Flat, generic, CGI-filled. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' bored me, unfortunately.
I have a slight memory of seeing bits of TMNT when I was younger but never intentionally watched it, though have always been interested in viewing a film with them in. So in that sense, this disappointed. It just has nothing about it, no character or charm whatsoever. No reason to care for any of the onscreen bunch. Very plain.
None of the cast stick out, particularly the voices. Megan Fox is probably the best this has to offer, though I didn't mind William Fichtner either... Whoopi Goldberg shows up in an alright minor role too, I guess?
I found little to zero of the action scenes entertaining, not helped by some questionable editing and music. Another issue I did also notice is the humour, which falls flat at almost every opportunity - especially with the grating Michelangelo (Noel Fisher).
I'll check out the sequel, because I always going to, but I ain't expecting much! This 2014 film isn't worth seeing.
well... it has megan fox. that can automatically say it sucks.
Like Saturday morning breakfast cereal: it goes and quick and doesn't get soggy.
Non stop action and great CGI made for an enjoyable watch, although the cringe ass jokes left a really bad taste in my mouth.
The acting is fair enough. The story is lacking though. Like why would Shredder care about making Eric Sacks (William Fichtner) rich ? I guess originally though since William Fichtner was supposed to be playing Shredder.
There was no Erick Sacks to make rich and it was actually Shredder himself who had a diabolical plan to make himself rich. Which just isn't Shredder from the cartoon. Either way he doesn't care about making himself or anyone else rich.
The cartoon series has much better writing and is even a lot more engaging. Copying from the flaw of the original movie and making Splinter a rat who taught himself kung-fu I could have lived without. Him being once human and having a daughter named Karai in the show that Shredder stole and raised as his own. Now that was good stuff.
Karai is in this movie but has no great use. Since she just works for Shredder and fights the turtles here and there. There's nothing too special about her character here.
Another problem of course is the look of the turtles. Mostly due to them being too bulky looking with noses. What turtle has a nose ? The 1990 film was flawed and goofy but better made and a little less stupid.
It was better than I thought it would be. The CGI of Splinter though, horrible, just horrible.
Horrendous film, this is a garbage.
Nah, expected more from this. Storyline non existing. Curtwagner1984's review sums it up pretty much.
TERRIBLE MOVIE. AVOID THIS FILM. ALL OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED SHOULD BE ASHAMED. WOKE GARBAGE.
just watch the old TMNT cartoon and the 3 original live action movies.
I don't get it why it is so hated the turtles were portrayed good like in the cartoons Yeah you can say that Shredder wasn't very good but you know that Shredder is the heart of the franchise so he could not be deleted The jokes are funny especially the one in the elevator The action is good but not the best and also don't hate on Michael Bay he is not the worst director Overall is a good movie that I would rewatch it with pleasure
Embarassing. This was just embarassing. Shame on me 'cause I wanted to watch it despite the many warnings I received.
Batman, Spider-Man, the X-Men, the whole Avengers universe... there are sooo many good superhero movies (or at least, decent movies). Why, dear Lord, why? Why did they made such a terrible pile of garbage with the poor old Ninja Turtles!??
They took the worst things from the Transformers movies (no, I'm not talking about Megan Fox... but yes, there is also her and her terrific acting skills), added 4 gangstah ghetto turtles and lots of bad CGI, mixed all of it together, and cooked it on the oven. Then they fed the mix to a Vogon poet, waited until he did a number two, picked up the result... et voila, this movie was born :smile: There is nothing good about it. Not even the soundtrack is salvageable. Nothing.
Well... actually, there is only one thing in this movie that lives up to the expectations. The producer, Michael Bay. There is a bomb? Explosion. A car crash? Explosion, of course. Somebody drops a sheet of paper on the floor? Huge explosion!!!! :thumbsup:
I didn't expect to like it this much. Maybe it's because I was in a very good mood, maybe it was caused by some childhood memories, whatever, I was entertained and amused.
And now I want to watch something else with Noel Fisher.
FACEPALM This is sooooo bad...
i don't know how to put this but um!!!! , it should've been the greatest box office in this year but it lack alot of stuff it was more like selling tickets and making money off of it not making a kick-ass story, it just as regular movies these days,fights and explosions that's it.
i hope second sequel will be much more enjoyable than this,not a downfall this brought. but my rating for Megan Fox 9/10
Not all that great, but still enjoyable only as a timewaster movie or a guilty pleasure
better then i expected but Megan Fox just stop acting
"Thank you for keeping our secret" they said, while she did her utmost best to reveal everything about them for a news story...
Shitty movie: ugly weird looking CGI, bad plot filled with holes and stupidity, shitty dialogue, no character development, useless characters, dumb origin stories etc etc etc. When will Michael Bay quit making movies?
WIll Arnett's bad jokes are probably the best thing about this movie.
