If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Its hard to make a dumb movie now being DUMBER than a dumb movie from the 90's. Its REALLY HARD.And not only that, this CGI monsters take away the good looking ninja turtles and turn them into Lago Ness Monsters.

I don't know why I feel compelled to write a review here but I just watched the movie this morning and was pleasantly surprised several times.I was a child not only for the original cartoon, but for the even earlier comic book series. I was too young for the comics - they were more gritty, a slightly darker and more adult version of what we got with the cartoon; I got into those later actually. But I mention the comic books specifically to point out something this movie did right: Baxter Stockman. Tyler Perry looked exactly as I remembered Baxter from the 1984 comics, a far cry from the wacky white guy we got in the 1987 cartoon. (Apparently they course-corrected this in the early-00s cartoon, too.) But the cartoon was a huge tour de force and this movie honored THAT source material as well. Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang, the Technodrome (more or less), the Party Wagon (giant nunchaku notwithstanding)... This is the kind of thing I had expected from the first Bay outing, rather than the weird Amazing Spider-Man rehash we got in TMNT.Imagine that. Bay and his team actually doing right by the source material. Why couldn't we get even half that level of consideration in Transformers?Note: this "sequel does it better" thing also happened with GIJoe - where the backlash from the first movie yields some actual improvements to the second.Is it a GOOD movie? Not really. Is it a FUN movie? Sure. it's way more chop-socky proportionally than the first, spending a little less time on character melodrama, but of course there is still some of that. I was super sick of the turtles' constant infighting and Mikey being a /complete/ doofus by about halfway in. The following may be a spoiler to some people? Of course, the plot was still reminiscent of other things because of course it was. Man, NYC has to have just started ignoring giant battles and aliens in the sky by now since it happens every year or two.

The 1st film in this new reboot was one of the worst train wreck of a movie I've seen in a long time. I ranked it 6 but it was bordering on 5, and all of these were mostly for the technical aspects of the movie. The plot didn't deserve more than 2. So sometimes script writers can learn from their own mistakes. The same couple responsible for the previous train wreck got promoted into writers/executive producers, and showed they can do it better. They took out the horrible pompousness, they went back to the source material and made this version way funnier, with the same anarchistic humor that was there all through the cartoon series. They even got a decent couple to play Bebop and Rocksteady Stephen Farrelly and Gary Anthony Williams, and they also brought in Stephen Amell, who does a decent rendition of Casey Jones, with more character depth than Casey ever had before.Don't take it the wrong way, it's still a silly story, but this one is the right kind of silly. It's funny, it's professionally done, and even the few pseudo serious moments about the difficulties of the turtles to perform as a team, are too few to damage the overall effect. This one is a 7 but it's a borderline 8, and the improvement is a real surprise that deserves credit for its own sake.

Once again people are hating this movie even more than the first and I can't figure out what people really want in a TMNT movie. This movie was freaking awesome! Other than Megan Fox, who has no right playing April, this movie was great. Don't let all the haters or harsh critics stop you from watching it yourself. People will disagree with me entirely but I could care less.