Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Review – Den of Geek
On this approach, the movie is a nifty departure from most fashionable animated movies, to not point out the garishly ugly live-action/CG TMNT monstrosities produced by Michael Bay within the mid-2010s. The artwork design makes the Ninja Turtles cool once more whereas returning to them a kid-friendly edge. That’s an excellent factor because the script nonetheless largely performs it protected, coloring within the traces for what constitutes inoffensive youngsters leisure these days.
As one other reboot of the Ninja Turtles model, Mutant Mayhem as soon as once more retells the characters’ origin story, albeit for the primary time in largely chronological order. On this movie, the lads are nonetheless raised by the older mutated rat who calls himself Splinter (Jackie Chan), however these 5 animals are simply an off-shoot of a a lot bigger contamination that occurred within the metropolis, creating a complete host of mutants who’ve beforehand appeared in varied TMNT cartoons and comedian books, however by no means on the large display screen.
Not that Leonardo (Nicholas Cantu), Donatello (Micah Abbey), Michelangelo (Sharon Brown Jr.), and Raphael (Brady Midday) are conscious of that at the beginning. Nay, these Turtles are the product of a modern-day helicopter mother or father, with Chan’s Splinter being deathly afraid of the people above—which is made comprehensible since that is the primary TMNT film to truly take time to consider how a rat would reply to a species that at all times needs to kill him. And regardless of being voiced by a martial arts legend like Chan, this Splinter isn’t any Ninjitsu grasp both. Somewhat, he’s skilled the Turtles in martial arts by watching clips on YouTube. He did it to allow them to higher shield themselves from the people up there.
Nonetheless, Splinter doesn’t rely on youngsters being youngsters, and as they hit their adolescent years, the turtles are determined to enter the actual world, particularly after Leo begins crushing on aspiring highschool journalist April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri). After piquing her curiosity as a information story, the Turtles deduce a plan to win over people like April to allow them to go to her highschool: they’ll monitor down a brand new legal mastermind in NYC known as Superfly (Ice Dice). Little do they know that Superfly actually is a seven-foot fly who was mutated by the identical ooze that made the Turtles. And he’s prepared to welcome the half-shelled quartet as “cousins” if they assist him and all the opposite mutants wipe out humanity….
As you may inform from the setup, the movie is meting out with the “Turtles combat the Shredder” shtick that has been the plot of almost each earlier live-action Turtles film. As an alternative, issues are getting as wild because the previous ‘80s cartoon. Nevertheless, in observe a lot of the plotting additionally appears like a contemporary cartoon’s fundamental plot expanded out to 100 minutes. The movie is produced by Nickelodeon and resembles it, with a close to fixed barrage of scattershot reference humor. Which isn’t essentially a foul factor, however it’s noticeably a step down from the ambitions achieved by the Spider-Verse movies, which Mutant Mayhem invitations comparisons to.
The usually generic structuring additionally robs the Turtles of a lot individuality. By way of written character growth or plotting, the foursome are fairly interchangeable, and some dropped traces of dialogue about Raph having a “rage problem” that we by no means see, or Mikey loving pizza, don’t suffice as precise characterization. In truth, the one one with a discernible arc is Leo, who should study to cease tattling on his brothers to their father.
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