Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (more)
Directed by:
Dave GreenCinematography:
Lula CarvalhoComposer:
Steve JablonskyCast:
Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Laura Linney, Stephen Amell, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson, Tyler Perry, Brian Tee, Stephen Farrelly (more)Plots(1)
Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael return to theaters this summer to battle bigger, badder villains, alongside April O'Neil (Megan Fox), Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett), and a newcomer: the hockey-masked vigilante Casey Jones (Stephen Amell). After supervillain Shredder (Brian Tee) escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman (Tyler Perry) and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop (Gary Anthony Williams) and Rocksteady (WWE Superstar Stephen "Sheamus" Farrelly), to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang. (Paramount Pictures)
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Even more retro than we hoped. Krang is overflowing with slime, The Shredder returns, assisted by Doctor Stockman, and Casey Jones also gets a few hits in. Summer 2016 has favored my childhood loves, and after Tarzan, the Turtles also get another chance, returning in an even better form, despite the convoluted plot. They have a car, they have enthusiasm, they have April, and they are still a great source of fun. I'm no longer six, so I have to reluctantly restrain my excitement, but when a new (yet perfectly respectful) version of the most legendary theme song ever started playing during the closing credits, I was on the verge of genuine emotion. If you loved the turtles and wanted to experience that feeling again, you're in the right place with this movie.
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Actually, I don’t know what else I was expecting. It was late at night, the twenty-first of May, and I didn’t want to go to sleep, and this was the only alternative which could possibly keep me awake. Well… For today’s kids, it will probably be an action ride, but I was done with that endless digital. They could have made the film like a cartoon and it would not harm it at all. An exemplary case of how I liked the old cartoon Ninja Turtles but can’t stand the today’s versions. The older I get, the more I feel that new remakes of old fairy tales are getting on my nerves more and more. And I have to add that Megan Fox didn’t save this film at all!
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The turtles are just a passable one-off for me. It bothers me that it's too infantile, I would have appreciated a harder R-rating and a darker atmosphere. Megan Fox is still a top-shelf babe, the action is rather mediocre, but at least it's clearly and entertainingly filmed. The film goes by quickly, but the age range is unfortunately around 13-17. Rocksteady and Bepob were properly wacky, which is the film's biggest plus. 65%
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Like every proper mega-franchise, Ninja Turtles does not have only one form, but rather a range of variations that are suitable for different target groups. Though a number of people associate the turtles with the children’s television series, there is also the broadest spectrum of spin-offs in the field of comic books that incline toward underground impertinence and utterly adult splatter variants such as the brawny Bodycount. And then there are the feature-film incarnations of Ninja Turtles, which for some reason are condemned to be unhinged bizarro-movies. The trio of nineties live-action cringe-fest features are boldly backed up in this respect by the new flicks from the production company Platinum Dunes. Besides the disturbing CGI design of the turtles, which balances on the edge of the principles of caricature and the uncanny valley, the most terrifying aspect of this film is the incomprehensible harmony between the ethos and aesthetics of the production company’s owner, Michael Bay. The childishness of the CGI/live-action Turtles is not the result of targeting underage viewers, but has the form of the insipid infantility of immature middle-aged men with fat wallets who live in an illusory version of reality woven from men’s lifestyle magazines packed with cookie-cutter models and toys for big boys. Just as the old live-action trilogy represented the essence of the most embarrassing and campiest aspects of the 1990s (including Vanilla Ice), the new films offer up a bizarre example of the most frenzied and stupid elements of the current mainstream. Notably, they do not reach the level of the gluttonous nature of Bay’s own films or his finesse as a craftsman. Thus, unlike Bay’s works, they are not engaging through their silliness, but only try in vain to copy the master’s superficial trademarks. As one watches this mess of rushed animated action sequences interspersed with half-details of magazine-worthy faces and stylised shots of cars, the question of who the filmmakers had in mind as the audience constantly creeps into one’s mind.
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Basically like part one + the annoying Tyler Perry. Infantile humor works. Rocky and Bob are good and demented and Krang and Technodrom have undergone a likeable modern update. Fox is still the artificial ham she always was. Jones pissed me off - a casting fail. But the action in Brazil is a childhood dream come true.
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The second film is as dumb as the first one, but we do get Amell (Arrow fans will applaud), the Technodrome with Krang (I'll applaud) and that's it, because Bebop and Rocksteady are really badasses who belong only in cartoons.
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The film is chock-full of CGI, but that's about all there is to see. There's a lot of dialogue, but most of it is pointless. The action feels kind of stilted. The whole thing resembles a fancy meal that the chef forgot to season – it’s edible, but you won't enjoy it.
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It's quite overstuffed, and there are incredibly great moments that you'll remember for a long time, but there's also a somewhat underwhelming ending, and the character of Krang remains essentially underutilized. Overall, I found the film rather entertaining, but it's a shame that the creators focused more on jokes than on a better story with a solid finale that is not only visually interesting.
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