It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

OUT OF THE SHADOWS is the sequel to the film that nobody asked for, another live-action TURTLES movie that renders the comic book characters into bland and unremarkable CGI blobs. This is much of a muchness with the first film in the series, with incessant CGI action throughout and the dumbest kind of humour imaginable. The good characters run around a lot and act heroically, while the bad characters chew and spit their dialogue and every human in the cast gives way to yet more big CGI effects. The only thing I liked about this film is the inclusion of some old favourite characters of mine that were also in the cartoon TV show of the 1980s, but they end up being just as generic as everyone else. What a pity that a film with this much money and this many resources behind it can be so bland.

Now usually I don't like the remaking movies from old shows they all make me a little sad, the new MacGyver and Lethal Weapon series made me sick, 21 and 22 Jump Street, Miami Vice, Starsky and Hutch the Dukes of Hazard,... cartoons like Transformers and GIJoe all just bad, nothing like the series that made them big. But since my injury had be bench bound I had a lot of time, so I pushed play on this the first one was okayish but this one really surprised me well. As I watched I really had some nostalgic feelings, like the cartoons I loved and blended with some newer elements. The difference in the Turtles is good but they are who they are, even though M. Fox is not the best choice for acting but the looks are actually good enough, S. Ammells was a good Casey Jones... though would have liked a more roughed up look with semi long hair. Shredder, Krang even though his voice was meh were the characters they were supossed to be, just like Bebop and Rocksteady ok Stockman didn't use to be black but we live in a time where that is needed. So let him have it, the guy playing Vern was just like him.Story was decent enough with the Shredder escaping and thanks to him Bebop and Rocksteady, Shredder being recruted by Krang to bring the Technodrome to Earth, which was a nice spot on with the cartoon as well... Then letting Stockman transforming Bebop and Rocksteady as we know em. They are a little smarter in the movie, but thats no loss, Finding some pieces thoughout places and creating the portal to bring in the Technodrome, a final battle between the Turles and Krang and the happy ending.There were some Bay goofs againg going to Bumblebee being the main point, but this one was way better then the Power Rangers stupidity. There were some weak jokes, and the CGI was sometimes to much of it. But all in all I really had a good time watching this, and probably will watch it again.Final closing moment is though if Tirtles could do it why didn't GIJOE and the Transformers have the same satisfying felling at the end. I never liked the complete parts of the Transformers, the cars are their disguise. So why can't the Bots look more like the same... only to show off your CGI stuff. And GIJOE had just a more army felling than a special force, and their team was to small in both movies to give you the GIJOE feeling.

Whatever initial arguable charm the first reboot had has vanished. Think Transformers with Turtles. The plot: who cares? It really doesn't matter as of course there ends up being a threat to the whole planet, ubiquitous car chase scenes, a couple close combat turtle fights and of course they manufacture a way to get Megan Fox into a mini skirt. As was proclaimed in Sandler's Billy Madison, I am now dumber having watched this.

Do you realize that, when the second installment in the freshly rebooted TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES franchise was released in 2016, we officially had almost as many big screen adventures for the amphibious ninja brothers as such characters as Superman, Spider-Man, and Batman? That's ridiculous and not because there are so many; people love the characters. What's ridiculous is we've come so far and only have one Ninja Turtle film that I would qualify as really good (the original from 1990) and one I am physically unable to hate, purely for nostalgia (the second from 1991). All of the others have been forgettable at best (the animated film from 2007) or outright painful to sit through at worst (that time travel abomination from 1993). The release of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES in 2014 from Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes attempted to bring the turtles into a more modern world with the same visual style that made Bay's own TRANSFORMERS movies a success. The turtles, while retaining their teenage sensibilities, are now hulking monsters. Megan Fox was cast as April O'Neil and the character became a sex symbol for Michelangelo to bombard with pickup lines, and the Shredder suddenly relied less on his martial arts skills and more on his new mech armor that was capable of launching enormous blades and retracting them on chains. It was a strange misstep that, though it had elements of the spirit of the characters I grew up with, most of it just didn't feel right.I'd had my fill of the new Turtles with that 2014 film and I was ready to write off the new one without a second glance until it was revealed that the production was going to start integrating more elements from the cartoon series I had obsessed over as a child. The same nostalgia that won't let me hate SECRET OF THE OOZE, despite the fact that the characters weren't even allowed to use their weapons in that movie, demanded that I watch OUT OF THE SHADOWS. We're talking the first big screen appearances for Rocksteady and Bebop, Baxter Stockman, and Krang with his Technodrome. So I had to convince myself that maybe, just maybe, the new NINJA TURTLES might be getting the series on track. So I watched it and I quickly remembered, "Oh yeah. These movies are for kids." Sure, the movie features a scene where Megan Fox's April O'Neil dons a school girl uniform to distract a target but this movie is for kids. Young kids. Everything I was excited to see in this movie was just dumb. Rocksteady and Bebop are no more threatening than the infantile Tokka and Rahzar from THE SECRET OF THE OOZE but they're more difficult to stomach as they're chowing down on ten-gallon drums of spaghetti or constantly stomach-bumping each other with a chant of "My man!" And before you ask, of course the spaghetti scene includes a moment where one of them interrupts a briefing to slurp an unwieldy noodle.I understand that these movies are meant for younger crowds, and I'm cool with that, but do they have to be so dumb? Kids are smarter than studios give them credit for and I don't think it'd hurt to put a little more effort into these movies. I'm willing to forgive the occasional cheesy joke and glaring plot issue, but let's try a little harder to make something that actually entertains. Rocksteady and Bebop were far from geniuses in the show but they weren't obnoxious, and Splinter works better when he's isn't just a punchline. The Splinter I remember was stoic, intelligent, and most importantly the father figure for these teenaged ninja outcasts. Now he's just in the movies to help shill for whatever pizza chain is helping to foot the bill for the film's animation. One quick note on that matter, the Turtles shouldn't be eating Papa John's or Dominoes or whatever. Let them eat some genuine New York pizza. New York was always a character in the world of the Ninja Turtles and it breaks my heart to see them eating mass-produced chain food. What else? Well, the plot of the movie is pretty uninspired. The Turtles are racing against Shredder and his new mutant cohorts to acquire parts to an inter-dimensional portal that the baddies hope to use to bring Krang into our world. Also Krang looks less like a brain and more like a wad of chewed bubble gum, and Brad Garrett's voice acting doesn't work for me. Fred Armisen had originally been cast to voice Krang and I can't help but think of how much better it could've been. Stephen Amell, from TV's "Arrow", and Tyler Perry round out the cast as Casey Jones and Baxter Stockman, respectively. Amell brings nothing new to the table but I was charmed by Perry's neurotic enthusiasm as Stockman and hope, if we do end up with another one of these movies, he returns to live out his character's destiny with a mutation into an anthropomorphic fly.OUT OF THE SHADOWS makes a lot of big promises but fails to make any of its new material very interesting. There has to be a way for these movies to be entertaining without neglecting their target audience. They should check out what the Nickelodeon Ninja Turtle series was doing; it proves these characters can work for all ages. For now though, the Platinum Dunes NINJA TURTLE franchise continues to disappoint and bore, and no amount of nostalgia for these characters will make me want to revisit this in the future.