The Sad History of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Turtles in Time?

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III is a 1993 superhero film based on characters created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. The sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, it is the third theatrical Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film and the final installment in the original trilogy.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III also had some behind the scenes changes that caused the movie to maybe not be looked at as favorably all these years later.
In this video we'll go into how Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III saved Dan's life and why this movie is or isn't called Turtles in Time.
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[@MDHaughton]

The OG Turtles being named after Renaissance artists, and a fifth turtle being named after Jack Kirby tells you exactly where Eastman and Laird's heart was.

[@justingoers]

Man I really really really wish they had continued the vibe and aesthetic of the first one. TMNT 1 is solid gold.

[@killboggins]

I think the death of Jim Henson impacted the creativity.

[@tixmctivy]

​@@killbogginsnot just on that film globally imagination died with him. Groot style it's growing back. Sadly not in the Industry yet but I mean still puberty at the moment.

[@NotTellingYou-]

I feel the same way but I still like the 3rd one.

[@Ray-c1r]

Thank you!!!!

[@lowlowseesee]

I don’t. Part 2 is fun as hell and if I want to watch part one I still have my original vhs and on top of that they showed it here in a fancy theater recently lol

[@bloocheez3]

I remember disliking III as a kid because it was just too normal. I wanted monsters, not Japanese villagers and a weird Brit. Going back years later, I agree with Eastman's assertion that it's right in between the other two. It's not nearly as bad as I remember.

[@evenhartwick4422]

my biggest problem is they didn't even have a single established villain from the comics or cartoon in it. the turtles have such a big rouges gallery and they didn't utilize a single one not even Shredder. maybe it would have been redundant to have Shredder for a third time but he would still have been better than what we got. not to mention he's in almost all the episodes from the cartoon so kids just kinda expect Shredder to be there in some way shape or from you could have done something with him to make him interesting

[@andrewgrove1691]

I hated this as a child. Watched it recently on tubi. It's OK. But the jokes were written by kids. Way too many pop culture references

[@Ray-c1r]

The costumes sucked, no mutants, the turtles made too friendly and happy n goofy

[@Drew_LaLa]

Baltimora’s “Tarzan Boy” should be included in every single movie, if you ask me.

[@guitarpick2002]

AGREED.

[@AcesPlace22]

Check out jungle boy in AEW .. it's wrestling

[@silvanoaguirre614]

Thank you!!!!

[@orvilleredenpiller338]

I really don’t see a place for it in Schindler’s List but other than that, yeah.

[@mikedecker9226]

Truer truth has never been truthed.

[@DJSwagz]

I dont remember a single person not loving Secret of the Ooze... That movie was HUGE back in 4th grade

[@grapeshot]

I still remember playing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle video game at the arcade and at the movie theaters.

[@chadwilliamconery6726]

Took me 5 dollars in quarters and 4 hours but I beat that game. Lol

[@JasenHicksFGC]

I have the original arcade PCB to this day!

[@user-pl7te5zq3x]

@@chadwilliamconery6726 facts

[@jonc487]

Great memories

[@bullmonty764]

I think it's a testament to the TMNT franchise's longevity (despite what everyone assumed by 93) that, in the year of our Lord 2022, there are *three* Ninja Turtles movies either released or being developed simultaneously, all in different canons (the Rise movie dropped last month, Mutant Mayhem, and something about rebooting the original movie universe I don't remember)...but its slow down period can't have been helped by a little show called Power Rangers emerging from Japan

[@DominusTecum316]

Also The Cawabanga re-released of the 7 video games in one are now available for the consumers.

[@ozzmosis6544]

dont know what crack you're smoking but no such thing as god or the lord

[@nemopouncey3827]

3rd sequels are cursed. everytime they get to em everything falls apart.

[@thunderpantz]

And a darn good video game was released.

[@jkincaid582]

Perhaps (for those who read comics) the Last Ronin also finally being written and released as well.

