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April, Donatello, Film, Leonardo, Megan Fox, Michael Bay, Michaelangelo, Movies, Raphael, Reviews, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT
9/10
When this one was announced, particularly with that whole alien business, I was ready to write it off and ignore its existence entirely. Sort of like a kid covering their eyes and thinking you can’t see them. Or maybe Schrodinger’s Cat, where if you don’t look in the box to observe it, it could still be alive and well for all you know.
My opinion changed some with newer trailers that shifted me rapidly from one end of the spectrum to “I gotta see this.” In the end, it lived up to the feeling created by the trailers. Is it perfect? No, it’s got a few holes and as much as I wanted to go ahead and score it higher, I bumped it down a notch. All in all, I felt like I’d seen something I was willing to call a TMNT movie when the credits rolled.
The main concern I had left once I decided I was going to see the movie was Megan Fox. To me, she didn’t seem like April O’Neil material. After she delivered a few hard comments toward critics of the film, she began to grow on me as well. Her performance may not have satisfied everyone, but I left the theater feeling she pulled it off pretty well.
Other characters, like Vern Fenwick played by Will Arnett, I wouldn’t have recognized or remember if I hadn’t recently rewatched one of the old cartoon episodes. It was nice to see the inclusion of these other characters,
All around, enjoyable, though there may be some minor plot holes and things, I was able to not get too hung up on them.