Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

"Mysterious. Dangerous. Reptilious. You've never seen heroes like this."

2014 1h 41m EN

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5.9

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20%

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5.8

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★5.9TMDB · 7,345🥫20%Rotten Tomatoes●31Metacritic★5.8IMDB · 229,104

Science FictionActionAdventureComedy

Synopsis

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When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.

“Mysterious. Dangerous. Reptilious. You've never seen heroes like this.”

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Cast

Pete Ploszek
Leonardo
Alan Ritchson
Raphael
Jeremy Howard
Donatello
Noel Fisher
Michelangelo
Megan Fox
April O'Neil
Will Arnett
Vern Fenwick
William Fichtner
Eric Sacks
Danny Woodburn
Splinter

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Writers: Josh Appelbaum, Evan Daugherty, Todd Harris
Languages: English, Japanese
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$125M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 3.9× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 12 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Japanese.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Remake) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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6 / 8

CAST

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366+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jonathan Liebesman, shot by Lula Carvalho. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Brian Tyler. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Jonathan Liebesman directs. Lula Carvalho behind the camera. Brian Tyler scores. Joel Negron cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1$125M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Made its money back 3.9× over at the box office.
3Released 12 years ago.
4Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Japanese.
5Part of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Remake) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6366+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Jonathan Liebesman, shot by Lula Carvalho. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Brian Tyler. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Joel Negron shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Pete Ploszek and Alan Ritchson and Jeremy Howard carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "Mysterious. Dangerous. Reptilious. You've never seen heroes like this.".
12IMDB entry: tt1291150 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
13Classified under 14 themes, including "new york city", "van", "martial arts", "hero".
14Released under 11 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Lula Carvalho
Original score: Brian Tyler
Editing: Joel Negron
Production design: Neil Spisak
Makeup / hair: Mindy Hall
VFX supervisor: Pablo Helman
Sound: Terry Porter
Stunt coordinator: David Leitch
Runtime: 101 min · 1h 41m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $125,000,000
Box office: $485,004,754
Return: 388% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Rotten Tomatoes: 20% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 31/100
IMDB rating: 5.8/10 · 229,104 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

1 win & 11 nominations total

Part of

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Remake) Collection

An American superhero film series based on the fictional superhero team of the same name created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. These served as a reboot to the original live-action films.

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Dark Jedi2018-02-01
★ 5/10
I have to say that this was a rather “meh” experience. It certainly was not an improvement over the original. Why try to rewrite a story that was actually not bad when you cannot be bothered to spend some effort on it? The new story is sloppy and it is rather clear that whoever wrote it got only two directives: Make sure that Megan Fox gets a lot of focus and if you do not know what to write then cram in some special effects. There are a lot of special effects in this movie! It is obvious that Megan Fox’s ego have had a lot of influence on the movie. To the extent that you might wonder if this movie is about the turtles or about Megan Fox. She might be the wet dream of some less discerning teenagers but her acting skills leaves somewhat to be desired. Okay, okay she was actually not too bad in this movie but then it was not to difficult to shine in this movie either. There are a few moments when it looks like it is going to turn interesting. For instance when the shredder is first introduced and punishes some of his underlings but rather quickly he is reduced to just another “special effect” when they slap this robotic shredder suit onto him. Come on, he is supposed to be a skilled martial arts combatant, not some freak in a robotic suit. Splinter was just sad. Some lab rat that picked up martial arts from a book he found in the sewers! What the f…? That ruined a lot of the movie. The turtles themselves, being already pushed back somewhat into the background by Megan Fox desire to be in front of the cameras most of the time, are bland to say the least. They are immature, even for a movie like this, and the jokes are simply unintelligent and mostly not very funny. I was about to write that, if you like special effects and do not care for much of the rest, then you will probably like this movie but when I think back even the special effects where often only mildly interesting. They were perhaps not really bad but not very impressive either. The truck ride down a snowy slope was just silly and some of the scenes where actually rather underwhelming for instance. On the whole, to me, this was a mildly entertaining movie that could have been much better if someone with basic intelligence had been asked to write the script in the first place. There are actually five (!) people credited with writing this movie and maybe that is the problem. Too many cooks!
r96sk2021-01-08
★ 5/10
Flat, generic, CGI-filled. <em>'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'</em> bored me, unfortunately. I have a slight memory of seeing bits of TMNT when I was younger but never intentionally watched it, though have always been interested in viewing a film with them in. So in that sense, this disappointed. It just has nothing about it, no character or charm whatsoever. No reason to care for any of the onscreen bunch. Very plain. None of the cast stick out, particularly the voices. Megan Fox is probably the best this has to offer, though I didn't mind William Fichtner either... Whoopi Goldberg shows up in an alright minor role too, I guess? I found little to zero of the action scenes entertaining, not helped by some questionable editing and music. Another issue I did also notice is the humour, which falls flat at almost every opportunity - especially with the grating Michelangelo (Noel Fisher). I'll check out the sequel, because I always going to, but I ain't expecting much! This 2014 film isn't worth seeing.
CinemaSerf2024-03-21
★ 6/10
Oh come on, it's not actually that bad! I mean, if we accept from the outset that there's nothing at all original about this apocalyptic "Batman"-style thriller, then we can just get behind our heroes in an half shell and enjoy the ride. Bumpy? Well yes it is. You see, "Shredder" (Tohoru Masamune) and his dastardly "Foot Clan" have taken control of New York City. To make matters worse, "Splinter" has been attacked and he and all but "Raphael" turtle-napped. Now the game is afoot. Rescue them all then with the help of feisty reporter "April" (Megan Fox) and her savvy cameraman "Vern" (Will Arnett) apply their ninja skills and get to grips with the evil that now governs their city. Nothing at all original, no, but there's plenty of action and the odd bit of witty dialogue - usually from "Michaelangelo" - is included as leader "Leo" and the sharpest of the bunch - "Donatello" - have to come up with and execute a cunning plan in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Of course there's a message for us too. Some gently moralising stuff about inter-reliance, team building, loyalty - and, of course, there are plenty of sagely interventions from their rattish guru. It was entirely logical for Hollywood to capitalise on these global phenomena and to be fair, though it's pretty poor, it's no worse than a great many derivative efforts that the 2010s CGI factories churned out to keep the production lines in full flow. True fans may get something more from this, but for the rest of us - well it's not really up to much at all.