The Rise (and Fall?) of the TMNT: The Movie

[Music] it's been three years in a full reboot of the franchise later with a new theatrically released movie and an accompanying animated series on the way I think it's safe to say at this point that rise the TMNT as a series is officially dead it's always been kind of a steadfast rule that you don't produce two cartoons at the same time about two different versions of the same licensed character unless of course you're Sonic there won't be another season or another tie-in movie what we got is what we got and since I can give this movie A New Perspective with the benefit of hindsight I want to look back at rise's last Harrah before the big creative reset this is the Turtles movie that was left behind one of my favorite aspects of the turtles is how despite being comic book characters they're also big comic book readers they collect whatever books they can get their hands on in the sewer and love the medium if you are a sewer dwelling anthropomorphic mutant I'm sure you've been looking 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franchise except this one so let's go I hate when they go to the Future and can't figure out a way to make the Turtles look older other than to add hair God that's so weird they should never have hair rise of the TMNT the movie the game the series the visual novel is about a time displaced Casey Jones going back to the past to fight the shitty aliens who suck ass with the teenage versions of his mentors the antagonistic force of this film are the alien race called the crang who are actually really scary and threatening this time as opposed to the previous versions who were ineffectual and generally very silly this movie serves as a send off off to a great animated series that just never really got a fair chance but unfortunately despite loving the show it spawned from I've realized I don't really care much for this movie I've always been a big defender of Rise of the TMNT the series after it was initially cancelled I did a review of it to praise it that could act as a sort of rallying call for people to try to push for the show to get more episodes but its fate was sealed it had really impressive art Direction and appealing character designs funny comedy unique World building not seen in any other iteration of the turtles and some of the most complex fight choreography in any Western animated show which probably also contributed to its demise because this show looked expensive you could practically see viacom's money burning anytime an action scene started got to love it I would have watched three or four more seasons of this easily except Nickelodeon sabotaged it by playing it in bizarre time slots are just not at all ah the the good old Spectacular Spider-Man treatment but even if the series was cut short well before its time I can't help but wonder why this movie exists doesn't really add anything substantial for the characters or conclude anything left hanging it just hangs awkwardly off the end of it like here's a great show and then hey that's there too it doesn't serve well as a finale because missing a lot of major Side characters from the series no Baron draxum or Cassandra Jones outside of a small Cameo none of the the cool magic monster underworld characters or locations even though those were really big for the show and nothing to really directly connect the cray back to Shredder that part is just all implied with the visuals really the big multi-part finale in the show itself felt like a better conclusion in terms of wrapping up all the story threads and including all the characters somehow this movie feels like a DLC expansion that doesn't really add much if anything it just kind of highlights the flaws of the series that I didn't think about before so the main series ended with the turtles finally fighting the shredder unlocking their cool magic powers and realizing that Leonardo should be in charge this movie picks up right away with Leo struggling to fit the role of the leader because he doesn't like taking orders or feedback from the other three turtles so over the course of this adventure he's battling his own ego to finally be the Leonardo that Casey remembers and looks up to I guess I overlooked it at the time but I've discovered in retrospect that rise is one of the biggest examples of surf Dracula in recent memory a lot of TMNT Basics take a good long while to appear in this version like the team getting their proper weapons and the finale learning Splinter's backstory fighting the real Shredder Leo becoming the leader of the team even their reinvention of Splinter was a depressed schlub needing to find the motivation to start acting like their proper master I suppose I was blind to it at the time because I was having so much fun with the rest of the show that these things didn't stand out like the premise is still Ninja Turtles they're still doing all the same things they ought to be it's not as bad as the 36 hours of Television it took for The Punisher to finally definitely for sure decide he wants to be the Punisher definitely for sure this time but now I see that this is still another example of a reboot that relies heavily on previous knowledge of the franchise so it can build up to those elements you already expected to be there it's like a prequel but not actually a prequel I mean I guess that's what the title was always alluding to even this universe didn't get a proper Casey Jones until the final thing in it a key element in Rise of the TMNT the movie is time travel something this