

If you want to see new TMNT, tune into Nickelodeon for the new cartoon. Where this movie is bland and an obvious cash grab, the new cartoon is charming with awesome nods to the series from the 80's and 90's. The only way we can stop the destruction of the things we loved from childhood is to stop funneling money into projects like this by seeing them.… Expand

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kivayugimotoAug 8, 2014

It was a fun movie with an attractive female lead in Megan Fox. If you are into the teenage mutant ninja turtles, or in seeing a hero type of movie; you will enjoy it.

7 of 29 users found this helpful722

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GUe1Aug 8, 2014

Megan Fox is the protagonist of the TMNT movie while the turtles are mere supporting characters just like in Transformers. This was horrible. I expected the movie to be bad but not this bad. 0/10, I want my money back.

If you haven't seenMegan Fox is the protagonist of the TMNT movie while the turtles are mere supporting characters just like in Transformers. This was horrible. I expected the movie to be bad but not this bad. 0/10, I want my money back.

If you haven't seen Guardians of the Galaxy yet then go and watch it now, it's a great film and not a waste of precious time and money like this TMNT abomination.… Expand

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alaffyAug 8, 2014

I went into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with some trepidation and I have to say the movie is better then I thought it would be. That's not to say I loved the film, but I didn't outright hate it either. I actually like the way the turtlesI went into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with some trepidation and I have to say the movie is better then I thought it would be. That's not to say I loved the film, but I didn't outright hate it either. I actually like the way the turtles acted and there were some good scenes. The thing that needs to be understood about this movie is that it is clearly written for a younger audience. This means the story is oversimplified at some points and that leads to some very obvious plot holes. In the end, I just felt that the movie was ok. It's not the worst TMNT project out there, but it's not really high on the list. If you have young kids, they will probably like this movie. If you're an adult, you may just want to rent this instead.… Expand

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CriTic25Aug 8, 2014

It was an amazing Movie! I enjoyed every second of it! it also was much better than I thought it would be, there were mind-blowing action scenes, it also was pretty funny, there were tons of jokes and I liked it, Shredder was Badass, theIt was an amazing Movie! I enjoyed every second of it! it also was much better than I thought it would be, there were mind-blowing action scenes, it also was pretty funny, there were tons of jokes and I liked it, Shredder was Badass, the fight scene between Splinter and Shredder was brilliant, Turtles looked great, I like the new look, Megan Fox Also did a great job on this, main plot was pretty stupid but who cares... it's a movie for kids, Fight scenes were amazing, One of the best Michael Bey Movies!… Expand

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