Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | AN EPIC RANT

My epic rant and breakdown on the cinematic sewer that is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem which is to me personally the worst TMNT film to date and one of the worst films of the year.
#tmnt #mutantmayhem #rant

[@jackko21]

I'm just sticking with the first 2 90s movies, the underated 2003 series, the mirage comics.

[@Musicradio77Network]

I enjoyed this film a lot and I love it. The worst TMNT films were the direct-to-video specials including “Turtle Tunes” and “We Wish You a Turtles Christmas”, the lamest holiday special ever. The others were “Coming Out Of Their Shells Tour” where the TMNT are the band was bad since it was a variety TV special from the 1970’s and “Gettin’ Down In Your Town” was also a concert from Six Flags. Both of these were okay.

[@OcpCommunications]

I am glad you enjoyed this. I definitely didn't though other than maybe two scenes. And yes those specials are worse than this but I don't count those as TMNT films. Those are direct to video shorts. If those are films than the TMNT Blue Line short for the metro rail is also a TMNT film and that's worse than those and Coming Out Of Their Shells Tour.

[@jackko21]

It's honestly frustrating we recently got the last ronin, which was basically the dark knight returns of tmnt this movie should have been the batman 89 of tmnt movies bringing them back to their dark gritty roots of the mirage comics

[@Roberto_Valencia]

If only the first film got this amount of praise or more.

[@MrDman21]

He said the director's name is Jeff Rowe, all I could think of is the Beverly Hillbillies 😆

[@jackko21]

To me, the best baxter stockman was the 2003 series where he was a tragic villain who ended up as a brain in a jar

[@jackko21]

Probably will never happen, but my dream is that like the guys from smosh kevin eastman and peter laird would buy the turtles back from nickleodeon

[@shadow-gr4iw]

Jeffro stated in every interview he's been in that he wanted to bring a different take on to the turtles. Seth Rogen wanted to focus on the teenage aspect of the turtles Tire teenagers to basically get their views on how do they act and everybody that worked on this movie had to go buy the original created a turtle's who is actually a part of the team on this movie he's voices the character and also gives his in point on the movie They'll make fun of Splinter but they also make fun of themselves don't do it out of hatred please do because their kids and is a great Viewpoint to see how these kids have to grow up and basically combat someone that could possibly kill them. Also for these Turtles to appreciate what they have the only want to run away from Splinter or went away from what they are but they never appreciate who they are. How many times will go see the turtles do the same stories over and over again. How many movies has try to be the original movie and they have not succeeded so you need a movie to beat its own thing which this is

[@OcpCommunications]

You can be your own film and not be so fundamentally different from the source material. That's what the 1990 film did when you think about it. And it did it remarkably well. It took elements from the 80's cartoons and the comics and other comic book films at the time and put them all together. And put their own spin on it. And added more edge. Something that has been missing in the franchise since the 2003 cartoon. Which is another example of being different, but not being so fundamentally off that it doesn't even feel like TMNT anymore. Having teens voice the turtles and have their input doesn't add anything that unique in terms of storytelling either. And neither does taking TMNT and essentially making it a typical cliched movie about teenagers wanting to find acceptance and come of age. And further more, what does them being more like annoying teens really add to the film either? Also why is there no ninja in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie? Kung Fu movie clips doesn't count. Splinter has no connection to the Foot, or anything involving the ninja. So the turtles are all the equivalent of Kick Ass in the movie kick ass. No real fighting skills or traditions learned. Just techniques they learned from watching videos on the internet. They are as much of a ninja as Afro Ninja was on KZbin back in the day. Just not having that connection to be different isn't enough of a reason for that to be the approach to me personally or the right one. It's a fundamental part of the story of the turtles and their enemy The Shredder. With the way it's set up it hurts The Shredder too because now he's just a guy that Utrom can call up to ask him to do a job for her like a generic hitman.