I have to say that this was a rather “meh” experience. It certainly was not an improvement over the original. Why try to rewrite a story that was actually not bad when you cannot be bothered to spend some effort on it? The new story is sloppy and it is rather clear that whoever wrote it got only two directives: Make sure that Megan Fox gets a lot of focus and if you do not know what to write then cram in some special effects. There are a lot of special effects in this movie!
It is obvious that Megan Fox’s ego have had a lot of influence on the movie. To the extent that you might wonder if this movie is about the turtles or about Megan Fox. She might be the wet dream of some less discerning teenagers but her acting skills leaves somewhat to be desired. Okay, okay she was actually not too bad in this movie but then it was not to difficult to shine in this movie either.
There are a few moments when it looks like it is going to turn interesting. For instance when the shredder is first introduced and punishes some of his underlings but rather quickly he is reduced to just another “special effect” when they slap this robotic shredder suit onto him. Come on, he is supposed to be a skilled martial arts combatant, not some freak in a robotic suit.
Splinter was just sad. Some lab rat that picked up martial arts from a book he found in the sewers! What the f…? That ruined a lot of the movie.
The turtles themselves, being already pushed back somewhat into the background by Megan Fox desire to be in front of the cameras most of the time, are bland to say the least. They are immature, even for a movie like this, and the jokes are simply unintelligent and mostly not very funny.
I was about to write that, if you like special effects and do not care for much of the rest, then you will probably like this movie but when I think back even the special effects where often only mildly interesting. They were perhaps not really bad but not very impressive either. The truck ride down a snowy slope was just silly and some of the scenes where actually rather underwhelming for instance.
On the whole, to me, this was a mildly entertaining movie that could have been much better if someone with basic intelligence had been asked to write the script in the first place. There are actually five (!) people credited with writing this movie and maybe that is the problem. Too many cooks!
Ninja Turtles < Ghost Shark.
Absolutely Terrible. The plot is paper thin. There's a few enjoyable throw backs, but it doesn't make up for the absolutely terrible story. As for Megan Fox, I didn't really notice her because I couldn't get over the weak plot. The CGI is decent, except for Shedder who is mediocre at best. The humor is a weird mix of humor too mature for kids but not mature enough for adults. Actually that is essentially the problem with this movie. It's PG-13 rating (primarily for the humor and partially for the action) puts it in a weird position. TMNT has always been an amazing series for the 7-12 age range. Michael Bay attempted to make a movie for the adult fans of the series. However, it never became dark enough to hold the attention of anyone over the age of 12. Maybe download it or rent it off Redbox, if you want a 'trip down memory lane'. But honestly, I still would just rather watch the 90s cartoon series.
Was a fun movie to watch, tickled me at points and just overall entertaining. Have to get on the band wagon of "it would be better without Megan Fox" though. It certainly would.
Just no, poor splinter, this CGI mess is nothing like 90's movies.
it can't beat the orginal, that's for sure. But it was fun, I enjoyed it!
Should have never been remade. Can't beat the original. Too much CGI in this, too childish.
Relatively amusing.
Alright to watch if/when bored.
A fun and entertaining movie that would definitely be even better without Megan Fox.
The Turtles design is pretty good , Megan Fox is bad actress and the script is written by fools for children .I prefer the movie of the 90s
We had a lot of fun watching this movie.
For me it's better as the regulary tv series.
Lot's great phrases.
From me 8 of 10
The chemistry between the turtles and their personalities were the best parts. When it comes down to it, that's all I'm really looking for in a TMNT movie. The villains and their motives were paper thin.
Movie is good (if you are 3 years old)
Good movie for the age group it is addressed. I'm in my 50 and did not get bored in the cinema, however the plot is predictable from the start.
What a waste of time and effort... Save yourselves some money, under no circumstances pay to see this movie. It's an utter piece of shite.
Plot holes you can drive an oil tanker through, makes a complete joke of everything that came before it... and the worst part is making April O'Neil's character save splinter and the turtles as a 10yr old girl because daddy was the one who created the chemical that made them who they were....
and don't get me started on the terrible voice acting for the turtles and splinter, the ropey CGI, the bad acting, the bad direction and dreadful cinematography.
Download the HD cam that's floating about the web and check it out... that way you won't be disappointed at wasting money... only the time you lost watching it.
I actually sat down to watch this with very low expectations... after all Michael bay is behind it... although thankfully not directing it... But Lieberman seems to have taken his cue from every other MB film because it's just as bad as anything he's done in the last 10yrs or so... He used to be an ok director (never a great one, barely a good one)... but every film he's behind as a director or producer is worse than the previous one... and this is actually worse than the latest Transformers movie... which was utter shite... Don't pay to watch that one either.
Good but not brilliant... Too many plot holes if you ask me.
