There's these turtles and they live in a sewer, they're mutated (from this odd ooze like stuff), they're all teenagers (meaning they love pizza and say silly things like Cowabunga) and let me think...I'm missing something...??? Ah yes...They're Ninjas!!!!
How can this not fascinate you?!
How can you not be desperate to see this movie?!
Characters: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael (they'll be the turtles), their Master (Splinter-he's a, um...Rat), they have an arch enemy, Shredder (he's the tall fella in the metal mask) and his gang (the Foot clan).
Ok, so they have fights and jump around a lot and use nun chucks and swords, staffs and things to beat bad guys up. It's all good, clean fun for all the family.
The good guys fight the bad guys and occasionally skateboard and such. There's a reporter, April O'Neal and some vigilante bloke called Casey Jones (Elias Koteas-the only one to have a career after his or her TMNT experience), they hate each other, but really I think they actually like each other, but don't tell them that, it'd ruin the love interest bit.
It is cult film. The franchise spans two live action sequels (secret of the Ooze and the not so imaginatively titled, III) a computer animated fourth outing (TMNT- released in 2007) and a TV show, renamed for the time of the day it aired as, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. It seems Hero is preferable to Ninja, but the network had no quarms over promoting Mutants...curious.
Directed by Steve Barron (never heard of the fella, but he did a load of music videos-Billie Jean-Michael Jackson and Electric Avenue-Eddie Grant, to name but a few), this might explain the soundtrack, MC Hammer and the now legendary, "Turtle Power" rap by Partners in Kryme, the look and feel of the film is ideal for an entire generation.
Previous decades would ask the question, where were you when the Berlin Wall fell, well,
I ask you...
Where were you when you first saw the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?!
Sing it with me folks, T.U.R.T.L.E Power!
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