TMNT “Sees Green at Box Office” and “Comes Out of Shell”

March 25th, 2007 by Justin

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back in an animated adventure from Warner Bros. Annoying box office analysis puns aside, I really enjoyed this family film. I saw it in Santa Monica with a sparse Sunday evening crowd with a few other nostalgic souls – not a kid in sight! All college-aged or older.

I can easily remember back to when I was 10 and living in Springfield, Virginia in 1990. That’s because I haven’t lost my memory through experiments or hypnotism. Holy crap, 17 years ago??? Is that for real? A lot of high school kids didn’t even exist yet back then.

I remember first seeing the poster of a sewer cover with “COMING SOON” and rushing to tell all my siblings. There was nothing more fun that going to the Springfield Mall arcade and playing the first TMNT arcade game (TMNT 2: The Arcade Game for NES nerds).

I wanted to like this new adventure, and I was not disapointed. While it does borrow many of the same themes and plot-triggers of that first film (Raph getting angry at Leo and storming out into the night, for instance – which happened in about every cartoon episode, too), I think the borrowing was to pay homage and also to re-energize it for a new generation.

Overall, I had fun and walked out believing it was worth the money and time I spent to drive there, park there, inevitably eat near there, drive home…wait a minute now this is adding up to like over $50 … Nevermind. Don’t see it. Stay home and find it on BitTorrent or something.

JK JK (I am ROTFloorLOL at myself)

The Verdict:

Find some other TMNT geeks and go have fun!
Grade: B

 
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2 Responses to “TMNT “Sees Green at Box Office” and “Comes Out of Shell””

  1. on 28 Mar 2007 at 5:35 pm   tess

    I’m the first one to comment on this?? Okay, I’m taking a slightly different spin than you on this movie…I thought the screenplay (including some of the poorly-placed lines from the old movie) was not the finest, and the plot was pretty weak, but…

    honestly, Who Cares? It’s the turtles. And they’re all cool and animated.

    I’ve already seen it twice, one of which was at the Alamo (they had a turtle van parked outside, and they served pizza…it was glorious).

  2. on 28 Mar 2007 at 6:20 pm   Justin

    Yeah, a lot of recycling of plot points made for weaker script, but I don’t think they intended the people seeing this to have necessarily seen the first one so many times (like me) to realize. It was for the new kids, so that’s why I think it did work, albeit in a weakish state.

    But I did like the redemption theme of ONE OF THE CHARACTERS. With that, I was impressed. I’m a sucker for redemption stories.

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