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Trailer:http://youtube.com/watch?v=qTIEpH0inHs
Lets talk about all the turtles media here not just the new movie.

Seriously I've been waiting for this movie since I was 4 and the last one came out I'm getting some friends together to go see it.
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I seriously hope they pull this off. I'm hopeful, but not quite optimistic.

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I'm really looking forward to this as well, having been a big fan of the original comic series.
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Originally posted by: Zion
It was written by the original creators.


Wow, that sound very promising actually. Can't say I like the animation style from what I have seen so far, but that is something easily enough overcome.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Hmm, Peter Laird is an executive producer, but he didn't help write the story as far as I can tell. A guy named Kevin Munroe wrote the story and directed the movie.

"Now all Lucas has to do is make a cgi version of himself.  It will be better than the original and fit his original vision." - skyjedi2005

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Too bad they are not doing it the graphic style version of the Turtles.
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Will see the new film when I get a chance, though I have my doubts/reservations.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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Originally posted by: sean wookie
I am completely optimistic about it!!!!!!!!!


I wish I had your optimism.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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Originally posted by: Zion
From IMDB:

Directed by
Kevin Munroe

Writing credits
Kevin Eastman (creator Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book & characters) &
Peter Laird (creator Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book & characters)

Kevin Munroe (written by)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0453556/fullcredits#writers


I'm guessing that's just saying that they were the creators of the characters and original stories.

The official movie website does not mention them as writers of this new story. Neither does the official website for the teenage mutant ninja turtles (which is where I'd expect to find any information relating Peter Laird or Kevin Eastman to the story):

http://www.ninjaturtles.com/html/movies.htm

"Now all Lucas has to do is make a cgi version of himself.  It will be better than the original and fit his original vision." - skyjedi2005

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Of the four theatrical Turtles films, this is the best for sure.

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Although I didn't think the movie was horrible...I don't think it comes close to any of the originals...

Turtles 2>>Turtles>Turtles3>TMNT

The Secret of the Ooze was amazing...the best by far.
"Who am I supposed to build ramps for? Who am I supposed to build ramps for now?!"
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Also....inb4Nanner
"Who am I supposed to build ramps for? Who am I supposed to build ramps for now?!"
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This movie sucked ass. Its only redeeming factor was the art style. The story and voice acting (especially Splinter, my God he was terrible) sucked.

I felt like I just watched an hour and a half long video game cutscene/toy commercial (which is not unlike the feeling I get watching ROTS these days.)

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I saw it opening weekend (on my 37th birthday) and thought this film was very cool! I'm an animation nut and have enjoyed the Turtles in their various incarnations. I think this film was the best of the four! I watched TMNT 1 earlier today and I'm watching part 2 right now. I saw all of them when they were first released in the theatres, but I don't think time has been too kind to these movies. Still, they are quite enjoyable for what they are. I hope we get an animated sequel to TMNT 4.

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I saw it twice last weekend. I enjoyed it so much the first time that I went back the very next day to see it again, and movies don't usually give me that feeling. I guess my old Turtle fanatacism from being a kid came back to me. But I thought it was really great, and Raphael is more of a badass than he's ever been. The story took kind of a backseat to the characters, and I'm all for that. Plus, it had some genuinely funny moments.

A few criticisms, though: April O'Neil getting the classic CG female makeover of a twelve-inch waist with very pronounced (but still only 13-inch) hips.

What was the deal against Nightwatcher? I thought it was pretty funny when Leo lectured him about "this vigilante nonsense", because how is that any different than what the Turtles always did? A great deal of the human population were wary of them for that very behavior. So I just didn't get that.

But speaking of Leo, for all you video game fans here, did anybody else notice that he was voiced by James Arnold Taylor (Tidus in Final Fantasy X). I remember I realized it during the Leo/Raph rain scene. Leo's voice cracked at one point, and I went, "Hey, that's Tidus!"

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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I knew it sounded familiar, and I was thinking Taylor for most of the film. The credits confirmed my suspicion.

As for what I didn't like: 1) The opening narraration was delivered a bit too seriously for the subject matter--not the parts about what happend 3000 years ago, but the parts about the Turtles. Granted it was forgotten pretty quick, but it did give a bit of a poor first impression.

And, 2) even with training from Splinter, I highly doubt that April would be capable of taking on Foot Ninja. In the second movie she couldn't even use nunchucks right and it takes years to really master any martial art.

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