The issue isn't that a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (should have been called April O'Neil Adventure With Some Mutant Turtles) movie can't be explosion filled and action packed but this movie doesn't make a lot of sense at multiple points. Lets count the ways:
- April basically walked through the movie with all of the answers from the start but somehow forgot them until the right moments.
- What kind of lab exposes test animals to a mutagen so a little girl can play with them?
- No wonder why no one takes April seriously as a reporter (even though she has her own camera man and is doing stories for a NYC station!) because she has all of the evidence in multiple pictures but shows bad ones to everyone going "Don't you believe me?"
- Those rugged mountains 20 minutes outside of New York were way more scenic than I ever remember.
- What was the point of making the turtles bullet proof and "The Foot Clan" into some army/paramilitary toting around guns? I guess Bay likes his guns and the turtles need cannon fodder.
- So let me get this straight: The Foot Clan/Shredder didn't know about the turtles. The turtles didn't know anything about The Foot Clan/Shredder. So why did they have a rivalry? Oh yeah they didn't. When it turns out whatshisface wanted the turtles alive to study the mutagen, they beat down Splinter instead for what reason? Leverage? Drama?
- So let me get this straight as well: The bad guy's plan was to give "The Foot Clan" this weapon so they could set it off so whatshisface could sell everyone the cure? Did they even have the cure made yet? Didn't it say the company's name right on the container they were going to use to release this? Multiple parts of this plan seemed supremely dumb.
I was never a fan of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" where I wanted this to work and gave it a lot leeway but the story was kind of insulting.
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