I would like to start with a couple of off topic questions and an answer. Does every know why movie critics exists and why people listen to them? Answer, because you either agree with their critique of the movie or you respect their opinion enough to allow it to help you decide if something is worth it. Never not once has Bob put out a review that after I've seen the movie haven't thought was justified. So every one can take any complaints they have and go find another reviewer please. Specially people that didn't even watch the review.
Now on to the movie. I have to wonder if Bay making them aliens wouldn't have actually made this movie better. I mean wow the origin story, what a turd of an idea. I mean "After rumors of a bio enhanced ninja army called the Foot Clan surface. April O'Neil discovers her fathers lost research and uses it to find her lost pet turtles her father created and she released as a child." Well already got a better front half of the movie."Discovers her 'pets' are not only humanoid but vigilante ninjas now, decides to use this as a chance to be taken more seriously as a reporter." They ripped that from the first movie though. They don't even need to touch on splinter and shredder being enemies previously. Just make Aprils boss the Shredder like they wanted and a bad guy that killed her father. Or if stuck on making splinter and shredder enemies. "Splinter raised the turtles ninjas because he was a lab tech exposed to the same ooze they were and already was a part time martial arts instructor focused on Ninjitsu, or a special forces operative that Eric Sacks experimented on." There solved the origin story. Now the rest of the movie. "After meeting April and finding out what Eric Sacks was doing they decide to stop him, and keep him from making any more bio enhanced soldiers." End with a Baxter Stockman reviving Eric Sacks and we have sequel fodder and a half way decent movie premise.
I don't understand why they couldn't do that instead of the pile that this movie is. I even give them and excuse to make April half the movie. I just don't get why they tried to reinvent the hero saves the world story with "Boom, off color joke, lewd joke, punch something".
Now on to the movie. I have to wonder if Bay making them aliens wouldn't have actually made this movie better. I mean wow the origin story, what a turd of an idea. I mean "After rumors of a bio enhanced ninja army called the Foot Clan surface. April O'Neil discovers her fathers lost research and uses it to find her lost pet turtles her father created and she released as a child." Well already got a better front half of the movie."Discovers her 'pets' are not only humanoid but vigilante ninjas now, decides to use this as a chance to be taken more seriously as a reporter." They ripped that from the first movie though. They don't even need to touch on splinter and shredder being enemies previously. Just make Aprils boss the Shredder like they wanted and a bad guy that killed her father. Or if stuck on making splinter and shredder enemies. "Splinter raised the turtles ninjas because he was a lab tech exposed to the same ooze they were and already was a part time martial arts instructor focused on Ninjitsu, or a special forces operative that Eric Sacks experimented on." There solved the origin story. Now the rest of the movie. "After meeting April and finding out what Eric Sacks was doing they decide to stop him, and keep him from making any more bio enhanced soldiers." End with a Baxter Stockman reviving Eric Sacks and we have sequel fodder and a half way decent movie premise.
I don't understand why they couldn't do that instead of the pile that this movie is. I even give them and excuse to make April half the movie. I just don't get why they tried to reinvent the hero saves the world story with "Boom, off color joke, lewd joke, punch something".