7/10
Small Pizza, Not Spicy, But Crispy on The Sides !
14 February 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Every age has its beloved oddity. I mean who would have thought that the talking apes would be in vogue during the 1970s, with 4 sequels for (Planet of The Apes), and 2 TV shows as well?! It's madness, apparently frequent, and sure got its revealing reasons. But whatever, still it isn't something that I'll be MAD about, whether we're talking about the 1970s apes, or the 1990s turtles!

I meet the same confusion with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (WAW. What a title!). I've never understood their popularity. There was an age where all of my family used to run, and I mean RUN, to catch the cartoon show on the national TV in the late 1990s. I was so erratic among them, asking what's attractive in mutant ninja turtles, and huge ugly rat??

So I forced myself to set and watch this movie, maybe to find any answer. The formula is so obvious. Good guys (teens; after what Star Wars and E.T. had done to the American cinema in the 1980s). Cartoonish bad guys. A mentor. A sidekick. Marital arts. And goofy sci-fi. However, all of that in just bizarre format which I admire its wild imagination, but not its outcome, since I'm not a fan.

Nonetheless this movie is fun. I found nothing to call bad, or even a time to be indignant towards anything. Its little shape didn't manage to harm its goods. It didn't allege anything further than what it already had, being as the highest good result this budget could achieve.

I have to confess; there were moments that pushed me to laugh; especially the Casablanca spoof. (Paige Turco) is great. And I loved the last line: "I made another funny", since it could fit this movie itself as a sequel / another fun ride. Although I still can't, to date, see the certain adored something in TMNT, but this movie of them managed to be as light as pizza, not spicy (no sex or violence), and crispy with teen hilarity all the way. I just hated the tin jagged hat of Mr. (Shredder). It was extremely silly!

Finally, nothing wrong with one pizza sometimes!
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