franchise doesn't play with too often barring a few spots in the 2012 cartoon Casey Jones is Leonardo's Protegé from the future that comes back to prevent an alien invasion apocalypse scenario his main goal is to basically prevent his entire life from happening because the world is so screwed where he comes from and other than an admittedly pretty cool looking mask that he barely wears there's really nothing this character has in common with any other version of Casey except the name I miss the hmbo Punisher as a hobby guy I'm getting really tired of every new version of Casey and April being teenagers it irritates me that the 2012 show came up with that and then it just became the default so I guess this guy is like Future Trunks with a hockey mask and he's not too bad I've also noticed that over the last two iterations of the Turtles Michelangelo's personality seems to be changing he's less of like the fun party skater Surfer Stoner dude now just like the humble friendly one you know what I'm saying I don't know it's hard to talk about this movie because the plot is very basic they just got to keep this McGuffin thing away from the bad guys to prevent Judgment Day not a lot happens really except running from one action set piece to the next it's almost like just an over long Random episode of the show in that sense this could have just been like a two-part episode in the middle of season two or something I don't know why they decided this would be the movie cuz the movie implies that it's like the big most important thing that's not to say it's totally unenjoyable there's plenty in here that I like too the cranger handled in an interesting way the movie takes them very seriously and always treats them as a huge threat they aren't the butt of a joke or shown to be silly or incompetent this is the first time crang has been a genuine badass that gets to trash the turtles in combat and these designs are really cool honestly I'd kind of like to see this version of crang hang out with the 2003 version of Shredder naturally the animation is stellar and even manages to outdo the craziest scenes in the series with high impact High Velocity fight scenes that are pure spectacle I know giving them magic powers wasn't a popular choice but it just looks so cool in action and it's utilized in really creative ways a lot of people ask me why I didn't review this when it came out and I think I was battling with the fact that I didn't enjoy it that much I really like the series and the two showrunners ant Ward and Andy Serano both even reposted my video and said nice things so I feel bad bad mouthing the movie after all that but it's like just not that interesting to me it's got the fight scenes going for it and the characters are all very likable and Charming as always and it's just ey candy out the wazu but the story just feels unnecessary and Half Baked doesn't follow up the series in any meaningful way it's just yet another adventure that also happened but now that I look back on it it feels like the show genuinely closed out in a great way and didn't need anything else thrown on top of it maybe they didn't need more episodes maybe it ended at like the perfect time at least they got a proper finale most shows canceled that early don't even get that when the rise of the TMNT movie was released I think the prevailing feeling among fans of this version was that if the movie was successful enough it to help the show get revived for more seasons it really seemed like a good sign that Netflix was putting out the movie and maybe they'd continue the series on their platform but now it's more clear that Netflix is just the place Nickelodeon dumps unwanted movies they don't feel like airing out on TV it's the new straight to DVD Bargain Bin of entertainment well worth like the $30 a month that costs now or whatever and then there's the matter of mutant Mayhem considering how long the animation pipeline takes for a full feature film especially one with art Direction This complex mutant Mayhem was probably well underway when this movie was coming together these things are planned years in advance while I really enjoyed rise of the TMNT I know that it just wasn't meant to be the Turtles brand has already moved on to a much more successful and far less divisive new iteration and I'm okay with that I love mutant Mayhem and the new 2D animated series looks interesting too as sad as it is that things moved on on so quickly at least TMNT remains strong and ever presentent losing rise was painful at the time but gaining mutant Mayhem feels like fair trade I always get mad at YouTube for not putting my videos in the subscription box because people will comment finally Xavier uploads again after all these years not knowing three other videos came out within the last month already so maybe that stupid Bell icon thing will help you remember I exist if you want other ways to support the channel Channel you can always go hit up that patreon for early videos and exclusive stuff because it's just a dollar I'm not kidding it's only $1 Isn't that cool if just 5% of the people subscribed to me donated only $1 a month I could make videos even faster and keep my house you can also check out our merch on tuu or just buy some of my random stuff on eBay I have a pretty substantial collection of old toys that are still in the box in perfect condition so go take a look in case you find something you like and lastly since this is a 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Length: 12min 4sec (724 seconds)

Published: Mon May 13 2024