About to watch this. What am I in for? Will it at least be as good as the last CGI movie? Does "they're voiced by actual teenagers" actually add anything or was that just marketing?
About to watch this. What am I in for? Will it at least be as good as the last CGI movie?
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
>What am I in for?
A sloppier, less coherent, poorly planned rehash of ideas that every other TMNT movie and series already did better. Also, it rips a ton of ideas and jokes straight from the Michael Bay movies.
>Will it at least be as good as the last CGI movie?
There's a fight montage in the middle of the movie that's really good, but everything else about it is super uneven and some scenes feel like they weren't animated by the same team.
>Does "they're voiced by actual teenagers" actually add anything or was that just marketing?
Leo and Raph sound fine, I guess, but Mikey and Donnie will make you wish you were deaf. Jackie Chan Splinter is a mush-mouthed mistake. All the celebrity voice actors are mostly a huge fricking waste of money. Ice Cube obviously had a ton of fun with his role, but he's not written well.
taking ideas from bad movies and doing them better is a good thing
Read again. They did them worse.
no I watched those movies, Mutant Mayhem was across the board better than the Bay movies.
I mean frickin hell, having an entire movie called "Out of the Shadows" about the Turtles wanting to be accepted by the human world only to end it with the Turtles decide that actually they're fine with living in the sewer forever because 20 cops like them was profoundly stupid. Mutant Mayhem actually did that plotline right.
It's very telling that your biggest complaint with the movies is some autistic whinging about the title and not the clumsy Krang fight at the end or Shredder's wasted presence in that movie.
Also the Bay movies are still better than Mutant Mayhem because they understand the characters and tone better than MM does, even if their plots are garbage. Better action scenes and more of them too.
oh yeah there's a ton wrong with the movie, but the title is literally the first thing wrong with it.
In the Bay movies Mikey's jokes are mainly about how he wants to frick April. And the action sequences are overly complex and boring giant CGI set pieces.
They're CGI animation same as Mutant Mayhem, my dude. The fight montage in MM is about the only good thing going for it, while the van chase and the kaiju superfly fight at the end are messier, louder, and more chaotic than the Bay movies at their worst.
CGI sequences have a different effect in an all CGI movie than they do in an otherwise live action movie.
C'mon man, you know that. You're just being pedantic
When a scene is 90% CGI animation, but it's made to look realistic, it's still animation.
yes? I;m not sure your point.
My point is that the Bay movies the fight scenes feel like cutscenes. The mountain fight is the exemplar of that, it's like a sequence from an Uncharted game that was cut into the movie. They're sliding and flipping and it goes on forever and then it eventually ends and the plot continues onward.
In Mutant Mayhem the action is much more integrated into the plot. Part of that is that the whole thing is animated so there are no transitions from live action footage with some CGI to all CGI like in the Bay movies. But it's also about pacing and writing.
Like, I think the police van chase in OotS is the best action sequence in the Bay movies. it moves the plot forward, the live action and CGI parts are well integrated together, and characters' actions matter. Unlike the mountain fight where you can just close your eyes until its over.
i agree with him. h
I wouldn't disagree that the falling down a mountain scene feels out of place. Especially because that's a huge fricking mountain that's just a few miles outside of NYC, which makes no sense, but it still follows along with the plot. They're protecting April, escaping bad guys, and dealing with the Foot Clan.
I didn't imply that Mutant Mayhem has disconnected action, but I will argue that it's got a far worse problem than either of the Bay movies with TCRI and Cynthia Utrom. That van chase in MM ends with the B-Plot barging into the movie which has no meaningful connection to the rest of the movie's Superfly plot. It leads to one of the worst scenes in the movie where they are all crying and singing BTS songs, followed by Splinter and April bumblefricking their way into the scene, followed by a sudden course correction back to chasing Superfly, all so they can hamfist the anti-mutagen into the movie. Even then, the anti-mutagen may as well just be a bomb for all the difference it makes to the actual plot.
>1990
>Bad
Even the 2007 movie was a waaaaay better animated theatrical movie in every way.
>Mikey and Donnie will make you wish you were deaf.
False. Donnie's cute little unbroken voice gave me a boner
have a nice day as soon as possible, my friend.
Nah I'm having too much fun fantasizing about making tween Donnie moan with pleasure
You're going to hate it.
>A good thing happens to a character
>Everyone acts as if it's a horrible fate
... I know the writer sucks... But what the frick?
https://screenrant.com/tmnt-149-preview-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-armaggon/
"Good thing" is more like they came up with an excuse to remove her from future continuity because no one else has any desire to include Lita in their stories.
Yeah, everyone hates her.
I absolutely hated how this movie went for a "They just want to be normal kids" angle, and even worse they actually become publicly known at the end. The Ninja Turtles should never, ever be known to the public at large. It absolutely ruins what makes the franchise work in the first place.
I liked the teen voices. I think the cast had great chemistry and it added something fresh to the depiction of the Turtles. They often have immature traits, but it is rare for them to actually feel like teenagers.
That said, it had a really shitty script and there's no tension between the brothers. They're the same characters at the start as they are at the end the only difference is where they are. Also I disliked that all the villains side with the Turtles. Their should have been more tension.
Its a good turtle kino.
Not bad, not best, bot a good one.
LOVE the designs.
>they're voiced by actual teenagers
It means they now act no different than your average moronic zoomer, I have no idea why people think this a good thing.
I thought it was fun and I liked the art style but I'm very much in the minority on Cinemaphile
They don't even sound like teens. They sound prepubescent.
It's fricking weird.
no, they sound like actual teenagers. Are you too busy cooming to e-girls to know the difference in ages?
They really don't
They sound like teenagers because they are voiced BY teenagers, but they were directed to act and speak like moronic ipad babies.
>lets give Don big glasses and buckteeth coz NERDS
Meanwhilel Don's Fortnite design manages to pull off the "tech guy" perfectly without having him look stupid.
exactly
it's amazing how the fortnite designs are toptier
>without having him look stupid
>wears headphones and sensitive gadgets to a physical confrontation
anon, i...
anon you can remove the headphones
Is this the one where Leonardo is a massive homosexual
It's the one where they're all massive homosexuals. Everyone in the entire movie.
But splinter hooks up with the wienerroach woman and Leonardo has the hots for fat black April.
Massive homosexuals. That's right.
I really really hope the sequel has them actually have to become ninjas, shredder is a trained warrior who is supposedly stronger then all of lady utroms forces. The turtles are just mimicking movies and youtube videos
They speak like soft Black folk. The sort of sitcom black Black person speak that doesn't match reality
Contrast Lita with the Weasels, who have a verified kill count despite being roughly the same age as Lita. They had a chance to age her up a little and have her do more. Instead they side-lined her entirely and she spent a dozen or more issues either not being around, or being a baby-sized blob in the background saying nothing.