Seriously.. If you don't want spoilers.. Don't read this!..
OK.. So if we sum this up.. Splinter looks like a Japanese drunk homeless person who only know of one barbershop, which happens to be the worst in the city.. This can be accepted, given the facts that he actually lives 24/7 in the sewers.
No worries.. The fact that Raphael, and actually most of the turtles now looks like the Evil Ant general Mandible in Antz, doesn't turn me on much either. However, Aprils constant nagging of getting a story IS more connected to the original story than anything else in this made up sub version of the real thing..
NOW THEN.. What I actually miss.. The Scene that SHOULD be there!
A dojo in Japan, a nice evening when sun sets (or early morning for that matters.. capture the feeling.. DO IT!).. some sherry blossom leaves falls from the tree outside.. On the inside, Hamato Yoshi and the other practices Ninjutsu.. One foul student named Oroku Saki feels that Hamato Yoshi is a more promising student than himself, and thereby stands in his way of becoming the leader of the clan. Some scenes, and some days passes. Oroku Saki decides to strike. When the students of the Dojo are about to commence training, and bow down from seiza-position (on their knees), Oroku Saki takes his Tanto-"knife" and nails Hamatos GI-Jacket (His upper training clothes) to the floor.. Making it impossible to bow down to their Highly honored sensei.. Someone shouts out.. "Are you refusing to bow down to our honored Sensei.. you filthy dog!".. He removes the knife from behind his back, and ends up in a position looking like he is about to attack the sensei.. Oroku Saki shouts: He wants to kill our beloved Sensei!! Hamato Yoshi is apprehended and thrown out of the Dojo, Banned from Japan for all Eternity..
He then ends up in New York, in the sewers.. (I know but that's the original story.. right?) He finds 4 turtles swimming in some kind of ooze.. (The Mutagen).. The contact between him and the Turtles makes the turtles humanoid.. The contact between him and a rat makes him Rat-anoid? (Is that a word?) Anyway.. That's how he becomes Splinter!.. And he is awesome!!!.. He can shew thru anything, biting thru wood and stuff simultaneously making splinters out of other solid wood with his hands.. Unlike the recently released movie. However he can use his tail in the original story as well as in this one.. One thing they've got right, But it's not very nice done in this one..
It lacks a bit of the calmly "Buddhist" thinking of the original series.. But it's not that far off.. If it could be perfected and not have so much "fast rendered" scenes blurring by.. I would definitely appreciate it more.. And the humour.. It needs a face lift..
The original Foot Clan soldiers ARE way cooler than these normal soldiers.. seriously.. make it right!
And Shredder, who if you didn't catch up.. IS Oroku Saki who has taken over the Japanese Clan and named it the Foot Clan (or "The Foot" for short) and moved it to New York to steal stuff "Ninja Style", and hopefully become Ruler of the World.. Or at least a small Universe.. Well, he should not be a Robot.. Seriously.. Have Iron Man be Iron Man.. And Shredder be Shredder.. Please.
The rest of the story is OK.. I like that Michaelangelo is quite like he was in the original series.. I don't like the way Donatello was turned into a screaming Geek.. He is awesome even tough he creates and fixes things.. Due to this movie the producer inflicts upon us all that geeks are silly. And that everyone should do American football or practice heavy lifting to be awesome.. Which OF COURSE!!.. is just a bunch of BS.
I like the physics more in this movie tough.. A turtle of the size of a man should weigh enough to make a Humve fly like a glove.. Well at least it should affect it.. That's was better than in original series. And the effects are also better of course.. It's 2014.
Stolen scenes? Well when the Turtles runs and finds the foot clan standing doing all the filthy business a foot clan usually does, and they drop some stuff leaving a uncomfortable silence.. That's taken from one of the earlier movies.. I liked the old one better.
It's quite fun that Vernon wants to name an article "Heroes in a half shell", which is what they sing in the original 90's series Intro-music.
The music moment in the elevator is also quite nice.
Well that quite sums it up, it's overall a good movie for people who don't know the original series. But not for the ones who lived in the 90's and appreciated the old series.
