Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is like a fresh new start for the superhero team, and it's also still respectful of its property's history and sibling-driven synergy! In a post Spider-Verse world, the Ninja Turtles were an unexpected choice for this kind of animation style, but it helps bring comic-book-inspired colours and vibes to Mutant Mayhem; sure the story isn't as elaborate as the Spider-Verse films, but it doesn't need to be; they just needed to get the turtles right and show that they ARE a family, as in the team IS the character like how Marvel's X-Men work as a collective unit of people growing with each other, even with all the individual characters at play.
Now that Nickelodeon has shown the way they're taking on animated cinema, what's in store for the other franchises that could make for an equally interesting movie? Danny Phantom? Avatar: The Last Airbender? SpongeBob? A gritty Jimmy Neutron reboot? I'm joking with that one, but it does make you wonder what the future holds for Nickelodeon Movies. It'd be nice if the other movies they make have distinct visual styles (like some are traditionally animated, some computer-animated, and maybe even claymation if they felt like it) with the movies they're undoubtedly working on right now.
Mutant Mayhem is a fun time, and its action-packed family centric story makes way for some wholesome scenes like the turtles referring to Splinter as 'Dad' and the scene of the brothers filming each other throwing shurikens on the rooftop. It's good stuff, and it leaves you wanting more in the right way; I'm guessing this film took WAY longer to realise than other more conventional computer-animated films, because doing these films with the 'choppier' 24-frames approach to animation is a clever but trickier thing to master than the 'motion blurring' evoking live-action film footage. Like Spider-Verse, the wait will be worth it I reckon. Rushing these kinds of movies would be an insult in the long run.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been reimagined in a number of ways, and this one seems like it could attract more newcomers than the other films and television shows could have (or not), and hopefully the inevitable sequel can be an equally entertaining movie as it.
4/5 stars for this film. Longtime fans or newbies are more than welcome to this here film.
Now that Nickelodeon has shown the way they're taking on animated cinema, what's in store for the other franchises that could make for an equally interesting movie? Danny Phantom? Avatar: The Last Airbender? SpongeBob? A gritty Jimmy Neutron reboot? I'm joking with that one, but it does make you wonder what the future holds for Nickelodeon Movies. It'd be nice if the other movies they make have distinct visual styles (like some are traditionally animated, some computer-animated, and maybe even claymation if they felt like it) with the movies they're undoubtedly working on right now.
Mutant Mayhem is a fun time, and its action-packed family centric story makes way for some wholesome scenes like the turtles referring to Splinter as 'Dad' and the scene of the brothers filming each other throwing shurikens on the rooftop. It's good stuff, and it leaves you wanting more in the right way; I'm guessing this film took WAY longer to realise than other more conventional computer-animated films, because doing these films with the 'choppier' 24-frames approach to animation is a clever but trickier thing to master than the 'motion blurring' evoking live-action film footage. Like Spider-Verse, the wait will be worth it I reckon. Rushing these kinds of movies would be an insult in the long run.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been reimagined in a number of ways, and this one seems like it could attract more newcomers than the other films and television shows could have (or not), and hopefully the inevitable sequel can be an equally entertaining movie as it.
4/5 stars for this film. Longtime fans or newbies are more than welcome to this here film.