Starring: Thomas K. Gray, Kevin Munroe, Paul Wang, Mikey Kelley, James Arnold Taylor Directed By: Kevin Munroe Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Format: AC-3, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Warner Bros. Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 07, 2007 Running Time: 87 minutes Theatrical Release Date: March 23, 2007
Product Description: Four turtle brothers contend with an evil industrialist who is creating an army of ancient monsters. Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure Rating: PG Release Date: 7-AUG-2007 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: From a visual standpoint, this CG feature starring the venerable '80s and '90s superheroes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is nothing short of slam-bang; the computer animation has a scope and look that transcends both the original comics and animated series and the three live-action features that preceded it. Writer/director Kevin Munroe creates a striking animated world for the four heroes in a half-shell to live, play, and fight in, and the action sequences are occasionally breathtaking in their speed and complexity. But where TMNT stumbles is its bland plot, which picks up after the last of the live-action features with all four teen turtles in disarray, and abandons longtime villain Shredder in favor of an industrialist (well voiced by Patrick Stewart) who recruits the Foot Clan (including Karai, played by Zhang Ziyi) to revive thirteen ancient monsters to aid in his world domination scheme. It's a simple and fun story for kids, but longtime Turtles fans will miss the wry humor and smart sense of irony of the original comics (created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, who gets an executive producer credit here) in this storyline. Still, for most adolescent audience members, such concerns won't matter a whit in the face of the abundant action. --Paul Gaita
Teenage Brooding Ninja Turtles This is a mostly enjoyable rendition of our terrapin friends. The story is pretty basic and straightforward, but it definitely feels like they developed it with a companion video game in mind. Many scenes just feel like they were meant to be great levels on the video game based on the movie.
If you can get past that, however, the action is actually done quite well.
The one thing that is really missing here is the lightheartedness of the first films. Whether you loved or hated those films, they definitely had more humor than this rather dour version. (I personally loved the first two, but the third one suffered from much more than sub-par animatronics due to the fact that the Jim Henson Company wasn't interested in doing the third one.)
Not to say that there is no room for a more brooding version of the turtles. It works, for instance, rather well for Raphael since he is by far the more broody of the bunch. Leonardo also does a fair amount of brooding himself, always wondering what more he could be doing as the leader, not feeling up to the job. However it does Michaelangelo and Donatello a disservice. Their strong point (as characters) is largely built around their playful, quippy, snarky attitudes in situations of great danger. They get a couple of quips out here, but they feel forced and there are not enough of them to really get a feel for their characters.
On the whole, I enjoyed the movie well enough, but I would have definitely preferred more for the cinematic return of the Turtle clan.
**Mild Mild Spoiler Alert**
They hint at a possible sequel, and I do hope that they get it out. This movie was largely bogged down by the attempt to re-introduce the characters to the movie-going audience. (April as a ninja? C'mon.) A sequel, however, would not be thusly hindered. Hopefully they could spend more development time in creating a very intriguing story and less screen time with the brothers fighting each other.
Why would you want to buy this?
I just borrowed this from the library for free and it has absolutely nothing to do with the original theatrical movies which where live action movies and this one looks fake because it actually looks like a computer video game with animation added, nothing original about it and the story is not complete so I can't believe that people wasted tier money at the movie houses to see it, the extras only tell a little about the actual creation of hos the turtles came to be.
Great! I just loved this film. I was so nostalgic that I watched it twice both with a big ol smile on my face. Though even if I hadn't been a fan as a child I would have still enjoyed this movie. It has character development, action, comedy, and a collective team orientation- even the foot soldiers joined the turtles to overcome the obstacle. I think its a great film for any age. I am also pleased that they will be another (based on how it ended.) The only thing that as a female bothered me is how they portray females even in animation. In this animation April and the leader of the foot soldiers were both sexy gals with tremendous curves- couldn't we get the average gals with the average physiques (I don't remember April being vuluptous and she def wasn't sexy besides she looks like a Teenager herself in this one and she should be atleast in the mid to late 20's.)
TMNT Movie This movie just was AWFUL! The animation was cheap and cheesy and so was the storyline. And what happened to April O'Neil being a reporter? Now she's an antique dealer? Tacky and painful to watch. The old TMNT shows and movies were sooooo much better!
A good reboot, but not a great one! As a guy who grew up during the height of the turtles frenzy, this is my view of the turtles on film, I still like the first live action film the best, and thought the sequels stank. When I heard of a new turtles film that was going to be CGI I was kinda skeptical at first but considering that only the first live action film was good, I decided to give it a shot. Well to start off, there were two noticeable changes that I actually liked which was that it was darker than the live action sequels and it was actually more mature for example getting rid of the cowabunga and so forth. I was overall split on the story because I liked it being about the turtles coming back together to again be a crime fighting team but didn't like the ancient immortal tyrant and his generals capturing monsters to bring an army of monsters through a portal to take over the world when really the tyrant only wanted to die. I feel this didn't bring the turtles back in full force with a knock out punch, I miss the foot clan with shredder leading having always been the turtles greatest foe, but hey there's hope because there was a hint at the end for a possible return and the film was a financial success, let's just hope it's better the next time around.
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