[@evandavis5223]

I think another reason for the poor reception, as far as I and my friends were concerned, was that we were fully expecting Krang to show up as the villain. Instead we got obtuse time travel antics and more general shenanigans than actual fight scenes.

[@jonathanboetto8849]

"Tarzan Boy" really is a bizarrely immaculate stone-cold classic. Had a similar experience whilst watching a Muchmusic Eighties weekend in the mid-Nineties and it suddenly unlocked a long- forgotten core memory... made all the more eerie by how the music video appears to have filmed in an alternate dimension where the Tarzan boys regularly get up to monkey business on a sunny afternoon...

[@karlspace5695]

I'm so glad we got the follow-up as to what the song actually is. When it played during the trailer earlier in the video, I popped open a tab to try to look it up, but how do you look that up? "Eighties song, hook = woahh woahh woahh woahh oahh"?

[@sara00zer0]

It seems like so many other songs would have been more appropriate for this, maybe even from Back to the Future, Back in Time? Or something to do with a Ninja?

[@jonathanboetto8849]

@@sara00zer0 Oh definitely... it's completely nonsensical for a Ninja Turtles movie in 1993, especially since Eighties one-hit wonders were seen as *terminally* uncool in the middle of the Grunge/Gangsta Rap era, but that's kinda what makes it such an awesome inclusion... But yeah, the studio would have been much better served to get Public Enemy or Cypress Hill to record some gag track about time-travelling samurais. Wu Tang would have been *perfect*, but they weren't around until a couple years later.

[@jkincaid582]

@@jonathanboetto8849 Considering what was included on the first film's soundtrack, there was definitely something lost in the sequels. Almost that they just didn't take themselves serious enough, too busy trying to be goofy and appeal to 8-year-olds alone. Like that stupid "Addams Family" quip.

[@Psilocybin77]

Man I miss Muchmusic, especially when Weird Al would take over.

[@nicholasromig5506]

Dan just so you know, I had a similar experience with Tarzan Boy. it's haunting. if my life was a TV series, then at the end of every season the normal theme song would be replaced by Baltimora's Tarzan Boy

[@guitarpick2002]

AGREED.

[@gundambassexe31]

TMNT 3 was eh a mixed bag imo . Though I prefer the first 2 myself

[@lutherheggs451]

It was never even called Turtles in Time. It was never even added until the blu-ray release.

[@gundambassexe31]

@@lutherheggs451 I'm well aware of that now. I was referring to the KZbin vid subtile duh

[@ENiceGeo]

@@lutherheggs451 Wasn't the subtitle added to some dvd or blu-ray in some overseas region?

[@Magifa]

Guys, it was definitely called Turtles In Time when I saw it in theaters back in 1993. My memory is so clear because I was watching it while holding my favorite action figure: the 1979 Boba Fett with a working missile launcher.

[@Dream0Asylum]

I see what you did there.

[@callmediffuse]

😂

[@mattjindrak]

Mandela Effect

[@JohnDoe-cd6ro]

Wasn't Turtles In Time the name of the game?

[@georgefeliu2383]

I got two free tickets to this movie from my eye doctor as a kid. The movie was worth every cent I paid for those tickets. :)

[@SaddestClown]

I LOVE how clearly you guys love the Exo Squad cartoon, and i agree, the fact that it didnt gain a full wide scale adoption and multiple season run is by far one of the biggest fumbles of cartoon history.

[@YukonWilleh]

I never saw the show but had one of the toys, it was awesome

[@scoobers90]

I thought I had a false memory of Tarzan Boy being in this movie for years! I nearly wore my VHS copy of this out as a kid, but when I came back to it as an adult the song wasn't there. I swore it was at the end of the movie. I never let the credits play long enough on streaming to hear it...Glad I'm not the only one that searched for that song.

