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Is A New TMNT Movie Ramping Up??
Merrick here...
When last year's TMNT film ended up being reasonably swell received, speculation about a sequel immediately began. Indications said that chances of a new TMNT movie were "50/50" at that time.
Seems movement towards another film is now happening. THIS POSTThe official Playmates Toys website is now referencing early work on a new movie project for 2010.''
“Following the success of the ‘TMNT’ theatrical release in 2007, Mirage licensing and Imagi Studios have begun work on a new live-action TMNT film for 2010. It’s the turtles like you’ve never seen them before! Shellalicious!”
Interestingly, the Playmates post was subsequently amended to read thusly:
“Following the success of the ‘TMNT’ theatrical release in 2007, Mirage Licensing is in negotiations with several companies about a new TMNT movie for 2010.”
The reference to "live action" and "Imagi Studios" (who brought us the 2007 CGI film) were completely dropped, as was the word "Shellalicious".
It's hard to know (with certainty) what any of this means, altough I suspect another film project is now in motion & whether it's live action or animated (in some fashion) has yet to be determined. I'd also guess everything from a sequel to last year's film...to an unrelated live action restart...is being mulled.
After seeing the mind-bending puppet work/animatronics in HELLBOY II, and hearing hints of what Guillermo & Co. have planned for puppetry in THE HOBBIT, part of me would really love to see the Turtles go live-action again. First and foremost, though, the tone of the characters has to be right...an element every TMNT movie has struggled with to one degree or another.
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Was shitty because it was REEEEEEEEEALLLY dumbed down for the kids... pretty shitty. If they do the live-action, bring back Corey Feldman and Haim!!! Lohan is a lez now.
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Yes, animatronics and Make Up made a HUGE leap till the early 1990's, but I think the sequel should be CGI too. Seriously. It was great executed!
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Remember the third movie where they go back in time to Japan? Awesome.
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Good idea. And while they're filming this movie they can film a documentary about their realtionship and put it on a cable channel no one watches.
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Haha... perfect... perfect...Perhaps Shia LaBeuof as the Shredder?
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Jul 17, 2008 8:55:15 AM CDT
They should make it x-rated and have some turtle-on-april action
by tomhooligan
I actually think the last one came under some overly harsh criticism when it actually was pretty good. Okay, it's for the kids, so it was never gonna really be of too much interest to the older fans, but the Turtle v Turtle fight on the rooftop was actually rather cool if you ask me. Having said that, i think that the script for a sequel will probably be penned with little thought of anything other than money in mind. I'm expecting a paint by numbers movie again here.
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How long are they gonna be teenagers for anyway? Do they not grow old? Middle Aged Mutant Ninja Turtles should be the name of the next one. The main story thread could be their increased disatisfaction with the world around them, sexual exploration, and a slow descent into alcoholism and depression. They should go back in time and get Charles Bukowski to write it.
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It had its moments but the nonsensical plot and kung fu April was a little much. I would be open to giving these guys another shot, though. Keep it CGI.
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The creators want to make a live action direct sequel to the last movie but keep the Turtles CGI and actually get Sara Michelle Gellar to play April. Could be good.
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Jul 17, 2008 9:01:11 AM CDT
Where are we gonna see a new dvd release of the original...
by film_fanatic_in_the_original_black_and_w
...that's what I've been waiting for. A nice documentary on the making of the movie, deleted scenes, gag reel, stills, all that good stuff. I'm still hoping.
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Puppetry is fine for certain films, but these things need to move FAST. They're not just background setpieces or characters that can take their time making their movements - they have NINJA FIGHTS, for chrissakes. Dump the live action approach and keep ramping up the quality of CG to make these movies the best they can be. The last one was a significant step forward that really needs to be expanded on.
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Pull my finger.
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COWABUNGA!!!!
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Everything was perfect about the movie. CG is the way to go, because you can get the look of the characters just right. Only problem -- the story was boring as hell.
