Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie PG
This is a Shell of a good movie. Steve Barron's direction of a brooding, darkly funny New York besieged by wisecracking bad boy, Shredder, and the even more smart mouthed foursome, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is one of the coolest movies of 1989, and of the decade. It is based on the Eastaman and Laird comics, and the closest adaptation to them. It spawned a Saturday morning cartoon that in replay and in sequels has lasted to this day. Cowabunga dudes! And what can be more legit than the MC Hammer score and the skateboarding, martial arts wielding foursome? Dude. Thank Jim Henson's creature shop for those marvelous live action puppet suits. Story centers on a string of robberies where hooded teens are swiping stuff for a mysterious purple and black clad figure. Update in 2013. This is just one of the coolest superhero movies ever. The idea of making ninja stories is nothing new, especially with GI Joe and their ninjas in the 80s, but the weird fantasy idea of making them turtle mutants is genius, combining the genre of ninjas with mutants, as in like those on X Men, in comics. The soundtrack is great and the creature costume outfits are the best idea before CGI remade them. It really captures the mood of the comics and is ahead of it's time, apparently like the 2003 cartoon reboot, but done decades earlier, in 1989.
The best April was Judith Hoag doing her in this one, and the best turtles and Splinter are in this also.
Review by Adam Browne
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