Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.
What critics thought
Critics were broadly dismissive of this reboot, finding it a joyless, overstuffed blockbuster that trades the franchise's scrappy charm for generic action spectacle. A handful of reviewers granted it marginal entertainment value for younger audiences, but the majority found it ponderously paced, poorly differentiated among its four leads, and cynically engineered for mass-market appeal at the expense of anything distinctive or fun.
“What the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lacks is not fidelity, but a spirit of genuine boyish fun -- the sense that anyone involved saw more than a very specific shade of green in the freshly digital scales of these 30-year-old characters”
A.A. Dowd·The A.V. Club
“there is something half-hearted about the entire film, as if those behind it were involved not because they wanted to make it, not because they should make it, but just because they could”
Mark Olsen·Los Angeles Times
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a movie that takes its characters and its premise seriously, until it doesn't, and that operates at two speeds: tortoise (ponderous) and hare (head-spinning)”
Alonso Duralde·The Wrap
“while this reboot is fun, it's also forgettable and occasionally infuriating”
Sandie Angulo Chen·The Washington Post
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles only leaves one with the dim afterglow of forced normalcy, of a film so overworked to ensure mass-market appeal that it loses the charming oddness and loose goofiness that has allowed these characters, and their "frothy" appeal, to endure”
Chris Cabin·Slant Magazine
Genres
Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Cast & Crew
Jonathan LiebesmanDirector
Pete PloszekLeonardo
Alan RitchsonRaphael
Jeremy HowardDonatello
Noel FisherMichelangelo
Megan FoxApril O'Neil
Will ArnettVern Fenwick
William FichtnerEric Sacks
Danny WoodburnSplinter
Johnny KnoxvilleLeonardo (voice)
Tony ShalhoubSplinter (voice)
Tohoru MasamuneShredder
Whoopi GoldbergBernadette Thompson
Brian TylerComposer
Josh AppelbaumWriter
Evan DaughertyWriter
André NemecWriterTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.
What critics thought
Critics were broadly dismissive of this reboot, finding it a joyless, overstuffed blockbuster that trades the franchise's scrappy charm for generic action spectacle. A handful of reviewers granted it marginal entertainment value for younger audiences, but the majority found it ponderously paced, poorly differentiated among its four leads, and cynically engineered for mass-market appeal at the expense of anything distinctive or fun.
“What the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lacks is not fidelity, but a spirit of genuine boyish fun -- the sense that anyone involved saw more than a very specific shade of green in the freshly digital scales of these 30-year-old characters”
A.A. Dowd·The A.V. Club
“there is something half-hearted about the entire film, as if those behind it were involved not because they wanted to make it, not because they should make it, but just because they could”
Mark Olsen·Los Angeles Times
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a movie that takes its characters and its premise seriously, until it doesn't, and that operates at two speeds: tortoise (ponderous) and hare (head-spinning)”
Alonso Duralde·The Wrap
“while this reboot is fun, it's also forgettable and occasionally infuriating”
Sandie Angulo Chen·The Washington Post
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles only leaves one with the dim afterglow of forced normalcy, of a film so overworked to ensure mass-market appeal that it loses the charming oddness and loose goofiness that has allowed these characters, and their "frothy" appeal, to endure”
Chris Cabin·Slant Magazine
Genres
Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Cast & Crew
Jonathan LiebesmanDirectorPete PloszekLeonardoAlan RitchsonRaphaelJeremy HowardDonatelloNoel FisherMichelangeloMegan FoxApril O'NeilWill ArnettVern FenwickWilliam FichtnerEric SacksDanny WoodburnSplinterJohnny KnoxvilleLeonardo (voice)Tony ShalhoubSplinter (voice)Tohoru MasamuneShredderWhoopi GoldbergBernadette ThompsonBrian TylerComposerJosh AppelbaumWriterEvan DaughertyWriterAndré NemecWriterStream
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