We interrupt your regularly scheduled mutant superhero mega-series already in progress for, well, another mutant superhero mega-series. It’s time to dip back into the sewers for a return to the world of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Seven years have passed since the latest franchise revival fizzled out with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is now playing. So Rob steps up to the mic to address his thoughts on the new animated movie. Does the film justify its existence as the seventh theatrically released TMNT film and the fourth iteration of this franchise? We’ll dig into whether this latest effort could, in fact, carry the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles forward.
2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles seemingly kicked off a whole new era of movies starring the title heroes. But after its solid box office performance, the sequel — 2016’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows — still struggled to keep that momentum going.
Clare from W-Rated joins this final installment of our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mega-series. We’ll discuss what is (at least, for the moment) the final TMNT movie, why its reputation is perhaps a bit too harsh, where we wanted a third film would have gone, and what we want going forward.
2007’s TMNT marked the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ first foray into computer animation. But when a sequel never materialized, Paramount and Nickelodeon Movies decided to let producer Michael Bay work his billion-dollar Transformers magic. And the result is a movie that, well, isn’t quite sure what it’s trying to be.
Kevin the Critic joins the show to discuss 2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the movie’s strange place in the franchise. We’ll discuss the decision not to focus on the turtles but Megan Fox’s April O’Neil, the dark tone and sexual innuendo throughout, and the muddled plotline that just might make this the least comprehensible TMNT film yet. And that includes the one where they time-travel to feudal Japan thanks to a magic scepter.
