Ever since the events of the last film series, the turtles have gone their separate ways. But Leonardo, being the stalwart one, resolves to bring them back together after persuasion from their friend, journalist April O'Neill that New York City needs the turtles back to fight crime. When a mysterious, ancient Aztec power is unleashed upon the city, even the once-formidable Foot Clan finds themselves against the odds which puts the turtles in a compromising position to bring themselves together, or let New York implode unto itself.
TMNT was a welcome homecoming in my eyes and did excellent justice to the series by making me feel right at home with the atmosphere. The animation is slick and polished, it gives off a cheap look of "Jimmy Neutron", at first, but in reality, the simplistic look is more about they style and the intention to emulate the cartoon series of old. The thing with the story is, the story itself doesn't really feel too fresh and comes off more as the typical revisonist story, complete with fracticious inner-team conflict that results in a falling-out (but you know they're going to make up, again!). I also wished the film had more action, there were really only two major fight scenes with all the turtles, the rest were more intimately relegated to singular characters. Half of the fun of watching "Ninja Turtles" was seeing all of them in action at once, so I felt the action could have delivered a bit more. But overall, TMNT was fun, the creators could've done a lot to easily screw things up, and thank goodness, they didn't.
7/10
Peace,
- Jon
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