Movie Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

If you are at least 20+, you probably grew up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They rocked in the 80s and 90s. Every kid in the 80s most likely remembers the four crime fighting reptiles. There have been lots of adaptions of this team. There was a tolerable in the 90s, and then there were also three movies that came out in the 90s that most people panned. From what I've seen, they are not horrible, they just aren't great. Jim Henson was a genius, and his technology in those movies was actually pretty impressive. Let's flash forward to 2014. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is good in some ways, but not so good in others. First off, Nickelodeon has liscensing over this movie (and the planned sequel), so automatically we know that this movie really can't have raw crime in it. They want kids to come and see the movie, so Nickelodeon replaces all of that censored time with comedy. Yes, there are several comedic scenes in this movie, in fact I almost remember the jokes more than the action. Which isn't bad, but it means it didn't establish what it meant to create. Megan Fox is in this movie, I like her, she's cool, but I feel the only reason they put her in the film, was to mock Transformers. On the more positive side, the bad guys are actually really bad. I mean, they are the definition of a bad guy. Another positive thing? The CGI used to create the turtles was excellent, it looked like they actually spent a lot of time making these four dudes come to life. Overall, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a movie that older kids and young teens will enjoy. Two stars.