[@shadow-gr4iw]

@@OcpCommunications making them "annoying teenagers" as you put it, let's do a lot to push the story because they're not listening to the people who know more than them. Imagine these teenagers going up against the 2003 Shredder they would get easily murdered by him. But them going through a life-or-death situation it matures never been because at the end of the film, they're not talking about movie references and not dancing they're not doing anything out of the ordinary that is a little bit more mature because they face death. Again if you're only looking at the 2003 show there is no difference from the show to the comic books. Same thing with the movie there are jokes and pizza diction Intuit if you take most of that stuff out it's a 101 adaptation of the comics. And fans are getting kind of bored from it heck when this movie was being made everybody thought the main villain was going to be Shredder in the Foot Clan and thought that the Shredder was going to have some elaborate plan. Even the cartoon you have seen is The Shredder and the Foot Clan, it's just the same story with the same story Beats fans are likely to get tired of. That's why you see so many turtle fans praise shows that do something different with the franchising characters, 2012, rise of the tmnt, and tmnt mm, Praise by the fanbase for doing something different with the story while also keeping it fresh any kid that hasn't grown up with a turtle can walk into a turtle property and fall in love with that in a particular version. Plus if you've been a long-time Turtle fan you have seen storylines word some of the villains from the TMNT property have teamed up with the turtles and yes including Bebop and Rocksteady there have been comic book adaptations where Bebop and Rocksteady want to be heroes, there's the 80s cartoon where Bebop and Rocksteady sometimes help the turtles in a nonobvious way, and 2012 showed their miniseries Bebop and Rocksteady turn on the shredder and krang from Invasion and save the Earth even claiming that they want to be heroes

[@shadow-gr4iw]

@@OcpCommunications what I'm saying is the TMNT property has gone on for a long time bringing in a new generation of fans it has made it stable with each and all. TMNT mutant Mayhem is only another iteration that brings in another group of fans to this franchise for them to check out the source material, thing that you may not follow the source material it kind of Splinter is a rat that learned Japanese martial arts in teaching to the turtles, through this do turtles become crime-fighters, the Turtles fight a bunch of bad guys and mutants. Raphael is the angry one Leonardo the leader Michelangelo is the party dude Donatello is a brain to the group. Master Splinter is still their father/sensei Superfly's backstory is a mirror of the Turtle's Back Dory showing them what the turtles could be if they went down the path Superfly did. It's Called a sympathetic feeling Buses movie did so well at the box office is getting a two-season animated show And a sequel

[@psychohobo2768]

either adapt it faithfully from the image comics or leave it the fuck alone honestly

[@OcpCommunications]

I agree but the rumor is that this was mainly made to keep the rights. And if that's true? That explains a lot.

[@Johnlindsey289]

Nickelodeon should give up rights

[@colewarnerreviews5834]

@@Johnlindsey289I agree

[@dylansharp8471]

Mirage, not Image.

[@Johnlindsey289]

Easily one of the years worst! The original ninja turtles movie is still the best than this spiderverse ripoff

[@dong.corleone]

When I saw this in theatres, the only people there were like 3 families and thats it. NOT a single one of the kids in my screening laughed at any of the jokes and all looked so bored

[@stephenreeves9702]

This is why I love mike , he takes a movie in wich I thought was half decent and explains to me why it should have gone different ways . There is seldom feeling better than when I agree with mike and when I I’m watching his reviews and we’re right in sync . Outstanding review

[@Johnlindsey289]

What about ramboraph4life?

[@MrDman21]

😂 some guy on KZbin was talking about this movie. He said even the humans look ugly, did they mutate too. I think it was Thorias that said that.

[@jackko21]

At this point I honestly wish the 80s cartoon never got made because of the ripple effect it had now everyone thinks that's the only way the turtles should be like pizza and cowabunga.

[@jackko21]

I honestly think both Jeff row and seth rogan when they claim to be tmnt fans I think they actually mean they only remember the vintage toy line and and only only vaguely remember a episode or 2 of the 80s cartoon from one of seth rogans bong sessions

[@sambragg5227]

Awesome Video Mate I Love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem It's Awesome

[@gk_knight]

In terms of soundtrack the 1990 movie had a “feel” and new songs just for the movie. This one is just some old songs that Seth Rogan must have on his iPod. There’s no unique “feel” to the soundtrack. Also the puke stuff is unfortunately the usual gross out humour from the Rogan clan.

