The new turtles cartoon is better as an action cartoon, but it doesn't have the cool factor of the old one. It's too modern, and the dialogue is really horrible because the words "kill" and "die" are allways substitued for words that people never say in that context. Like all of cartoon networks shows anymore.
Just look at Justice League and Teen Titans. Nobody ever dies, and the bad guys insist on "finishing" or "destroying" the heroes. Makes it loose some of the impact it should have IMHO.
Which reminds me: does anybody else remember the Canadian dub of Dragon Ball Z by Pioneerwhere nobody ever died? It was so stupid. They were allways "blasted into another dimension." Or once, When Vegeta and Nappa first crash on earth, they plow through a bunch of buildings. Vegeta actually says "It's too bad it's Sunday, or those buildings would have been full."
Funny stuff.