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2014
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Positive Reviews
24
Negative reviews
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2.0
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2.8
And Michelangelos desire to party hasnt diminished in the slightest.
Av Club
2.0
Given the pedigree, a forgettably bad Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is perhaps the best result anyone could have hoped for.
We Got This Covered
2.0
The finale then devolves into derivative derring do that mashes together into a muddle of frantic skyscraper toppling mayhem the robot samurai baddie ..
Austin Chronicle
2.0
Utterly inessential, this slightly cheap looking reboot of the Turtles franchise is froth tooit might even be too tame for the kids who make up the ta ..
Time Out
1.5
In another Bay tradition, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles doesnt pass up many opportunities to gawk at Foxs figure, although its never as egregious or em ..
Screen Daily
3.0
Thin plot aside, *TMNT* is peppered with just enough humour and maintains a strident pace throughout.
ETimes (TOI)
1.5
Loaded down with worthless exposition, coincidences, clichs, ham fisted product placement, and lame jokes, the movie rarely uses its heroes for anythi ..
Collider
1.5
If youre a kid who just wants to see anthropomorphic turtles eating pizza and beating up bad guys, you might just love this movie.
Collider
1.9
You dont need to do much to impress viewers if you can immediately overwhelm them.
Rogerebert
3.0
This is an incredibly fast paced, exciting and clever sequence that stands out as one of the best action set pieces of any of the big summer movies th ..
IGN
2.0
Thats just not where this franchise is right now, nor probably ever will be.
Telegraph
1.0
This reboot is the worst kind of cash grab.A studio saw a brand name they could exploit for name recognition and (fingers crossed) nostalgia, put toge ..
Cinema Blend
0.0
Bursts of gunfire hitting the bulletproof turtles get nastily amped up, too.
Ny Daily News
2.5
While its not quite as bad as TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, its still a pretty soulless piece of eye candy.
JoBlo
2.5
By the end, you find yourself in a situation where you have four great characters who have been successfully (if just barely) sold by their cinematic ..
Screen Rant
1.9
Theres no shame in stitching together the most entertaining aspects of the superhero genres standard bearers.
The Globe And Mail
2.5
Its the first day of spring, and the report is absolutely essential.
Philly
2.2
Loud, frenetic and exhausting, its really too violent for younger children and too dumb for adults who arent driven by sheer nostalgia.
One Guys Opinion
2.5
But in between those scenes is an awful lot of chatter and exposition.
Rogers Movie Nation
2.5
10 1 5 / 10 The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arent strangers to big screen adventuring.
Blu Ray
1.0
The lifeless characterizations and incoherent, spatially unsound CG fight scenes are on a par with Bays Transformers movies, while other aspectsthe in ..
Chicago Reader
1.9
Weve seen them as stunt performers in costumes with animatronic masks.Weve seen them in computer animation.
Mark Reviews Movies
2.2
Its one of those movies where everything in the plot is connected unnecessarily.
Eric Ds Nider
3.0
The motion capture process facilitating the awesome foursomes integration into the live action is flawless, offsetting the more uneven blockbuster ske ..
Radio Times
2.0
But other than that, give me the old Henson creations and all of the limitations that went with that more innocent time in filmmaking.At least back th ..
Screen It
0.0
Pardon my cynicism.But its hard to stomach the Bay contempt for youth audiences that says: You kids will lap up any crap I market with a big enough bu ..
Rolling Stone
1.5
The Nature of Imitation is the sound of Dorian Concept systematically deconstructing various genres, stripping them back to the bones underneath and t ..
Pop Matters
2.0
A movie that takes its characters and its premise seriously, until it doesnt, and that operates at two speeds: tortoise (ponderous) and hare (head spi ..
The Wrap
2.5
The rest of us probably wont quite get the joke.PLOT The half shelled superheroes return.
News Day
2.5
But its a pretty good one, and far more watchable than most kids movies that try to insist adults will enjoy them as well.
Film Journal
2.0
This noisy, perfunctory reboot replaces rubber suits with CGI, but somehow manages to make its dreary predecessor seem thrillingly offbeat.
The Guardian
2.0
In your face 3D tie ins the pizzas branded, and the finale frenetically pushes pixels around Times Squares billboards foreground its primary intent: t ..
The Guardian
1.0
But movies dictated from boardrooms arent always this dreary.News of the Planet of the Apes reboot was met with rolled eyes, but its among the best fr ..
The Guardian
2.0
Its just kind of a mess, as unfocused and immature as the four mutant turtles at its core.Stuff happens, stuff blows up and this is probably a good ti ..
Az Central
2.0
This year has seen a new generation of filmmakers seizing control of the Hollywood blockbuster machine and setting a course straight for the 1980s, cu ..
Smh
2.0
That leaves the film resting not quite at dark and brooding but having strayed too far from foolish fun.
Npr
2.8
Those too brief thrills only shine a harsher light on the films laborious pacing and cringeworthy one liners spilling from the maws of the ninja teens ..