Review by Curt WagnerBlockedParentSpoilers2014-11-01T10:55:07Z
Action scenes 8\10
Animation 8\10 (except splinter maybe)
Megan Fox 7\10
Story 3\10.
Why does this always happen? Extremely large budget movies have terrible, terrible stories.
One would think that an essence of a movie is the story it's trying to tell,and all the other elements like: special effects, choreography, soundtrack, and so on are there to enforce and help the storytelling. Here it seems that the story is just there to excuse why the fight\action scenes are happening.
When I was watching this, I could hear this conversation in my mind.
-"Mr writer, we want a fight scene here, and a car chase there, make something up."
-"But Sir, it's not making sense story wise."
-"I don't care! We need to have explosions and fights in the trailer! Explosions and fights sell movie tickets, not stories!"
There are a lot of plot holes and nonsensical stuff going on in this movie, here are some that bugged me especially:
1)
Master Splinter learned Martial Arts form a book:
My problem is not that it is logically improbable, but rather that it lacks epicness in the character background.
How did Shredder learn Martial Arts ?
Well he is a Japanese Master who dedicated his life to learning martial arts. He practiced from early age and was instructed by the most knowledgeable masters in Japan.
(Btw why would a Japanese crime lord/Clan leader call himself 'Shredder' in english? But I digress.)
How did Splinter learn Martial Arts?
Well He found a martial arts book with drawings in the sewer.
You see what I mean? It’s not Epic, not Awesome, and yes does not make logical sense.
2)
April's stupid behavior when trying to prove the existence of the crime fighting vigilante:
April being a reporter, wants to air a story about the vigilante ninja turtles who fight back against the bad guys.She knows they exist because she saw them first hand, and also she managed to take an obscure photo of them.
When trying to convince her editor about their existences, she mumbles about some symbols the turtles are leaving as their calling card, about how she saw them and how they fight against evil, but when asked for proof, April comes empty.
So of course she gets fired(I assume because the editor thinks she is crazy.).
In the next scene she goes to an insanely rich guy's house who has been working with her now dead father in the past(Oh, I wonder how would that come to play later).
This guy is obviously a bad guy(I mean seriously, you can figure out he is evil from the first time he appears on screen).So she arrives at his house and shows him the picture of the turtles she had taken.
I’ll say it again, she shows him the proof her editor wanted to see just a few minutes ago, but somehow April forgot about that. For some reason she thought “Look at all those symbols around the city, they must be somehow connected to the vigilante.” Is a much more convincing argument then “Here is a freaking picture of them! Look!”.
Did she forget about the existence of this photo ? Did getting fired jogged her memory?
3)
Evil guys motivation for being well... Evil.
The first two points I can forgive, but this one really ruined the movie for me.
This movie doesn't offer any explanation why the bad guys want to 'Take over the world' or New York city in this case. There is no sense of what they are trying to achieve besides being evil just for the sake of it.
Their plan is to release a poison in New York and because they have the only antidote to it, they would sell it or get a government contract to manufacture it or whatever, and the rich guy would become rich-er while Shredder's clan would get to "rule".
Let's ignore for a second that this particular evil plan was used to death, what's the point of this? What will you gain?
Let's say it works and you do get rich-er ... But you are filthy rich as it is, and you already have like 10 companies who have their hands in all the pots.
There is: Obviously-Evil-Guy's construction company,Obviously-Evil-Guy's medical company, Obviously-Evil-Guy's science company and so on.
What would be the point of your evil plan if you already have all that?
And what is Shredder's motivation in all this? So the obviously evil rich guy gets rich-er and Shredder gets what exactly? He could rule the city? What that even mean? What would he gain from ruling it? What's the point of ruling a city that you just bombed with chemical weapons and killed half the population?
Also what do you mean by ruling? What like a king? You want to be the King of New York? To what end ?
If by 'ruling' you mean being the dominant criminal gang, than thats what you already are…
So the dominant criminal gang leader wants to attack the city with chemical weapons so his gang could become the dominant criminal gang in the city and he would be the dominant criminal gang leader ? Makes no sense whatsoever.
My opinion about whether or not this movie would be better without Megan Fox:
Short Answer:No.
This movie has so many faults that with or without Megan Fox it's pretty bad.If the writing budget was cut because how much it costs to bring Megan Fox onboard than perhaps it could be better. That being said, I don't think she did a bad job.Her acting was fine, I didn't feel like it was urged or artificial too much.Except for the scene in the beginning where April is reporting about ‘bird summer fitness’ or something. However I think the acting in that scene was bad intentionally. Showing that the character of April does not really wants to do this kind of work.
Being a bad actor is not the same as being an actor who plays a character who is a bad actor.
In conclusion, if what you want in your movies is fight scenes, car chases and awesome cgi, this is a movie for you.
If on the other hand you have a brain, and it bugs you when a movie makes zero sense, then don’t bother.