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I just don't know if a TMNT reboot would work at this point. If it's less kiddie and more like the comics, I'd be in. TMNT looked good and treated the characters right, but the story was awful.
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we need that OLD b&w comic style. Live action. Use elements from the Return to New York story from '89.
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I bet he would be the perfect Shredder, if they can get him. Somehow, Shredder comes back, but thanks to a rift in the fourth dimension he comes back as a teenager! And, thanks to rifts in the 5th-11th dimensions he is no longer Japanese! It could work, but they'd have to get Richard Kelly to direct.
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It doesn't matter if the original comics were kind of mature, Ninja Turtles are for KIDS. How many adults do you seriously think will go to see a hard PG-13 or R-rated TMNT movie? It would bomb worse than Speed Racer. So stop your bitching and moaning.
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Completely agree. Half of the way into Hellboy 2, I started to worry about the Hobbit, and by the time I left the theater I was already mourning its death.
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Let's see some Fugitoid!
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I was just thinking about it and, c'mon, Superman can't have a kid.
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Seriously.
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Booooo!
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But I'd rather see the original stories. April isn't a fucking reporter, she worked for (a very black, non-Fly) Baxter Stockman. Show us that, with the mousers, and Splinter getting captured, and the aliens that were the inspiration for Krang, and THEN we can get to Fugitoid. Just leave the god damned kids out of it this time. "What kids," you ask? EXACTLY! THERE ARE NO FUCKING KIDS IN THE STORIES! None that have a major part, at least. KEEP IT THAT WAY. (See 'The Lost World' for a good example of how kids ruin movies when they're created out of thin air.)
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Jul 17, 2008 9:35:06 AM CDT
I loved the first and third live action ones
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
and although I thought the story was lacking in the CGI version it is the closest to the original comics in tone. More Turtles WHOOOOO!
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The CGI TMNT film had a lot pf promise. The CG really worked well for the turtles, there was some decent fight scenes, they got all the turtles personalities right. Sadly the story was terrible, it was ridiculously complex and convulted for a kids film and made no sense. They set up the return of Shredder in the last one so hopefully they can make a straight up Shredder versus turtles CGI flick next.
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....Pizza
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With but one word, they summed up the problem with every single TMNT adaptation since the original comic book by Eastman and Laird... Shellalicious? Ugh.
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Personally a live action film is a waste of time, the puppets of the original 4 live action films were great, it was just the story was fairly crap as was the mid 90's BMX bandits style direction.
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I think I just threw up a little in my mouth...
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Jul 17, 2008 10:19:10 AM CDT
So, are we allowed to decide who our fav. is this time?
by larryfilmmaker
Or do we have to believe that Raphael is the coolest AND strongest... the rebel AND the leader? Seriously... give leadership back to Leonardo. The last movie told us that a vigilante can beat a ninja master who has trained for years if the writer's love him enough. No mover Wolverine symptom... BALANCE THE FOUR OUT!
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in a recent interview that there were issues with imagi so they probably wouldnt be involved. and he went on to say he was considerign doing it live action but have the turtles be CGI. he even suggested trying to convince sarah michelle gellar and chris evans to play the live action version of their characters. could be cool, could be bad, patience is a virtue.
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You know they will put famous actors as the turtles if they go live-action. John Leguizamo as Raphael, Dwight from The Office as Donatello, Shia LaBoeuf as Leonardo and let's say the surprise casting of Chewitel Eijofor as a Rasta Michelangelo. Oh wait, they're teenagers. Who knows, in that case, a bunch of shitheads like Josh Peck I guess.
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Is this what hollywood does now. Just "restart" everything? I thought the CGI film was great, and would have loved to seen a sequel. Now we are already "rebooting" and going live action again? How many "resets" can an audience swallow? Lame.
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Live action would be cool, but they have to make it violent and dark like the original comic book.