Ew
1.0
Whats pretty much always been a franchise meant to sell merchandise for decades, becomes even more soulless than ever.
Cinema Crazed
1.5
I enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy just fine, but its action scenes were among its weaker elements.
Salon
3.0
This fast paced slice of action adventure will satisfy fans but is as loaded with fromage as the films much salivated over 99 cheese pizza.
Flim List
2.5
It is hilariously bad at some points, but has enough entertaining gears working behind it to make it frequently engaging enough to work on its own.
Film Inquiry
2.0
The movie might be more enjoyable if it took more pleasure in its core silliness.
Empire
3.0
Tweens and teens are likely to enjoy this fun live action reboot.
Common Sense Media
2.5
A non essential childrens film about anthropomorphic animals, where there is no other agenda than to jumpstart a dormant franchise and reestablish a g ..
Movies
2.0
These Ninja Turtles are the ones you love, but trapped in a film thats hard to like.
Movies
2.0
This is box checking filmmaking right here, and frankly its pretty forgettable.
Flickering Myth
3.0
Who doesnt occasionally feel like a pizza loving, teenage, anthropomorphic ninja reptile named after a Renaissance artist.Certainly as a child undergo ..
Boston Herald
1.3
The action is scarce but largely serviceable, the final fight between the turtles and Shredder constituting the films one thrilling highlight.
Slant Magazine
2.0
And while this reboot is fun, its also forgettable and occasionally infuriating.
Washington Post
1.0
Attached to this movie, the title no longer sounds zany; it looks like a series of keywords.
The New York Times
2.2
What I do expect is an embracing of the silly and ludicrous ideas at its heart and a playful enjoyment of the characters.
The Film Stage
1.9
Half the time, Guardians of the Galaxy doesnt sweat realism at all, and its all the better and more entertaining for it.
Boston Globe
1.5
The turtles are no longer cute (what happened, animators), but Liebesman and Paramount have discovered what makes a successful formula: a nostalgic pr ..
Uproxx
2.0
Fun in parts but mostly big, dumb and LOUD, the new TMNT is essentially Transformers in a half shell.
Total Film
1.9
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles doesnt so much provide brainless enjoyment as it pummels the viewer into submission. Shell shocked is a reasonable descri ..
ReelViews
2.5
The castmembers portraying Splinter and the turtles achieve a persuasive level of realism that was never possible with the elaborate puppetry required ..
Hollywood Reporter
1.0
This is further complicated by one of the worse 3D transfers this year, which is clearly more a cash grab with dizzying effects meant to compliment na ..
Lyles Movie Files
2.0
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Standard
1.0
Nothing about this movie makes any sense.It took everything that made the original story work and stripped it away in favor of generic Michael Bay blo ..
Pajiba
2.0
Rather than hokey men in costumes, the four turtles Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo are created using performance capture techniques not ..
Los Angeles Times
2.5
Neither a particularly good movie nor the pop cultural travesty that some were dreading.
Variety
2.5
Most of the one liners are pretty lame, but kids wont agree, and theyll be held rapt by the head spinning (3D, if you want it) action, from acrobatic ..
Groucho Reviews
3.1
The movie delivers some entertainment on the action level, and the actors are generally well cast.
Aisle Seat
2.0
It has nothing to say and little entertainment value beyond arbitrary visceral action beats.
Forbes
2.0
Nonetheless, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is all too familiar an endeavour, and while certainly entertaining for the most part, it struggles to shake ..
Hey U Guys
1.9
It was a rare case of Michael Bay heeding fan demands, but the patchwork feel of the movie suggested a rush job on the final version.
The Star
2.5
Still, for all of its flaws, particularly a tendency to dramatize moments the story hasnt given you reason to feel emotionally connected to, TMNTs big ..
Deseret News
3.1
And though the lack of inspiration is still plain to see, the most surprising aspect of the studiois latest exercise in the derivative is that it may ..
Movies Tv Guide
1.8
The bulletproof shells, bipedalism and mozzarella tolerance arent, but that was always the charm.
La Weekly
3.0
While this special effects laden action fest may not tick any highbrow cultural boxes it is a deliciously daft bit of entertainment frenetic and full ..
Mirror
1.3
But the reason the second big screen relaunch of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in just the last seven years is as forgettable as the previous effort is ..
New York Post
2.5
But, as a wise amphibian once sang, it isnt easy being green and the quartet dont get the screen time they deserve.
Nz Herald
1.0
Itd be easier to give TMNT a pass if it was aiming purely for goofy fun, but it keeps taking itself so damn seriously.
Flicks
1.3
Even worse than 2007s all animated TMNT, putting this century one crappy Ninja Turtles related movie ahead of the last one.
Red Eye Chicago
1.0
The 1990 take on the characters created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman was enjoyable enough, its goofy charm getting over the essential ludicrousnes ..
Independent Ie
3.1
The film alternates between tongue in cheek winks and, quite possibly, a few IQ lapses, but it is easy to forgive its most preposterous elements with ..
