Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows English Movie

Feature Film | 2016 | UA | Action, Adventure
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If you haven't forgotten the movie that won every award starting with worst director, worst picture and so on at the Golden Raspberry Awards, then here's help. This time the Ninja Turtles are 'Out Of The Shadows' and here to save New York from an alien attack and their old enemy Shredder. It's a tedious watch at best, too scary for the little ones and too boring for teens.
Jun 2, 2016 By Manisha Lakhe


The animation in the end credits is so stylised and so magnificent, you wish the whole movie was made that way. It would have been 'kewl'. But what we get instead are four buffed up turtles who are too chirpy to be 'cool' for teens, and too weird/scary for kiddies. The eye-masks might tell grown ups who these guys are: Orange for Michealangelo, Red for Leonardo and so on. But if you are 10, you would prefer Transformers and if your 14 Megan Fox in Transformers. If you are a grown up, you'd wonder why Micheal Bay would pump in so much money in a story that sounds like a poor-man's Avengers plus X-Men plus every other science fiction story there is.


Yes, the one with the Tesseract that Loki uses to open a portal so aliens would destroy the planet (here the bad guys build a machine that opens up a portal to let in aliens who want to destroy the planet).


Yes, the one in which The Avengers get together and bring down the alien ships and they escape through the portal (here the four mutant turtles get together and bring down the alien Star Wars like death star being constructed over Manhattan and send it back through the portal).


Yes, the one where like X-Men there is a serum that could 'cure' the mutants and make them 'normal' (here Donatello discovers that the purple serum could cure the turtles and make them human - normal like everyone else)


Of course, like in Superman, there's a reporter like Lois Lane in the middle of it all (in this movie Megan Fox is April the investigative reporter)


And like in the X-Men there are bad mutants in this film too. One is a rhino and the other, a wart-hog.


The trouble with the buffed up Turtles is that they're not as sexy as Iron Man or as cool as Hulk. They're just buffed up creatures that are at best creepy, at worst unfunny creatures that live down in the sewers and probably smell. The movie stinks. Why one and half stars? The end credits animation and its colors, and the special effects. Everything is unoriginal.

Manisha Lakhe

   

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