Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows Review – 2 Ups And 3 Downs
1. It Gets The Basic Silliness Of The Franchise
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is dumb. Yes, it may have once been a satire comic book, but thats ancient history; by modern standards its a silly kids franchise thats at its most palatable when its embracing that.
And, in many ways, Out Of The Shadows does embrace that. Introducing Bebop, Rocksteady, Casey Jones and Krang is a big step towards this, but theres just an overall better sense of fun, with less of a care for being grounded and a steer into the more sci-fi bonkers side of the mythology. The turtles are also more of a focus and better defined as individual characters with specific relationships. Its still dumb, but its the right kind of understood dumb.
The end credits play the shows classic theme with the movies characters drawn as cartoons and, for a moment, the film gets everything right.