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Turtles Forever

JoopJoop
edited April 2010 in General Chat
I don't know if anyone likes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but seeing as it's one of my favorite childhood series, I thought I'd check.

I'm not into the new series at all, but I thought I'd check this new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Forever feature, seeing as it had the 80's Turtles in it.
I gotta say it's pretty awesome!
If you ignore the voices of the old characters that are sometimes totally off, it's quite a funny feature.
The different art styles are handled pretty well, I was laughing out loud when
they got to the 80's Turtles universe. Only then did I realise how weird some of those people are designed.
The whole
throwback to the Turtles origin was pretty awesome too. I wonder how Eastman and Laird felt about their pencil drawings finally coming to life.
All in all, it's a pretty funny, if kinda short, movie, and people will at least recognise a few things that will wake the sweet cloud of nostalgia.

The only problem I have with the thing, apart from not getting the original voice actors, is the budget.
All of it looks pretty good, but I would have loved if
even more versions of the Turtles were there. Imagine the original movie Turtles having a cameo or something!
Of course I do realise that this would be impossible to do on a non-super-big-hollywood-producion basis. So I forgive them.
They could have spend some extra money for the original actors and tunes though. I would've loved hearing the old tada-tada-dum-dum after a fight.

Comments

  • Jen KollicJen Kollic
    edited April 2010
    I just watched that the other night! All I can say is that it's freaking genius. My flatmate and I both thought it was hilarious,
    we both cracked up when they went to the 80s Turtles universe and the 80s Turtles explained that they had to save April every day, you can set your watch to it.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited April 2010
    The movie turtles DID get a cameo, sort of. They are on one of the Shredder's floating universe screens.

    Personally, I would have preferred a gritty comic-universe DVD movie, but I'll take what I can get.
  • JoopJoop
    edited April 2010
    Yeah, I liked them being in the cameo.
    But wouldn't it be great if they would be fighting next to each other?
    The first movie Turtles still are my favorite!
  • Giant TopeGiant Tope
    edited April 2010
    I just watched this yesterday with my sis. A++ will watch again


    ...though the phrase April O'Neil O'Fools kept going through my head. I blame KC Green.
  • FriarFriar
    edited April 2010
    *is confused*
    Are you on about the movie from a couple of years back?

    Factoid: The 80's series was called Teenage Mutant Hero turtles here in the UK, as Ninja's were deemed too violent.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited April 2010
    Friar wrote: »
    *is confused*
    Are you on about the movie from a couple of years back?

    Factoid: The 80's series was called Teenage Mutant Hero turtles here in the UK, as Ninja's were deemed too violent.

    Factoid: in France, TMNT are just "Ninja Turtles". They obviously thought it was too long otherwise.

    As a result, I never realised they were supposed to be teenagers, incidentally.
  • JoopJoop
    edited April 2010
    No, I'm talking about this.
    It's a celebratory movie for the Turtles 25th birthday.
    It conjoins the 80's Turtles with the 2003 Turtles in their battle against Shredder.

    Factoid: The 80's series was called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles here in the Netherlands too. But we kept Michelangelo's Nunchaku's!
  • FriarFriar
    edited April 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    Factoid: in France, TMNT are just "Ninja Turtles". They obviously thought it was too long otherwise.

    As a result, I never realised they were supposed to be teenagers, incidentally.
    Factoid: I can't read the words "teenage mutant hero/ninja turtles" Without the theme song erupting in my mind.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited April 2010
    Joop wrote: »
    Factoid: The 80's series was called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles here in the Netherlands too. But we kept Michelangelo's Nunchaku's!

    Some people didn't? :eek:
    We had costumes as a kid. I was Michelangelo. Wouldn't have liked going without my nunchakus!
    I like Raffaello's weird knives too though.
  • JoopJoop
    edited April 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    Some people didn't? :eek:
    We had costumes as a kid. I was Michelangelo. Wouldn't have liked going without my nunchakus!
    I like Raffaello's weird knives too though.