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What if Judd Apatow made a live-action version? Like, Michael Cera as Donatello, Jay Baruchel as Leonardo, Seth Rogen as Michelangelo and James Franco as Raphael?
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Corn ball lame story riddled with to many bad jokes. The character designs sucked as well. It just didn't work for me at all. The trailer was the only good thing about it.
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Ernie Reyes Jr. needs the work.
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Jul 17, 2008 10:35:02 AM CDT
The turtles are going to be CGI while the rest of the movie is g
by alkeoholic77
I read it in an interview on newsarama with peter laird a few weeks ago.
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stupid limits in subject line
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stick with the CG but dont go farting around with crappy new bad guys-the Turtles have a good nemesis and he's integral to a series about them in my opinion...I mean Batman can have a film without the Joker cos he's got a good rogues gallery, but if you're revamping the franchise Mr.J has to come in at some point (as we can see at the moment)and its the same with any good franchise-a Superman series needs Luthor at some point, a He man series needs Skeletor at some point, and the turtles need Shredder.....There is a good story (albeit ripped from A New Hope a fair bit) with the technodrome, Krang and Shredder that kick started the original cartoon-do something in that vein...just dont balls it up with the tv revamp where shreder was krang or whatever the hell was supposed to be going on there
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with an idea like that, you must be smoking pot...
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...i just wanted to open with a "hater" reference because i've never had a chance to before, but the growing resentment between raphael and michaelangelo culminating into the rooftop fight in the movie was worth the price of admission alone. Keep the sequel animated, because you can do more with it.
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I totally agree. It's the only incarnation of tmnt that will always sit well with me. I would also like for a change to have Michaelangelo be the every man instead of the drugged out comedy relief surfer dude he turns into in every other incarnation. They have completely changed Raphael to his personality of the books, it would be nice Michaelangelo got the same treatment. But either way you can still be a care free goof ball without being an obnoxious idiot.
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but that's about it.
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Sure the plot was a little "saturday morning cartoon" but that's not all that unreasonable given that the Ninja Turtles WERE a saturday morning cartoon. Kevin Munroe definitely has some animation chops so I'd be interested to see where he'd take TMNT2--gotta bring back the Shred dude though!
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...LIKE THE ORIGINAL COMICS. I'm sick to death of the "Cowabunga!", pizza-scarfing mass-market take on the characters. Not that a TMNT movie needs to be a hardcore, R-rated film, but it'd be nice to have something grittier.
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We all may have a soft spot for the live action films with Corey "my career is dick-dead" Feldman doing a voice; but seriously...other than Elias Koteas as Casey Jones, those movies were ass. The animated version looked great; had some cool fight scenes and (albeit a little convoluted and predictable), remained pretty fun with very solid voice acting (man, I miss Mako already). They proved that animated was the way to go...the premise of TMNT really dictates the exploration of drawn art vs. costumes...it's a more flexible medium and is closer to the essence of the source material. So, unless Sarah Michelle Gellar is getting naked and 'turtle waxed', I vote for animated.
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...in my haste i mixed up my turtles. Leonardo was the wayward son returning to the fold, which sparked the ire of raphael. Raphael would bury michaelangelo pretty quickly.
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That's right, I said it. I'm equating the extermination of the jews to making another live action ninja turtles movie. I stand by my convictions...
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a cgi treatment of Battle of the Planets first?
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Jul 17, 2008 11:29:39 AM CDT
Last year's movie - albeit a kiddie flick - was decent IMO
by spencertrilby
And the ending could lead to something really rad. As in ""radical, dude!". Let's hope the good folks at Imagi stay on board.
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IM IN.
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but Hellboy II didn't really get me excited to see a proposed Ninja Turtles movie. Stop throwing Del Toro's name around every chance you get. Hellboy II didn't suck, but it came pretty fuckin close. Del Toro is not the infallible god of cinema that every writer for this site seems to think he is.