[@jackko21]

All the humans In this movie look like Picasso paintings of sloth from the goonies

[@jackko21]

I didn't think it was possible to make the michael bay movies look good

[@James.Sunderland]

23:20 LOVE this point you made here (you're always clever with pointing out these motives that dumb filmmakers make) Aka the film is insulting people like Matt, you, and I, people who want these characters to be taken seriously. It's flat out telling us we are stupid for wanting seriousness.

[@jackko21]

They keep saying raph has a anger problem in this movie but he is always smiling

[@jackko21]

I wish we could get the mirage comics as films

[@dong.corleone]

Man I agree with you, I have NO idea why people loved this trash. It’s so disrespectful to the turtle characters and the characters of the franchise. Like the turtles don’t even sound like teenagers because with the exception of Leo, Raphael sounds like a typical goth bully in high school, Mikey sounds like he’s 40, Donnie sounds like a 5 year old baby needing his diaper changed, and Splinter looks like a hillbilly while April looks like a fat ass obnoxious hobo who vomits in front of cameras. In this movie: The turtles steal stuff, joke about Splinter’s ass smelling like Doritos, obnoxiously sing bacon egg n cheese with Mikey even twerking to it, make loads of milking jokes. And when they become heroes, they only do it for selfish narcissistic reasons and even wanna go to school of all place, and the mutants that are SUPPOSE to be villains live with them in the end, including bebop and rocksteady of all characters! Plus Splinter is in love with one of them and somehow it gets a 7.4 on IMDb and a 97% on RT. How could Jeff go from Mitchells Vs Machines to THIS trash!! In the 1990 movie: The turtles are actually heroes because they wanna keep the city safe while staying in secret, April is actually a reporter and a likeable character who deeply cares for the turtles, Raphael even has a great story arc as do the other turtles. Splinter is a good father figure and the turtles are even willing to risk their lives to save him during their duel with shredder and even is perfectly balanced for kids and adults yet it gets a 6.8 on IMDb and a 42% on RT. This world is a joke Opinions respected but this cash in attempt on Spider Verse was trash and I kid you not, NONE of the kids (which were only like 3 families in my theatre opening night and that was it) in my theatre even laughed one bit. One of the worst films of this year

[@Ribelin2000]

Yeah, how dare people have an opinion different from yours. LOL

[@PrincessZelda2020]

I agree, it baffles me that people actually like this trash film, I watched the film, but I didn't pay money to watch it in theaters, I streamed it, as a long time fan of TMNT, I tried my absolute best to like the movie and give it a chance, but after watching it, it was a stupid movie, it is by far the worse adaptation of TMNT by far. While I was watching the movie, I realized just how absolutely stupid the story was, and the characters I grew up with are completely ruined, Splinter was a terrible dad, and a shitty character with horrendous writing, I've never witnessed such lazy writing, shitty backstory that added absolutely nothing to the movie, as far as I know, the turtles and Splinter are not real ninjas, the whole concept of them learning Martial Arts was done by watching Martial Arts movies, which is by far the dumbest idea and worse concept they could ever think of for this movie, Hamato Yoshi and Oroku Saki are not even mentioned at all in this movie, and they're considered the most important characters of the franchise, but we have people on social media defending this shitty as movie and claiming to be "real TMNT fans" what a joke.

[@nedz7967]

@@PrincessZelda2020 People are entitled to have different opinions. Do you seriously expect everyone to have the same opinion as you over that TMNT Mutant Mayhem movie?

[@PrincessZelda2020]

​@@nedz7967 People can form their own opinion and I could care less if people have a different opinion than mine, however thats not stopping me from speaking the truth about this garbage film.

[@nedz7967]

@@PrincessZelda2020 Well, no one's stopping you from having a different opinion.

[@CritterCrew1]

The latest addition to the Panderverse. Ug, this movie was horrible. The idea of them growing up and wanting to be accepted had potential. But all the blatant pandering vanquished all that potential. I'd give this a 4/10.....and that's being EXTREMELY generous. This will be one of those movies where TMNT fans say, "Oh yeah, that file. Yeah, we don't talk about that film."

