Sunday, 21 December 2014

FILM: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IMAX 3D (dir: Jonathan Liebesman, 2014)

"So they're aliens?"
"No.  That's stupid."

In spite of the early American reviews, this is a serviceable if unremarkable reboot for this bizarre franchise.  As a big dumb spectacle based on a children's comic, the movie offers nothing more than that, with reasonable big set pieces and simplistic characterisations (Megan Fox provides an appropriate April O'Neil and William Fichtner makes for an acceptable baddie).  Of course the plot and script are both silly, but what else do you expect?  This is a kids' film about teenage...mutant...ninja...turtles...!

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