the audience applauded

Absolutely Fantastic

Absolutely brilliant

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Its hard to make a dumb movie now being DUMBER than a dumb movie from the 90's. Its REALLY HARD.And not only that, this CGI monsters take away the good looking ninja turtles and turn them into Lago Ness Monsters.

Seems like it's aimed at pre-teen boys so not sure why it's rated 12, maybe the CGI creatures would scare younger children or maybe the pointless inclusion of Megan Fox with a short skirt and cleavage wasn't suitable. Maybe teenagers are just more immature than I remember, it's cringe worthy like watching children's TV presenters. But it is based on a cartoon after all, plus the CGI is decent hens 5 stars, maybe something to put on in the background while you're on your phone... which is exactly how teens will watch it! Don't get me wrong I think if the reviews were done only by 12 year olds it would get a high rating.

I don't know why I feel compelled to write a review here but I just watched the movie this morning and was pleasantly surprised several times.I was a child not only for the original cartoon, but for the even earlier comic book series. I was too young for the comics - they were more gritty, a slightly darker and more adult version of what we got with the cartoon; I got into those later actually. But I mention the comic books specifically to point out something this movie did right: Baxter Stockman. Tyler Perry looked exactly as I remembered Baxter from the 1984 comics, a far cry from the wacky white guy we got in the 1987 cartoon. (Apparently they course-corrected this in the early-00s cartoon, too.) But the cartoon was a huge tour de force and this movie honored THAT source material as well. Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang, the Technodrome (more or less), the Party Wagon (giant nunchaku notwithstanding)... This is the kind of thing I had expected from the first Bay outing, rather than the weird Amazing Spider-Man rehash we got in TMNT.Imagine that. Bay and his team actually doing right by the source material. Why couldn't we get even half that level of consideration in Transformers?Note: this "sequel does it better" thing also happened with GIJoe - where the backlash from the first movie yields some actual improvements to the second.Is it a GOOD movie? Not really. Is it a FUN movie? Sure. it's way more chop-socky proportionally than the first, spending a little less time on character melodrama, but of course there is still some of that. I was super sick of the turtles' constant infighting and Mikey being a /complete/ doofus by about halfway in. The following may be a spoiler to some people? Of course, the plot was still reminiscent of other things because of course it was. Man, NYC has to have just started ignoring giant battles and aliens in the sky by now since it happens every year or two.

looks like the turtles were on drugs and buffed up on steraroids they way they were "turned into"ninja turtles is BS the original 3 was the best and didn't look buffif your a true TMNT fan from the 90s don't watch iti tryed to watch it online for FREE and gave up after if came out on DVD went straight to NETFLIX INSTANT VIEW thats just sad!