Tab from Indeed Podcast to give you a mainly Spoiler-free
review of the new movie of TMNT out this weekend. Please note I cry writing this review.
Growing up I loved TMNT.
It was a great 80’s cartoon, and had some amazing voice actors in
it. Cam Clarke, Townsend Colman, Barry Gorden,
and Rob Paulsen. Brought these 4 turtle
brothers to life and gave us something to remember. Then we remember the 3 Live action films in
the early 90’s. /sigh. So here we are back
to a new live action film. I will help
ease the pain by stating 3 facts.
1.
This is in New York
2.
They are mutants.
3.
They love Pizza.
So that aside, we have a good foundation. The movie is slow to start, building mainly
around April O’Neil and her pressure to become a major news reporter for
Channel 6 news. I was even shocked to
see Whoppie Goldberg in this film, She did
well in this film. So they build up a pretty big back
story to get to the turtles. Once the
story with the turtles come into play you find yourself amazed in the creation
of each turtle. The voices of the
turtles: Alan Ritchson, Noel Fisher, Johnny Knoxville and Jeremy Howard
provided a wonderful and unique style to each turtle. The makeup of of the turtles are also crated
to be different for each which provided a style that each turtle brings to the
film. That is where my enjoyment of
the film ends. The human cast, Megan
Fox, Will Arnett, Tohoru Masamune, Minae
Noji, William Fichtner were a complete and utter disappointment. Poorly timed lines, improper banter and TERRIBLE
product placement. (Pizza Hut in New York?
WTH) Now to the Foot Clan soldiers
who can’t fight or even aim a gun properly.
This really pissed me off. They
were Terrible. Can I say…Moronic. I did enjoy the slide down a mountain and beat the bad guys while cracking jokes because we are turtles action sequence. Yes, I like it.
In review, The movie was a 5/10 and not a 2/10 only because of the creativity of the turtles and voice actors. If you can see this movie for under $5, maybe. But wait until Redbox or Netflix on this one. Turtles in a Cracked Shell.
-Tab-
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