11 Movie Casting Choices The Public Couldn't Handle

The Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film courted plenty of controversy throughout its production and release, but not even the uncanny valley CGI humanoid turtles were able to entirely upstage the bizarre casting of Megan Fox as the Turtles' intrepid ally April O'Neil.

Given Fox's rather dubious array of acting credits and her association with Bay through the Transformers franchise, it seemed like a lazy, cynical casting choice intended largely to appeal to the hormonal teenager demographic.

In addition to the fan response, TMNT's co-creator Peter Laird himself expressed his polite disappointment with the casting, saying:

"My only exposure to Megan Fox as an actress is through her role in two Transformers movies and the wretched (but happily forgettable) Jennifer's Body. It may not be fair to judge her range of acting skills just from those three movies, but I think it is safe to say that there are probably hundreds of better choices for the role of April O'Neil. Of course, her name has promotional value, and maybe that's what they want. Who knows? I can't get myself too worked up about it."

In the end Fox wasn't a terrible April, but hardly particularly good or in any way memorable. Considering the material she had to work with, though, that's hardly surprising.