It is itself a mutant of sorts, a contentious, unsightly hybrid of martial-arts exploitation film and live-action cartoon.
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07/01/06
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Movie (1990)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:16
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is exactly as advertised: one-liners, brawls, and general silliness. Good for the young at heart, irritating for everyone else.
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Reviews for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Movie
Top CriticNo review available.
03/27/04
Four pizza-loving turtles emerge from their shells to battle crime in this inexplicably successful kiddie flick, which now looks as dated as it is silly.
12/10/03
There is no excuse
11/05/02
Panderingly kid-centric and obnoxious commercialism at its most profitable.
11/04/02
Entertaining enough to gloss over the crassness of its underpinnings.
04/25/07
By no means exceptional, but you have to admire the turtle performers for their agility, and Elia Corteas for keeping a straight face.
04/28/08
Not as good as the comic, but fun.
09/10/04
The Heroes in a Half-Shell, as they are known, have a built-in following, so movies like this are notoriously lazy. None of the budget seems to go to screenwriters with talent. It is instead spent on, er . . . creature comforts.
01/01/00
No review available.
02/08/04
Parents can vaguely console themselves, however, that amid the kiddie pollution available on Saturday morning TV, the Turtles rank slightly better than the rest.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
09/25/05
Let us not contemplate the sorts of lustful images that must run through the mind of a hormonal teen-age turtle.
11/29/03
Cowabunga!! Try making turtle soup out of these butt-kicking raucous reptiles. It's pure giddy excitement!
06/04/03
No review available.
05/17/04
Between the dubbed dialogue and the dark visuals, the cumulative effect is curiously dislocating.
02/09/06
No review available.
05/27/03
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