Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Review: Cowabunga makes a comeback.
If nostalgia could be served in a pizza box.
Rating: 8 out of 10
Old school Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans, who have now grown old and have baby turtles of their own (me included), will be happy to take the kiddos to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem in the movie theaters.
Mutant Mayhem does tweak some of the original 1990's cartoon backstory, but goes directly for the good stuff, which was the variety of different mutants that you could collect, both good and bad, as toy action figures.
Unlike the original cartoon, this a true coming-of-age story of teenages, who just happen to be mutant turtles and know ninjitsu, and they are also voiced by kids (Micah Abbey as Donatello, Shamon Brown Jr. as Michelangelo, Nicolas Cantu as Leonardo and Brady Noon as Raphael). Throw in some Tik Tok and BTS references and the movie is so fetch. Fetch is a term that millennials use, right?
Most recent movies based on toy IPs (I'm looking at you, Barbie) have forgotten about their main target audience: kids, but I'm glad that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a movie that can be enjoyed by kids and the kids at heart. There was also a time when cartoons conveyed a lesson or morale (see: G.I. Joe Knowing is Half The Battle or He-Man and the Masters of the Universe) and there's a good lesson to takeaway from the conclusion of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, something that I think we could all use a bit more of these days.
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