Chris Sims: Hello everyone, and welcome back to ComicsAlliance's series of in-depth reviews of the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films! Today, we're starting in on our final entry,
2007's TMNT.
Matt Wilson: It was only
after we started doing these reviews and people began requesting we
review this one that I discovered it ties in to the other movies. It
certainly wasn't promoted as a sequel to
That One Where They Travel Through Time.
Chris: Same here. I just
assumed that it tied into the cartoon that was on the air when it came
out. Fourteen years is a pretty long wait for a sequel, but then again,
it's pretty easy to see why they didn't want to jump right back in after
TMNT III.
Matt: The original plan
was to only wait seven years. This movie was first discussed back in
2000, and we can only imagine what could have been. None other than John
Woo was attached to direct before it got mixed up in development
hang-ups.
Chris: I'm going to try not to be disappointed in this movie now that I know that, but I think we can all agree that
John Woo's TMNT would've been something worth seeing. How are you going to fit all those doves in a sewer?
Matt: Michelangelo all sliding across a bathroom floor, shooting bullets out of his nunchucks.
Chris: Ugh. I'm already
mad that we're not watching that. But on the other hand, there were a
bunch of different plots discussed during development, including sending
the Turtles out into space. Fortunately (or not, depending on your
views of ninja astronauts), Peter Laird opted not to follow the format
of the
Leprechaun movies.
Matt: And I guess Ice T wasn't available for skipping right on to what the next
Leprechaun movie was. Kevin Munroe, an animation veteran who also helmed the ill-fated
Dylan Dog
adaptation a couple years ago, ended up directing, and his take on the
franchise was that he wanted to get away from the "cowabunga" stuff and
tell a more serious story, getting back to the feel of the original
comics.
Chris: Apparently it worked:
TMNT ended up being #1 in its opening weekend, beating out
Zack Snyder's Frank Miller's 300, among other things. I never got around to seeing it, though, although I heard good things.
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