Teenage Mutant Ninija Turtles
Kevin Munroe
Really? Another TMNT movie 14 years after the last one? Should you bother after all this while?
Well, the ending points to a sequel so care was taken to make sure this does not suck.
After the defeat of their arch nemesis The Shredder, the Turtles have fallen into disarray.It takes a crisis, of the save-the-world variety, to bring them back together as a team once more.
While the franchise has been updated with computer animation – the slimmer Turtles took a little getting used to – the feel of the movie was decidedly old-school. Still, it’s nice to see that the Turtles’ irreverent sense of humour is intact.
The film zipped along with lively energy and even the message about the importance of family was handled deftly and did not grate. Bonus points for echoing the theme, and subverting it, in the bad guys' camp.
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