10 Insane Changes Movie Sequels Made
6. Nunchucks Become Sausages - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze is considerably goofier and more cartoonish than its grittier predecessor, likely in an attempt to combat complaints that the first film was too edgy and in turn maximise the potential box office returns with family audiences.
As such, the sequel's approach to violence was considerably toned down, perhaps best exemplified by a memorable sequence at the start of the movie where Michelangelo (Robbie Rist) fights with sausage links instead of nunchucks.
This was in part a reaction to the first film being cut in the UK to remove nunchucks and other offensive weapons, the filmmakers understandably assuming that something as silly as sausage nunchucks would be considerably more palatable to the trigger-happy censors.
Ironically, though, the UK's BBFC ended up cutting the sausages from the sequel as well, with the hilariously patronising non-logic that the average child wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the sausages and actual nunchucks.