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09-14-2014, 02:21 AM
JediJones
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TMNT in IMAX. It was better than the Joe movies by a wide margin but written more poorly than the average superhero film. It seems like they were afraid to give an Asian actor a lot of dialogue, so they made a completely unnecessary American villain to handle all of the big speeches while Shredder just did the fight scenes. Shredder and Karai were the two characters who were written as poorly as all the characters from the Joe movies were.
April was actually written as a much better version of Lois Lane in the beginning of the movie than we got for the actual Lois in the last two Superman movies. But then they involved her in the turtles' origin in a way that strained credibility and plausibility. This was very similar to Rise of Cobra's stupidity in trying to directly involve a bunch of different characters in the movie's backstory as well as present. This scenario presented some of TMNT's many plot holes. It takes a lot of work to make the original turtles' origin seem plausible, but they did it here, by basing this one on crazy coincidences. Megan Fox was perfectly watchable in the movie although there were a few scenes where she forgot to act and just gave a blank stare. They paired her with an unnecessary character as a sidekick who added nothing of interest to the mythos and probably should've been written out.
Splinter's personality and performance seemed to be transplanted directly from Pai Mei in Kill Bill. The personalities of the turtles themselves were about as good as you could expect. They were each very distinctive. If we had gotten 4 Joes as distinctive as that, the Joe movies would've worked a lot better. I loved the in-joke crack about someone thinking the turtles were "aliens." The movie had a couple of laughs, not many. The action scenes were decent enough but never really soared. They were implausible too at times but in a fun enough way.
Most of these complaints are from a sophisticated adult perspective. As a kid, I think I would have had a fun time with the movie with few complaints. The movie seems properly aimed at its intended younger audience. That was the severe problem with Joe. There was nothing put in them that was easy, uncomplicated fun for kids, a big no-no with a movie that is supposed to sell toys. The TMNT movie should be successful at its intended job of selling toys at Christmas.
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