Dustin Put Man
2.5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is long on backstory and delivers enough action to keep you from falling asleep, but dont expect Marvel levels of excelle ..
Waffle Movies
3.8
Old fans get the familiar tropes, new fans get a fresh introduction, and everyone meets in the middle for a fun action comedy.
Movie Crypt
2.5
Megan Fox, who plays the plucky reporter April O Neil, is front and center when it comes to screen time here. Her dull performance was not the banner ..
Movie Web
0.0
.Some actors (Megan Fox) try much harder than others (Whoopi Goldberg) in this tale of plucky, pretty TV journalist April ONeill and her quest to be t ..
Sandiego Reader
3.0
The film absolutely delivers on all three fronts, its product placement effortlessly evoking the franchises weirdly endearing corporate grandstanding, ..
Cinemix Tape
2.3
A movie like this doesnt have to be serious to be good (or even just fun), but the people who make it have to take it seriously.
ComingSoon
2.5
Those lovable, wisecracking, pizza loving, personality plus reptilian superheroes have gone bland and generic, if not downright dull.
Daily Herald
1.0
Aside from the horror of knowing that someone watched the Spider Man reboot and added notes to the pad marked, How to create the perfect blockbuster, ..
The Ooh Tray
1.8
Yes, the premise of mutated turtles who are ninjas and going through puberty is silly, but you might as well own the silliness.Perhaps the real issue ..
Movie Mezzanine
1.3
Adults may be another story.For those of you coming in late, the title characters are about as contrived as you can get.
Scifi Movie Page
3.5
Its nearly impossible to gauge what constitutes a good Turtles film, but this one delivers the requisite thrills, visual effects, and humor as well as ..
From The Balcony
2.0
It has hints of heart, and one or two good sequences, but rent a baddie villainy, a poor storyline and paper thin characters leave it floundering in g ..
Fan The Fire Magazine
3.5
Michael Bay, using Megan Fox as bait, hit pay dirt with Transformers. Now theyve made a nice amusement park thrill ride with 2014s Teenage Mutant Ninj ..
Theepoch Times
2.5
It isnt nearly as bad as it could have been. Mind you, it isnt good. It isnt even so bad its good. Its just there. I wish it was better. Or worse.
Columbus Alive
2.0
This is a wish simultaneously granted and botched: Turtles fans might have been looking for their own Avengers.
Grant Land
3.0
Its far from a great film, but it also doesnt try to be anything more than what it is, and if that means going a little easier on it than other summer ..
Blog Bullz Eye
3.5
Instead, its a fun and carefree adventure that is one of the nicest surprises of the summer.
Johnhanlon Reviews
3.0
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is meant for fans of the turtles empire: the original comic books, the myriad animated series, the video games, and even ..
Toledo Blade
3.0
Its a solid, fun and light hearted family action flick that captures the oddly enduring appeal of the half shell heroes.
Sky
3.3
However the humans in this film do what people tend to do, and thats get in the way of the action and force laughs that end up falling flat.
Schmoes Know
3.4
Its fun, but its also a fantastic movie because they treat the turtles as real characters and when thats done its easy to see why the franchise is ete ..
Flixist
2.0
Its not a total waste of time because in one sense this is the TMNT movie some fans have been waiting for.
Standard Net Au
1.0
But the movie really proves it thinks youre stupid by being so absolutely generic.
Bad Ass Digest
2.0
I got the distinct feeling this movie deserved a better treatment than it got from its makers.
The Mercury
2.5
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Sfx
1.0
It was poking fun at the popular comic series Daredevil and the parody evolved into cartoon series and merchandising juggernaut that has incredible st ..
The Popcorn Junkie
2.5
How can you pack in so many curiously questionable pop culture figures into a franchise based on nothing more than beloved () 1980s nostalgia
City Beat
1.5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a reboot that plays as if it were made from a starter kit. Everything comes right out of the 2014 blockbuster catalog.
Oc Register
1.0
Ive seen Real Housewives with greater range, and making Fox the films emotional center is, in the words of another Arnett character a huge mistake.
Blogs Houston Press
1.3
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1.9
Few things can shatter ones suspension of disbelief while watching a movie about anthropomorphic martial arts reptiles quicker than absurd sportswear.
M Live
1.5
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The Monitor
3.1
Too long to be killed off by something merely half bad, like this basically brainless but intermittently adrenalizing, mostly just for kids reboot.
Sun Times
1.5
The way people have been talking about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, youd think Michael Bay directed it. After seeing it, you may wish he had. I did.
Topless Robot
1.9
Its essentially a Transformers movie a Michael Bay production complete with mass destruction, urban panic, white hot lighting, inane quips, product pl ..
Christy Lemire
2.0
Look, no adult could reasonably enjoy this.Kids might, though its not particularly vibrant or fast moving (see also: every Jonathan Liebesman movie).
Quick Flix
3.0
But this is still a big, fun, ultra dumb picture which put a smile on my face, excited my son and youngest daughter and made the mixed age audience ar ..
Birmingham Post
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