[@oldmanmillennial1980]

WAIT WHAT!? I didn't even know what this song was, but I was guessing it was the oohh oohoo ohhh ohhhho ooh song. You're telling me that song was not in the movie!? Ser, I think we are all being lied to. I was in the 3rd grade in the Spring of 1993 and I will assuredly tell you that if that song was not directly in the movie it was in the trailer. Next you're gonna tell me that Surf Ninjas wasn't in the coming attractions

[@indymudshow]

Every time I hear it I think if tmnt as it's the first time i heard it

[@saphcal]

@@oldmanmillennial1980 he said " but when I came back to it as an adult the song wasn't there. I swore it was at the end of the movie. I never let the credits play long enough on streaming to hear it" that end part explains that it IS there, very late during the credits at the end of the movie.

[@scoobers90]

@@oldmanmillennial1980 it plays like mid-credits. I misremembered it as being during the last scenes of the movie for ages.

[@ryanmcfarland4380]

Isn't it in the movie, though? I could've sworn it's playing in the background in a bar when Casey is collecting the samurai the Turtles swapped places with to send them back in time...

[@Quirky_QF]

I was big into time travel when I was a kid (thanks BttF!), so having a movie where the turtles went back in time (and to a place that wasn't medieval England like all the other shows and movies at the time were doing) blew me away. Obtained a DVD copy a few years back and watched it again and it wasn't terrible. It was a 90s kids movie, I'm not expecting Macbeth.

[@notsyzagts7967]

Yeah, but I was expecting ancient ninjas (not samurai), which I didn't get.

[@nickflight]

Exactly master Quentin Fortune. You are wise sensei.

[@cazd4590]

I also liked this movie as a kid. It’s campy. The 90s were more fun and relaxed lol

[@jinpei05]

Oh, shit. I unfortunately watched this in theaters as a kid. Thanks for dredging up this horrible memory out of the memory hole.

[@toptester301]

Sure, watching this with my nephew as an adult it's obviously not as good. But as a kid I left the theater Ninja Turtle kicking and declaring turtle power just like I did when I left the out the theater for the second one. As a kid it was all good.

[@AltimaNEO]

You just brought me flashbacks of all the hours I spent with my cassette recorder and listening to the radio for specific songs to play, so I could record it!

[@dresdenwarlock7978]

I'm nearly 37 and I've been trying to figure out what that song was since TMNT 3 came out!!! THANK YOU!!!

[@djtek9ine]

My mom took me to see this in the theater and when we were walking out of the theater, I apologized to her for having to sit through that.

[@DeletedMediaYoutube]

I think an apology was demanded by my dad 😬

[@yoshi5I4]

I have a similar story about Tarzan Boy by Baltimora. Being someone that loves the whole new wave scene even though I was born like 15 years too late being the prime demographic for this film but earlier this year (2022) my wife was asking me about the style of music and I was explaining how a trailer/movie from my childhood really planted the seed but I couldn’t for my life of me remember what movie and absolutely thought it was the Tim Allen classic Jungle2Jungle and it took like three days to come to this conclusion

[@kadosho02]

Also "Return to Innocence" by Enigma, was also from the Jungle 2 Jungle soundtrack. Wild how many amazing songs were from that time frame

[@Chaosic]

I remember watching movie in the theater when I was 3 and I like it,rockin over the beat and Tarzan boy still are some of my favorite songs from this movie.

[@Zeke-Z]

What?!? No way man, Secret of the Ooze was the best hands down!! I still to this day have that entire movie memorized!

[@tsedani]

I was 11 at the time and very excited to see this, and I think what disappointed me was the feudal Japan aspect. That clearly was the result of the budget I think what we really would have wanted was krang and dimension x.

[@WillKeaton]

I remember owning a comic that detailed the events of the movie. Not the Archie comic. This was made up of photos taken straight from the movie with speech bubbles thrown in. I also remember there was an add for _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project_ on the inside cover. I have been unable to find any evidence of this thing online.

[@kadosho02]

It totally exists, I remember having that comic as well.

