Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1990 "Hey dude, this is NO cartoon."
6.8| 1h33m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 30 March 1990 Released
Producted By: New Line Cinema
Country: United States of America
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A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.

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VividSimon Simply Perfect
Dorathen Better Late Then Never
Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
davidtkd-25249 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1990 action comedy film directed by Steve Barron and starring Judith Hoag and Elias Koteas. The Plot: Four teenage mutant ninja turtles emerge from the shadows to protect New York City from a gang of criminal ninjas. Jim Henson's Creature Shop provided the animatronics for the film. They are absolutely amazing. Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michaelangelo, and Splinter all look glorious. John Du Prez creates an epic film score. It supports the action and suspense of the film perfectly. I absolutely love the end credits with Partner In Kryme's single "T.U.R.T.L.E. Power" playing in the background. The song was made for this film and went #1 for five consecutive weeks in the U.K. John Du Prez won a BMI Film Music Award for his film score. Also featured songs in this movie include Spunkadelic's "9.95" and M.C. Hammer's "This is What We Do". All the songs blend in perfectly with the theme of this movie. Directed by Steve Barron, this movie rocks and is the first and best TMNT movie of all-time. Don't even bother with the remake. Just watch this classic. A must-watch for all Turtles fans. One of my favorite movies of all-time and for good reason. I wouldn't change a single thing in this movie as it is the perfect turtle movie and the perfect family film.R.I.P. Jim Henson (1936-1990) 10/10.
SnoopyStyle A silent crime wave is hitting NYC perpetrated by teenagers led by Master Tatsu. Casey Jones (Elias Koteas) is a former hockey player vigilante. Intrepid reporter April O'Neil (Judith Hoag) is attacked by the Foot Clan led by Shredder for questioning corrupt police chief Sterns. She is saved by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and brought down to their sewer hiding place. It's Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello, and Michaelangelo with their master Splinter. Fifteen years earlier, Splinter was Ninja Master Yoshi's pet rat who finds himself in the sewer with the four baby turtles. They got transformed by a spilled batch of radioactive ooze.The turtles are fun but not individual enough. Part of that are the costumes which limit acting movements and keep them looking too similar. On the other hand, Splinter has more character work and his story is more compelling. There are limitations to the action but it's still plenty of fun. The human characters are functional and there are some surprise recognizable faces. This is a fun kids movie.
jacobjohntaylor1 6.7 is underrating this movie. It a great movie. The cartoon show from the 80's and 90's is better. Still this a good movie. Teenage mutant ninja turtles II this also better. And I now people like pix on Micheal Bay but The reboot from 2014 is better. Still this is a great movie. It as has great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. This movie as lot of action. The Teenage mutant ninja turtle battle the super villain shredder. This movie is awesome. It very fast past. All the Teenage mutant ninja turtles movies are must sees. This a very good action movie. One of the best action movies from 1990. A truly great film.
joshuadrake-91275 My sister Shaliyah loves things that boys watch, so I wanted to review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles because I have already done the original Power Rangers movie review, so I am going to do not only the original, but the 2007 and 2014 films as well.TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is a 1990 American live-action film and the first film adaptation of the TMNT franchise. It was directed by Steve Barron and was released on March 30, 1990.This film presents the origin story of Splinter and the Turtles, the initial meeting between them, April O'Neill and Casey Jones, and their first confrontation with The Shredder and his Foot Clan.The film kept very close to the dark and violent feel of the original comics while also staying true to the 1987 TV series of the same name.The movie was very light hearted and dark at the same time and I first got my first watch in 2008 and I absolutely enjoyed this feature film. I never read any of the comics at all, but I have seen all of the movies and I really enjoyed it. It is so cool in everything it does.The acting was fantastic. Judith Hoag plays the role of April O'Neil and she did a really good job. Elias Koteas played Casey Jones and he was an amazing job, but I had to say, he was awesome in some of the action sequences.The voice actors are Brian Tochi, who plays Leonardo, Corey Feldman as Donatello, Robbie Rist as Michelangelo and Josh Pais as Raphael and they do really good jobs voicing the titular turtles and they are all fantastic and spectacular.Kevin Clash as Splinter did an incredible job playing the role and the other two David McCharen and Michael McConnohie as Shredder & Tatsu were really good and I could have not thought of better actors to play these parts.The turtles look so good and I give credit to the late Jim Henson and his creature shop for staying true to the source material and making sure that they had the color bandanas.A lot of movie companies did not wanted to release this film in theaters including Paramount, Warner Bros. Pictures, Columbia TriStar and 20th Century Fox, but this was financed by Golden Harvest and distributed by New Line Cinema.This film did not have the highest budget in the world and it was $13.5 million dollars and this film proves that you do not need a bigger budget to make that cool and great film that you wanted to make.The film was criticized for it's level of violence and it was not at all violent as the critics and parents said to be and this also had problems with "Batman Returns", the second film in the original BATMAN film series and I think this movie is awesome as hell.The violence and the action sequences were just as incredible and spectacular and my favorite action sequence is when it gets to the middle of the film.The music by John Du Prez is just spectacular and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme is a classical film and it is just an amazing feature film and became a hit with fans, but was met with mixed reactions from critics.Overall, I love this first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film and it is just one film that I don't think can be taken for granted.10/10.