Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Summary
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Mutant Mayhemdeserves the ballyhoo . Even before the film landed in theaters , a sequel and a spin - off serial publication were announced . conduct by Jeff Rowe from a screenplay by Seth Rogen , Evan Goldberg , Jeff Rowe , Dan Hernandez , and Benji Samit , Mutant Mayhemboasts an animation style with personality , fun characters , and a story that does n’t grow tired . With an splendid vocalisation mould , fashionable animation that stands out , and a playfulness , comme il faut report , Mutant Mayhemaims to please and succeeds .
Mutant Mayhemopens with Baxter Stockman ( Giancarlo Esposito ) , a loner scientist who design on mutating several creatures . The plan apparently goes skew-whiff when Cynthia Utrom ( Maya Rudolph ) , the drumhead of a occult arrangement call TCRI , order an approach on Baxter in a bid to steal the ooze . It ’s never found , instead falling into the sewers where four baby turtles — Michelangelo ( Shamon Brown Jr. ) , Donatello ( Micah Abbey ) , Leonardo ( Nicolas Cantu ) , Raphael ( Brady Noon ) — and an older rat , Splinter ( Jackie Chan ) , are translate into homo - sized , talk fauna . 15 years later , the Turtles , against Splinter ’s wishes , and with the aid of high schoolhouse journalist April O’Neil ( Ayo Edebiri ) , engagement Superfly ( Ice Cube ) , Baxter ’s mutate origination , before his nefarious plans demolish the public as they know it .
The exalt pic adjudge slew of charm and vim ; it ’s practically bursting at the seams with it . It ’s infective , and I feel myself quick drawn into the film ’s Earth , empathizing with both the Turtles and Splinter , who is very much a concerned founder who puts fear above all else . He memorise just as much about the world as his son do , and it ’s their transmitted family relationship that plays such a large role in endear the characters to the audience . The Turtles ’ friendly relationship with April — who is also confront some of the same struggles and acts as a connection between the four mutants and the human world — is also a big part of what elevates the celluloid .
The message at the pic ’s core is that of acceptance , and while it does n’t have anything particularly cryptic to say about that , or the comparisons the story pull between Superfly and the humans he so contemn , Mutant Mayhemaddresses the topic well enough . It make the story all the strong for it , too , because the film is very much a coming - of - age level for the Turtles , who are more concerned with being like and modify people ’s perceptual experience . There ’s a lot of sexual love pullulate into the flick , and it present . The film maker clearly enjoy delving into what take a shit this world , as well as the Turtles as teenagers who are coming into their own .
The result is a fun , exciting animation that keep us hooked throughout . Yes , there is the occasional lull in the story , but it does n’t linger before picking back up with some novel narration turn or action sequence . There is one jocularity , however , that goes on for too long , repetitious in a room that will make any adult want to twine their center ( though the nestling at my screening were entertained by it ) . finally , though , the film has so much vim that you ca n’t look away , and the fictitious character moral force and action sequences will assert interest .
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Mutant Mayhemis now playing in theaters . The film is 99 moment long and rated PG for sequences of violence and activity , lyric and impolite material .
