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The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was, to be blunt, very bad. It was a stiched-together-in-post production hodgepodge of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Mission: Impossible 2 and the first Transformers movie. The film got withering reviews, received poor or indifferent word-of-mouth, and was clearly crafted in the editing room. It was one of those films that made a lot of money without really satisfying anyone. And while it didn’t hurt the box office, it was just intense enough to snag a PG-13 even though it was pretty darn PG in terms of actual content.
Yet due to intrinsic interest in the property (it’s been relatively popular due to various movies, video games, and animated television shows for around thirty years), the fact that it was a pretty colorful big-screen entertainment (the second trailer played like gangbusters on an IMAX screen), and the fact that it was the last major summer blockbuster of 2014, it was a big hit anyway. It parlayed a whopping $65 million debut into an $191m domestic total and $493m worldwide cume on a $125m budget. So with box office glory comes a new franchise and a shot at artistic redemption.
Not that we should expect grand art from a newfangled TMNT movie, but this does seem to be a case of “giving the fans what they wanted the first time around.” To wit, we get splashier and more fantastical action and we get a bunch of characters from the comics and/or the cartoon that we’ve always wanted to see in live-action form. As I’ve discussed before, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 game plan is basically “Added Value Elements: The Movie.”
Even more so than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, this second TMNT film (directed by Dave Green of Earth to Echo) is basing its appeal at least partially on “Look at who we got into the movie!” Thus, you’ve got Tyler Perry as Baxter Stockman, Stephen Amell (Arrow) as Casey Jones, and the live-action debuts of Beebop (Gary Anthony Williams) and Rocksteady (Sheamus) twenty-five years after fans were cruelly teased with the false notion of their appearing in The Secret of the Ooze due to the cryptic theatrical poster.
Oh, and Brittany Ishibashi will be Karai, a Foot Clan leader who was added to the comics and animated series long after I moved on to other pop culture properties.
There is no sign of Krang, nor any hint of Baxter Stockman’s eventual fate (I will laugh so hard if Stockman plays the Harvey Dent role as collateral damage in a glorified Dark Knight remake), but if such items exist in the film they can wait for a later trailer or heaven forbid not be revealed at all until opening night. The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film was a weirdly street-level affair, spending more than 10x what New Line Cinema spent back in 1990 to give what was an inferior version of that “the Turtles meet April and confront Shredder” story.
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