So, had an awesome day with the BF. Went to go see the TMNT movie. I gotta say, I liked it. I was skeptical b/c it way a Bay film, but I think it was really well written. I honestly have only a few minor gripes about it.

1. Megan Fox. Seriously wrong person for the role and her gawds awful facial plastic surgery didn't help.
2. Knowing beforehand the voice actor of Leonardo. Couldn't keep it out of mind. Kinda killed the character for me.
3. Splinter not having an Old Japanese Man accent. Really!?
4. Shredder's Iron Man armor. Again, really!?
5. The back story on how the turtles came to be. I won't go into detail on this because of spoilers, but really disappointed with it.

Other than those, it really was a movie I wouldn't mind seeing again. Quite possibly even owning on DVD. The Turtles' personalities were really well developed, IMO. I know a lot of people are griping about the noses, but really, unless you purposely focus on it, you forget about it. Well, except during the close ups. lol Also, as far as their overall look goes, I think it worked. Raph was the biggest one, but then again he's the muscle, so that fits. Again, I know a lot of people are complaining of size, but if you take an honest, subjective look, it works.

Really, being honest, I would give it a solid 7. Maybe an 8.

I heard it was a decent watch. I just need a lift to see it...

I saw it to. I also saw the Original Turtles movie back in the day.
I think this one was a more serious take on the story, though I miss the ooze.
I think they did a pretty good job on Splinter, and watching him fight was a nice touch. Dude has Skillz.
Though how he learned them was a small disappointment - still they did a good job on the movie and it's franchise I think.

I haven't seen the movie.  After reading http://www.buzzfeed.com/alison...he-1990-movie#r9lhl4 (5 Ways The New "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Makes The 1990 Movie Look Like A Masterpiece) I decided not to spend money to watch it.  Perhaps you all could address the problems raised by that author?

1. They look like nightmare fuel.
"Raphael in particular, as the bulkiest of the four, looks scary, and the camera pans up his hulking body in their first full shot in order to emphasize this."

2. The turtles aren't battling crime, they're fighting a supervillain.
"This “must save the city!” plan could have been borrowed from any of the superhero stories that Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird first created the Turtles in order to make fun of..."

3. April O'Neil is only an objectified provider of backstory.
"In the 1990 version... O’Neil was a successful, hard-hitting TV news reporter who gave the chief of police such a hard time about the city’s rising crime rate that he blackmailed her boss into firing her ... [This one] is there to be leered at, though the movie tries to wink at this fact — while she has ambitions of being a real reporter, the folks at her job only want to send her on fluff assignments like trying out a trampoline exercise class..."

4. Being Asian is treated as something you just learn from a book.
"The 2014 version of Splinter is a rescued lab rat who learns ninjutsu from a book he picks up in the sewer, first teaching himself, then tutoring the Turtles. Why this leads to him, as a grown mutant, wearing robes, sporting rat facial hair out of an old martial arts movie, and speaking with a vague accent..."

5. There's no downtime to actually get to know the turtles.
"...when Raphael (voiced by Alan Ritchson) has a big, emotional speech at a climactic moment, it’s hard to remember what he was so surly about in the first place. He’s just the guy with the red bandana..."

I was trying to avoid spoilers, but since you brought them up...

1. Yeah, they're all different sizes. I don't know about "nightmare fuel," but Raph is the tallest of the group. For one, it's not like he's a giant among them, he's just a little taller. Second, considering he's the group's "muscle," it seemed appropriate to me.

2. This is a single movie compared to a TON of comic issues and tv episodes. Yeah, it had to be distilled. A LOT. Possibly over simplified? I could see that. Again, it's ONE move versus, dozens if not hundreds of comics and episodes.

3. Yeah. I agree. Totally failed on April on ALL accounts.

4. I can't argue this. If I was Asian, I would probably be offended.

5. I think this movie, for once (thank the gods), actually relies on viewers already knowing the characters. Personally, I'm glad half the movie wasn't back story. I already know them, their story, their personalities. The only thing I need explained is how the writers twisted the story. So yeah, I know why Raph is surly, and so do all the other fans, and I don't think people who don't know the story need it spoon-fed like so many other movies do.

But, this is all just my two cents.

Loved the Turtles. Hated the Story.

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What was the point of the antagonists rushing through such a short-sighted plan? Other than getting a rooftop fight scene in under the 100 minute mark?

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The best (and only positive) review on Metacritc is from Bruce Ingram of the Chicago Sun-Times who calls it "[a] basically brainless but intermittently adrenalizing, mostly-just-for-kids reboot."

I loved TMNT when I was a wee baird, but I don't think I'm the target audience for this flick.
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Their origin has been told a few different ways at this point. The movie used the most current run of TMNT comics for their origin.

I'm a huge turtles fan so I will watch and have watched every turtles video, read all the books all the way from the original until now. But it was off still. They wanted to be like the movie trend which is darker and grittier thanks to Dark Knight. Where this movie felt wierd was they were trying to do the dark origins movie while being a kids family movie. Which makes it seem odd to adults. To kids they prbably didn't notice it at all because they're kids and don't go to a movie to nit pick it.

I took my fiancee who knows nothing about ninja turtles or comics for that matter and she enjoyed it for what it was. If you are believing in mutated turtles, why are you getting specific about their sizes? There is no predetermined size for how big a mutated creature is, other than the previous ninja turtle references.

anyway, the movie was fun as long as you don't go to watch it and nitpick everything wrong. Its not like the 90s movie because 1) we're (at least I am not) a kid anymore 2) it has a different tone all together

The thing that made this movie better than the 90's movie was also the thing that made it worse. Technology has allowed for movie visuals far superior to what they used to be. The action sequence going downhill in the snow could have never been pulled off back in 1990. Because they can create sequences like that, they're obviously going to milk it as best they can. The payoff, of course, is the intense action which could only be hinted at in the past by creative use of camera angles. The downside is that the longer action sequences mean less time to show their "human" side during downtime.

I'm not saying that one way is inherently better than the other. It all depends on the experience you go in expecting. I went in expecting a lot of CG action, cheesy one-liners, and close-up shots of Fox's butt (Let's face it, why else would they have cast her as April? Her acting skill?)... all of which the movie delivers fully.