Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
by Stuart Gillard
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Actor: Elias Koteas, Mark Caso, Matt Hill, Paige Turco, Stuart WilsonDirector: Stuart Gillard
Brand: New Line Home Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Live, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-03
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Video
DVD Reviews of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
DVD Review: Ghostly pale in comparison to the first two
Summary: 1 Stars
If you like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and are not a young child, you will despise this movie. I remember renting this movie when it came out and disliking it quite a bit, but I could never remember why. My brother and I were watching the first movie in the trilogy, and he asked how much TMNT 3 would cost. It was only a couple bucks, so I figured what the heck and got it. As soon as I put it in, I remembered why I hated it, all those years ago. This move had a lot to live up to, as the first two TMNT movies are some of the best films ever. Unfortunately it fails in everyway possible.
The biggest problem with this movie is the characters. Nearly all of them act much differently then they should. This is especially noticeable in Raphael and Donatello. Raphael acts, for lack of a better term, "goody-goody" in this movie, and he befriends a young boy, Yoshi. It's not to say that that is inherently a bad thing, but it's not at all how he normally acts, and the scenes with Yoshi feel completely unnatural. It's like they were just added to teach any kids watching a lesson. He also throws his sais at enemies, and in the other films he was very protective of them. Very inconsistent. Donatello is considerably dumbed down for most of the movie and becomes smart only at oppourtune moments. April is much more ditzy than she has been in the other films. Casey is only concerned with fighting and not with the motives behind the fight. He's supposed to be a vigilante, fighting for justice. Splinter is way more strict than he has been and generally less solemn than expected. The European and Japanese characters feel very awkward as well. The only characters that are well done are Leonardo, Michaelangelo, and the traitor to the Europeans. On a side note, the Turtles and Splinter look much less realistic than they did in the first two movies, and it makes you wonder why they changed the look at all.
The plot is also fairly unbelievable. April comes to the Turtles' lair with an artifact from 17th Century Japan, which she acquired from a flea market. The item sends her to Japan and a Japanese warrior returns. April gets captured and the Turtles decide to rescue her. When they make the trip to Japan, 4 more Japanese warriors take their place. Casey has to babysit the Japanese men, and the turtles have to find a way to return to the present. They also have to deal with some Europeans who are hurting the Japanese people. That's really all there is to the movie, and it's completely predictable. The only twists are when one of the Europeans(played by the same actor as Casey) helps the turtles and then betrays them, but you could even see that coming.
The dialogue is ridiculously bad and often very childish. Practically everything said is unbelievable and only included to get a laugh from the kids, which is part of why the characters act so different from how they normally do. Sure, the turtle's made jokes in the first two films, but those jokes were actually fairly intelligent, and served as relief. Here the action relieves the jokes.
I also find it annoying that the Japanese people speak in perfect English. This takes place in the 17th century. Everyday Japanese people aren't going to know English. Very few speak it well even in modern times. I have nothing against them, but it seems ridiculous that their English wasn't at least a little broken. Even the little boy, Yoshi, spoke English perfectly. On the other hand, the Japanese warriors with Casey didn't seem to have a good grasp on English at all. It's another huge inconsistency.
The Casey segments are painful. The warriors that were sent to the present act like kids, and Casey tries to teach them about modern culture, particularly hockey. I guess this was supposed to be funny, but I can't see anyone over the age of 10 enjoying this section.
A final pet peeve is that the cast is almost entirely different from the first two. Apirl is different again, and the turtles and Splinter sound much different than they did in the first two. Casey is the only returning actor. This wouldn't be a big deal, but the change is for the worse. I guess the original actors saw that this wasn't going to be good, and didn't want to get involved.
To the movie's credit, the scenery in the movie looks great. I doubt it was filmed in Japan, but it looks close enough. The soundtrack and fighting are also fairly decent. None of these things can rescue the movie, though.
I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone over the age of 10. The entire point of this movie was to make a family oriented movie with lots of jokes for kids and that's not what TMNT's about, and the makers obviously could have cared less about pleasing older fans of the series. It really feels like they were just in it for a quick buck. It's a shame, because if they had just put more work into the story and gotten better talents, this could have been a decent movie. I'd only recommend this to people with small children.
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?MPAA Rating: PG
?Format: DVD
?Runtime: 96 minutes
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