Animation Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

[Scarlet Spider]

The '03 series was great. Very underrated.

Unlike the 80's cartoon it was actually co- produced by Mirage and Laird was heavily involved.

It's basically what he always envisioned for a saturday morning kids show.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Yeah the 2003 series was great. I still find myself humming the theme song here and there lol.

Does anyone care to defend the Saban live action show, featuring Venus?

 

[DarkKnight88]

Never seen the 2003 or 2012 series.

I know there's fans of both, but is there a consensus on which one is better?

 

[kguillou]

I think the Turtles, for me, was the first popular phenomenon i fell in love with as a kid. I had so many of the toys and merchandise and was just obsessed with the cartoon and those first two movies. Its kind of awesome all these decades later the franchise is still going strong.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Loving the positive reviews.

 

[Kane52630]

Now that's marketing.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

Yeah the 2003 series was great. I still find myself humming the theme song here and there lol.

Does anyone care to defend the Saban live action show, featuring Venus?

That live action series was so cheesy and lame

But about the only two positives I can take from is that it’s the last live action TMNT project we got based on the original designs (pre-Michael Bay TMNT) and it gave us the hilarious & so bad that it’s good crossover with the Power Rangers

 

[samsnee]

I think the Turtles, for me, was the first popular phenomenon i fell in love with as a kid. I had so many of the toys and merchandise and was just obsessed with the cartoon and those first two movies. Its kind of awesome all these decades later the franchise is still going strong.

I grew up poor but I loved just going to the toy area at k-mart and loved just seeing all the different characters and wonder why they weren’t in the show.

 

[Scarlet Spider]

You would had to have grown up in the late 80's/early 90's to grasp how much of a pop culture phenomenon the Turtles were. Nothing today compares to it.

 

[jignat]

Ranking the shows imo...

2003 - 9/10
2012 CGI - 8/10
1987 - 6/10
The next mutation Live action w/ Venus - 4/10
Rise of TMNT 2/10

Movies both theatrical and direct to Video...

TMNT 1990 - 8.5/10
Turtles Forever TV movie (2009) 8/10
Batman vs TMNT (DTV) (2019) - 7.5/10
TMNT 2007 (CGI) - 7/10

TMNT Secret of the Ooze (1991) 6.5/10
TMNT Out of the Shadows (2016) 6/10
TMNT 3 (1993) 4/10
TMNT (2014) - 4/10

I have not seen the Rise film or the Japanese OVA animes.

 

[legendkillin]

Just saw the movie since a theater I like had the sneak peek. I really enjoyed it, they had so many references to pop culture things. The changes they made like

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Splinter's origin along with the other mutants

weren't terrible it worked. I plan on seeing it again.

 

[legendkillin]

I think the Turtles, for me, was the first popular phenomenon i fell in love with as a kid. I had so many of the toys and merchandise and was just obsessed with the cartoon and those first two movies. Its kind of awesome all these decades later the franchise is still going strong.

I still have a ton of the toys somewhere in storage, I played with them so many busted up but still great times. I don't watch that new cartoon and I didn't watch the Bay movies in theaters, but I really enjoyed this movie. TMNT holds special place in me.

 

[legendkillin]

Donatello

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I loved all the anime references he wasn't just a tech guy either he seemed more modern nerdish. I noticed he had a Satoru Gojo Jujutsu Kaisen sticker on the bo. Looking forward to being able to watch at home and pause.

Leo

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My favorite he was always viewed as a bit of a dork with his leader skills though so do a good job of that. I was surprised they had him crush on April though, he was great though.

Raph

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Liked his size not being over the top bigger and he looked cute as a baby. He wasn't too sarcastic or hard headed. He came off as the cool one more than Mikey or one they follow with breaking Splinter's rules.

Mikey

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He was not immature or over the top, he was chill. I liked noticing his silly things in the background. Think we will see him skateboard in the next one for sure.

 

[BeserkerHilf]

Now that's marketing.

Guess this is what kind of marketing we’ll get when the actors are on strike.

 

[antsman41]

A lot of heart and good vibes… and embracement of the more wacky aspects of TMNT.

Easily second best TMNT, most teen they’ve ever felt. Nothing will ever top 1990 though.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

Ranking the shows imo...

2003 - 9/10
2012 CGI - 8/10
1987 - 6/10
The next mutation Live action w/ Venus - 4/10
Rise of TMNT 2/10

Movies both theatrical and direct to Video...

TMNT 1990 - 8.5/10
Turtles Forever TV movie (2009) 8/10
Batman vs TMNT (DTV) (2019) - 7.5/10
TMNT 2007 (CGI) - 7/10

TMNT Secret of the Ooze (1991) 6.5/10
TMNT Out of the Shadows (2016) 6/10
TMNT 3 (1993) 4/10
TMNT (2014) - 4/10

I have not seen the Rise film or the Japanese OVA animes.

Why is everyone so hard on TMNT? It's definitely better than Secret of the Ooze

 

[Scarlet Spider]

Just came back. Loved it.

 

[Scarlet Spider]

The original 80's cartoon is streaming for free on Pluto.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I really enjoyed this movie. 2nd best TMNT movie IMO! It was well paced, very slim movie with great characters and a good story that had nice payoffs. I would say 2nd best animated film of year, only to ATSV

 

[The Caped Knight]

The 80s turtles are still my favorite version of the turtles. Tmnt has the best theme song imo

 

[Incarnadine]

A good start for TMNT, $10.2M from Tuesday previews + Wednesday.
I think the 5 day estimate is lowballed at $40m+, think it might flirt with $50m.

 

[Still Wynning]

A good start for TMNT, $10.2M from Tuesday previews + Wednesday.
I think the 5 day estimate is lowballed at $40m+, think it might flirt with $50m.

Did a quick search, and saw that this movie’s budget was $70 million. If you include advertising, the full budget is probably around $100 million or so. This is easily going to make its budget back and then some, just from kids wanting to go see it again multiple times in theaters and word of mouth alone.

No wonder they were so confident about making the announcement for the sequel and TV series so early. They were really proud of what they had and were probably looking at the success of similar animated films as of late and knew that they had a hit.

 

[Iceman]

I didn’t realise the reviews for this were so good. With that and the A cinemascore it should be in good shape to make a decent number.

 

[Drizzle]

I didn’t realise the reviews for this were so good. With that and the A cinemascore it should be in good shape to make a decent number.

I had thought that Barbie and Oppenheimer would be my last trips to the theater this summer but the overwhelmingly positive reception for TMNT means I'll probably check this out in theaters as opposed to waiting until it's on streaming.

 

[Iceman]

I had thought that Barbie and Oppenheimer would be my last trips to the theater this summer but the overwhelmingly positive reception for TMNT means I'll probably check this out in theaters as opposed to waiting until it's on streaming.

Same here. For some reason I was expecting it to review badly so this is a great surprise for me.