[@jackko21]

Peter laird must deep down regret selling tmnt to nickleodeon

[@QuentinLassiter]

OG TMNT Movie Trilogy , 03 series all you need

[@imdone7589]

I never saw this film and not really planning to even by looking at the trailers it doesn't look that great and looks extremely cringy

[@MrDman21]

Some guy on Rocco's stream was saying he was 8 years old and thought the 90s TMNT movies sucked. I'm like dude you're just trying to be edgy. I can't stand guys like that. They always talk about nostalgia yet they hate nostalgia. Why collect toys then? I think they just do that because they think it's cool. Not because it's part of their childhood. They use the whole childhood argument as an excuse to be assholes. If you don't like TMNT cool, but don't shit on people who do like it.

[@lordteabelly]

Absolutely great rant and review mike. I myself have not watched this movie and i have no desire to if im honest. The first red flag for me was Seth Rogen, i juat cant stand him. Then it was the character design for them all, april looked awful, the design of the turtles etc..but after seeing the trailer, the 'comedy', im your face pop culture references and the whole animation style really put me off for good.

[@biguy617]

I hate that this movie the critics like and the 1990 Ninja Turtles movie they hated. WTF

[@colewarnerreviews5834]

Fuck, rotten tomatoes. This is the same website that praised Cuties (2020)

[@adamwatson2914]

I hate that art style I think it’s too much and not very lovable, it’s too frenetic

[@OcpCommunications]

It's not just too frenetic in this film's case it's also butt ugly to look at.

[@baileydavis1616]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Is Getting a Sequel

[@JoshuaDaniels-s5z]

Well Fucking Shit, hope they Improve on the Turtles.

[@biguy617]

There is a ninja Turtles animated movie where they meet Batman that is very good.

[@user-si9fx4xb6v]

I agree, I got much more enjoyment out of that movie than I did from TMNT: Mutant Mayhem .Also, Turtles Forever, the 2009 made for television animated movie that served as the finale for the TMNT 2003 cartoon series was really fun too.

[@dylanmorris7357]

If people like this movie that's cool, but man the trailers for this did absolutely nothing for me. It just looks super kiddy for my taste and maybe I'll still check it out one of these days but I'm honestly in no rush and it saddens me seeing this franchise in such a crappy state. I love these characters a lot because I grew up on the 90's movies and the 2003 cartoon and its a shame that they still haven't figured out how to do these characters justice after all these years.

[@coleman707]

There's hope that The Last Ronin will get things back on track

[@jackko21]

Not excited for the sequel shredders already ruined he has no part in their origin

[@michaelmenei5403]

The rant we've all been waiting for! :D

[@jackko21]

Now we need theitalianstallion51 to make a rant

[@colewarnerreviews5834]

The truth people don’t want to hear

[@jackko21]

Why on fucken earth did they think it was a good idea to put the tuetles in highschool I don't want to see that shit I want to see them being ninjas, I want to see city at war, them going into the battle nexus, fighting triceratons,

[@biguy617]

I knew I wasn’t going to like the movie from the trailer. There are better Turtle animated movies

[@tacotoosday42]

Honestly thought you were too generous to the voice cast. Besides Paul Rudd being Paul Rudd it was forgettable

[@jackko21]

If he dosent have a brooklyn accent it aint raphael

[@grandtheftruben914]

We all Agree that this film is A Miserable Pile of Sewer Shit. But It’s not Jackie Chan’s fault. Cause He was told by the Studios and Seth Rogen’s Überweed Jokes of Stupidity. Great Rant Btw

[@coleman707]

I knew to stay far away when they brought on the "dude, weed" idiot as a producer

[@jackko21]

KZbin didn't fucken notifi me you uploaded this rant

[@thelibercast9098]

Awesome review Mike, keep up the great work!

[@QuentinLassiter]

Wasn’t much of a hit at the box office , so I doubt they do another one

[@OcpCommunications]

It made plenty of profit for a sequel. It cost 70 million and made 172 million worldwide and that's not even counting the merchandise and toy sales.

