Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tags: good versus evil, violence, humor, action, flashback

Plot synopsis:
The villainous criminal organization known as the Foot Clan has been terrorizing New York City, led by the ruthless Shredder. Beneath the sewers, the rat sensei Master Splinter (Danny Woodburn) has been training his four sons until they are ready to take Shredder on and become heroes.Meanwhile, Reporter April O'Neil (Megan Fox) pesters a dock worker for information on chemical materials that the Foot Clan may be involved with. Not getting any answers, she and her cameraman Vernon Fenwick (Will Arnett) go into the city to do a puff piece on trampoline fitness. April wants to do better stories, but Vern assures her that some people enjoy these kinds of stores the same way they enjoy foam on coffee.April learns from the dock worker that something is being brought in by the docks. She rides her bike there at night to find the Foot Clan, led by their lieutenant Karai (Minae Noji), preparing to bring something in. April tries to get footage on her phone, when a shadowy figure shows up and takes out the Foot Soldiers one by one. The figure leaves behind a symbol that April recognizes. She tells her roommate Taylor (Abby Elliott) about this, and also at work to her boss Bernadette Thompson (Whoopi Goldberg), but nobody seems to believe her or care about what she has to say.We see a man with his hands tied behind his back, and a Foot Soldier trying to attack him, but the man easily takes the Soldier down. This man is The Shredder. Karai reports to him about the vigilante activity, and that these non-human creatures must be stopped.The NYPD teams up with Eric Sacks (William Fichtner) of Sacks Group Inc to take down the Foot Clan. April finds Sacks at an event, where we learn that her father worked with Sacks on a project before he passed away.After the event, April and Vern drive home when they see terrorized New Yorkers scrambling all around the streets. April leaves the van to check it out, only to get grabbed by a Foot Soldier and thrown in with other hostages. Karai calls out the vigilantes to show themselves, or the Foot Soldiers will execute the hostages. The Ninja Turtles catch them on their cameras, and them ride the subway to find the Foot Clan and beat them down easily, freeing the hostages in the process. April runs out and climbs a fire escape to find the Turtles on the roof. She snaps a picture, which startles them. She gets grabbed and is confronted by the Turtles, causing her to faint. When she comes to, she meets the four heroes in a half-shell - the leader Leonardo (Pete Plozek), the brainy Donatello (Jeremy Howard), rebellious Raphael (Alan Ritchson), and goofball Michelangelo (Noel Fisher). Donnie wiped April's phone, and Leo hands it back to her, warning her not to tell anybody about them, or they'll find her. Mikey reiterates this, and it's obvious he's attracted to April. The Turtles leave, but April still manages to get a picture of them from a distance.April runs home and opens a box filled with documents, pictures, and videos on Project Renaissance, what her father and Sacks were working on. April sees a video of her as a kid recording in her father's lab, using a mutagen on the Turtles and Splinter, pre-mutation. She personally named them and fed them pizza, which they all loved. She even recognizes the symbol from earlier as meaning "family."The Turtles try to sneak back into their lair without alerting Splinter. However, he manages to catch them and punishes them by making them maintain balance on certain items until they tell him why they were out on the streets. Splinter breaks Mikey by tempting him with (what else) pizza. Mikey admits they were out fighting the Foot Clan and when he mentions April's name, Splinter is alarmed and he orders the Turtles to go find her.April continues digging into the Turtles' past, and she tells Thompson about what she saw the previous night. Unfortunately, this gets her fired. Afterwards, Vern takes her to the Sacks Estate so she can personally ask Sacks about what he and Dr. O'Neil were working on. She shows Sacks the photo of the Turtles, and he takes her into his room to tell her about his past in Japan, being abandoned by his father and learning of a legend about a ruthless warlord in the area. He gives April his card.April logs onto her computer to find some news on the Turtles in the subway, only to find that Donnie hacked her computer and sent her an address for her to meet them at. She goes alone and the Turtles take her into their lair. There, she meets Splinter, who remembered April before he mutated. He tells her that her father was working with Sacks and Shredder, but he learned that Shredder was planning something evil, and so Dr. O'Neil burned the lab down, at the cost of his own life. April saved Splinter and the Turtles, and she took them to the sewers to be safe. The mutagen later took effect and turned Splinter into a