You won't be disappointed!

Very Cool!!!

Admirable film.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A silent crime wave is hitting NYC perpetrated by teenagers led by Master Tatsu. Casey Jones (Elias Koteas) is a former hockey player vigilante. Intrepid reporter April O'Neil (Judith Hoag) is attacked by the Foot Clan led by Shredder for questioning corrupt police chief Sterns. She is saved by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and brought down to their sewer hiding place. It's Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello, and Michaelangelo with their master Splinter. Fifteen years earlier, Splinter was Ninja Master Yoshi's pet rat who finds himself in the sewer with the four baby turtles. They got transformed by a spilled batch of radioactive ooze.The turtles are fun but not individual enough. Part of that are the costumes which limit acting movements and keep them looking too similar. On the other hand, Splinter has more character work and his story is more compelling. There are limitations to the action but it's still plenty of fun. The human characters are functional and there are some surprise recognizable faces. This is a fun kids movie.

I have seen this movie 14+times and every time it makes me smile.It is funny and cool.OK sometimes it is corny.But it is good acting and you can see the director try to give us something new,fun, original and very lovable.The animatronics looks super real and fantastic.It looks 100% more real than today's fake CGI moves.It is something you can touch.That is way it looks so real and cool.You love the teenage Turtles the first time you see them.The world in the movie feels real and I loved it as a kid and still do!It is a fun classic.

This movie was a charming animatronics "masterpiece" done with the help of Jim Henson's puppet design magic in 1990. Unfortunately, Henson died from pneumonia-related organ failure around this time. Also critics made the film out to be 'utter, utter garbage' because the Turtles were climbing to the third most popular toy franchise on earth, so the idea of a movie would likely be received as more of the mindless cash-in that had followed the Turtles forgettable transition to Saturday morning cartoon, and the toy shops.The movie does have its own aesthetic though. Sort of. It imitates Tim Burton's "Batman" grunge noir and has its own funky, retro style lifted from downtown second hand stores, chipped and crumbling apartment buildings and the original black and white comic book panels.Several key scenes of comic action are well set up and the films impact and tone are excellent here. The MAIN PROBLEM with the TMNT film is that, essentially, it has no plot whatsoever.Raphael (the "red mask" version) gets hit on the head during a battle sequence and literally spends the ENTIRE SECOND ACT asleep in a bathtub somewhere on a farm location (cheap and easy to shoot, but not really motivating in any way plotwise). The other turtles just sort of "do turtle stuff" and there's also two scenes dealing with April O'Neil's possible attraction to ruffian vigilante Casey Jones. So . . .after nothing happens during 'act II' (you know, the bit where the plot's supposed to kick in), the Turtles basically head back to Noo Yoik City to have more zany action comedy scenes, followed by a generic action pic ending.IF ONLY they'd thought of a cool plot device or some real character development to give this picture some plausible reason for existing, it'd be a semi-classic kids film.For some reason, like Burton's Batman picture of 1989, key scenes of staging and cinematography are striking for what is essentially a genre picture, but the film sucks. Followed by a sequel where parents had protested against the action comedy sequences in the original, then toilet quality Michael Bay monster pics years later. There's an all-CGI version out there too, missed by most.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) is actually a cult classic Epic Action film and one of the best movies. It is one of my personal favorite comic book films and it is also one of my childhood favorites. It is my number 1 personal favorite Ninja Turtles movie! I love this movie to death it defines my childhood I grew up watching this movie! You haven't already rated the movie well, please do so we can push the current 6.7 rating as high as it can go!! As a lifelong Turtles fan, I can honestly say that everything about this movie works. From the casting, to the fight scenes, to the music, there is nothing that I would have done any differently. There is just enough comedy, each turtle is given their own unique, identifiable, and believable personality, and the story is fast paced and gripping. Jim Henson's people did a stunning job on the Turtles themselves, and the Shredder looks even better than he did in the Cartoons. The film really pays homage to the original comics by introducing Casey Jones, dealing with Raphael's anger. Here they are Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, Michaelangelo are bad ass. Splinter, Tatso, Casey Jones they are all bad ass including Raphael. My favorite best movie. There is everything I love in this film. The acting, Jim Henson's creature shop were awesome. Fighting scenes, the foot clan, children who steals for foot clan. All characters are awesome. The cast, the plot everything is Terrific in this film. Why rebooting this film? Why? The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) is the only film for me that I absolutely love to death! I grew up with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I had an album of the animated series from 1987, I was collecting action figure from the third film that failed. I grew up watching this film and is always my favorite best action movie of the 90's I have ever seen. The fight stunts are awesome, the Acton sequences are amazing. Everything is just great in this film.The film has some Drama in it, the character development between the Turtles and Splinter was really touching and amazing. Another character development in this film that touches me is between Danny and Charles a father and son. That scene is so touching.Judith Hoag did an amazing awesome Terrific job as April O'Neil, a reporter for Channel 3 News she acted her character very serious and convincing. For me April O'Neal will always and only be Judith Hoag. I don't get it why was she replaced in the sequels which that didn't just work. Elias Koteas did an amazing performance as Casey Jones, a street wise vigilante who becomes an ally of the Turtles. He was the only Casey Jones for me he kicked ass! Seriously he did!!The fight scene on the end of the film is the best I have ever saw. Here the foot clans and Ninja Turtles are using weapons. Like foot clans use Axes in April's apartment to kill the Turtles, but they failed. One of the foot clan Ninja's used a nunchaku weapons similar to Michelangelo weapons. The fight scene with Raphael on the roof was fantastic one of the best scenes in the film I love. This film is highly entertained, it is fast paced, not too over long or boring or lame it is a are real true Comic book Ninja Turtles film. It also has a heart bringing a family together like Danny and Charles father and son together when they were falling apart. The fight scene with Turtles and The Shredder was the best scene in the film, the combat was awesome. Tough the Turtles were no match for him, Leonardo was the only one that wounded him with his sword. The last fight scene when Splinter faces The Shredder is the best thing in a film that ever happened. Splinter come on the roof he confront Shredder and in final showdown he defeat Shredder. Shredder attacked him and Splinter throw's him with Michelangelo's nunchakus and says: "Death comes for us all Oroku Saki but when you Die it will be without.....honor." And Shredder try's to stab him and Splinter let's him fall in a dumpster! End and Death of Shredder in the original movie.The film opened at the box office in North America on March 30, 1990, entering at #1 over the weekend and taking in more than $25 million.I love this film is my childhood film and Judith Hoag is the only April O'Neil for me. Elias Koteas will always be Casey Jones for me. I love this film to death! I love it. I love it to death!!! The best movie in the whole world. What else would you want in this film? There are a lot of martial arts in it. There were plenty used of weapons in the film: Leonardo used twin Ninja-Tou, steel swords of usually inferior make to samurai swords, roughly sharpened and straight bladed, Donatello wielded a bo, a staff made of tapered hard wood, Raphael wielded two sai (both singular and plural), dagger-shaped truncheons with two curved prongs and Michelangelo fought with twin nunchaku. Fight clan also used Axes. I love also the music score by John Du Prez and I love the song 9.95 Performed by Spunkadelic. 10/10