Review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016) by Jonathon P — 18 Sep 2017

Now for the second film, I'd have to say it's a step in a good direction, which it being a sequel, is shocking.

It has more humour than the first, still not enough, but it's an improvement. The biggest thing about the second would have to be the new characters, introducing Bebop and Rocksteady (seen above) was a personal favourite. Being two massive characters in the Turtle's universe, I actually loved how they did them as well. Two muscle-bound meatheads who get a serum which makes them into well, bigger muscle-bound meatheads, with horns and tusks. They're share a great chemistry before and after, just how they should. Now Casey, Stephen Amell is a different story, I absolutely love the actor, he's really good. Just he doesn't fit the Casey role. The role doesn't carry enough badassary, he seems like a bumbling buffoon at times, it just doesn't work. That is the script's problem, not Amell, he did the best he could with the role. Baxter Stockman I am indifferent on, he doesn't really do much. and last but not least would be Krang, who I must say, looks disgusting but awesome.

The story is a lot more exciting, throwing in so many iconic characters helps it a lot. The additions and extra humour are what carries this movie. It has alright action scenes like the first, but it lacks good dialog, the humans seem less human than the turtles do. One big plus is Shredder, they seem to have took him back to his human roots, no big clunky robot armour. I could be wrong though, he wasn't given much time to suit up. Hopefully that was by choice though.

I'd definitely rate this higher than the first, it has worse con's but it also holds much more pro's.