For 90s kids like us, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a staple. We had the toys and action figures, we played the arcade game at Chuck ‘E’ Cheese, we watched the animated TV show. Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo—besides being human-sized turtles with mad fighting skills—were fun-loving, skateboarding, pizza eating, “Cowabunga” crying teenagers we could relate to. Since the TV show, Hollywood has attempted to bring TMNT to the big screen, most notably in 1990. Remember that one? We liked it because we were kids, but you look at it now and kinda cringe, right? Admittedly, it’s really hard to bring giant turtles to life and make them look realistic and not comical, but Transformers director Michael Bay is the latest to try.
Right off the bat, it looks like a Bay movie (cue explosions and shadows!). It does set the tone pretty well, definitely darker and less goofy than the 1990′s version. William Fichtner—spoiler alert: the IMDB page for the movie lists him as Shredder—monologues throughout, stepping up this storyline that the Turtles are the product of some genetic experiment rather than baby turtles who got nuclear waste dripped on them. Megan Fox looks stunning as April O’Neil, but she’s a far departure from the red-headed, yellow jumpsuit wearing reporter we came to love in the cartoon. Which is not a bad thing considering that sort of fashion died with the 90s.
Now for the Turtles themselves. We only get a few glimpses of the guys, but they do seem to fit the darker, more reality-based world. We don’t hear any of their signature surfer talk, but the combination of kick-ass and funny evokes the Turtles we grew up with.
We’re trying to be optimistic, considering this is only the first trailer, but Bay’s track record with our childhood loves has been a bit iffy.
What did you think of the first trailer?
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