Through contact with a mysterious substance four turtles in the canalisation of New York mutate to giant turtles.
They can speak, walk upright and love pizza. Wise rat Splinter becomes their mentor and educates them to Ninja fighters.
Their arch-enemy is the Shredder, who struggles to gain power over the world. Of course the ninja turtles will do everything to stop him....
This was one of those films that when released, I was the right demographic and age to really appreciate the phenomenon, and wise enough about films to also appreciate the poor quality of the sequels.
The film isn't perfect, and really, the only other comic book movie around at the time was Batman, Dick Tracey has been released, but that was a vanity project, this had a whole network of kids baying for it, thanks to the advent of Mass marketing.
It's fun to watch, the cast other than Koteas are not very good, but the Henson workshop have done wonders with the titular characters. For the budget, it was everything a thirteen year old boy could have imagined what a real life Turle would look like.
And the other reason why it was so successful, it was violent and didn't sissy around with fights or near death experiences, it was dark and gritty, and any teenage boys would have lapped this up,because they were already on a diet of Schwarzeneggar and Van Damme, thanks to their dad.
Age hasn't been kind to the film, even though the turtles still look great, the rest of the film just looks dated and all frizzy hair and suits, like the nineties is trying to rid itself of the eighties.
For nostalgia purposes, it's fun to watch. Other than that, I'd rather remember it through rose tinted specs.
They can speak, walk upright and love pizza. Wise rat Splinter becomes their mentor and educates them to Ninja fighters.
Their arch-enemy is the Shredder, who struggles to gain power over the world. Of course the ninja turtles will do everything to stop him....
This was one of those films that when released, I was the right demographic and age to really appreciate the phenomenon, and wise enough about films to also appreciate the poor quality of the sequels.
The film isn't perfect, and really, the only other comic book movie around at the time was Batman, Dick Tracey has been released, but that was a vanity project, this had a whole network of kids baying for it, thanks to the advent of Mass marketing.
It's fun to watch, the cast other than Koteas are not very good, but the Henson workshop have done wonders with the titular characters. For the budget, it was everything a thirteen year old boy could have imagined what a real life Turle would look like.
And the other reason why it was so successful, it was violent and didn't sissy around with fights or near death experiences, it was dark and gritty, and any teenage boys would have lapped this up,because they were already on a diet of Schwarzeneggar and Van Damme, thanks to their dad.
Age hasn't been kind to the film, even though the turtles still look great, the rest of the film just looks dated and all frizzy hair and suits, like the nineties is trying to rid itself of the eighties.
For nostalgia purposes, it's fun to watch. Other than that, I'd rather remember it through rose tinted specs.