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TMNT (spoiler warning)
What I expected: A cartoony kid's movie that butchers one of my favorite childhood memories.
What I got: Total awesomeness.
First, I will give a small plot summary. It may be spoiling a tiny bit, but most of this set up in the beginning anyways. Either way, the plot is very predictable and typical, so you really won't be surprised by it.
Okay, so 3,000 years ago a South American warlord and his 3 brothers and sister are trying to take over the world. He finds out about some magic portal that gives power and as he opens it 13 monsters from another dimension enter our realm and the warlord is made immortal, but his price for that is his 4 siblings are all turned to stone. The only way to reverse this curse is to send all 13 monsters back into the portal 3,000 years later.
Cut to present day. After the defeat of the Shredder and the foot clan, crime in New York city has dwindled to small time crooks. Nothing big. So the turtles let the police do their job for once. Donatello runs a computer tech support phone line. Michaelangelo plays "Cowabunga Carl," a ninja turtle mock, at kid's birthday parties. Leonardo was sent to the jungles of South America at the behest of Master Splinter to learn to be a better leader, but has stayed longer than expected. And of course Raphael does nothing but complain.....or so they think. Unknown to everyone, Raphael is the new vigilante in town, the Nightwacther. He almost looks like Master Chief from Halo with his costume on.
Well, April O'Neil (who has now herself become trained in the art of the ninja) runs an artifact selling operation with now boyfriend Casey Jones (the kick ass dude with the mask). While on a trip to South America to retrieve a statue (yep the last f the stone guys mentioned earlier) for a rich business owner (the immortal warlord), she runs into Leonardo and convinces him to come home....just in the nick of time.
Raphael, now teaming with Casey Jones refuses to be led by Leonardo. Meanwhile, four living stone statues are fighting monsters all over NYC, and cross paths with the turtles, and the reborn foot clan, but who's siding with who.
That's as far as I'll go on the plot. Now I got to mention that the way people are animated in this s rather cartoony.....it's just like The Incredibles. BUT.....everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, else looks spectacular. The turtles, statue guys, foot clan, monsters and the settings are incredibly awesome looking. There is a scene where Raphael (as the Nightwatcher) fights a small monster that is incredibly funny, which is followed by the best scene in the movie. Leonardo hunts down the Nightwatcher and they fight (Right after Raphael defeats the small monster), even after finding out it is Raphael, they continue the fight.
There are some negatives about the movie. There is too much subplot introduced that they don't deal with (which is why I absolutely hated King Kong, they had a 3 hour movie that didn't even cover all of the introduced ub-plot).
-The Raph and Leo rivalry needed to go deeper.
-The foot clan needed to show more hatred towards the turtles.
-Casey and April needed to be more "involved," (With the exception of an argument while they were driving away from one the monsters, and a kiss at the end, you could hardly tell they were anything more than two people who knew each other).
-Donatello and Michaelangelo have very small parts in this movie, which isn't really all that bad. Donatello doesn't do much anyways (maybe they'll kill him off in the sequel....just kidding), and Michaelangelo is really just comic relief, so he fills his role well.
-And then, as I mentioned before, the main plot is very predictable and the "bad guys" have very 2-D personalities.
Anyways, I give this movie a good rating. 8/10 I suppose. Maybe 7.5. Either way, it was pretty good...especially since it was rated PG
What I expected: A cartoony kid's movie that butchers one of my favorite childhood memories.
What I got: Total awesomeness.
First, I will give a small plot summary. It may be spoiling a tiny bit, but most of this set up in the beginning anyways. Either way, the plot is very predictable and typical, so you really won't be surprised by it.
Okay, so 3,000 years ago a South American warlord and his 3 brothers and sister are trying to take over the world. He finds out about some magic portal that gives power and as he opens it 13 monsters from another dimension enter our realm and the warlord is made immortal, but his price for that is his 4 siblings are all turned to stone. The only way to reverse this curse is to send all 13 monsters back into the portal 3,000 years later.
Cut to present day. After the defeat of the Shredder and the foot clan, crime in New York city has dwindled to small time crooks. Nothing big. So the turtles let the police do their job for once. Donatello runs a computer tech support phone line. Michaelangelo plays "Cowabunga Carl," a ninja turtle mock, at kid's birthday parties. Leonardo was sent to the jungles of South America at the behest of Master Splinter to learn to be a better leader, but has stayed longer than expected. And of course Raphael does nothing but complain.....or so they think. Unknown to everyone, Raphael is the new vigilante in town, the Nightwacther. He almost looks like Master Chief from Halo with his costume on.
Well, April O'Neil (who has now herself become trained in the art of the ninja) runs an artifact selling operation with now boyfriend Casey Jones (the kick ass dude with the mask). While on a trip to South America to retrieve a statue (yep the last f the stone guys mentioned earlier) for a rich business owner (the immortal warlord), she runs into Leonardo and convinces him to come home....just in the nick of time.
Raphael, now teaming with Casey Jones refuses to be led by Leonardo. Meanwhile, four living stone statues are fighting monsters all over NYC, and cross paths with the turtles, and the reborn foot clan, but who's siding with who.
That's as far as I'll go on the plot. Now I got to mention that the way people are animated in this s rather cartoony.....it's just like The Incredibles. BUT.....everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, else looks spectacular. The turtles, statue guys, foot clan, monsters and the settings are incredibly awesome looking. There is a scene where Raphael (as the Nightwatcher) fights a small monster that is incredibly funny, which is followed by the best scene in the movie. Leonardo hunts down the Nightwatcher and they fight (Right after Raphael defeats the small monster), even after finding out it is Raphael, they continue the fight.
There are some negatives about the movie. There is too much subplot introduced that they don't deal with (which is why I absolutely hated King Kong, they had a 3 hour movie that didn't even cover all of the introduced ub-plot).
-The Raph and Leo rivalry needed to go deeper.
-The foot clan needed to show more hatred towards the turtles.
-Casey and April needed to be more "involved," (With the exception of an argument while they were driving away from one the monsters, and a kiss at the end, you could hardly tell they were anything more than two people who knew each other).
-Donatello and Michaelangelo have very small parts in this movie, which isn't really all that bad. Donatello doesn't do much anyways (maybe they'll kill him off in the sequel....just kidding), and Michaelangelo is really just comic relief, so he fills his role well.
-And then, as I mentioned before, the main plot is very predictable and the "bad guys" have very 2-D personalities.
Anyways, I give this movie a good rating. 8/10 I suppose. Maybe 7.5. Either way, it was pretty good...especially since it was rated PG
