The 2014 Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turltes movie was awful, let’s get those cards on the table
right here at the start. I did a
full review of the film at the time but I get the sense in the time sense it
came out there’s been a tendency by most to mellow on its awfulness. More and more the defense I hear from
people is “it’s for kids and it’s not that bad aside from the changes,” to
which I say: no, it is exactly that bad.
I’m not even really a fan of the Ninja Turtles so much as a thoroughly
concerned observer and even I know the movie is terrible, mainly because it
insults you with every chance it gets.
Seriously, the writing in the film is so incredibly broken
and incompetent that the finale is hinged on a call-back to something that was
never established in the first place.
The movie is essentially a first draft that received no polish under the
assumption people wouldn’t care.
However, it made a whole lot of money at the box office so now we’re
getting a sequel just a scant 2 years after the original, pretty much the same
approach as the Amazing Spider-Man
franchise that the new TMNT draws so heavily from. Now we’ve got the first trailer for that new film entitled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the
Shadows and surprise; it doesn’t look that bad.
