A passable brand rebooting exercise that will impress younger kids even if it doesn't satisfy older fans.
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03/31/07
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TMNT (2007)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:4
Rotten:17
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: TMNT's art direction is splendid, but the plot is non-existent and the dialogue lacks the irony and goofy wit of the earlier TMNT movies.
Theatrical Release:Mar 23, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $54,132,596
Synopsis: Director and screenwriter Kevin Munroe brings the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the 21st century with TMNT. This animated film--made with computer-generated imagery (CGI)--finds the four... [More]
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Chris Evans, Kevin Smith
Director: Kevin Munroe
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Top CriticI guess if you read the comic strip and you played the video games and you watched the TV show and dug the earlier movies, you’ll dig this new version. For me, I didn’t do any of that stuff.
03/26/07
Top CriticIt takes more than an awkward title attempting to sound cool to overcome its mundane plot and silly dialogue.
03/23/07
Top CriticWorst of all is the lack of genuine laughs. Writer-director Kevin Munroe has apparently forgotten that the Ninja Turtle phenomenon started as rib-nudging parody.
03/23/07
Top CriticTMNT offers some real thrills. The computer animation gives the turtles relatively believable expressions, movements, musculature and (green) skin tones.
03/23/07
Top CriticThere's an attention to detail in the visuals and sound design that pushes it up several notches above most kiddie fare. It's not art, dude, but it will do.
03/23/07
Top CriticThere are endless scenes in which the turtles sit around discussing their feelings. All the talk of anger management and sibling rivalry is sure to test the attention spans of viewers in every age group.
03/23/07
Top CriticTime stands still during the many feeble jokes; the Turtles comic book came out in 1984, the last year you could get a laugh just by ending a sentence with the word 'dude.'
03/23/07
Top CriticThese characters don't feel like the turtles of old; there's not enough excitement to reinvent the franchise, and just barely enough to revive it.
03/23/07
Top CriticDespite the doll-like cartoonishness of the human figures (O Pixar, what hast thou wrought?), the filmmakers seem to expect us to take this animated romp seriously. Too seriously.
03/23/07
Top CriticCompletely pointless. Didn't three features in the early 1990s and countless cartoon incarnations take these crime-fighting critters as far as they could go?
03/23/07
Top CriticThe animated fight scenes are both beautiful and realistic. You forget you're watching a computer-animated feature. In a film about ninja turtles, you couldn't really ask for anything more. Other than perhaps a sequel, that is.
03/23/07
Top CriticTMNT is a junk-food pastry. The plot is the wrapper. The action is the oily sponge cake. And the message -- family, family, family -- is the processed cream filling.
03/23/07
Top CriticThe turtles themselves may look prettier, but are no smarter; torn irreparably from their countercultural roots, our superheroes on the half shell have been firmly co-opted by the industry their creators once sought to spoof.
03/23/07
Top CriticWhat's lacking, except in too-quick flashes, are some of the subtler spices -- wit, self-mockery -- strewn through this franchise in all its various formats.
03/22/07
Top CriticNow and then one character accuses another of glorifying violence, 'that brute vigilante junk.' Talk about hypocrisy: Without the brute vigilante junk, this 82-minute picture would be approximately 2 minutes long.
03/22/07
Top CriticAs a piece of film design, the movie is first-rate; on sheer aesthetics alone, it rivals Triumph of the Will for astonishments.
03/22/07
Top CriticThis all-CG reboot is missing the goofy excitement of the old TMNT.
03/21/07
Top CriticUnlikely to achieve BFF status with the MMORPG set, this CGI feature is light on the LOL factor, heavy on the ADD action scenes, and, like, TOOIFM (Totally Out Of Its Freakin' Mind).
03/20/07
Top CriticUltimately, the movie seems driven more by the need to keep a toy line and franchise alive than any creative inspiration.
03/20/07
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