"He looks like he's wearing the Iron Throne!" LOL

Fun fact: in the original comic the TMNT were created when a canister of radioactive material hit a young Matt Murdoch in the head causing blindness (Daredevil). The canister bounced off and landed in the sewer causing the TMNT to be created. So TMNT is technically in the Marvel Universe.

my biggest complaint is the same for the transformers franchise: the focus is on the humans and not the title characters. probably michael bay's influence there.

One thing I notice is that Michael Bay's movies about superhuman things tend to focus more on the ordinary humans THAN those superhuman things. In transformers, the military does most of or a lot of the fighting. And now in this, we have April delivering the killing blow. Says interesting things about how he approaches these franchises.

I bust out laughing at "taataru suupu". Like, I'm sure the actor could've said that in Japanese, they have words for "turtle" and "soup" in Japan.

April's father was an average fighter but he was a brilliant scientist.

I just watched Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and I loved it!

Here's a useless fact for ya! Sacks sounds very close to the Swedish word sax, which in English means scissors. Considering he was originally supposed to play the Shredder, I think this is kinda funny, though I highly doubt that was intentional.

I just realized when the credits were shown, the stunt coordinator, David Leitch, is the co-director of John Wick.

The only legitimately funny moment in this movie was the elevator scene. That was hilarious.

They should have kept Eric Sachs as "A" Shreader, then at the end have a scene with a man in proper Samurai style armour being told that Sachs Techo shreader failed. Then you could have a sort of Franchise Shreader thing where all Shreader's gang-boss minions don the Shreader mantle. This can explain why he keeps coming back after getting killed so many times, this way Oroku Saki can be a General controling everything and his minion Shreaders do all the dangerious stuff. You can also have several different "styles" of Shreaders as each Foot Clan Underbosses has a different Shreader Armour.

TMNT 2014 movie, in a nutshell: Could have been worse, a lot worse...

I'm surprised he didn't mention the parallels in this movie and the amazing Spider-Man

I was just starting to think Ken Watanabe would be a fine choice for the role of Shredder, just seconds before you mentioned his name yourself.

I'm kinda disappointed that you did not mention how the turtles were saved from severe blood loss. It is the most implausible thing ever. You see....April gives them a dose of adrenaline...and that magically heals them! Okay list of things wrong: 1) Adrenaline does not work like that. You can't have adrenaline and be magically healed. 2) Even if you were, you would still be weak afterward from the blood loss 3) WHY THE FUCK WOULD A DUDE WHO IS INTENT ON KILLING YOU HAVE ADRENALINE ON STANDBY?!?!

I was hoping Casey Jones would make an appearance, Elias Koteas portrayed the character amazingly in TMNT (1990). With the hockey mask and sports equipment weaponry.

Saying that the TMNT franchise is stupid, is kind of debatable. I'm mean yes the idea of giant mutated turtles doing martial arts is a ridiculous idea, and while the mirage comics were a parody other comics, they still manage to take themselves seriously as oppose to the 80's cartoon where they just embrace that ridiculousness. Which is something that the original 90's movie had going for with the seriousness of the comics, while it did have some of the silliness of the cartoon, but the tone of it in general was the dark nature of the comics which also was adapted by the 2003 animated series. The movie also have a story arc that was done really well. I do think that the TMNT franchise has had developed over the years, making it more for an older audience, especially with the IDW comics.

The mustard and parmesian sandwitch is a reference to arrested development where actors character in that show eats mustard and parmesian in one episode lol.

