new kid on the blog

I watched the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and it was fantastic! I highly recommend this movie to anyone who grew up with them as your heroes - in a half shell no less. They have finally put back the "ninja" in the ninja turtles, and having gone through the cuddly cute versions of the TV cartoons and life action movies, trust me, this movie is what the ninja turtles are really about. With kickass camera work, and one of the best fight choreography I had ever seen in an animated film,reminiscent of the Hong Kong action films of the 1990s, which makes it perfect. Particularly love the scene with Michelangelo skateboarding through the pipes and tunnels of the sewers.

What’s not too nice is the voice of Zhang Ziyi as "Karai"  which actually sounds quite bad. And that Michelangelo can’t be seen using his nunchakus due to censorship while Leonardo and Raphael got more "fighting screen time" with their actually deadlier weapons, the Katanas and the Sai. It would have been fun seeing Michelangelo spinning the nunchakus like Bruce Lee, then goof up in a true Michelangelo fashion. Oh well, we can only hope for the sequel, which I’m rather sure they are making.

The characteristics of the 4 turtles we are so familiar with stays the same, Leonardo leads, Donatello does machines, Raphael’s cool but rude and Michelangelo’s the party dude. The dynamics of their relationship has very much matured from their heydays and it’s rather nice to watch.

Do catch it if you can.

Cowabunga!

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 24th, 2007 at 11:03 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.