[@mattjindrak]

It was silly and it felt like they were guest stars in their own movie, but it still stayed true to the characters of the Turtles themselves, and I'll always love it for that. And the fight scenes are fun

[@banonKING]

There are two great tragedies of my youth cinematic experiences growing up, where even at the time I immediately recognized "This is bad, I don't like this"... and those films are Masters of the Universe and Turtles 3.

[@tonberrymasta]

I would add Turtles 2 and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation to this. "Go ninja go ninja go" in T2 made it embarrassing to be a turtles fan and "show me your animality" in MK made it embarrassing to be part of the human race.

[@ModelJames13]

But Masters of the Universe rules.

[@ninjasquidkamer7440]

@@tonberrymasta At least Annihilation is better than the newer movie we got.

[@kajenbop]

I really enjoyed MotU but it was in no way whatsoever HeMan and I still find that unforgivable to this day!

[@DAMNNATIONROCK]

Fun fact: Baltimora “Tarzan Boy” is now played every week on network television by wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling as the entrance theme for wrestler “jungle boy”

[@thekydragon]

"Jungle Boy" being Jack Perry, the son of the late actor Luke Perry

[@Chris.Cook.]

TMNT 3 is memorable for me, as it was the very first time I had my suspension of disbelief broken, and realized everyone was just acting. During a scene in the village(maybe around the house fire?), you can see the grandfather in the center background, with a bunch of other villagers around. As other people are speaking in the scene(Raphael, Mitsu, Yoshi), you can see him mouthing the dialogue along with them. If I had to guess, I would say he was an older actor, and was just trying to keep up with where they were in the script. It hit theaters on my 8'th birthday, and I was a turtle-maniac at the time, so of course I begged to go to the first showing. I had liked the look of the grandfather, and kept on staring at him when he was on screen. Then it got to that scene, and the movie magic just kind of fell apart for me. For the rest of the film I just sat and thought about why he was mouthing everyone else's words.

[@tomcruiiseship9461]

Same thing here. I remember a few minutes into the movie and I was like " oh...this is just something they did to make money " and I was like 10. I was never the same after lol I felt the same with Mario bros movie. But at least that was some what interesting because it was so strange.

[@gnext2]

I watch all your videos but does anyone else find his voice really like soothing, it always makes me zone out and like 10 minutes have passed.

[@S-T-E-V-E]

Are you guys ever going to do Terrahawks? I loved that show as a kid an I had a lot of the toys too!

[@D21BeastReviews]

I’m probably way late to this comment, but the Turtles got secondary mutations in the final seasons of the ‘87 cartoon. Perhaps that’s a hold over from the undeveloped Turtles IV movie. Thanks for the retrospective!

[@TonyorIzzyCommenting]

This movie came out shortly before I was to turn 10 years old. I had been a huge Turtles fan ( and had seen both the first two movies in the theater. By the time this one came out, a number of factors led to not seeing this one in the theaters. 1) It was a weird period, between the 2nd and this movie, where I was starting to move on from Turtles. I can't recall for sure if there was any one franchise that started diverting my attention. The movie came out right before Power Rangers, which would go on to become my next huge obsession. If it was anything, maybe it was Batman? Returns had come out the year before, as well as TAS. So I was definitely big into Batman as well. 2) The other factor is the toy factor. I say this as someone that owned my fair share of TMNT action figures and accessories up until that point. I won't try to suggest I was unaware of how toys factored into the overall marketing and merchandising of these types of franchises. But I think at that point, I saw the trailer and previews for this movie. I think the samurai aesthetic had me come to the conclusion that this was solely chosen to ultimately sell action figures. For whatever reason, it rubbed me the wrong way. Looking back, I realize it was definitely unfair to hold that against the movie and franchise, when others had been and were doing the same things. But like I said, Power Rangers became my next obsession and it was egregiously guilty on that front. I still have yet to see this movie in it's entirety. I've watched the first two more times than I can count. I'm sure one day, I'll sit down and give it an honest chance and will probably find it entertaining

