A well-rounded, unpretentious, very funny, knockabout adventure -- subtly blended so that it's fun for all the family.
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04/28/08
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Movie (1990)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:16
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is exactly as advertised: one-liners, brawls, and general silliness. Good for the young at heart, irritating for everyone else.
Reviews for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Movie
Top CriticBy no means exceptional, but you have to admire the turtle performers for their agility, and Elia Corteas for keeping a straight face.
04/28/08
Top CriticBetween the dubbed dialogue and the dark visuals, the cumulative effect is curiously dislocating.
02/09/06
Top CriticA defeated shrug is in order for this revival of the 1990 craze for green amphibious warriors, schooled in Asian martial arts, named after Renaissance masters and addicted to pizza.
01/15/04
Top CriticFour pizza-loving turtles emerge from their shells to battle crime in this inexplicably successful kiddie flick, which now looks as dated as it is silly.
12/10/03
Top CriticScores with its generally engaging tongue-in-cheek humor.
04/28/08
Top CriticEntertaining enough to gloss over the crassness of its underpinnings.
04/25/07
Top CriticThe results are high-spirited martial arts and comedy.
04/25/07
It is itself a mutant of sorts, a contentious, unsightly hybrid of martial-arts exploitation film and live-action cartoon.
07/01/06
Top CriticNo review available.
09/25/05
No review available.
08/28/05
Not as good as the comic, but fun.
09/10/04
No review available.
05/17/04
No review available.
04/19/04
No review available.
03/28/04
No review available.
03/27/04
No review available.
02/08/04
Let us not contemplate the sorts of lustful images that must run through the mind of a hormonal teen-age turtle.
11/29/03
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