Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Next Chapter

**Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Next Chapter** is a 2024 comedy-adventure film directed by Gene Stupnitsky.

## Plot

The film begins with the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -- Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael -- getting ready with their weapons in the sewers. They then go out, messing around on the rooftops of New York City, almost killing people after causing a car accident with their ninja weapons. It is revealed that the Turtles are just basically regular teenagers and they are longing for acceptance from humanity and want to go to high school. After checking that the people in the accident are okay, they head back home and are lectured by their rat dad, Splinter, on ninja skills and how people are horrible and nasty creatures.

The next night, they come up with a plan to gain acceptance by stopping a gang in New York City, going by Bebop and Rocksteady's Gang. They break into all of the gang's lairs and fight some of the gangsters, trying to get answers out of the gangsters of where Bebop and Rocksteady's location is. When they get to one of the lairs, one of the gangsters tell them that he helped Bebop and Rocksteady steal some parts for a "mutagen bomb" and that they were going to trade the parts to Bebop and Rocksteady later that night, under the Brooklyn Bridge. Michelangelo knocks the gangster out and they head to the Brooklyn Bridge in the gangster's van that they stole after knocking him out, and Splinter follows them.

At the Brooklyn Bridge, the Turtles meet Bebop and Rocksteady, who, to their surprise, are mutants. Bebop and Rocksteady befriend the four and they go to an arcade, hanging out and bonding, until Bebop and Rocksteady let the Turtles in on their plan. They were bullied when they were little as they were mutants, and so they divised a plan: to set off a bomb full of mutagen to explode in New York City, turning the whole city into mutants, and getting revenge on humans, making them see how it feels to be a mutant.

After disagreeing with Bebop and Rocksteady, the Turtles get into a fight with the two mutants and escape, skating into an alleyway. The Turtles think about going home, but Leonardo remarks that they have been preparing their whole lives for this, tell them stories of when they were Turtle Tots, then he comes up with a plan. Bebop and Rocksteady follow the Turtles in their monster truck, and the Turtles lure Bebop and Rocksteady to the boat graveyard in Staten Island, where they fight. Splinter emerges from the shadows and fights along with them. Bebop and Rocksteady are about to set the mutagen bomb off in the boat graveyard, when the Turtles and Splinter push the two mutants onto the bomb and into the water, and the two mutants are stuck to the bomb and drown under the water, until the bomb explodes under the water and out emerges a giant creature; a fuse between Bebop and Rocksteady, in which Michelangelo dubs: Bopsteady.

## Voice cast

* Seth Rogen as Leonardo, the second oldest turtle brother
* Keegan Michael-Key as Bebop, a mutant common warthog who is partners with Rocksteady and the co-main antagonist
* Eduardo Franco as Donatello, the youngest turtle brother
* Dwayne Johnson as Raphael, the eldest turtle brother
* Ken Jeong as Splinter, the overprotective rat father and ninja master of the Turtles
* Ego Nwodim as April O'Neil, the human friend of the Turtles
* Jordan Peele as Rocksteady, a mutant black rhinoceros who is partners with Bebop and the co-main antagonist
* Jonah Hill as Michelangelo, the second youngest turtle brother and main protagonist