The first thing I noticed nigh this version of TMNT is the fact than none of the heroes in the halfshell had any pupils. To me, no pupils=no souls, but like the characters in that darkened Turtles revamp in the mid-nineties which misstepped and near spelled the end for the serial.
Simply I sabbatum through a couple of episodes and was came back VERY satisfied with the new version.
I grew up watching the lean, green fighting machines fight a agglomeration of bumbling and stumbling bad guys, robots, aliens, mutants, oftentimes saving April O'Neill in the nick of times while ending each productive day eating pizza with some gnarly toppings (chocolate chips and anchovies, anyone?) Slapstick humor, groaner puns, and fast-paced activeness fortified with blood-pumping music was the lodge of the day, and we all seemed to like it only fine, thanyouverymuch. I still get a kick out of those episodes when I interruption out the old tapes.
At present, with the original comic volume writer Peter Laird providing input, we take a much more serious tone. This time our heroes aren't here to solve Scooby-Doo mysteries and make pizza jokes. This serial actually chronicles their 24-hour interval-to-solar day lives as they live in their undercover lair with Principal Splinter. The reason they alive in the sewers (which should have been obvious) has been really played up this time: they are freaks, monsters. The fact that they are outcasts makes solving various crimes and getting on the six-o-clock news with April O'Neill a pretty difficult thing to reach (besides the fact that April is now a former lab assistant and not a news reporter as in the earlier incarnations).
So all their lives the four turtles have been honing their ninjitzu skills under their sensei, when their lives take been turned upside down past the arrival of Shredder, Splinter'due south arch-nemesis. The other reviewers are right, Bebob and Rocksteady would non have lasted a 2d nether this Shredder. To take him lightly is to dig your own grave. The turtle's struggle to render to their normal lives during their confrontations with Shredder is the running drama binding these new episodes (which helps continue me interested every week since this time I know there will be a climax, instead of hearing "You miserable turtles, I'll get y'all side by side time!" after every other unrequited episode in the erstwhile series.)
Despite all this, I nonetheless would accept been bored with this series if the turtles acted as serious as they looked. But to my relief, they retained much of their old personalities of the old series. Leonardo is still the leader, Donatello's still the inventive brain, Raphael is still sarcastic (and this time gruff and tough), and Michaelangelo is, well, y'all all know Mikey. I do really believe Mike's even more outrageous in this series than in the old 1. Because they still retained their personalities, they don't come off as robotic Warriors of Virtue just equally "regular" teens who find themselves defenseless in a bad space of time.
The way the series uses split screens, wide screens, more boot-butt action (screw the Parent Advisory Council!) and took its stories seriously too doesn't hurt the appeal. Add to this the humanity of the characters, and you accept yourself a superior production on your hands.
**** out of four stars.
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