![]() In fact, it heavily leans on the cartoon, desperately cramming in as many fan favorite villains in under two hours as possible. The first movie was panned by critics and diehards but raked in enough money for a sequel, and so we now have "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows," which course corrects into a fandom-appeasing safe zone that, while taking fewer risks in carving out a singular, modern identity-the pop/rap soundtrack of the first is switched out for Henry Mancini-lite montage music and boomer tunes better suited for "Guardians of the Galaxy"-is as pure a distillation of '90s Saturday morning cartoon absurdity. It was, essentially, a comic book movie unafraid to look and act like a comic book movie. It also had an appealingly chintzy aesthetic, marrying the neon New York of Hype Williams' "Belly" to the garish primary colors and set designs of Joel Schumacher's Batman movies, occasionally recalling Mario Bava. Like a furry fanfic version of "The Fast and the Furious," the Turtles were bound by adrenalized, cop-averse action, alternative notions of family, and an open musical taste that involved beatboxing, a hip-hop Christmas album, and a Juicy J/Wiz Khalifa/Ty Dolla $ign rap about pizza, nunchucks, and half-shells. Millennials raised on GIFs, sound bites, and poptimism were as relevant a springboard for computer-animated teen hybrids as the gen-X/MTV generation was to the original cartoon series and subsequent franchise. The 2014 Michael Bay-produced Turtles reboot offered itself as an affably grotesque, relatively astute reflection of content accelerationism. So what better time than now, when Netflix's "Daredevil" series fashions itself as "The Wire" with costumes and "Batman v Superman" is making audiences more miserable than Brecht could ever dream, for a piss take in the form of an even nuttier sequel to the CGI-heavy, meme-happy TMNT reboot? That the new sequel is also a market-conscious brand alteration is, well, wholly expected in the age of tronc. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is scheduled to open in theaters on August 2.Comics artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird originally conceived "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" as a parody of brooding '80s comics artist Frank Miller's obsessions with grim urbanity. ![]() Ayo Edebiri, Giancarlo Esposito, Jackie Chan, John Cena, Hannibal Buress, Rose Byrne, Ice Cube, Maya Rudolph, and Paul Rudd, among others, also lend their voices to the film. And because of the coming-of-age part of it, Seth being the comic genius that he is through these unique characters brought voice and comedy and heart.”īrady Noon, Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., and Nicolas Canto lead the voice cast as the titular Heroes in a Half Shell - Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo, respectively. The development was born out of the teenage part of TMNT that was really organic. ![]() She continued, “All of those things combined really inspired the look of the film which is so tactile, and ended up also then along the way of being infused with the spirit of New York - the smells of the subway, grit, grime, energy. ![]() ![]() “Jeff in particular gravitated towards teenage doodles, high school doodles that kids start doing in their notebooks… Those doodles are infused and inspired and embraced by raw budding hormones and dreams of empowerment and the desire of being accepted.” “ really wanted to tell a story that embraced the teenage part - and to our surprise there hadn’t been any stories told about the teenage part which was weird,” Naito said. Watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles right here ![]()
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