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
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Cowabunga! A hip and happening time for fans of all ages!
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Scores with its generally engaging tongue-in-cheek humor. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A well-rounded, unpretentious, very funny, knockabout adventure -- subtly blended so that it's fun for all the family. Full Review |
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By no means exceptional, but you have to admire the turtle performers for their agility, and Elia Corteas for keeping a straight face. Full Review |
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Entertaining enough to gloss over the crassness of its underpinnings. Full Review |
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The results are high-spirited martial arts and comedy. Full Review |
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It is itself a mutant of sorts, a contentious, unsightly hybrid of martial-arts exploitation film and live-action cartoon. Full Review |
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Between the dubbed dialogue and the dark visuals, the cumulative effect is curiously dislocating. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Not as good as the comic, but fun.
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Maintains an effective balance between the kiddie toon and the more subtle comics it was based on. Koteas is miscast, though.
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A defeated shrug is in order for this revival of the 1990 craze for green amphibious warriors, schooled in Asian martial arts, named after Renaissance masters and addicted to pizza. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Let us not contemplate the sorts of lustful images that must run through the mind of a hormonal teen-age turtle. Full Review |
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