Teenage mutant ninja turtles 2014 games movie#
Would they transform TMNT into a Transformer-like action fest, where the movie just goes on and on with interminal fight scenes of indecipherable robot action and lots of Shia LaBeouf yelling? Or would they bother to crib off the successful live action TMNT adaption, which actually had (gasp!) a plot of some kind and heart?
Produced by Michael Bay and directed by Jonathan Liebesman (mostly known for creating visually chaotic and confusing dumb films like Battlefield: Los Angeles), I honestly didn’t know what I would see. So it is that we arrive at this strange, yet satisfying, reboot of TMNT yet again, after several other reboots which passed me by for whatever reason. Companies did not game to cash in on our nostalgia just yet! That would take the Internet and a whole bunch of outspoken 30+ year old people who really love animals fighting dudes. They fell out of favor somewhere along the way, and I summarily lost interest, if not via age then just simply from a lack of visibility. I realize these in no way demonstrate the original violence and grit (yes, grit, somehow) of the vigilante justice origin story, but I prefer my turtles light-hearted, thank you very much.Īdmittedly, I did not continue to track the Turtles out of the mid 1990s. Compared to many of these comic books turned cartoons meant to appeal to a vast swath of American children everywhere, TMNT wanted kids to, well, have fun, and that’s exactly what they did via each episode and every video game…especially the video games! It didn’t hurt that Konami rolled on their sidescrolling arcade beat’em ups, and just applied them to a new shell (har har). I lived, breathed, and loved this franchise, whether by the value proposition of whatever toy company actually made, shipped, and promoted the franchise in a giant media frenzy, or whether the idea that anthropomorphic turtles could learn ninjutsu and kick butt endeared itself to me (probably the latter more than the former). To say I obsessed over Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a child would, perhaps, represent the understatement of the century.
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