Review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) by Leon B — 22 Feb 2015

Review:

My expectations for this film wasn't that high, after reading so many bad reviews, but I honestly didn't think that it as that bad. Megan Fox was acting exactly the same as she did in Transformers, which wasn't surprising, but I was surprised with the different personalities of the Turtles, which worked extremely well. The storyline was your typical baddie wanting to take over the world type of concept, but in this case the baddie needed the turtles blood. The director did give the movie some depth by adding the whole creation of the turtles to the mix, but there was a bit too much going on from the beginning to the end. There's plenty of muddled up actions scenes, like in some of the earlier Transformers movies, and you don't really get a chance to know anything about the individual characters. The CGI looked very believable and the mannerisms and expressions of the turtles were great. The action scenes also looked impressive but I personally think that the director over done it in some of the scenes, like when there falling in the snow. Anyway, I quite enjoyed this film, especially the part when there beat boxing in the lift, so it gets the thumbs up from me. Enjoyable, in a popcorn movie type of way!

Round-Up:

Some of the most hated movies are the ones that grossed a lot of money at the box office, like the Da Vinci Code, so I never know if to honestly believe the critics half the time. I know that a majority of the money that this movie grossed is based on hype and a big distribution campaign, but I don't think that it was as bad as people was saying it was. It seems like people are getting a bit fed up with the witty scripts in the movies in this genre, so it must be hard for the directors to get the mixture totally right. You honestly can't have a serious film about talking turtles who fight like ninjas, so I don't know what the critics expected. Maybe the wit just wasn't that funny in there opinion! I heard the same complaints about the new Transformers, which I quite liked, so there's definitely is a cry for some good scripts on Hollywood at the moment. Maybe that will cut down on all of the reboots! Anyway, I didn't really like Megan Fox in this movie, because she seemed totally useless and her constant pouting didn't help, but the turtles were fun and the rat and Shredder had some great fighting scenes.

Budget: $125million.

Worldwide Gross: $482million.

I recommend this movie to people who are into their movies action/comedy movies about ninja turtles fighting against evil to save the world from destruction. 6/10 .