I don't know what's come over my brain the last month but I had this strange, almost. Craving.
To watch the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie.
I've never seen it before. I never really watched the cartoons and overall I have no Nostalgia for the franchise.
And yet I wanted to watch the stupid thing.
So a couple of days ago I and a group of friends decided to put it on and I was not surprised or disappointed.
The movie was everything I thought it would be.
Silly, weird, juvenile, with some surprisingly decent fight choreography given everybody's wearing ridiculous costumes.
The story though dumb was well-structured and every Turtle had their own unique personality.
I know that seems like a given but there's a lot of franchises out there that would just make them all exactly the same.
One thing that catch me off guard was one of the turtles had a thing for April O'Neal and I don't remember if that was ever a thing in the original cartoon.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think they had romantic feelings towards anybody.
Once again not a diehard fans so I wouldn't really know.
You have to feel super sorry for April. She encounters these weird creatures, she's almost mugged on the street. She's fired from her job, her house along with her livelihood and a radical dream of her father's is literally destroyed.
And what did she get for all of that?
Yeah she gets her job back but her house is still destroyed. Is she supposed to hang around with the turtles.
I mean don't get me wrong there sewer hangout looks cooler than half the places I can think of above ground. But I don't think I'd want to live there.
At least they don't keep moldy pizza around.
The baby Splinter doing Kung Fu was hilarious. And it worked with the scene, that's the most baffling part.
Can you think of any other movie where a animated stuffed gopher doing Kung Fu wouldn't completely ruin the tone of its respective dialogue. I sure can't.
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