Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Rated: PG
Starring: Megan Fox, Alan Ritchson, Will Arnett, Noel Fisher, Johnny Knoxville, William Fichtner, Minae Noji, Jeremy Howard, Whoopi Goldberg
CHILDREN will probably love this film. Adults yearning for the nostalgia of their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle glory days definitely won’t.
We start another journey down turtle lane this time with news reporter Megan Fox trying to insert the only sexy aspect to a film bubbling with potential and expectation that is never fulfilled.
Fox portrays news reporter April O’Neil, who like many other fictional news reporters, is looking to get their big journalistic break, and decides to tackle the city-wide crime spree created by a gang of bad boys called the Foot Clan.
Her investigations see her witness mysterious good vigilantes trying to stop the Foot Clan, triggering a journey into the past as to how O’Neil is related to the gang of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
It seems, in a convenient twist of fate, her late father was responsible for creating the miracle of the Turtles, but her father’s financial backer at the time has now crossed to the dark side and is in like Flynn with the Foot Clan.
If an audience wanted to watch a film on a journalist’s search for answers, they could have stayed home and watched 60 Minutes, because that’s about how long it takes for some sort of decent action to finally kick off in the film.
There are some good action scenes, but nothing that will have you raving after the movie is over.
Even Michelangelo, always the reliable one to make me laugh in awkward times, failed to hit a decent punchline.
The technology to bring the Turtles realistically to life on screen was absolutely amazing however, and really helps bring these 1980s heroes into the new millennium.
This film is definitely aimed at the children, and with a few grotesque innuendos likely to go over the kids’ heads, and a lack of intense violence, is a great choice to send the kids to see these school holidays.
Sadly, adults chasing a few hours down memory lane will have to have a brimming passion for the Turtles to really feel satisfied with this latest instalment.
– Erin Somerville