OK.. So if we sum this up.. Splinter looks like a Japanese drunk homeless person who only know of one barbershop, which happens to be the worst in the city.. This can be accepted, given the facts that he actually lives 24/7 in the sewers.
No worries.. The fact that Raphael, and actually most of the turtles now looks like the Evil Ant general Mandible in Antz, doesn't turn me on much either. However, Aprils constant nagging of getting a story IS more connected to the original story than anything else in this made up sub version of the real thing..
NOW THEN.. What I actually miss.. The Scene that SHOULD be there!
A dojo in Japan, a nice evening when sun sets (or early morning for that matters.. capture the feeling.. DO IT!).. some sherry blossom leaves falls from the tree outside.. On the inside, Hamato Yoshi and the other practices Ninjutsu.. One foul student named Oroku Saki feels that Hamato Yoshi is a more promising student than himself, and thereby stands in his way of becoming the leader of the clan. Some scenes, and some days passes. Oroku Saki decides to strike. When the students of the Dojo are about to commence training, and bow down from seiza-position (on their knees), Oroku Saki takes his Tanto-"knife" and nails Hamatos GI-Jacket (His upper training clothes) to the floor.. Making it impossible to bow down to their Highly honored sensei.. Someone shouts out.. "Are you refusing to bow down to our honored Sensei.. you filthy dog!".. He removes the knife from behind his back, and ends up in a position looking like he is about to attack the sensei.. Oroku Saki shouts: He wants to kill our beloved Sensei!! Hamato Yoshi is apprehended and thrown out of the Dojo, Banned from Japan for all Eternity..
He then ends up in New York, in the sewers.. (I know but that's the original story.. right?) He finds 4 turtles swimming in some kind of ooze.. (The Mutagen).. The contact between him and the Turtles makes the turtles humanoid.. The contact between him and a rat makes him Rat-anoid? (Is that a word?) Anyway.. That's how he becomes Splinter!.. And he is awesome!!!.. He can shew thru anything, biting thru wood and stuff simultaneously making splinters out of other solid wood with his hands.. Unlike the recently released movie. However he can use his tail in the original story as well as in this one.. One thing they've got right, But it's not very nice done in this one..
It lacks a bit of the calmly "Buddhist" thinking of the original series.. But it's not that far off.. If it could be perfected and not have so much "fast rendered" scenes blurring by.. I would definitely appreciate it more.. And the humour.. It needs a face lift..
The original Foot Clan soldiers ARE way cooler than these normal soldiers.. seriously.. make it right!
And Shredder, who if you didn't catch up.. IS Oroku Saki who has taken over the Japanese Clan and named it the Foot Clan (or "The Foot" for short) and moved it to New York to steal stuff "Ninja Style", and hopefully become Ruler of the World.. Or at least a small Universe.. Well, he should not be a Robot.. Seriously.. Have Iron Man be Iron Man.. And Shredder be Shredder.. Please.
The rest of the story is OK.. I like that Michaelangelo is quite like he was in the original series.. I don't like the way Donatello was turned into a screaming Geek.. He is awesome even tough he creates and fixes things.. Due to this movie the producer inflicts upon us all that geeks are silly. And that everyone should do American football or practice heavy lifting to be awesome.. Which OF COURSE!!.. is just a bunch of BS.
I like the physics more in this movie tough.. A turtle of the size of a man should weigh enough to make a Humve fly like a glove.. Well at least it should affect it.. That's was better than in original series. And the effects are also better of course.. It's 2014.
Stolen scenes? Well when the Turtles runs and finds the foot clan standing doing all the filthy business a foot clan usually does, and they drop some stuff leaving a uncomfortable silence.. That's taken from one of the earlier movies.. I liked the old one better.
It's quite fun that Vernon wants to name an article "Heroes in a half shell", which is what they sing in the original 90's series Intro-music.
The music moment in the elevator is also quite nice.
Well that quite sums it up, it's overall a good movie for people who don't know the original series. But not for the ones who lived in the 90's and appreciated the old series.
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