Review: 'TMNT The Animated Movie' is animated follow up to the cartoon not the movies

TMNT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles    PG        

            Fourteen years have passed, and the Turtles aren't teens anymore, in this fully realized CGI adaptation of the saga, ignoring the second and third movies, (like Superman Returns ignored the third and fourth Superman movies), but this time it works. An evil immortal has second thoughts when he brings his stone soldiers back to life, played oddly by Patrick Stewart, who can't deliver a bad performance, (even when he was in the Pagemaster), and the four turtles, April, and Casey are back, and the Foot Clan returns too. The only drawback is the odd way they made the humans look, skinny and anorexic, except for the big warlord dude. Even so, it's a cool movie, and actually darker than the first flick. Think of it as a sequel to the cartoon series from the late 80s, early 90s, with the odd character designs, and a nod to the newer 2000s series, where they actually do look like these CGI guys, and it works. 
Review by Adam Browne