[@QuentinLassiter]

@@OcpCommunications It only made about 100 million dollar profit, 70 million of it goes to making back the budget so really it’s only about a 30-32 million dollar profit , it will be even less if they do a sequel. I doubt they risk it and make another since it wasn’t a box office hit like it was supposed to be. Maybe it did make a lot in merchandise and toys but it honestly barely made anything that would make a company confident in making another one. If it was a 250 million dollar box office number than we would be talking about a sequel.

[@michaelmenei5403]

@@QuentinLassiter They confirmed a sequel and Paramount+ cartoon series.

[@QuentinLassiter]

@@michaelmenei5403 prepare for it too fail, another tmnt movie and series is just overkill at this point

[@OcpCommunications]

It actually made over 100 million alone in US and Canada ticket sales. So it made that profit plus a chunk of overseas profit. And this even isn't considering the cash it made with merchandising and toy sales. A sequel was already confirmed. And they make sequels all the time lately if a film just makes enough of a profit to do another one. Especially in an already pre-established franchise. It doesn't have to be a mega hit to warrant another entry. Plus these animated films are cheaper to make than live action and quicker. So it makes it even more likely so it can fill a slot on a studio's release schedule.

[@shadowleon659]

It should have been called Child Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Tik-Tok Movie. It's cringe-worthy and unfunny.

[@OcpCommunications]

What's crazy about that is that there is an alternate logo for this called Ninja Turtles: Teenage Years.

[@shadowleon659]

@@OcpCommunications I know right. Plus, the animation and art style also looks like someone tried to combine Into the Spider-Verse with a Klasky-Csupo cartoon. But failed miserably.

[@Johnlindsey289]

Agree

[@jackko21]

This movie I gonna be dated real quickly in 10 years kids won't even know what they are even saying with all the trendy talk

[@BernardDixon-qc3bn]

Definitely tmnt mutant mayhem stinks original tmnt movies are better

[@BRIANOCONNOR2003]

I feel like secret of the ooze was the last good movie

[@BRIANOCONNOR2003]

Paramount and Nickelodeon should sell the rights back to New Line

[@ryanhopt6732]

good rant

[@Ribelin2000]

I hate to say this, Mike, but professional critics all seem to disagree with you. In fact, it's probably the best-reviewed TMNT film to date.

[@OcpCommunications]

I could care less what the rotten tomatoes scores are. They gave the 1990 film a 42 percent. They also gave Ghostbusters(2016) a positive rating as well and one higher than Ghostbusters II. RT critics also gave the 2014 RoboCop remake a higher rating than RoboCop 2. All three Creed films also have higher ratings than Rocky IV. Cobra also has an 18 percent. Predator 2 has a lower rating than Predators, AVP, The Predator and Prey. I could go on and on about how unreliable these so called critic scores are in my eyes. They can disagree with me all they want to. That doesn't make my critiques any less valid. To me this is not even remotely close to a 97 percent quality film. Or even a quality film in the first place. Not with writing this bad.

[@Ribelin2000]

@@OcpCommunications Rotten Tomatoes is an unreliable website. You said so yourself once. I go by Metacritic. They're much more reliable. Furthermore, it's just your opinion. That's all. It's not a fact.

[@OcpCommunications]

I never argued my opinion is fact and metacritic has the same issues. Nearly all of the films I listed here get similar ratings. Or worse Metacritic says that Predator(1987) is worse than Predators, The Predator and Prey. The only opinion that carries any real weight to me personally is your own. That's the one that matters the most. Whether some random consensus of "critics" online disagree or they agree simply should not matter. You matter. Because otherwise people just agree or disagree with a small group of people despite there being so many more people in this world with different tastes and overall opinions of entertainment. Their opinions aren't facts either. Even though they have a percentage next to it.

[@Johnlindsey289]

I’ll stick to the 1990 classic

[@Ribelin2000]

@@Johnlindsey289 Opinions are like assholes...

[@rehanahmed6460]

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