Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

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Cast & Crew

Elias Koteas
Casey Jones, Whit

Paige Turco
April O'Neil

Stuart Wilson
Walker

Vivian Wu
Mitsu

Sab Shimono
Lord Norinaga

Mark Caso
Leonardo

Mark Hill
Raphael

Jim Raposa
Donatello

David Fraser
Michaelangelo

James Murray
Splinter

Stuart Gillard
Director

Thomas Gray
Producer

Kim Dawson
Producer

David Chan
Producer

Raymond Chow
Executive Producer

John Du Prez
Original Music

David Gurfinkel
Cinematographer

William D. Gordean
Film Editor

James R. Symons
Film Editor

Dianne Crittenden
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• Oct 26, 2017

  Usual case of milking dry a franchise to the point of no return and that's what this film did with a predictable and over told time travel plot, There's tons of slapstick comedy and most of it falls flat yet again but kids will like it, The acting was poor and the fight scenes were again ruined by the pure silliness of it all, But it looks like they had fun filming it and it's fun enough for kids to enjoy so just like the second film it's hard to be too critical on a film made for kids even if they won't understand half of what's going on.
  Jamie C Super Reviewer
• Sep 08, 2014

  Here's where they completely flew off the wagon with this. Not only is the plot completely a gimmick and not worth the charm of the characters, but it lost the fun and replaced it with bad one liners and too much goofiness. A lack of ideas is evident from the get go. It's just not fun at all and does not explore what made the TMNT characters so popular. They also changed the puppets and they were not as good as the originals from the first two. Not sure what happened there. This one is not worth the time, but if you already found the others not fun than this is not tolerable.
  Josh L Super Reviewer
• Oct 13, 2013

  The Turtles' bodacious adventure continues across time in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. In this ridiculous tale the Turtles travel back in time to ancient Japan in order to save April, who's been kidnapped. The story is all kinds of crazy and is just too stupid to be any fun. The comedy is also extremely poor, as the jokes are about as subtle as a kick to the face. An embarrassment to the franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III is a foul piece of sewage.
  Dann M Super Reviewer
• Aug 12, 2013

  The long awaited third sequel...well sorta, after the surprisingly popular half decent first film and the fun arcade fighter-like sequel, the third film limped along. Obviously trying for a fresh look and idea the Turtles find themselves being zapped back in time to feudal Japan mainly to capitalize on their martial arts background. The film was also kinda known as 'Turtles in Time' which was the title of the second scrolling beat 'em up for the SNES fighter back in 92. To be honest I can see why they would make this move story wise, the Turtles do have that Eastern mythology to them so naturally they would fit well in the land of the rising sun. Its basically all about swapping places in time, the Turtles must travel back in time and exchange places with some elite warriors to save 'April' who accidentally got swapped with a Prince whose father is a Shogun (I think). So what we end up having is a nice lighthearted out of time culture shock routine for both the Turtles in ancient Japan and the Prince and his warriors in present day New York. So what can you expect? well its pretty clear really, there are lots of hokey, silly, childish fight sequences where the four heroes battle Japanese warriors of various kinds. Lots of visual cartoonish humour, prat falls, rude jokes and talk of pizza. On the flip side back in New York we see the out of time strangers coming to grips with TV, pizza, modern music, night clubs, bars, drink etc...its all very cliched, very cheesy, very hammy and massively predictable but its suppose to be. The visuals still look nice if you ask me, nothing special, feudal Japan is realised well with lots of hilly rocky green terrain and a nice fortress set. All the extras look fine in their traditional outfits accompanied by traditional weaponry, they all speak Japanese (no subs) and they all take their roles seriously enough to make the ride enjoyable. Sab Shimono as 'Lord Norinaga' looks great in his role and gives a decent performance, easily the best, he actually gives the whole thing a much needed boost of realism. The Turtles don't quite look as good as the previous two films, Henson's boys aren't behind the magic this time and you can tell but its still OK (they look quite good in their samurai armour). Splinter still looks the same which is good and its nice to see Koteas back as 'Casey Jones' albeit in a minor background role. Not as good as the first two films but I still enjoyed this to a degree. Its meant for kids in every way and is in no way suppose to be anything remotely serious of course. Its still heavily based around the cartoon series which isn't a bad thing but I just feel had they used 'Shredder' 'Krang' 'Bebop' and 'Rocksteady' as the villains, still using the feudal Japan setting, we could have had a much better film. The whole trilogy really missed Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady, all three films are a nice adaptation of the cartoon series and don't disappoint in all honesty. Sure they get more childish one by one but they still work both visually and simply for fun. For what they are, the approach and style of the franchise, they are perfect, perfect pop culture of the early 90's.
  Phil H Super Reviewer

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