Overall the movie was fine enough, pros and cons.
Pros = Turtles personalities where all what they should have been but not too over the top as i feared they'd be. Ralph is brooding and angry nearly all the time, but not to the point where he's extremely unlikeable. Michaelangelo and his constant jabs at april got bit old at certain point, but it seemed lighthearted to me not really creepy.. though she was sorta like his mother figure so that kinda makes it a little creepy. Donatello is my favourite turtle and i'd fear they'd mess him up badly due to how over the top cliche nerdy he looks. But he was the best and they didn't go over the top with him being a nerd, ocassional dorky laugh here a nd there sure. But they really showed off how smart he is, and how valuable to the team he is. And he's not a snively coward, he showed lots of guts when he ask to be the hero for once. Loved his little duel with shredder at the end too.
The voices, i thought all the voices fit well, i dunno any of the voice actors besides Johny knoxville. I like Knoxville but him as leonardo seemed kinda random, but his voice fit as the calm rational leader of the bunch. I liked splinter's voice, not quite what i expected but it wasn't bad. I also really liked shredder's voice, specially when he talked japanese, intimidating and not that different from the 90's film shredder. One guy on here claimed 90's shredder had a silly cartoon voice, i wonder if he thinks this one does aswell cause they sounded quite alike. I am also glad they kept his face hidden through the whole film, keep some mystery there ( Though i unfortunately already saw a clear image on here of his face).
Length: One one hand it feels rushed, on the other i was ok with a quick 90 minute film. It kinda made it feel like a long live action episode of the 80's cartoon, silly plothole filled plot helped with that aswell, cause of that i didn't even mind the villain's flawed plan.
The side characters : Not too many of them, and not overly annoying. Will arnett's vern could have easilly been the mudflaps and skid of the film but they didn't make him over the topobnoxious and annoying, i liked him. Sachs is not a great character but fitchner has such a cold stoic presence that he makes the character work. Fox as o neil was alright, best acting i've seen from her, she seemed to atleast try. Just not that interresting of a character, but most of the time April isnt anyway so it's not that big of a deal to me.
The snow scene: I was suprised how into this scene i was, everyone got to be heroic, it looked beautiful, didn't go too fast, could see it all, and it was just a fun scene.
The Shredders fights : I just enjoy seeing shredder whoop some ass, i was surprised by how one sided the fight with splinter got and i didn't mind it. I am used to seeing splinter get the better of shredder so it was a welcome change for me. His fight with raph was also alright, mainly cause again i expected raph to get some offense and he got none which sold how dangerous shredder is that even the biggest strongest turtle got manhandled. The final fight was great fun,all the turtles getting a crack at shredder, shredder tripple flying kicking, doing massive wrestling throws. And in the end he didn't really get beat in the fight, they only got one real good move in against him. It was nice to see a villain looking strong throughout the whole film.
Cons : Leonardo doesn't do much, he's the leader but besides a few select moments there's no real big scene for him to show it, it's raph who gets the main focus. Even in the end when they decide to do the game thing to beat shredder, it was michaelangelo who comes up with it. I really hope they focus a bit more on him in the sequel cause he was likeable, just needed more to do.
Foot clan, i am ok with them using guns and weapons and all, but f or them to not be able to fight at all i am not ok with. I will have to see it again but i don't think any of them even tried to fight hand to hand, now ok the turtles were huge but still i wanted to see foot clan show atleast some moves.
Turtles size: the way they look i can accept, but they were a bit too big and often in action scenes they focused far too much on that and on how strong they were, raphael swingin containers was ridiculous.
Lack of connection or history between Shredder and splinter. Beating a dead horse i know, but the fight between them would have been even better if there was history between them.
Karai, she's a non character, she doesn't do anything cept quickly get beaten.
Some forced lines, i like that they put i dine on turtle soup in there, but it seemed very oddly placed to me.
Few shakey action scenes.
April sorta getting the last blow to Shredder.. it reminded me of catwoman and bane( Who i thought was great), having the big bad villain get beaten in that way sucks. But atleast he still lives.
I'd say 7, mayyyybe 7,5. better than i expected. Hoping for Krang in the sequel, he's due for a film appereance.