[@NoxAnexayi]

As a 40 year old in the middle of his midlife nostalgia trip, finding this channel has been a blessing. I love the presentation in these videos. Well done. (although trying to pause to read the flash texts is a pain)

[@glenngriffon8032]

You reminded me of that song and as memories of my childhood from the 80's and 90's flooded back to me of _that_ song i nearly ripped my hair out as i realized I was going to have to search for it now and I only have my phone to help me. I despaired that i would be searching for it over the next several hours, that song. _That song!_ That song that haunted me till I finally had forgotten about it. Until you reminded me of it... and then you said who made it and the title of it and all was forgiven and a massive weight came off my shoulders. Curse you for reminding me and bless you for not leaving me searching.

[@Gametropolis]

I was never in to the Turtles back then (MASK was my toy of choice) but recently fell in love with the cartoon, films and comics thanks to the Cowabunga collection on Switch. Great video too (as always!), thanks TG!

[@kingcaesar3693]

I highly recommend the 2012 show if you haven't watched it. It's got some great homages to the original. the early 2000s one is also great.

[@S-T-E-V-E]

I was into MASK as well, the toys were amazing !

[@jollyrogerq]

MASK was the best.

[@garrythornhill2323]

Mask and transforms was the best.

[@S-T-E-V-E]

@@garrythornhill2323 Did you guys get Terrahawks in the USA? It was a puppet show like Thunderbirds? I keep suggesting they do a video on it but nothing so far! Look it up on KZbin to jog your memory!

[@Morgil27]

When I was a kid, my parents were cheap-asses who didn't like paying to go to the theater. TMNT3 was the only one of the trilogy that I actually got to see in theaters, because my grandma took me while babysitting me one weekend.

[@otakubullfrog1665]

You're right about two years being an eternity when you're a kid. I don't think I've ever actually seen this one because, while I still sometimes pretended to be a turtle when the first movie was released, I already had friends whose parents would let us watch R-rated movies by the time 1993 rolled around.

[@Belgand]

When the video started I went back to double check the release dates because I remember it feeling like this came out a _long_ time after the second film, at the point that TMNT was already old news. In reality it was just me being in middle school and over it, although the peaks of turtle-mania were definitely in the past. The weirder part is how now ten years can feel like only two, but back then it was the exact opposite.

[@khhnator]

oh god, i been in the "finding that song" situation back then as well. I'm glad you made thru i myself still have one song i never been able to find that is slowly degenerating in my memory for the last 30 years

[@geardog24]

Basically the director of this movie hated the Ninja Turtles.

[@mrmacross]

Thank you for bringing up the Listerine Cool Mint commercial! When the movie came out, I was saying it should've been called "Turtles in Time" to match the arcade/SNES game. Then when I saw the movie and didn't like it, I was glad the title "Turtles in Time" was only associated with a quality product.

[@benitofranklyn4237]

As a kid I always liked the third one the best. I found it had the highest production value as well as the best storyline, maybe since they didn't f'up any previously know stories and characters like in the first two movies.

[@SuperNicktendo]

I remember my mom getting this for us on VHS and I'm still not sure if it was punishment or not. Still goofy good times

[@ianhadlock2405]

Thank you for mentioning the listerine commercial

[@johnamaral375]

I was born in 1993 but TMNT was a huge part of my childhood thanks to the best hand-me-down toys from an older cousin and video rentals etc. When I was 10 I was huge fan of the reboot and already had a fandom! Anyone else out there love a brand or toy line that was technically “before their time”?

[@GundamMeisterSunny]

Born in 94 like stuff from the 50s and 60s know what you mean lol

[@tommy516]

Growing up, I only had two types of music albums, aside from MC Hammer's, "Too Legit to Quit"; Weird Al albums and movie sound tracks. I loved the sound track to this movie!!

[@EricGranata]

I used to wait to hear a song on the radio and immediately call the DJ to ask who it was if they didn’t announce it.

