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article2016 Reviews,The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles return to the silver screen once again, but will this sequel be able to convince after the previously disappointing remake?
Genre: Action/Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Director: Dave Green
Cast: Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Megan Fox, Stephen Amell, Tyler Perry, Gary Anthony Williams, Stephen Farrelly, Brian Tee, Will Arnett, Laura Linney, Brad Garrett & Tony Shalhoub.
Run Time: 112 min.
US Release: 03 June 2016
UK Release: 30 May 2016
German Release: 11 August 2016
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a comic franchise that accompanied me during my childhood and still is present in my life. I watched every episode of the original cartoon series, bought the films on VHS and watched them countless of times. My grandma bought me some of the comics to read, I collected most of the toys... and lost them along the way, I even bought the original animated series on DVD because I was planning on reviewing them before the release of this movie. Sadly I wasn’t able to do that due to time restricted issues. Shortly said, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a big part of my childhood and I hold all of the characters very dear.
So as a hardcore fan of the Turtles, why would I walk into a movie that is produced by Michael Bay and would possibly ruin my precious childhood memories? As a journalist and hobby reviewer, I find it extremely important to watch a wide spectrum of movies throughout the year. Another reason is that I had hope! The 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a pile of garbage but there could have been a possibility that the sequel would turn out alright.
After the events of the previous movie, the Turtles let Vern (Arnett) out himself as the one who stopped Shredder (Tee), while going back into the sewers where they keep on operating from the shadows. April (Fox) investigates Shredder’s scientist Baxter Stockman (Perry) and finds out that he is building a teleportation device with which he is hoping to break his master out of prison. The Turtles move out to stop the Foot Clan from helping Baxter, but Shredder is teleported out of a security transporter and into Krang’s world.
Krang informs him about his plans to invade Earth and gives him a vial of purple ooze, with which he can destroy his enemies. While mean, the Turtles and April get help from Casey Jones (Amell) fighting the Foot, but when Shredder comes back, he orders Baxter to mutate Bebop and Rocksteady to cause havoc among the city of New York.
Out of the Shadows is better than it predecessor but not by much. Still, while this movie’s plot is far from being interesting, the one thing that positively surprised me was how close the story was to the source material. This is a film that tried to recapture the spirit of the late 80’s animated TV show for fan service, but while doing so forgot to produce a compelling script. While I appreciated the nostalgia, it was the dull plot and exposition heavy dialogues that turned me off, as the formula simply replicated that of the Transformers films, which includes a lot of action and stupid jokes, ending with an over the top fight against a villain who threatens the existence of the world.
As I just said, this blockbuster stays true to the source material and that definitely counts for the characters of the four brothers Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello, who are finally working together as a team, even if they still have fights about specific subjects. The biggest issue being their feelings of alienation from society. Shredder, played by Brian Tee, is not a giant robot anymore but he still wasn’t anything like the mysterious villain these humanoid reptiles fought over and over again. I did not even understand why he joined Krang’s cause, after having met him literally just a couple of seconds or why he hired the idiots Bebop and Rocksteady as his left-hand goons. And that exactly is my biggest gripe with the movie; the characters are too cartoonish and underdeveloped.
Megan Fox returns as April O’Neil, even though she resembles nothing of the character in the comics and TV series. Her job in this movie is basically to stand around, look sexy and be rescued by either the Turtles or Casey Jones, who is portrayed by Stephen Amell. Again, Jones doesn’t resemble his original persona at all; in the comics he is a greasy foul-mouthed anti-hero fighting crime and Amell was really atrocious as the character.
Vern “the Falcon”, played by Will Arnett, returns as the idiotic sidekick who gets way too much screen time and then there is Tyler Perry as Baxter Stockman, another character no one asked for. Krang himself is portrayed as in the comics but gets too little screen time given that he is the main antagonist.
When I came out of the cinema I found myself questioning just how much of this film Dave Green directed, because it felt as if Michael Bay did most of the job himself. The cinematography is “alright” but nothing out of the ordinary, with the combat scenes being the biggest disappointment since there were none that really stuck to me. Effects wise, I was pretty happy by how the turtles were designed; they kept that reptile look from the first flick but enhanced their colour palette. Bebop and Rocksteady looked mostly good but during the fight scene in the airplane, I was able to clearly make them out as simple CGI figures.
The soundtrack was composed by Steve Jablonsky and like the rest of the film, it sounded very Transformers-esque. It was, in fact, the same soundtrack just modified a little bit. I wasn’t really buzzed about the usage of sound effects in this blockbuster since some of them sounded as if they were taken straight of a sitcom.
Verdict: There is a lot of fan service in this blockbuster and it is what I appreciated the most, but as a movie TMNT 2 is a complete mess. The plot reuses a lot of the basics from the first flick, including the big showdown on a high standing platform. There was no character development, Stephen Amell was dreadful as Casey Jones, Brian Tee was boring as Shredder and did not even get to fight the Turtles, and Megan Fox was just cast as eye-candy for the male viewers. It did have a few fun scenes, such as Bebop and Rocksteady’s transformation or the skydiving part, but most of the action segments were forgettable. The only positive aspect this film had were the effects. In a nutshell, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is not a movie I can recommend anyone to go see or buy on Blu-ray. I will therefore, give it a 4.5 out of 10.
Thank you as always for reading my review, I really appreciate it! If you agree with me or have something to add, please makes sure to leave a comment below and don’t forget to share and like.
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