walking and talking rat that raised the Turtles as his sons. The boys were always curious about life above the surface, but Splinter tried to keep them away, and instead taught himself the art of ninjitsu before passing it down to the Turtles. When they were ready, he armed them with their trademark weapons (Leo with his katanas, Donnie with his bo staff, Raph with his sai, and Mikey with his nunchucks). Splinter expresses his thanks to April for protecting them.Sacks is really working for Shredder, and they come by his armor, which has been given some upgrades. The Foot Clan also manages to track the location of the lair. They infiltrate the place, triggering an alarm that alerts the Turtles. The Foot Soldiers break in with a bomb and blow the place open. The Turtles fight the Soldiers, and Splinter gets in on the action himself. Mikey brings April to a safe spot before returning to fight. Shredder enters the lair, decked out in his armor with multiple knives on each arm. He faces off with Splinter, who dodges Shredder's knives and gets a few good hits in. Splinter shuts the doors to protect his sons, but they lift them up in time to see Shredder grab Splinter and hold him before the Turtles, threatening to kill him if they don't lay down their weapons. They do so, but Shredder still hits Splinter hard enough to take him out, while the Soldiers cattle-prod the Leo, Donnie, and Mikey, capturing them and then blowing the lair up. Raph emerges from the rubble and goes with April to take Splinter to rest. He pleads with Raph to save his brothers and stop Shredder. Raph gets ready to spring into action.April calls Vern to take her and Raph to the Sacks Estate again. Vern sees Raph and, although he's shocked, he complies and drives them. In the laboratory beneath his home, Sacks holds Leo, Donnie, and Mikey in cages, trying to extract their blood that contains mutagen. His and Shredder's plan is to infect the city with a toxin that would quarantine the city, and then seize control over everyone with the mutagen to use as a cure. Outside, Vern rams through the gate, running over Foot Soldiers. Raph busts out of the van to go find his brothers. April and Vern follow. Raph fights Shredder on his own while April tries to free the others by giving them an adrenaline injection. This allows them to bust out and help Raph fight Shredder before the villain flees.The heroes hijack a truck with Karai and the Foot Soldiers chasing after them. The Soldiers hit the truck with an RPG, causing them to slide down the mountain. The Turtles slide down the mountain on their shells, taking out the Foot Clan trucks by slamming into them or flipping them over. Donnie calculates a big drop happening momentarily. Karai hooks onto Leo as he tries to save April and Vern, causing her truck to tumble over and crash into a tree. Raph pulls Leo, April, and Vern up in time. They then head over to the city to stop Shredder.Shredder and Sacks make it back to Sacks's tower to release the toxin. April and Vern go look for the mutagen while the Turtles take Shredder on. They charge in with Mikey yelling "Cowabunga!" The Turtles gang up on Shredder, but he proves a tough foe to beat. Meanwhile, April manages to secure the mutagen as Vern knocks Sacks out, even after Sacks shoots Vern in the arm. The Turtles then band together with a maneuver that allows them to push Shredder off the roof. Donnie goes to stop the toxin's release as Shredder pulls himself back up. Leo, Raph, and Mikey continue to hold him off, and Donnie is able to stop the release with a second to spare. Shredder then tries to knock the top of the tower down, and the Turtles try holding it back April gets to the roof and shows off the mutagen to Shredder to distract him. The top of the tower comes crashing down as Shredder lunges at April and throws them both off. They hang on for dear life, and the Turtles try to save April. Shredder tries to finish them off, but Leo throws his katana at him, causing Shredder to lose balance and fall to the ground. The top of the tower comes lose, taking April and the Turtles with it. Raph admits his brash behavior was out of fear for his brothers, and he admits he loves them, right before he realizes they landed safely. Mikey notices he's crying, but Raph brushes it off. They return to the sewers. The citizens then crowd around Shredder, who slightly moved his hand with mutagen on his fingers...The Turtles get some mutagen to revive Splinter. He is proud of his boys. Later, April meets up with Vern, who is showing off his new car. The Turtles show up in their own vehicle to thank April for her help. Mikey then accidentally launches a rocket that blows Vern's car up. The Turtles offer to give them a lift, but April says they'll take the subway. As they drive away, Mikey sings "Happy Together" to April. She smiles.

Review: Like many other people, the original 1990 "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie has a very special place in my childhood.