[@iamfuturetrunks]

Since it was brought up twice in this video... I expect a video on Short Circuit soon! :D I miss Johnny Five. :( Also there is a TMNT cartoon episode where a robot comes back from the future to visit the 1990's and meets up with the turtles and seems a lot like Johnny Five. I wonder if they got inspiration from the Short Circuit movies or something.

[@Ryanizer1000]

I went through the same expwrience with the song used to promote the Batman and Robin game to find out on KZbin it was just a one time theme only for the game: "He can run, there's no escape / he can hide, that's his fate/ he can fight with all his might and never win, cuz when good battles evil, the real game begins"

[@thetoythief8940]

I honastly don't understand why people hate this movie the story was fun and pretty good the characters had some awesome development and it overall felt like a movie compared to the second movie

[@lutherheggs451]

Because the suits are awful, the turtles being nightmare fuel with their face movements, Splinter is awful, the hilariously bad FX like the "villain" falling off of a cliff. There was nothing Turtles about it other than the Turtles. The stuff with Casey Jones and the Japanese guys were god awful. Besides the dialog being written as if someone was dropped on their head before they wrote the script. Then there is for whatever reason people's need to continually call it Turtles in Time when it was never EVER actually referred to as that. That was never even added to it until the bargain basement blu-ray release.

[@thetoythief8940]

@@lutherheggs451 You know whats funny you barely notice the suit issues and for me I think the second movie has worse suits and story considering the fact it wasn't finished you lead up to a awesome moment to get a dance battle we didn't need at all at least the 3rd movie had a story and character development that was used for many more years

[@ENiceGeo]

@@lutherheggs451 The suits were bad, yes, but the story was decent enough and it holds up a lot better than Secret of the Ooze. So many things in the second movie make my head hurt when watching it as an adult. People wouldn't be moaning about TMNT III being bad if it looked as good as TMNT II did.

[@daltonwilliams1723]

God no. Watch the second movie again. It’s far better in terms of story, characters, comedy, and special effects

[@ENiceGeo]

@@daltonwilliams1723 The second movie is entertaining but the story and campy nature of it all just kills it. The third movie is still silly but the story is lot better and the turtles can use their weapons again.

[@pierrelewis6819]

When it comes to the third entry of the live action Ninja turtle movies, that's my favorite movie, out of all of them, when I was growing up, didn't really see the first Ninja turtles, didn't know that it existed, I barely knew about the second movie, it's been years, since I've saw all the movies, my first Ninja turtles movie, was the third one.

[@theotakutopian7426]

I’ve also had my own story related to the Tarzan Boy song, which was not only in the TMNT III commercial, but also those Cool Mint Listerine commercials. Eventually got the CD Single with three remixes of that song released alongside the movie soundtrack, which I also eventually got later on. “Works like Listerine, Tastes like COOOOL MINT!”

[@serbowdster2311]

I’m surprised that this you tube show has not been given a 5-10 min segment on a kids tv show. This show is so well produced and interesting that no show would need to alter its production, but I guess that with the demise of sat morning kids tv that it’s hard to think what show would it be placed on now ? In the uk in the eighties and nineties we had shows like “going live” etc…..that came on after early morning cartoons and was ment for the teenage market that toy galaxy would have been for and acted as a perfect Segway to a cartoon. Alas I’m looking with rose tinted glasses some 39 years on :( You guys at toy galaxy do a Stirling job, keep it up, love this show.

[@scottsmartky]

If you want to hear that song again, Dan, watch most weeks of All Elite Wrestling. Luke Perry's (yes, that Luke Perry) son, Jack, is known as Jungle Boy and it's his entrance music.

[@wstine79]

Michelangelo would love to put Magic Spoon cereal on his pizza.

[@toddhollen]

I loved the ninja turtles around this time. Loved #2, have the Coming Out of Their Shell Tour on VHS, had the toys and video games, etc. Had no idea this movie existed until a few years ago and even after watching this I don't entirely believe this is a real movie.

