TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 2: THE SECRET OF THE OOZE
This is a film I have not seen in many many years and I can see why. The first one for me was very nostalgic. It brought back some great memories and even though it was bad, I still loved it. This one on the other had was far worst.
The film carries on from the original with the Turtles celebrating their win over the Shredder. But when Shredder comes back and reforms the Foot Clan, the Turtles need to watch out as he wants revenge. This time Shredder wants to know what changed these guys from little turtles into the mutants they are now his investigation leads him to this chemical factory that is producing this green ooze. Shredder steals the last tube of ooze and changes a couple of little animals into huge super strong mutants. The Turtles have to defeat these 2 new monsters and the shredder.
The story to this one was not too bad really. What ruined it for me was the 2 monsters that Shredder brings in. They were terrible. The costumes were quite good, but they could hardly move. You could tell that inside these costumes were 2 guys really struggling to move. It looked like something out of a really bad kids TV show. I know this film is aimed at kids, but even when I was a kid I thought they were bad. The Turtles costumes were still pretty good. It looked like they had upgraded the mouth movements as they seemed to have more expression in this one. The fighting scenes were also a little bit better in this one than the original. They were fighting much faster and more smoothly which made a huge difference to the film.
The casting was probably the worst part about this film though. A lot of the original cast did not return for this film. The Turtles were played by Michelan Sisti, returning as Michaelangelo, Leif Tilden returning as Donatello and 2 new cast members Kenn Scott as Raphael & Mark Caso as Leonardo. I have no complaints about them you can't really comment on their acting as they were just wearing rubber suits. Kevin Clash was playing Splinter I love this guy. He has done so many classic films and TV shows the man is Elmo after all! Paige Turco came in to play the new April O'Neil I loved Paige in the TV show American Gothic, but in this she was so bad. Her acting was not great and unfortunately she didn't have the same personality as the April in the original movie so it was hard to believe she was April. Also, where the hell was Casey? Not even a mention. He was one of the better characters from the original but he was not in this film. Ernie Reyes Jr. played the pizza delivery man that found the Turtles and helped them on their way in this film. He was OK. He has got some great martial arts moves, but his line delivery could have been a lot better. The less said about Vanilla Ice the better probably the worst part about the whole movie.
There were some great things about this film. I liked the idea of explaining where the Turtles came from. It was very similar to the classic cartoon that I used to watch as a kid. I also like the idea of the monsters, I just think they were very badly made which is a shame as they were made by the Jim Henson company. This film was dedicated to the memory of Jim Henson. My favourite part was the ending unfortunately it was over very quickly. I thought the twist at the end could have been stretched out a bit more. It was a good twist, but was very short lived.
All in all it was very average. It had some good parts and a lot of bad parts. I will give this film 5 out of 10.
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This is a film I have not seen in many many years and I can see why. The first one for me was very nostalgic. It brought back some great memories and even though it was bad, I still loved it. This one on the other had was far worst.
The film carries on from the original with the Turtles celebrating their win over the Shredder. But when Shredder comes back and reforms the Foot Clan, the Turtles need to watch out as he wants revenge. This time Shredder wants to know what changed these guys from little turtles into the mutants they are now his investigation leads him to this chemical factory that is producing this green ooze. Shredder steals the last tube of ooze and changes a couple of little animals into huge super strong mutants. The Turtles have to defeat these 2 new monsters and the shredder.
The story to this one was not too bad really. What ruined it for me was the 2 monsters that Shredder brings in. They were terrible. The costumes were quite good, but they could hardly move. You could tell that inside these costumes were 2 guys really struggling to move. It looked like something out of a really bad kids TV show. I know this film is aimed at kids, but even when I was a kid I thought they were bad. The Turtles costumes were still pretty good. It looked like they had upgraded the mouth movements as they seemed to have more expression in this one. The fighting scenes were also a little bit better in this one than the original. They were fighting much faster and more smoothly which made a huge difference to the film.
The casting was probably the worst part about this film though. A lot of the original cast did not return for this film. The Turtles were played by Michelan Sisti, returning as Michaelangelo, Leif Tilden returning as Donatello and 2 new cast members Kenn Scott as Raphael & Mark Caso as Leonardo. I have no complaints about them you can't really comment on their acting as they were just wearing rubber suits. Kevin Clash was playing Splinter I love this guy. He has done so many classic films and TV shows the man is Elmo after all! Paige Turco came in to play the new April O'Neil I loved Paige in the TV show American Gothic, but in this she was so bad. Her acting was not great and unfortunately she didn't have the same personality as the April in the original movie so it was hard to believe she was April. Also, where the hell was Casey? Not even a mention. He was one of the better characters from the original but he was not in this film. Ernie Reyes Jr. played the pizza delivery man that found the Turtles and helped them on their way in this film. He was OK. He has got some great martial arts moves, but his line delivery could have been a lot better. The less said about Vanilla Ice the better probably the worst part about the whole movie.
There were some great things about this film. I liked the idea of explaining where the Turtles came from. It was very similar to the classic cartoon that I used to watch as a kid. I also like the idea of the monsters, I just think they were very badly made which is a shame as they were made by the Jim Henson company. This film was dedicated to the memory of Jim Henson. My favourite part was the ending unfortunately it was over very quickly. I thought the twist at the end could have been stretched out a bit more. It was a good twist, but was very short lived.
All in all it was very average. It had some good parts and a lot of bad parts. I will give this film 5 out of 10.
"You know, if I had a face like yours, I'd try to make up for it with some sort of personality!"
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