Tonight, I went to the movies for the first time in a while (last one was Frozen). While I do have some interest in seeing Guardians of the Galaxy (even though I havent seen any Marvel movies after Thor), tonight it was TMNT. Long Spoilers ahead. Heres the thing about these movies that Ive come to figure out: depending on how you feel about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, that was going to immediately determine if you will enjoy, or rather should I say how much you will tolerate this movie. Ill be honest and say that I actually did enjoy the movie: it delivered on the turtles being the turtles. Give a point to them for coming up with the brilliant idea of giving each turtle an identity and establishing an exterior way of noticing each turtle instead of simply relying on weapon and color. As for the action, it was rather well done as well. The sequence of them going down the snow hill was hands down the best part of the movie due to how hilariously over the top it was. As for the turtles themselves, I had no problems with them since they did what they needed to do. If you like turtles in anyway, you will probably get your moneys worth here. Now with all that said though, was the movie flawless? HA! Not even close! As always, Megan Fox puts in her performance that she has been known for (at least it fits the character shes playing, but no reason to give her a pass though). While talking about Megan Foxs performance in a Michael Bay film isnt anything new to talk about, I can still talk about other character designs really fast. Splinter was ok, but man did it look rather ugly here. Not as bad as TMNT 3, but gets pretty close. I had no problem with his character and how he acts, but I do have to question how he can use his tail for fighting. Youd think that a simple sweep would be ok, but no he can use his tail to not only grab you, but can also choke you out while slamming your face into the floor several times while attacking someone else. Probably the biggest character fault in this whole movie though even worse than Megan Fox was actually the Shredder himself! Just to say really fast, I like the Shredders design and it was pretty bad ass how he deploy wolverine claws and fire off swords and can recall them back to do it again. All that said though, HE LOOKS LIKE A REJECTED TRANSFORMER! Youd think if anything, we would get to see how badass Shredder is before he gets the powered up suit, but the best we get there is seeing him attack someone while he is tied down. Whats worse is that he is actually treated more like a SIDE CHARACTER THAN THE ACTUAL VILLAIN! HOW THE HELL CAN YOU DO THAT!? I mean, yes you do see him fight off the four turtles at one time, and he is also the mastermind of the whole plot, but it feels like this student (who you can tell is evil because he has that look that screams Im going to be evil!) does all the work and actually feels like he is doing more than just showing up to be what beats up the turtles. Another thing that was pretty silly in the movie was just how mutant the turtle are. Thankfully they arent aliens, but I can see how people could have seen that as a problem considering how broken these turtles are. Not only do they seem to have a bit of a healing factor for them (not Wolverine/Deadpool broken, but they seem to recover pretty quick if you inconvenience them.), but their shells make them bullet proof. To make things more broken for them is how the turtles have super strength and just do things like hold up heavy objects and can burst out of vans leaving the same outline that Porky does when he says Thats all folks! Now, Im not going to claim that I know TMNT as much as anyone else, but I dont recall them ever having that ability and just feels like it makes them broken. I havent talked about the Michael Baying that is seen in his movies, so lets cover that next. There are two things that Michael Bay does alot in his movies: Explosions and convince. Granted, I cant recall that many explosions this time around (they are still there, but wasnt completely littered in it) but that other part of how convenient everything was in the movie got to a point where it was getting hilarious just how much there was. So not only did April care for all four turtles and Splinter before they changed, but she was also fed them Pizza and named each one and colored them and everything! While Splinter didnt exactly have a master (which makes sense due to him being a lab rat), he doesnt know ninjutsu, but how does he know it then? BY READING IT IN THE SEWER AND TEACHING HIMSELF! Im not saying him teaching himself is impossible (Ill say the mutagen helped him learn fast) but how the hell did the book get down there? Maybe April threw the book down there so that the turtles can learn. After all, SHE SAVES THE TURTLES MORE THAN THEY SAVE HER in this movie. I could keep listing the convenient moments (the sewer entrance being right at the end of the snow cliff scene, and the climax), but that would take way too long. Finally, the villains plot makes no sense what so ever. So you have a virus that can infect all of NYC and the only antidote that exists is THE BLOOD OF THE TURTLES although they were supposedly killed before they got to make sure that was the case. Of course, now that the turtles arent dead after all, it is time to set the plan forward to drain their blood to make that antidote to use as a bargaining chip! When their blood, they will infect the city just so that they can... give the people an antidote to get money and power? ... Keep in mind, the student is already rich, so why does he want more money? That would be like if Bill Gates decided to turn off the internet but will turn the internet back on in exchange for MORE MONEY! YOU ARE ALREADY RICH! WHATS MORE MONEY TO YOU MAN?! Not to mention that there is also the complication that you havent tested the antidote yet, so if it doesnt work, you basically performed genocide on a city and KILLED YOURSELF IN THE PROCESS BECAUSE YOUR ANTIDOTE DIDNT WORK! Even people who use chemical bombs in war dont just drop the bomb on their foot if they have an antidote! They would be at a safe distance before they set it off! And even if it work, dont you think that someone can be able to either get their hands on the antidote or someone who was administered it to get the antidote that way? I hate to say this, but the villainous plan does fall short if you are technically making a cure to your evil virus! So overall, the TMNT movie wasnt bad, but wasnt good either. I like it and would recommend it, but there was still alot of things to nitpick on in spite of that. Still, Id watch this movie again before going to the other transformer movies and how idiotic those movies can get with their Steel Balls, Deep Wangs, Racist Robots, and so much nonsense that it hurts to figure out why Im listing them all! Watch at your own risk, but know that at least if you do, it isnt all that bad that some people want to say it is. Maybe if Michael Bay makes his movies more like this and works on fixing those problems, perhaps he can move away from that position of being a bad director. Dont get me wrong: he isnt the worst, but his movies lately have been moving him into that position.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 07:08:59 +0000
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