    Raphael has always been my favorite.
    They actually censored the Nunchaku's in Britain, which cuts a lot of Michelangelo's great moments. If you watch the first three seasons you see them appearing less and less, because the animators wanted to keep Michelangelo in, until they truly changed it by giving him a grappling hook in season 4.

    Actually, I read somewhere that at the end of the first movie, in Britain Shredder just runs off the roof into the trashcan. Pretty lame ending if you ask me.
  • FriarFriar
    edited April 2010
    Joop wrote: »
    Raphael has always been my favorite.
    They actually censored the Nunchaku's in Britain, which cuts a lot of Michelangelo's great moments. If you watch the first three seasons you see them appearing less and less, because the animators wanted to keep Michelangelo in, until they truly changed it by giving him a grappling hook in season 4.

    Actually, I read somewhere that at the end of the first movie, in Britain Shredder just runs off the roof into the trashcan. Pretty lame ending if you ask me.

    I think the nunchaku's were filtered out because Youth gang culture was rising, and so were their (the nunchaku's) popularity.

    Oh, and i'll try tracking that movie down later. I hated what i saw of the new TMNT stuff (i went into a nostalgia induced rage!), but i'm glad to here they included the old turtles. *hums tune*
  • GuybrushWilcoGuybrushWilco
    edited April 2010
    I never saw the 2003 turtles, but I did love the old cartoon when I was a kid. I also had tons of turtles action figures :). This 2003 special sounds entertaining though, I should check it out.
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited April 2010
    Yeah this was a great special. I was skeptical but it turned out okay. I just kind of wish Casey Jones had more to do. I can definitely say that this movie blew TMNT out of the water.
  • RemolayRemolay
    edited April 2010
    I liked it a lots, and I only saw about half of it.

    FILTHY TURTLES!

    It's not true, we shower regularly.
    *awkward silence*
    WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO!?
  • JoopJoop
    edited April 2010
    Yeah, the fourth wall breaking and the characters' reactions were pretty hilarious!
    I love it when they pull stuff like this!
  • tredlowtredlow
    edited April 2010
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y
  • fleskflesk
    edited April 2010
    Joop wrote: »
    Raphael has always been my favorite.
    Yeah, mine too. I used to have a Raphael action figure when I was younger. Good times.
  • ScrawfflerScrawffler
    edited April 2010
    I used to watch the old cartoons when I was a kid, in the early '90s. Loved it, even though I can't remember that much about many of the episodes now. For some reason I can remember the introduction sequence and theme music really easily though; it was catchy. :D
  • FriarFriar
    edited April 2010
    Scrawffler wrote: »
    I used to watch the old cartoons when I was a kid, in the early '90s. Loved it, even though I can't remember that much about many of the episodes now. For some reason I can remember the introduction sequence and theme music really easily though; it was catchy. :D

    Turtles in a half-shell!

    Anyway, i just watched the Turtles forever thing, and really enjoyed it. The replacement Voice actors did a great job of doing the 80's turtles! Although that could be because i haven't watched an actual episode in so long. I forgot how funny they were! I still don't like the new turtles though.Too gritty (i guess more like the very originals, buut still).
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited April 2010
    So, a few people have said "Raphael", was that his name in English? In French it was Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raffaello, in alphabetical order.
    While they're obviously named after Italian artists, only Donatello is called the same in French (Léonard, Michel-Ange and Raphael are the others' names).

    I remember in high school we were naming Italian artists, these 4 were named pretty fast and then someone said "Shredder" xD That was funny.
  • RemolayRemolay
    edited April 2010
    Yeah, Raphael was his English name. The other are the same though
  • GTALostHeavenGTALostHeaven
    edited April 2010
    A parody video I made years ago, Its splinter explaning their origin story from the movie

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsqXZPVbC8

    and this is the funniest TMNT dub ive ever seen!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aFK9KN7pw4
  • FriarFriar
    edited April 2010
    College Humour did a video.
  • JoopJoop
    edited April 2010
    Whaha, that college humor one was pretty good!

    This one is pretty good too!
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