If you can withstand the eyesore that the Turtles' design brings, then there is still a lot of old school TMNT magic to revisit.For the movie's main plot, you have what is essentially the most painfully basic, generic action story that a film can get.
Like I stated earlier, despite the off-putting design and feel of the Turtles, they still are a lot of fun to watch and are the lifeblood of the film.
More down time and better character development would've given the Turtles the extra boost to make them the incredibly entertaining bunch they're meant to be.Being such a huge TMNT fan, I wanted to have higher expectations for this reboot.
But with Megan Fox and Michael Bay attached, the poor look and design of the Turtles, along with the general off-setting feel of the film, I had to come in with lower expectations.
There are some wonderful action sequences and the Turtles bring enough pop to the movie to make them likable and fun, but sadly, my low expectations were met in this failed attempt the reboot a childhood classic.5/10.
It's so bad, I don't understand how the current rating stands at 6 stars.The movie has no real sense of identity, like the filmmakers really had no idea what to do with it.
(Through the first half-hour, perhaps even by the end of the film, you'll have a tough time convincing yourself the title shouldn't have been "April O'Neil: The Movie.")It's very evident that the writers did not know how to work with "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Again, this has nothing to do with a faithfulness to any kind of version of TMNT.
In an interview with an MTV whoever, TMNT producer Michael Bay said that he doesn't care if people think his movies are bad.
I'm intentionally avoiding the usual puns like "it was a shell-acking" or "I left the theater shell-shocked" because, again, my affinity for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has nothing to do with how bad this movie is.
No difference in this movie.So the movie opens up in sort of a graphic novel type animation telling the story of the turtles which I'll admit was a nice nod to the original source material from which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came from.
Story, presentation, originality, humor, character presentation and acting are all things obviously left unexplored in this epically abysmal 2014 installation of the turtles franchise.
With as many franchises that he shits on, I advice you to try to stay as far away as possible from anything Michael Bay touches in the future.If you look at it objectively it's like a mash between most popular action films with extremely distinguishable parts taken from others.
So lets look at it this way.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is directed by Jonathan Liebsman and Produced by Michael Bay. It stars Megan Fox as April O'Neil, and 4 turtles who don't look that good with the CGI.
Going back to the turtles, I think that they had nailed them and captured everything that we loved about them, the movie is worth watching because of them.
At the end of the day, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a great movie to watch if you want bonding times with your kids or if you're totally high or craving for some pizza.
I loved the first TMNT live action movie and the recent CGI animated film...
Children will likely want to see this movie as well but, be warned parents, there is a good bit of heavy action.
The turtles are so bogged down in this some of them lose there characteristics, whereas the humans have zero back story.The only way the movie redeems itself(slightly) is through the CGI towards the end of the film.
It makes the action feel real, even though the film is about ninja turtles.
This being produced by Michael Bay, we can expect this, however I feel the rest of the film didn't live up to this, making the film shocking and lacking in any real plot or involving elements that make movies good..
Not joking.This is typical Mike Bay sexual innuendos, fart jokes, awkward white guy, fat unattractive woman playing a mans role(Whoppie), CGI galore...I mean it goes on.It's meant for 12 year old kids, and oh my gosh Meagan Fox's face looks terrible.
If only this was made like the 90's teenage mutant ninja turtles movies then it may of had a chance but, it even made the third movie seem great.
Bay really needs to not make anymore remakes, he goes nuts with special effects and that's not what movies are about, it's a great story like and good actors.
The first half of the film takes its time to follow April O'Neil around, who inevitably uncovers the secret of the turtles' existence, and the outlandish Foot Clan plot to take over New York City.
The plot is pretty much a mash-up of typical TMNT fare and 2007's Transformers (also an adaptation of an 80s cartoon where human characters discover some weird life form and gets caught in the middle of a war nobody knew existed; both starring Megan Fox nonetheless).
She has the right age and overall stature for the role and she is always fun to watch.The turtles were very versatile and realistic in all ways and I liked that each one got an emphasized ability (or weakness!), differentiating from the anime where all looked quite the same.The action sequences were mind-blowing, synchronized at the ultimate speed the human eye can perceive them.
This movie...SUCKS.All the actors in this film fail.The CGI and art direction for the turtles fail.The story is non-existent.
The classic tale of the turtles origins is turned into one that brings April O' Neil (Megan Fox) more into the story.
