I am more excited about this movie than I have been about anything in a very long time. The ninja turtles were basically THE main staple of my childhood, so to see them come back in action will be the single greatest thing to happen to me in the past few years.



"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
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In theaters March 23

By Pallavi Yetur
Contributing Writer

March 15, 2007 — After a 14-year lunch break, the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" film franchise has emerged from the sewers, revamped in CGI form. "TMNT" (apparently, we no longer have the attention span to deal with a movie title longer than three words, and can only handle acronyms) picks up after the defeat of arch nemesis Shredder, with each of the four New York City vigilantes splitting from the group and doing his own thing. But rat-turned-sensei-master Splinter, voiced by the late Mako Iwamatsu, eagerly tries to get the family back together, because - you guessed it - a new evil is on the rise.

Visually, the computer-generated turtles look a little less creepy than the Jim Henson puppets of the first three late-'80s/early-'90s installations. Sarah Michelle Gellar, veteran computer-generated hero support (see: "Scooby Doo"), lends her voice as April O'Neill, a spunky Manhattanite who befriends the turtles and kicks it in their sewer. April and her onscreen love interest Casey Jones, the former cell phone-wielding, flame-engulfed voice of Chris Evans, assist the turtles in their fight against tech industrialist Maximillian J. Winters, a new villain voiced by the ubiquitous Patrick Stewart.

It's about time the four reigning reptilian warriors - named after Renaissance artists and notorious for coining catch phrases like "Cowabunga, dudes!" - resurfaced on the silver screen.


Cowamotherfuckingbunga dude.

I'm a little too old to be excited about the turtles. They were like the toy/cartoon fad that hit right after I stopped playing with collectible toys. I imagine your glee of this turtles remake matched mine when I saw the Autobots logo and the Transformer's name in the preview from last year. Be thankful your own hopes and joys for the movie weren't crushed when the next thing you saw after "Teenage Muntant Ninja Turtles" was "A Micheal Bay Movie". The whole crowd I saw the movie with cheered when the transformers logo came out. But I was basically the only one that groaned when " A Micheal Bay Movie" appeared next. I literally boo'd.

I'm kinda rambling. I saw a preview for the movie, and aesthetically, the movie looks good.

movies.com has a good handful of clips and teasers for it that I just watched with childish glee. New look, same turtles. So fucking tubular.

I have to agree.

I loved Ninja Turtles, Michaelangelo and Shredder were my favorites. I watched the cartoons and the movies. I also enjoyed the Vanilla Ice performance in that 1 movie.... "Go Ninja Go Ninja Go."

But as I grow older I seem to lose interest. I mean I also loved Looney Tunes. There's no way in hell I'm going to the theater to see a Bugs Bunny Movie. I'm not saying that older people shouldn't be excited for it, for some reason I'm just not interested anymore.

No, I don't mean that I'm too old now to be excited about some childhood nostolgia type thing. I was super, super excited about the transformers movie for about 3 seconds till micheal bay's name appeared. No, what i mean is, I was too old at the time, that the turtles didn't mean much to me then, so it's hard to be nostalgically excited about them now.

NINJA! NINJA! RRRRAP!



Yeah, the ninja turtles were THE icons of my childhood. Other kids got into XMen (which I'm just now realizing the awesomeosity of), Power Rangers, etc. I had the turtles. At one point I had 4 of those large tupperware bins filled with action figures, and you can bet your ass I'll be digging them up at some point.

and I am definately more from the Starwars-HeMan-GIJoe-Transformers generation.

Yea, those were good times.

The Turtles were my Childhood. I had everything that had the turtles on it. I'm gonna go see the movie and take my little brother with me.

I'm disappointed that it's animated though....

I've seen it twice since making this thread.


I absolutely loved it, but then again, there would be next to no way for me to have had any other impression of it. The CGI is really cool and very well done, and the turtles bring the same corny funny as always, which is something I was looking very forward to.

Also, April O'Neill is the hottest CGI... thing.. I've ever seen. Seriously.

TMNT was the single best original NES game I never beat ... man did I spend some hours on that one.

Right on. That game used to give me nightmares. I'd skip 1st-2nd grade constantly with my buddy and we'd have Marathons of that and Ninja Gaiden 1 and never be able to beat em. Good ole days

Great movie btw.