Really good review. A couple of things, though. One - WETA Digital did the effects for the Turtles, not ILM. Two - you forgot to mention the phenomenally stupid plot point of Splinter and the Turtles learning ninjitsu FROM A FUCKING BOOK! Three - you also forgot to point out that the majority of the movie's plot points, especially the climax, are ripped off wholesale from The Amazing Spider-Man. Four - I do agree with you that April delivering the final blow to The Shredder is insulting. However, if the April from the 2012 cartoon had done this, it would have been awesome. On a side note, if the Turtles were to be realized through practical effects, there are only two people working today that can create creature makeup to rival Jim Henson - one is Richard Taylor, who created the makeup for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies, and the other is Rick Baker. Say what you will about Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, but the apes in that film looked fucking awesome. In fact, I daresay they even look better than the apes in the new movies. Don't get me wrong those apes still look awesome, but well done practical effects will always trump even the best CGI;

You and the Nostalgic Critic are both great.

And why call the turtles "ninja" at all? You know ninjitsu ok, but 4 10 feet tall giants do not screams STEALTHY WARRIORS!

Hey Smeggy. The mustard and Parmesan sandwich joke is from Arrested Development.

...How the hell did I miss this? It didn't show up in my subscription feed! FAIL, youtube, mega fail!

Where has this channel been all my life? Instant subscriber!

They probably spelled Sacks with a K because they didn't want a lawsuit from Goldman & Sachs.

You and the Nostalgia Critic review some of the same movies. So sometimes I look at both your review and the Nostalgia Critic's review of the same movie and compare. The main differences between you guys is that the Nostalgia Critic makes his reviews more funny and comedic, while your reviews are more informative and sometimes serious. You can be funny sometimes. I like both of you guys

Another problem with April telling her boss about the 'pet' connection. Either her boss doesn't believe her and she gets fired, OR her boss does believe her, and she gets taken off the story because of her personal connection to it. Lose/lose.

18:35 Was Michael Bay so desperate for ideas that he started ripping off his own movies?

3:15 It's a weird time where Michael Bay is more open to public opinion than the DC Universe, how is this happening 😂😂

Whoopi Goldberg is starting to look like Aughra from _The Dark Crystal_.

And not just telling your boss that the vigilantes were your former pets who now 6 feet tall and know ninjutsu, but you don't have any evidence or eye witnesses to back you up.

When I was a kid I thought Vernon was drawn kind of like a rat so I called him "Vermin Fenwick." Apparently I was the only one who knew what that meant though because whenever I'd say it the other kids just gave me a blank stare. There were a lot of words I knew that no one else seemed to for some reason. But I also called Baxter Stockman "Bastard" and everyone knew that one. I think James Rolfe and his friends did that too so it's nice to know I wasn't the only one there at least.

What seems to be forgotten is the Ninja Turtles were a a parody, a satire, in their original comic book form. The first comics were nothing but a razz on Marvel comic tropes, they incorporated the go-to hooks Marvel had come to rely on: teenagers, mutants, martial arts, and anthromorphic animals.

Lens flare here, lens flare there, lens flare EVERY-FUCKING-WHERE!! Goddammit, JJ you see what you started??!!

Turtles in A Half Shell, Turtle Power, what a Sach of Mutagen, the Cops got Defunded and the Social Workers were all in Therapy

Ken Watanabe IS Oroku Saki and they had a chance to use those skills and his input to make him a tragic villain from a Samurai caste, but no . . . we had to have whatever the crap we got in the movie was.

I want also to point out that Shredder looks like he has two Swiss Army Knives as his hands! XD

I'm glad you didn't completely shit on this movie. It had a lot going for it, and it may have missed the mark, but my brother and I actually had a lot of fun, surprisingly enough.

Well actually Battle: LA wasn't that bad for what it as worth but everything else Liebmann did was either terrible or boring.

The thing that annoyed me the most was the whitewashing of the Japanese culture/Ninja element. For me, that's always been the most interesting aspect of the turtles and the thing that really is the crux of the story. All the pizza eating, joke spewing fun are great components, but it was the juxtaposition of the tonal darkness and conceptual silliness present in the original comic that drew me in.

Always thought Bryce Dallas Howard would have made the perfect April...

Don't worry about reviewing something others have reviewed. I just did a review of "A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge." and found others have reviewed it on KZfaq as well. You can never have enough of the same thing if it's done by different people.