Lets start with the basics the movie is god awful has Nothing to do with the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at all for example why do the foot clan members have guns and dressed almost exactly like a SWAT team also why is April o Neil some random girl u guys pick up from a bar then turtles they are slightly funny in some ways but they will never be as funny as the original because why do the turtles act like gangsters why is this movie crap why did u guys make another one the 3D animation turtles are better than this crap and why is the movie based around April anyways she wasn't even a big character in the original and in the original splinter named the turtles not her April obviously the director has never watched the original and splinter looks like he is younger than the original how can he whip his tail like that.
While there was an attempt at some classic TMNT whimsical humor, it was poorly executed and delivered.Overall this movie falls in line with the majority of today's films - little, if any, acting talent covered up by computer generated and over the top action sequences.1 star..
I loved the cartoon series of the 90's and the early movies.But this.....this......they just destroyed the turtles, they were cool, funny, with some humor but here they are a mess, unfunny, pathetic, a gimmick of some kids who wants to act "black" and look cool, hip, swag...My favorite character Donatello looks like a damn geek/nerd with huge binoculars (glasses) and is basically Egon from Ghostbuster.
As a Ninja Turtle fan since the beginning, I was super excited about a new movie coming out.
I remember a week or so ago when Megan Fox slammed the haters of the new TMNT movie and I think we heard from every critic out there and they are the haters and I agree with her, if you don't like it, who gives a flip cause I did and my 4 kids loved it.
Great action, comedy and a lot better story than the old movies had to them, plus the new Turtles look amazing there are times when They are fighting Shredder that you can tell that its all cgi but other than that it looked great.
They don't get the development they deserve, which makes the drama in the end feels so forced and less than effective.April's arc would have been tolerable if it gives her more moments to actually connect with the turtles, but the only information it could provide is that they're her childhood pets, she's only using those beloved characters to her job, teasing us the much interesting world beneath the sewers.
The voice and motion-capture actors worked better for having a sense of fun in their enthusiasm.The single greatest scene of the film is when the turtles are making a tune out of an elevator sound.
We did saw that occasionally, but we hope to have more of their sewer life with their pop cultural obsession and mass consumption of pizza, plus have interesting villains, some real and not forced familial themes, and at least a solid plot since these Ninja Turtles movies hardly ever had one.
When people see this movie try not to forget you're watching Ninja Turtles!!!
Any person who screams this movie is screwing up their childhood or doesn't get the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is completely wrong.
I can't guarantee this side of me won't return later in this review but for now, I'm going to try and judge Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as best I can without bringing in my personal feelings for the product.
Now, I am fully aware that for a child who has never seen the turtles or is just a young kid, this film will be engaging and exciting and fun, but that isn't who I am or how I watch the movie.
Ever since I was a kid I loved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and even before I watched it, it looked terrible.
Well, this movie doesn't even resemble that, it's that white stuff that accumulates at corners of your mouth when you're really thirsty.Acting isn't much, there's Megan Fox who looks nice and everything, but she just looks completely in distress, it differs little whether the cause is ninja, samurai robot, or transforming robot.
About half way most audience will stop their attempt to follow the plot, because it's exercise in futility and if one cares about story after about forty minutes, that's more work than the production put in the movie.I suppose in term of effects it fares slightly better.
I guess it works for mindless fun, but it's now more mindless than fun.The movie belongs in the sewer where it should just stay there, but considering turtle's life span, how it sells like hot pizza and Michael Bay's persistence, I fear for a sequel..
If you do, we will find you."A much more fitting title for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would be April O'Neil considering she is the main character in this film and is on screen for almost its entire running time.
As a kid I grew up watching the cartoons and the movies in the early 90's so I thought I would be invested in these characters and that the nostalgia factor would play a key role in my enjoyment of this film, but I was wrong because I felt completely disengaged with the turtles.
Considering Michael Bay was the producer of this film a lot of comparisons can be made to the Transformers franchise where you have big action scenes and very little character development, but in my opinion this was even worse.
But instead what did we get...1) An absurdly idiotic storyline which kinda gives you the feeling that the story writing was revolving around the already shot action scenes.2) Action sequences which appear to be copy paste from transformers and only replaced by turtles (I don't count shredder as he always looked like a robot).3) The role of April is basically something I would put in "Little Pony", which is reduced to nothing more then a brain dead, incoherent (she's a goddamn reporter for crying out loud!) and basically doesn't contribute anything to the good cause.On the plus side: 1) It was nice that they emphasized the uniqueness of each turtle beyond the color of the head band.
