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Out of the 5 dollar bin:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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MPAA Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 101 Mins.

Director: Jonathan Liebesman

Genre: Action, Comedy, Adventure

Stars: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, Tohoru Masamune

 

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Well, I will say that going in I had my apprehensions about this film. I am always on guard when Michael Bay’s name is attached to a movie. They tend to be light on meaningful dialogue and heavy on the wanton destruction. This movie hit the destruction chord but the dialogue was awesome… amongst the Turtles. I mean Splinter was OK as well, but the highlight was the spot on personalities and interplay between the Turtles. Raphael (voiced and played by Alan Ritchson) was as irritable as ever. Leonardo (voiced by Johnny Knoxville) was as commanding as ever. Donatello (voiced by Jeremy Howard) was just as nerdy as he ever was. And of course, Michaelangelo (voiced by Noel Fisher) was spectacularly Bro-tastic. Splinter (voiced by Tony Shalhoub) was zen mastery goodness.

 

Megan Fox was thankfully given very little to do in the role of April O’Neal. Will Arnett was placed in the movie for some reason. Maybe it was to give Megan Fox a pseudo love interest or comic relief but he wasn’t really funny nor did he have chemistry with Fox. The Shredder who’s the big bad guy of the TMNT universe started cool but was ultimately a weak character. They went through the trouble of showing a scene where he dismantles a guy with martial arts hand to hand just to throw him in a cybernetic samurai suit and have him do very little in the way of kung-fu after that. It just made a so called master of martial arts seem weaker. Whoopi Goldberg also showed up in an arbitrary role as April’s boss at the news channel.

 

The story had a few holes in it that bugged me mightily. The fact that Splinter mastered Ninjitsu from a book that looked as if it held eighty pages total irked me. The lack of how or why Shredder started the Foot Clan and settled on New York as their stomping grounds was never explained. This could have been explained in a 3 minute anecdote but it wasn’t and how does Splinter who was confined to the sewer system know how ruthless the Shredder is as if they met before.

 

All in all it was a fun movie you can take the kids to see and enjoy yourselves unless the Ninja Turtles was a part of your childhood. If they were apart of you growing up you’ll pick this movie apart. The fight scenes were fair to good and the mountain car chase is cool as hell. The dialogue is fantastic between the Turtles and you start to wish that only they were in the movie without the human tag alongs. It was cool to see that it also made fun of the original ideal of the Turtles being aliens for this film in a line that was like an apology to fans. There’s already a sequel in the works and I hope they can fix what tainted the experience of this movie.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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