Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II The Secret of the Ooze PG
Two years later, but seemingly the next day, the shell heads return in this sillier sequel, as the studio wanted it to be more toward the kiddies. It loses something this way. Michael Pressman makes it almost formulaic as the Turtles attempt to find their origins and Shredder returns. Basically it's the then current cartoon, not the campier comics, and not the darker comic books either. David Warner seems lost in this one as a scientist who knows about the ooze. Some boardroom buffoon decided that since MC Hammer was cool in the first one doing songs, that they'd get Vanilla Ice to actually do a LIVE act on the end of this, not realizing that by 1991, Ice was melted, and his career was over. This one really sunk his career into the mire. Ha. Not a good thing seeing him. So many Turtles fans got mad they almost never went back. Update. Saw this interesting exercise in bad jokes again, the second and far lighter sequel to the green teens, about 22 years later, as it is now 2013. It is just as hammy as it was years ago, and the nods to Ernie Reyes Jr. and the new April, and no Casey are just a few reasons it seems like they rushed it. The kids needed to be entertained with another movie immediately after the other, with the cartoon a hit and all. This is more of a cartoon movie than the first. Still it lacks much of the gritty wit of the first, and seems more like a fan fiction of the original. Shredder is really trying to be Darth Vader in his evil growling voice, making a mutated pair of dimwit bad guys to destroy the teen turtles, but when it fails, he literally brings down the house, or dock, on himself. No sure what that would have done. The turtles escape. All is well. Suppose if they do another they will get Eminem. Yikes. Better not give them any ideas.
Review by Adam Browne
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