Guys, it's not a very good movie.I originally wanted to do pro and con list but I felt I might as well just give some of my thoughts after seeing the film.
Everything feels like a giant compromise to just put something out because the studio was expecting a brand new Ninja Turtle film but all of the backlash from what they were originally WANTING to do caused them to go back and add things that they didn't fully understand why people are fans of those aspects.
I always gave 2007 TMNT s*** for it's use of horrible fight scenes and while some moments in this new one are nice, I still feel like I'm just watching a video game cut scene with Shredder and the Turtles.I guess if I have to give this film credit is that it's cinematography at times is very nice and the opening sequence as well as Shredder's first appearance gave me straight goosebumps but this film misses the mark on so many things.
If Megan Fox is your most likable character in a movie, then you are in for a rough time,.Also, going back to the turtles, they are huge, and they even say in the movie they cannot be shot.
but its all necessary to explain the story to a new generation.I recommend this movie for people who enjoyed the original turtles films.
My daughter (who likes action movies) laughed multiple times at the turtles as they make a lot of silly comments and the scene where they rapped in the elevator was especially funny.Go see the film and take it for what its worth...its silly fun with a bigger budget than the previous films..
A bunch of writers got together in a room and decided to take an IP like the Ninja Turtles, which is already very silly and essentially makes no sense at all, and take it to the next level of stupidity, while at the same time stripping out all of the fun and humor from the source material and replacing it with hulking-rage-filled-turtle- shaped monsters, that play supporting characters in a film about the world's most incompetent news reporter: April O'Neil played by acting sensation Megan Fox. That's right.
original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) not so much 2nd and 3rd part of it though I have also skipped the animated one TMNT (2007) but maybe I will watch it soon as well.
No idea...The adaptation of the Turtles wasn't bad in my opinion, I like how they were huge and badass looking and they did really act like the Turtles we know and love, The story was meh and the villain was meh but I came to see turtles do cool shizz and thats what I got.Megan Fox tried so hard to act in this film but it's just embarrassing and makes me sick, she's too conscious of her looks and tries to maintain that sexy face of hers as opposed to just acting.Anywho overall I personally didn't find the film too bad but if the things above were a little better i would have given it a 5 - 7..
But I enjoyed the action and had fun not thinking about how stupid the movie was and being entranced by the pretty turtles.
The weakest point of the movie is, not surprisingly, Megan Fox. It's like after she was cast someone told Michael Bay "hey, you probably don't want to sexualize April.
That being said,...these turtles look NOTHING like the ones in the original films.
The ONLY complaint I have is the fact that Shredder looked more like he belonged in the Transformers movies than Ninja Turtles.
Though 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' won't be memorable compared with some blockbuster films this year and the ending isn't special either, it's still just wildly fun to watch Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello and Michaelangelo in action also assisted with stunning visual effects for the turtles, some smart jokes and quite cool action sequences makes all the mistakes seem forgiven..
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the movie.
Quickie Review:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT), the title is pretty self- explanatory on what this movie is about.
But I must admit, I didn't find TMNT to be a great movie but much better than I had anticipated.Let me touch upon what I did like, the turtles.
I think all the negativity I heard previous to watching the movie helped me to expect the bad characters, the thin plot, and the forgettable villain.
All I wanted was some good turtle moments and cool looking action, which TMNT did deliver.
People came to see Megan Fox not the Ninja Turtles."-"Should we follow a similar story line of previous turtle movies?" Ha, no way what are you thinking?!
I don't want people to actually like the movie lol.Michael Bay, from all childhood Ninja Turtle Fans, YOU SUCK!.
We will eventually get a great live action turtles movie; it's just not going to be this one..
I watched the new Ninja Turtles movie so that you don't have to.
First off, to the Michael Bay haters, he didn't really have much to do with this Turtles movie.
If less time had been spent on the character of Vernon and more on developing April's relationship with the turtles or perhaps the back-story of the villain this film would have been much better.
Casual viewers might find it a bit weird, but the back story is decent enough to lay the plot, followed by great CGI, action sequences, and fun humor.It's the 2nd Best Turtles Movie ever, although I loved TMNT 2: The secret of the Ooze.