Ranking The Best Movie In Every Major Comic Book Franchise

29. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows

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The Transformers movies already showed what happens when Michael Bay gets his hands on beloved properties that were at the height of their popularity in the 1980s, so it didn't exactly come as much of a surprise that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot produced by his Platinum Dunes company and directed by his protege Jonathan Liebesman turned out to be such a damp squib.

Even if you completely ignore the unnerving and terrifying design of the title characters, the first installment was almost impressive in how it managed to make a $150m blockbuster about giant anthropomorphic reptiles so painfully dull.

Sequel Out of the Shadows was marginally better, but only because it leaned a lot more heavily into how ridiculous the whole concept is and doubled down on fan service. In what is already becoming a recurring theme in this article, the follow-up disappointed at the box office before yet another reboot was swiftly announced.

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