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The fight was between Raph and Leonardo. Not Raph and Mikey... oh god I think I just felt my virginity come back!
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Just noticed you correct yourself... but I still have regained my virginity none the less.
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http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/43942/Sexy-Megan-s-secret-ambition/%20target= No offense to TMNT fans, but fuck the turtles. This movie needs to be made now.
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Take it back to the original black&white comics, when it was grittier. I've seen the new toys with the old school turtle style, and it brings back warm and fuzzy memories.
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I thought the CGI film was an excellent continuation from the live action films, and it also worked really hard to be develop the characters while still being faithful to the original (Michael fucking Bay take note).
I think the only weakness was a lack of Shredder/Krang/Bebop/Rocksteady/Technodrome. If they can fix that for the next one it should be one shell of a film. Sorry, couldn't help myself. -
nuked fridge = Krang's body
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thats the new "has a beer and cheets on his wife".
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We only care how to find these celerbities. I found Harry on a celeb and millionaire dating site. Lucky me. Now fuck off.
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Jul 17, 2008 12:21:50 PM CDT
No to Kevin Munroe..............................................
by crackerfarmboy
He certainly understood the characters, but he can't write a story for shit. I mean 13 monsters? Immortal Aztec warriors? WTF?
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Is horrendous
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Thanks to the shittyness of Fred Wolf Animation studios and the craptacular treatment of the TMNT property for the 1980s cartoon we shall never, ever see a real TMNT film. because of that shitty cartoon, the turtles are viewed and considered a kids property, while the original comics which they were based on were far from that. The Ninja Turtles need a dark, PG-13 or possibly R rated live action film to be done right
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“Following the success of the ‘TMNT’ theatrical release in 2007, Mirage licensing and Imagi Studios have begun work on a new live-action TMNT film for 2010. It’s the turtles like you’ve never seen them before! Shellalicious!”
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“Following the success of the ‘TMNT’ theatrical release in 2007, Mirage Licensing is in negotiations with several companies about a new TMNT movie for 2010.”
"life comes at you fast..."
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The first movie was ass? Don't ever watch a movie again.
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tmnt fast forward.
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I'd love to hear him shout that zen-surfer jibberjab all dressed up like a giant turtle waving his arms around and overacting.
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they can do like those little promo clips seinfeld did, where the actors dressed on bee costumes, but do that with the turtles, it would put jim henson's turtles to shame while still being way better than the whatever no name company made them for part 3.
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"UPDATE. Playmates will shortly be changing their posted statement to this:
Following the success of the TMNT theatrical release in 2007, Mirage Licensing is in negotiation with several companies about a new TMNT movie for release in 2010.
Now THAT is a rumor I can wholeheartedly confirm (although it's more likely to be early 2011). ;)"
From The Fifth Turtle
Live action or all CGI again, doesn't really matter to me so long as they keep the same voice talent from the 2007 movie. They were all fantastic. -
Shellacious rolls off the tongue better.
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Peter Laird has talked about doing a half CGI movie, like CGI turtles, live humans, and a mix of real sets and CGI. The script for the last one was pretty mediocre except for the Leo/Raph feud, which was awesome. I'd like to see director Kevin Munroe return, but maybe with some new writers.
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Is there like a level beyond a groan for the above post? I'm open to any tone for another TMNT movie. I enjoy the goofy toons and the ultra-violent comics. The characters are strong enough to shine through with any approach.
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...was not horrible. I thought the CGI approach really worked for it, and it looked phenomenal in Blu-Ray.
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But will Corey Feldman be getting any work?
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LOL, that's a good one. TMNT is a KIDS SHOW for God's sake. That's like saying the new Charlie Brown or Carebears cartoons should be introspective and brooding. It's marketed towards CHILDREN. Making it some R-rated thriller would defeat its purpose, and who the hell is going to take an R-rated movie about anthropomorphic turtles adept in martial arts seriously???
