TMNT 2 [2016]
I love the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the cartoons, comics, video games and toys captured my heart and imagination when I was a young lad.
Now as a [somewhat] responsible adult I was excited to hear that the TMNT were getting re-imagined for audiences back in 2014. I didn’t care who was making it, I didn’t care who was in the movie. All I cared about what that my 4 favorite brothers were back.
I knew what I was getting myself into, CG like there was no tomorrow, stylized violence [pretty damn violent if you ask me, one foot clan soldier gets tossed onto the side of a moving subway car. Another poor bastard gets a freight container thrown on him. You know his ass is dead.] And so many blue flares on screen it would make J.J. Abrams and the Star Trek crew jealous.
The 2014 effort had an excellent animated intro created by Prologue, it seemed to take inspiration from the original comic strip by Eastman and Laird. Obviously, the ending hinted at a sequel, fast forward to 2016 and we got TMNT 2 [I refuse to call this movie by its original title]. The one thing I don’t understand is why do sequels get a cringe-worthy subtitle on them [Resurrection, Resurgence, Evolution, etc]? What happened to good old fashion numbers? It seems studios forgot to count, just like they forgot to make scores for movies.
Have you noticed how many movie trailer’s “score” feature the “Inception horn” sound over and over?
The movie picked up where the last movie left off, introducing Casey Jones whom sadly only has one scene as [hockey mask] Casey Jones. The super ninja Shredder gets conned by a gross looking Krang into going on a wild goose chase for him [seriously if I would have been 8 years old again when I saw him I would have been extremely fucked up. Toxic Avenger fucked up.]. Tyler Perry is a breath of fresh air, not to mention Bebop and Rocksteady gracing the screen with their presence. The Technodrome makes an appearance as it rips into downtown New York from Dimension X. Shredder has his second, probably third scene in the movie only to have Krang toss him into a cryogenic dungeon like he was nothing.
Bebop and I seem to share the “Dad Bod”.
The turtles then surf onto the flying pieces of the Technodrome to fight Krang, he is defeated in about five minutes and vows to return.
Sound fun? Unfortunately, these are the only live action turtles we’re getting. At least the Nickelodeon TV show rocks. Definitely, check that out.
I miss the animated intro created for the 2014 version and the theme song from Gym Class Heroes for the 2007 CG effort.
More Tyler Perry for part 3 please.