Erik Sachs was probably an attempt to avoid the complaints about having a foreign villain... Really it was a no win situation.

What a weird coincidence. This week, the Nostalgia Critic is doing a crossover review with the AVGN on the same movie. Nothing wrong with this. I just think it's ironic. Great review, by the way! :)

3:59 This some dank-ass meth, hey let's pick the cast now.

I honestly believe that everyone involved in these adaptions, sequels etc etc are secretly laughing at the gullible movie audiences who pay to watch this shite. They sit in their meetings and conversations probably include them mentioning things like, "We don't give a shite about the fan base. We do what we want, because the fans will still pay to watch and frankly we don't care cos we will get our money either way - we'll get stupid rich." *evil laughter*

Another thing to note is that they were teenagers in the flashback of splinter discovering ninjutsu, and the size of the original Turtles. Had they erase the noses and kept those character designs.... the movie still would have sucked for other reasons, but at least the turtles would have looked like the turtles.

I have seen Nostalgia Critic and Angry Video Game Nerd first before watching this, and I have to admit, I like to hear different thoughts on certain films :)

The mustard and parmesan thing is a call back to a joke from Arrested Development. :) Love your vids by the way!

Now that I think about it, I don't think movie Turtles have EVER beaten Shredder. In the first he's actually fighting Splinter, who just dodges and lets his own momentum carry him over the ledge into a garbage truck where he gets crushed by Casey Jones. In the second, he goes Super Shredder and then tears the dock down on top of himself. He wasn't even in the third, or the CGI. Having the Turtles NOT be the ones to finish him off is something of a tradition at this point.

Yeah, that movie blows an infinite number of goats. Thanks for so entertainingly tearing it a new one. Loving your channel!

@ 6:12 That's why everyone loved Lawrence Welk: all the sax and violins!

A shot? Like one single shot? Nah, gonna need more. To actually watch the movie I would have to be drunk bordering on comatose

In all fairness I good like the "concept" of Shredder's power armor though this might be just because it reminds me of the 2003 Shredder's exoskeleton.

I know...late to the party. But Sack's industries missed out on a great slogan. "Sacks Industries will go balls deep to satisfy its customers!"

Vernon Fenwick was the perfect role for Andy Dick.

(About what it said in the description) I like both you and nostalgia critic.

Has any else realized that Shredder's plan to release gas on top of a tower is very similar to the climax from The Amazing Spider-man?

Should have kept fichtner as ahredder. He'd have been good. Especially if they were going for more of an 80s cartoon type of movie.

Have any of you noticed that the Shredder's evil plan is almost exactly like the Lizard's evil plan from The Amazing Spider-Man?

I think these turtles look like if Shrek and Swamp Thing had 4 horrid babies together

They should have NOT altered the script. Sachs should have been kept as "seeming" to be The Shredder and kept the movies script with him as the main bad guy. Then at the end you can have Karai, the female Japanese student/daughter of Oroku Saki, in a end credit type thing going to a place in Japan. You then see a man in shadow wearing traditional Samurai Armour sitting on a throne. Karai say's something like "Your American experiment has failed my lord, He was a poor student" It pans to a set of bladed gauntlets and Shredders traditional bladed Samurai helmet. The figure puts on his helmet and sits forward showing it is the Shredder and he says "It doesn't matter, I have many more students where that fool Sachs came from" Fade to Black. This adds that Sachs wasn't the ACTUAL Shredder, just someone pretending to be him, this also explains the stupid mech suit. It also shows a reason why The Shredder keeps dying in the comics and seems to come back to life, because the ones that die were also Shredder's students. This also cuts out the numerous plot holes created when they altered the script. It still would have been a shite movie, but at least it would have made some semblance of sense. Also has anyone else noticed that for TMNT they completely ripped off the ending for Amazing Spiderman?

I think it would be great if you reviewed "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale."

Vernon Fenwick is essentially Gob Bluth in cartoon form. HOW DO YOU FUCK THAT UP?!?

