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adamwatchesmovies · 7 months

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TMNT (2007)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

In some ways, TMNT is a better film than the previous live-action installments in the series. Unfortunately, it still suffers from major shortcomings. This makes it less fun than even the worst of the ‘90s adventures because there’s nothing nostalgic about it and no elements that are so bad they can be kind of fun despite themselves. This movie is doomed to obscurity - theatrical release or no theatrical release.

3,000 years ago, a warlord named Yaotl opened a portal whose energies granted him immortality but turned his four trusted generals to stone. The portal also unleashed 13 monsters into our world - previews of the army the portal would unleash the next time someone opened it. In present day, Leonardo (voiced by James Arnold Taylor), Raphael (voiced by Nolan North), Michelangelo (voiced by Mikey Kelley) and Donatello (voiced by Mitchell Whitfield) have grown apart. Leonardo has been sent away to South America to train and his brothers have either taken on mundane jobs or become masked vigilantes. When Yaotl resurrects his generals and begins gathering the monsters with the help of the Foot Clan, it can only mean trouble for New York and its shell-wearing protectors.

While there’s a certain charm to the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies and their practical special effects, making the next chapter in the series an animated film was a good idea. It gives the characters freedoms they never had before and they're the most expressive they've ever been. Too bad they have nothing interesting to say and the plot is a complete mess. There’s just way too much going on here. Why 13 monsters to collect to open up the portal? Eight of them are captured during a montage and the turtles only interact with three of them, making that number way excessive. In fact, why are there monsters in the movie at all? Isn’t a villain that's trying to open up this portal to a dimension of demons with his four granite warriors - none of which get more than a handful of lines - enough?

Let's examine this story deeper. The portal only opens up once every 3,000 when the stars align, and only if the creatures are arranged in a circle. Yaotl sure was dragging his feet gathering them then, wasn’t he? They’ve been around for longer than Christianity and he’s gotten exactly NOTHING done before the plot kicks in. Thankfully, the monsters are - for reasons that are never made clear - hanging out in New York city, waiting to be scooped up like Pokémon. This entire plot is so muddy and so full of holes you just don’t care about any of it.

Not helping are the titular heroes. Splinter (voiced by Mako) has sent Leonardo away to train to be a better leader. Did he really need to go to a different continent to do this? Speaking of bad ideas, the “Nightwatcher” subplot makes NO SENSE. Raphael has been wearing a disguise and sneaking out at night to fight crime. Why? The turtles live in secrecy in the city's sewer tunnels. He has no civilian identity to protect. The disguise fools no one anyway - well, except his brothers, who take forever to put two and two together. As if the huge humanoid with three fingers and a big shell on his back jumping around doing martial arts wouldn’t be immediately recognized by them. And if he is going around fighting crime as a vigilante… so what? The turtles have always been vigilantes! So is their friend Casey Jones (voiced by Chris Evans)!

Once again, the plot centers solely on Leonardo and Raphael, with the other two turtles given nothing to do. You’d think with the years of comics and television series, someone would’ve figured out a way to give everyone involved some task crucial to defeating the villains. Donnie could hack into a security system, April (voiced by Sarah Michelle Gellar) could gather intelligence or put on a disguise, Mickey and Casey could distract the guards, that kind of thing. No. We get hammered by themes of family and brotherhood over and over but all the siblings do is argue until the final act when they finally put their differences aside. None of it is any fun, and certainly not with the quality of the jokes we're subjected to. The entire picture only contains one funny moment, which makes the brisk 87 minutes feel like an entire season of a TV show you’ve been forced to sit through.