[@notsyzagts7967]

Try watching this movie itself, and see how that goes.

[@aj383]

Dude... That deep into Turtlemania, how did you miss this when it came out?

[@Tharsos2099]

I have to admit, and it's been a while since I've seen it, but the 3rd, was my favorite of the movies. I was happy that they did something different and not just "How can we bring back Shredder this time ?!?!"

[@geardog24]

"Did you get to see a wisecracking turtle monster cartwheel ninja kick a dude in the face or not? You asked and Cinema provided." Yeah but we wanted it to be good.

[@Fixxxer07082]

I remember seeing this at the drive-in with my friends (we were the target demo when the toys hit and had em all, but by this point we were 11)….and I distinctly remember not liking it AT ALL. That was the exact moment I got out of Turtles all together. 😢

[@MentalLiberation]

Meanwhile, the Cowabunga Collection is out now for video games systems. Worth picking up

[@Groglor]

if they kept things like the 1st film and made a trilogy that way it woulda been so awesome.

[@steprockmedia]

I literally paused this video after hearing a snippet of that song in the trailer to go and track it down. 1000% love it and almost forgot its existence. Still a banger.

[@michaelmaguire4147]

I had a VHS of this as a kid and I loved it

[@mysocalledknife07]

That Baltimora tune drove me nuts in the 90's as well. For the longest time, I thought Europe had written and recorded it.

[@BBHood217]

I actually recognized Tarzan Boy, because my first exposure to it wasn't from this movie (I never watched it) but from the internet via YTMND.

[@tclark6989]

Turtles 3 is bizarre in that nothing in it appeals to children, teens, or adults. It's a movie made for no one.

[@TonyGearSolid]

I've always associated the jungle song with that Listerine commercial, I even remember as a kid wondering why they were using the mouthwash song in the ads for the new TMNT movie. It wasn't until many many years later that I learned it was a real song from the 80s.

[@sara00zer0]

Great video, and cool to see all of the connections that was kind of planned for this movie. A goofy thing I noticed that just always seemed weird to me about this movie. Kenshin and April swap places, and each is technically wearing what the other was wearing when the swapped places. How does Kenshin fit into April's clothes, and wouldn't he be wearing everything she was wearing, including underneath? I get it, a movie for kids, but surprised at least not for laughs they point out how uncomfortable her underwear is, or tight her pants are? Guess that was why they chose not to have her in a dress and heels for that scene.

[@overlord3051]

Growing up as a huge fan of the Turtles, I remember being quite confused when I was given one of the movie toys as a birthday present, as it was a regular human riding on a practically unarticulated horse. Young me was like "WHERE'S THE TURTLE??" (That same birthday I also got a Weirdwolf Headmaster from Transformers, so needless to say, the horse probably got played once, haha)

[@van.f1087]

This movie hurt my heart as a kid. Even then it was trash to me.

[@HangGrenade01]

TARZAN BOY! I always remembered the sing from the trailer for The Rescuers: Down Under. Man I'd always wondered what that song was when I was younger too.

[@moo80]

Highlight of this movie for me was the rocking soundtrack, including an updated version of Baltimora's "Tarzan Boy"

[@DRU_Hards]

To this day, I still will listen to the Bario Boys version of “Conga”

[@Streetsvillainy]

For a 12 yr old right in the middle of the turtles fad this was pitch perfect as more of what worked. It was great.

[@Murrlin27]

You mean Tarzan's Boy by Baltimora? :D I had already known about the song from back in the 80s, in a most... interesting manner... so hearing it on the TMNT3 ads made me bust a gut laughing!

[@wingadept8793]

I for one enjoyed TMNT 3. For starters it was the first TMNT movie I owned out of the trilogy. What this movie lacked in story, it made up for in it's action and fight scenes. Imo this movie by far had the most and the best fight scenes out of the trilogy. They didn't need to focus on the story because the main story was already finished in Secret of the ooze. This imo felt like a filler story that took place after the main story.

