The anthropomorphic approach of animal characters is becoming more and more out of date

Rating: 4/10 (6 December 2003)

This movie is surely an achievement in a technical point if view. No need to argue about that. But there is a great problem : it tries to please adults as well as children in an over-speeded plot full of clichés. Do really children need so much complexity and action scenes ? I am not sure about that. Maybe children need more time to understand what is happening on the screen. Too much speed creates a stressed up and confusing atmosphere.
There is too much violence and the characters are shallow and stereotypical (I found the turtles to be extremely boring). The anthropomorphic approach of animal characters is becoming more and more out of date. Disney did it a thousand times and I still don't know if it is really a pertinent way of exlplaining things to children. Paradoxal ? A shallow movie set in the dephts of the ocean... Far too much hype for another sterotypical plot.