Despite all my criticisms, I must admit that an 11-year-old who loves the ninja turtles would probably love this movie because the ridiculous story seriously (too seriously, I’d say) and feigns a grim and gritty theme throughout. Nothing about the story or visuals will date TMNT like its predecessors but it’s hard to imagine anyone fondly looking back at this 2007 film. (March 26, 2021)

#TMNT #Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Kevin Munroe #Chris Evans #Sarah Michelle GEllar #Mako Iwamatsu #Kevin Smith #Patrick Stewart #Ziyi Zhang #Laurence Fishburne #2007 movies #2007 films

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movie-titlecards · 1 year

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TMNT (2007)

My rating: 6/10

Spends a bit long on the inter-turtle drama, but overall it's reasonably entertaining. Although, much as I love Sir Patrick Stewart, casting him as a native American character was... not a great choice.

#TMNT #Kevin Munroe #Peter Laird #Kevin Eastman #Patrick Stewart #Mako #Chris Evans #Youtube

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morgangalaxy43 · 6 days

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The X-men are literally just what any average queer friend group looks like

#logan howlett #hank mccoy #ororo munroe #jubilation lee #anna marie darkholme #remy lebeau #kevin sydney #lucas bishop #x men #x men 97 #marvel

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mr-foods · 6 months

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i love the x-men

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bens-things · 2 years

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TMNT (2007) dir. Kevin Munroe

#TMNT #Kevin Munroe #movie night

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tmblrfuckingsucksass · 18 days

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X-MEN RED & GOLD

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soupsandstars · 20 days

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some x-men sketching!

#x-men 97 #wolverine #logan howlett #morph #kevin sydney #storm #ororo munroe #rogue #anna marie #as someone with zero x men knowledge apart from whatever I remember from the movies #I have been enjoying this show immensely

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moviecriticseanpatrick-blog · 2 years

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weirdlookindog · 9 months

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Caroline Munro in At the Earth's Core (1976)

#at the earth's core #caroline munro #1976 #1970s movies #kevin connor #amicus #fantasy #adventure

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womeninfictionandirl · 9 days

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Ororo Munroe by Kevin Wada

#ororo munroe #ororo of the storm #storm #Kevin wada #ororo Monroe #art #artwork #marvel #xmen #x men #xwomen #x women #marvel universe #marvel superheroes #marvel comics #marvel heroes

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celticcatgirl2 · 1 month

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“Alright gang let’s do a spot check…did everyone pack their Ibuprofen?”

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kayesfanfics · 13 days

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Hello everyone! I’ve decided to keep my requests open for X-Men (97 mostly, but if there’s other character that aren’t in the series I can write for them as well! X-Men is my all time favorite hero team so I know em all-). But here’s the main 97’ characters I write for!:

Gambit

Rogue

Nightcrawler (MY FAV)

Wolverine

Storm

Magneto

Morph (EXTREMELY UNDERRATED)

Jubilee (I know she’s 18 but SFW only for her)

Roberto (same goes for him)

FORGE MY MAN, ALSO EXTREMELY UNDERRATED)

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ariel-seagull-wings · 10 days

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@thealmightyemprex @piterelizabethdevries

Forge: This is my wife, Ororo. And that is Ororo's husband, Logan.

Ororo: And that is Logan's spouse, Morph.

#x men #x men the animated series #x men 97 #incorrect x men quotes #forge #ororo munroe #storm #logan #wolverine #morph #kevin sidney

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morgangalaxy43 · 6 days

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People complaining that the X-men are “woke” now makes absolutely no sense whatsoever because they have ALWAYS been an allegory for civil rights and fighting for equality

#logan howlett #jean grey #scott summers #ororo munroe #hank mccoy #jubilation lee #kevin sydney #lucas bishop #remy lebeau #anna marie darkholme #x men #x men 97 #marvel

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lillbitdramatic · 2 years

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mini redesigns!

#storm #ororo munroe #emma frost #the white queen #wanda maximoff #scarlet witch #the scarlet witch #art #fanart #clip studio paint #character redesign #redesign #my art #lol these randomly did well on twitter so i thought might as well post them here!#also shout out to kevin wada i used your unused headpiece for my wanda redesign 😩

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