[@mikekz4489]

I had a similar experience with the Tarzan Boy song. Listerine commercial > TMNT III > Eventually learning it was a song from the ‘80s.

[@dylanapple7839]

30 years I've had that song stuck in my head!

[@Thoendithas]

The rant about Tarzan Boy is me thank you so much for that!

[@slipshodaverage844]

That song has haunted me for almost 30 years. I finally know the name. Thank you.

[@samuelsolomon7330]

For the love of God, I could not remember the name of that song, but I always remembered that it played in this movie. Thank you for helping me deal with this deeply buried pressure.

[@pedrorios2650]

I just wanna say I love your videos, I find them very comforting and interesting.

[@riotd.r.8363]

Even at 6 years old, my age at this movie's release, I noticed the suits. Those eyes just looked so... blank.

[@anthonycerulli5524]

A new episode of pitch meetings and toy galaxy on the same day?! I love it!

[@chrispopsjunior8978]

It's amazing that the greatest choreographer of all time Lau Kar Leung, director of the finest martial art fliks ever made... Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Martial Club... And at that time soon to be director of Drunken Master 2.... Is one of the action directors in this flik

[@jamesbounds]

I have a lot of nostalgia for the original Turtles films, including this one.

[@kentonsam4264]

First time I heard Tarzan Boy was in Beverly Hills Ninja, then later on when I rewatched TMNT3 I recognized it. Don't underestimate that song, it is catchy as hell.

[@pete7305]

I had an eerily similar Tarzan Boy experience. The only real difference being I never got the single. Instead my sister and I managed to record it on a transparent, neon green blank tape covered in stickers.

[@jamesdeininger3759]

Tarzan Boy was such a fantastic song! I tried to figure out what it was for years as well

[@ToysWeRemember]

I felt the same way about the song! Finally heard it in the radio and sought out cassette!

[@djvip3r420]

Dude, Dan, you and I must be the same age because that Listerine commerical got me too! I was a grown man before I learned the name of that song.

[@VyvyanTheGreat]

I had the samurai raphael figure as a kid, and I can still visualize every detail in my mind.

[@JonasPolsky]

(in unison) "Vanilla Ice! What are YOU doing here?!?" "Turtles in Time, make me wanna rhyme! Hit me with the green slime! Cause it's TURTLES, TURTLES IN TIME!"

[@GrandTheftWatto]

I always thought the look of the Turtles in part 3 was more...froglike.

[@TXPreacher187]

Thank you so much for reminding everyone that these movies were for kids. People getting bent outta shape over kids movies is so strange.

[@wstine79]

"Help, I'm a Turtle Franchise and I can't get up!"

[@mewdreamer]

While I didn't see any of the movies in theaters, I watched them on VHS tapes all the time back in the day, especially during the summer. I rewatched the movies a few months ago on Netflix and I actually enjoyed the third movie more than I expected. It's pretty infamous among the fanbase, but I think it holds up better than Secret of the Ooze does. Secret of the Ooze was more enjoyable when I was little, but coming right after the first movie, it feels a bit too jarring tone wise for this to be the same universe. The third movie felt more in line with the second movie's tone, so I think it flows a bit better. Plus, there were moments that genuinely made me laugh. It's still no surprise as to why the movie didn't do well or why it's considered a low point for the franchise, but I thought it was pretty entertaining. I think I agree with the creator's list, even though I think Secret of the Ooze probably is a better film writing wise than the third movie. If the turtle designs were better and the writing was a bit more polished, the third movie might have worked better. Tarzan Boy has such catchy chorus to the point where I immediately think of the movie whenever I hear it, so I can definitely understand searching to find it too.

[@GundamMeisterSunny]

This movie was one of the two vhs tapes I had and I watched it 100 times as a kid love it

[@jubjub64]

Crunchabunga (Thank you for putting that in, I needed to hear it!)