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SOURCE-Blu Ray
I bought this Blu Ray at least a year ago if not longer ago. Had heard it was really good,found it for 5 bucks new and grabbed it. Opened it ,redeemed the digital code. Then never watched it. Until recently.
We get the standard TMNT origin. Splinter living in the sewers finds the turtles and the ooze. They mutate and Splinter raises them teaching the ways of the NINJA. What changed this time is the teenage aspect is in the forefront. The 4 brothers are in their mid to late teens. Wanna goto school,they wanna explore the city. There is 2 other major changes. One is that April O'Neil is now a high school kid. The other change I will mention near the end of this piece.
Seems someone known as Superfly is getting various pieces of equipment stolen. The TMNT gang along with April try to figure this out and fastly learn it is a gang of Mutants. Superfly,voiced by Ice Cube,is their leader. But you got Rocksteady & Bebop,Genghis Frog,Mondo Gecko,Wingnut,Leatherhead and many of the other mutants. Seems Superfly wants to build a device that will mutate all the other animals and they can then take over the world from the Humans.
The animation is gorgeous. Like at first I wasn't sure,it has a very different look to it from any other animated TMNT thing. Once you get use to it it works well. I like how they made each of the turtles look different. Really in this film there was no need for each turtle to have a different colored bandana. Each of them has a distinct body.
I loved the soundtrack. A nice mixture of mostly NYC based artists. Wasn't expecting to hear Wu Tang Clan in a TMNT movie!
Now time for that other change I mentioned... Shredder only appears right at the end before the credits start. Yep a TMNT movie with out Shredder. And I was 50 minutes into the film before I realized he wasn't in it.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem gets a A-.
