Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

PG-13

Released Aug 8, 2014

1h 41m

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Spawned from a lab experiment gone awry, teenage terrapins Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael live in the sewers beneath New York. Although their rodent sensei, Splinter, advises against showing themselves above ground, the justice-loving, pizza-eating brothers can't stand idly by while evil Shredder and his minions terrorize the city. With help from intrepid reporter April O'Neil (Megan Fox) and her cameraman (Will Arnett), the Turtles set out to save New York.

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Critics Consensus

Neither entertaining enough to recommend nor remarkably awful, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles may bear the distinction of being the dullest movie ever made about talking bipedal reptiles.

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Shadow and Act Staff

Shadow and Act

I can’t think of a recent blockbuster that’s been raked across the coals as much as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Sep 15, 2022

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Peter Hartlaub

San Francisco Chronicle

The whole "TMNT" movie is over-inflated; like watching an otherwise tolerable music video, stretched out to 101 minutes.

Rated: 1/4

Mar 20, 2020

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

A shockingly boring, endlessly unimaginative advertisement for pizza, soft drinks and the capitalist ideal.

Rated: 1/5

Mar 20, 2020

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JD Duran

InSession Film

This version of TMNT doesn’t quite have the heart or development that keeps you as engaged or entertained throughout. It does some parts well but mostly it falls flat.

Rated: D+

Aug 19, 2024

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Benjamín Harguindey

EscribiendoCine

The way the turtles relate to their past, their father, and the villain of the movie, in such an improbable way that it seems forced -- even for a comic. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3/10

Aug 15, 2023

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Indeed, motion capture and a push toward photo-real animation result in rather gross heroes (with nostrils), particularly in the case of Splinter, whose slimy quality incites some latent Bubonic anxiety.

Rated: 0.5/4

Jul 29, 2022

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Pedro Henrique C

The story is very poorly written and developed, the first ten minutes of the film are just another random thing, but I feel that the cast managed to deliver what they could in this mess.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/04/25

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TheSplatoonFan M

Why the hell do they look like that.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/03/25

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Jaylan C

this movie was never going to work massive 6 foot turtles who look like there on steroids kind of defeats the fact that it’s ninja turtles and it’s way better just being animated.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/09/25

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Chuck M

Where's the Nostalgia? This movie is a soulless Hollywood flopbuster. I'd rather watch Cory Feldman reprise his role as Donatello In the original costume that looks like nightmare fuel.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/17/25

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Cameron L

This reboot of the turtles franchise has gone downhill really fast with Michael Bay’s name attached to the movie and the screenplay is so bad. I can’t understand anyone liking it. Megan Fox is not a good actress at all, the turtles are hideously CGI, which is worse than the turtles in Turtles 3 and the characters are just flat out, dull and unlikable, all of them, and I forgotten about Raphael‘s forced moral at the end of the movie

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/24/25

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william s

Against my better judgement, I might defend this film slightly. While it's not very good, I don't think it was that far off from being.... actually OK. For one, they should have decided if they wanted to target single digit aged kids or teenagers. The turtles, and their humor, seem geared for grade schoolers. But the rest of the movie drags this into PG-13 territory, which feels like a mistake. The CGI and action also feels cluttered/messy. But that isn't exactly shocking when you are talking about something under the Michael Bay umbrella. But, I always got the vibe that the films heart was in the right place. Trying it's best to provide thrills, humor, and generally be entertaining... even if it didn't all land.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/24/25

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Synopsis

Spawned from a lab experiment gone awry, teenage terrapins Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael live in the sewers beneath New York. Although their rodent sensei, Splinter, advises against showing themselves above ground, the justice-loving, pizza-eating brothers can't stand idly by while evil Shredder and his minions terrorize the city. With help from intrepid reporter April O'Neil (Megan Fox) and her cameraman (Will Arnett), the Turtles set out to save New York.

Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Producer: Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Galen Walker, Scott Mednick, Ian Bryce
Screenwriter: Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Evan Daugherty
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Heavy Metal, Platinum Dunes, Mednick Productions, Gama Entertainment
Rating: PG-13 (Sci-Fi Action Violence)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 8, 2014, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 22, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $191.2M
Runtime: 1h 41m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos, Datasat

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