Love your In Flames shirt

You seriously earned that Like just for the Nya-na-na-nana dance. :D

love that shirt!

As a fan who watched the 2003 show as a kid ( even the spin off series fast forward) I actually liked the movie. Also I have to point out that Megan Fox can act and there are a few movies like Jennifer’s Body which showcase this but most of the time she gets cast in these nothing roles so the producers can put her on the marketing posters.

23:55 You should have referenced Jack Sparrow's jar of dirt thing from POTC 2.

I'll bet his next review is either: Birdemic 2 OR Sharknado 2

No snark for Tony Shalhoub as Splinter? Or the fact that his motivation for teaching ninjutsu to the Turtles has changed from "make them more effective fighters" to "make them stop being a pain in my ass"?

The Mustard-Parmesan sandwich is a Arrested Development reference

I'm actually going to watch the Nostalgia Critic version with my girlfriend tomorrow. She's a big fan, I actually never watched him. After watching a couple of his episodes, I prefer your review style. It's more understated and subtle.

I love the shirt man!

Weird coincidence that the NC released a review of this movie on the exact same day, but still, good review!

For what it's worth, I think you're way better than the Nostalgia Critic. His reviews have far far too much filler which isn't funny.

I just read the upload alert from my Gmail account about this video while at work, sooooo I'll view the video later today. Happy April Fool's Day, Everyone!

I'm guessing the next review could be one of the Jurassic Park sequels, considering the release of Jurassic World is right around the corner.

Seems like that ever since Michael Bay's Coyote Ugly cameo, every Bay-related movie would include at least one "Bay Girl" - slight variation of a Bond Girl - for some reasons.

CGI is really not as cost-effective as everyone makes it out to be, particularly if it's as highly detailed as something like the Turtles. That's also one of the reasons why there's way too much focus on the humans: to avoid spending too much on visual effects. The rubber-suited Turtles from the first three films didn't have this issue, as far as I can tell. At least the Turtles are mo-capped actors, which give the actors something to react to, unlike with the Star Wars prequels. Not that the actors have a lot to work with, anyway.

They should have called him Eriku Sacky.

I made that exact same princess bride reference in the movie theater!

I absolutely 💓 shredder Armour

"What do you mean he did it for the money? He's a doctor he's already rich..."

Why didn't the lab have any fire suppression system?

My problem with their look in this movie is that they now appear to be steroid pumping bodybuilders. Wtf is up with that?

Out of the shadows is a guilty pleasure for me

Ah its not in NY in 2014 its 2021, that's why they never bother to ask the police, they have been defunded, by a lot. Apparently the elevator scene where they are beatboxing was not scripted.

how could you not comment on the wire in the scene where raphael smashes into the car?

22:58 Well duh, the off getting coffee and doughnuts! (It's NY after all) :D

i think they should have kept sacks as the shredder since it is very clear that was the plan and they made that decision so have balls to see it through.

It is also possible that splinter learned about shredder because he had heard Sachs talking to shredder at one point.

While I still lament the fact that we never got the true-to-the-roots anarchistic splatter-fest based on the original comics, this could have been so much worse. I'd go as far as to say that I liked it for what it was; A feel-good pop-corn action flick with fun visuals. After the Transformers sequels and Man of Steel, I consider that a success. Which is kind of sad in of itself, if you stop to think about it, but that's the hand we genre-fans have been dealt.

It turns out that mustard and cheese sandwich was a reference to arrested development.

That would be hot if Megan Fox was actually a robot.

Wait a sec....that guy playing Shredder is familiar. Isn't that the guy who played Shang Tsung in the old Mortal Kombat movie?

William Fincher would have been amazing as shredder even if he is caucasian james avery was black and he still owned the character

15:02 So should April have sent a 'message in a bottle' to somebody?

8:59 Please, the term is "party dude".

It’s funny how this movie is the reason I recognise that Saches guy 😂 Probably saw in 2018 or 7 22.12.22