This movie at least gave him things to do, as opposed to just following Megan Fox around. Will Arnett also stole the show, though he was definitely a supporting character still. This Casey Jones though had motivation and some great moments. Out of all the new characters, the highlight for me was Stephen Amell’s Casey Jones, though it’s quite a bit different than his take on the Green Arrow, so it was jarring at first. There is also a ton of action here, so when I left the theater, I was thinking about all the various chases/fights/etc and it was impressive, for a relatively average runtime. The other computer-generated characters don’t get as much love but the Turtles are absolutely stunning. The amount of work that went into the Turtles is staggering, as the texture work, water effects, and fight choreography is pretty impressive. Visually, there are some stunning moments. New villains Bebop and Rocksteady look exactly they were drawn back in the day and the Turtles themselves have much more screentime and personality. This movie even goes so far as the include the animated theme song in the credits and a Vanilla Ice homage (twice actually). If your big complaint with the first movie was “It wasn’t like the comics/cartoon/etc” than you will be pleasantly surprised. We’re also introduced to an extradimensional threat in the form of Krang (Brad Garrett), a talking brain who seeks to take over the Earth. This time around, we’re introduced to a scientist named Baxter Stockman (Tyler Perry), two thugs that try to ride Shredder’s coattails (WWE star Sheamus and Gary Anthony Williams), and a vigilante named Casey Jones ( Arrow‘s Stephen Amell). In the first movie, they defeated an evil samurai named Shredder (Brian Tee). They hide in the shadows and protect New York from huge threats but only a few humans know they exist, including reporter April O’Neil (Megan Fox) and her former cameraman Vern (Will Arnett). They live in the sewers with their “dad,” a mutated rat. We’ve got four mutated turtles who know martial arts. But will it succeed? Just because it’s a good translation of the source material, does that mean it will make a good movie? It looks like they heard our plea though, as this movie seems to dive fully into the nostalgia and aims to bring quite a few more fan favorites to the big screen. It felt like it aimed to be too grounded and made Megan Fox/Will Arnett much bigger characters than they should’ve been, while sidelining the Turtles. The first reboot, to which this movie is a sequel, was mixed for me. So now, I’m very hesitant about remakes that might do a horrible job. I read the comics, I watched the cartoons, and I fell in the love with the live action films. When I was a little kid, I completely adored the Ninja Turtles. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
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