Many complained that she was completely wrong for the role, and that the only true April O’Neil was Judith Hoag, Paige Turco, Renae Jacobs, Veronica Taylor, or perhaps Sarah Michelle Gellar. This iteration was not without controversy, however! Turtles fans were outraged when Witwicky love interest Megan Fox was cast as April O’Neil. Occasionally Splinter makes a funny.Įver wonder how riffs are written? Click here for a section of our TMNT script. They form distinct, marketable personalities and headband colors: nerd, joker, leader who seems to not grasp that a long sharp sword can actually cut things, and cool but rude.* Then, when a major entertainment conglomerate deems it long enough since the last movie to be financially prudent, they emerge from the sewers and onto the silver screen. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has its ups and downs leaving a picture that just slides on by.It is a tale as old as time: four turtles are exposed to a mutagen and grow up to annoy the living crap out of every adult within earshot. Thanks to the lack of time focused on the turtles, the voice-work takes getting used to however, it is much better than watching any of the human characters. Megan Fox and Will Arnett have terrible characters and too much screen time in comparison to the real stars of the show, the 4 turtles. The mixture of CG and real life characters don't work all that well. The CG allows for some adrenaline packed material, but at the same time, there isn't enough down-to-earth martial arts choreography.
Highly stylized and heavy reliance on CG is both its shining moment and downfall.
The problem is that the back-story is poor, the characters aren't built up, and the plot details are too simple for its own good.Ī ton of action explodes its way onto the screen. Aside from a mediocre 15 minute opening, the pace picks up and moves at a quick stride the rest of the way. Sliding in at a mere 90 minutes, it is a quick viewing. Jonathan Liebesman dishes out the plain old cheese pizza in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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