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A lot of people here are ragging on the first Ninja Turtles movie and I don't understand it. That movie was GREAT. It followed the first storyline in the original Eastman/Laird comics VERY CLOSELY. They only added elements of the cartoon at the time in it for the kids. April STILL worked in and lived above a pawn shop, like in the comics. She just happened to work as a reporter as well. Many of the scenes in the movie were taken directly from the comics.
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yes, obviously that is the case now. but it's because of the shitty 1980s cartoon. That is what solidified TMNT as "kids stuff." The original comics were not that way. They were much more dark and violent. I mean, they fucking cussed and drank beer, among other things.
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Was the best damn Turtles movie. The fight scenes and animation was awesome. Anyone who wants it live action is retarded. That fight scene in the rain with leo and Mike, fucking classic.
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Dark but still OK for kids. And live action of course!
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Didn't they set up Shredder at the end of that animated movie? What's this about live action and like we've never seen them before? They're not continuing that version? Dang, cause I actually liked how that one was done.
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I thought it was really good, aside from when the plot got crazy with the 12 monsters being reawakened from another dimension, or whatever it was. The material featuring the Turtles themselves was great, it was obviously made by guys who loved the movies, the comics AND the TV series. They should do a sequel with the Shredder but make the plot less extreme fantasy. The design of the humans needs some work too. Shredder's daughter was cool though, she should return. The Shredder himself should be voiced by someone good, as should the new voice of Splinter (Mako was his voice in the first CG movie and he died last year)
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...is still the best one.
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the turtles are physical. If the turtles are CG in a live action world, stick a pen in my dickhole. I'd prefer the TMNT full CG style. I actually enjoyed the hell out of TMNT.
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While I got no problem with live action, and I loved the puppetwork in the first TMNT movie, I think the Turtles are better off in CGI. Just the amount of freedom and the crazy feats they can pull off just makes CGI all the more perfect for them. In regards to a sequel, if one does get greenlit, theres talk it may not come out till 2011.
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Okay, so it shafted Donatello a little. But Leo, Raph, Mikey, April, Casey, and Splinter were all utterly spectacular, plus you've got Sam Rockwell in one of his first movies as a young punk. I love every little bit of that movie and could probably quote the entire thing to you. (By the way, last year's TMNT had a lame story but treated the characters...minus Casey...pretty darn well. I'm looking forward to a sequel.)
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Seriously, I could barely sit through it. It was lifeless, and completely uninspired. Having Shredder gone was a terrible decision. The villain was weak beyond belief.
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I did this before that shitty CGI film came out. Let's Dark Knight the Ninja Turtles. http://tinyurl.com/63nv4f
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the first one was great, the 2nd one was okay, the 3rd one was kinda bad and TMNT was okay... but we need a new live action one
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Krang, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady, Irma and April O'Neil.
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the Technodrome and Dimension X.
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972 rooms, a trans-dimensional portal used to transport people (or mutants) and objects between Earth and Dimension X, eyeball missile launchers, 5 (possibly 6) trident-shaped laser cannons, a mounted surveillance eye on the top, a mouser factory, training facilities for Bebop and Rocksteady, three-foot-thick titanium armour, huge tank treads, used to move the Technodrome across land or underground from each location, robot walker legs that can be used instead of tank treads, gigantic saw blades and cutting devices, Pedal Power Generator, large holding cells, earthquake machine, various drilling mechanisms, motor pool area that houses foot bikes and technorovers, trap door in the center of the main control room, star fighter deck that houses technowings, classical japanese dojo rooms, balance control, anti-gravitation generators making the technodrome able to hover slightly above the ground, a disintegrator unit a relay room, an engine room and a laundry room.
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The TMNT have been going on for almost 25 years now without Krang, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady, and Irma. They don't need them. Well, they do need the Shredder, but only temporarily.
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if i had a dollar for every retard that says "rated R" for every single action movie....id be rich... rated R is overRATED
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