Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 11/10/2014
In a half shell, they're the heroes four
In this day and age who could ask for more?
The Crime wave is high,
with muggings mysterious
Our police force and detectives and furious
My expectations were not too high going into TMNT, with the Bay attached to the project back with his muse Megan Fox and some CG Turtles that did not look like the brothers I knew and loved. This is probably the best way to go into this film, with low expectations, at least then you can come out and say, "Well, it wasn't as bad as I thought". Both Clare and I said this as we left.
TMNT should have been named April O'Neill featuring some big green things for the first hour and a bit, and that is not what I came to see. As lovely s Megan Fox was, she cannot hold a "blockbuster" on her own. I came to see some "cowabunga" shouting dudes with ninja in their soul and weapons in their hands.
With the Foot Clan causing mayhem throughout the city, four vigilantes emerge from beneath to help. With the help of April O'Neill and their sensei, Splinter, the band of brothers face all evil head (shell) on. It is the same old TMNT story we all have known and seen before, just very pretty.
There is one section in the film, a good 20 minute section, that is pure Bay, sloooooow mooootion at every possible moment, big explosions and large scale destruction. This is the snow slide scene (which there is a little shown in the trailer), and it was very entertaining and I even turned to Clare and commented how much I had enjoyed it. The final 30 mins of the film made up for a meandering first hour.
The motion capture is very well done and the heroes in a half shell look half decent. With good individual personalities and styles each turtle has their moment.
I do wonder where the franchise will go, because a few sequels are inevitable. If this is the case, I for one, will be campaigning for Beebop and Rocksteady
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