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In a nutshell, or turtle shell, it’s brainless, by-the-numbers kiddie fare on special effects overdrive that (I’m guessing) projects the zany characteristics of the cartoon onto the big screen.
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Not that this new version is an all-out disaster. The new turtles simply aren’t as attractive, if you know what I mean. This gave them presence, which made the idea of four adolescent turtles who love pizza and spew out surfer jargon all the more believable, as well as enjoyable. It lacks the darkness, rawness and tangibility of the first movie, which used life-sized turtle suits and puppets instead of CGI to bring Leonard, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael to life.
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With such trivial changes in mind, why the remake? My guess is the current Ninja Turtles cartoon show on Nickelodeon has proven popular enough that studio executives figured it was high time to re-launch the live-action movie franchise and assumed it’d be best to start from scratch.īut a shadow of the 1990 film remains attached to this latest incarnation, which unfortunately isn’t as good on a storytelling or filmmaking level. Oh, and the primary pizza sponsor is Pizza Hut instead of Domino’s. This means, among other things, smartphones play an integral role in the plot and the majority of shots contain digital effects. There are some key differences, of course, like the former adding a new layer to the turtles’ upbringing, not to mention the means by which their sworn enemy, Shredder, plans to take over the world, but by and large, this is the same movie, only updated to 2014 standards. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) essentially tells the same story as, well, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990). Movie Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles By Matthew Huntley August 12, 2014