This is by far one of the coolest remake of an age-old cartoon of my time. Hey, I grew up with TMNT, together with Captain Planet, Captain America, Care Bears, Smurf.... Well, you know :)

So then I met Charlie the birthday boy to watch this movie at TM. And I forgot to see if Felicia was working and say hi.... Hi anyway! And for the first time after almost 2 years, I went into Ajisen Ramen and had a Sushi Bento set. Hmmm.... Love chuka itako! Then we went for the movie at 2:40pm and here is my review:

I don't know how TMNT was made for children because I myself had a time time deciphering what the narrator was saying. But throughout the whole movie, the different characters had cute accents.
Storyline: It's far from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, but nonetheless, if looked upon as a single movie instead of a continuation of the cartoon, it can turn out to be quite a movie. I couldn't hear the name properly, but here goes:
Every 3000 years, the stars will line up and then a portal into another world opens up. One day Yao, a brotherhood of warriors opened up the portal and while the leader was given immortality, the rest of his brotherhood (4 others) became stone statues and 12 monsters were unleashed into our world. In present day, Leonardo is off in the jungles for his training and is expected home almost a year earlier. Donatello and Michaelangelo are working their butts off for the family and Raphael secretly spends his nights as the Night-Watcher, a justice fighter in the streets of NY, with Casey as his side-kick. And April and Casey (her boyfriend!), are helping a Mr Winters collect the 4 statues of the mythical Yao. While Leonardo and Raphael are fighting over jealousy and the leader's position in the family, unbeknownst to them and everyone else, Winters had revived his stone brothers and they are collecting all the 12 beasts that were released in our world, for Winters, who wish to undo the curse of immortality brought upon them. Left with the last beast, the brotherhood thinks that Winters is betraying them and they tricked him with the last monster by using Leonardo instead, whom they had captured because of the Turtles' initial involvement with the capture of one of the monsters. Then, the rest of the story is yours to watch but, well, it's a good ending so go figure.

I really praise the animators of TMNT, because the characters look very realistic and every action is very exact. The fight scenes were amazingly good (comparable to 300), and every detail is accounted for. But I wonder why they had to make Splinters look so cute like the squirrel in Over the Hedge? He's a grey rat for goodness' sake, not an orange squirrel....

Overall, the movie is good, but like the Newpaper said, the 2 funniest characters in the movie (Donatello and Michaelangelo) had very little screen time and so the majority of the comical essence of the original TMNT is missing.

But anyway, watch this if you're a fan of TMNT, like 3D animations, like action and fighting violence, or just want to spend some money at the movies.

Rating: 7 / 10 giant turtles

Hey Charlie, thanks for the company, and hope that you did enjoy the truffles! I'll make more when I'm rich and you can be my guinea pig heh....

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