#source: teenage mutant ninja turtles mutant mayhem

[incorrectpowerrangersquotes]

Taylor: Enough talk! I dream about fighting every night! Danny: You've got a rage problem, Taylor. Max: Oh snap! Taylor: It's not a problem!

[hitwiththetmnt]

GUYS I FINALLY GOT TO DRAW THE MM BOYS AFTER SEEING THE TRAILER!!!

[duckdodger]

every clip so far is them just getting terrorized by these mechazoids 😭

[ophelliate]

WOMAN BISHOP?!?!

[paperexe64]

Bebop & Rocksteady boss fight at 2:14:20 - 2:19:30 in this video.

[neverheroes]

Here’s a bunch of stuff in the MM Tales of the TMNT comic-con sneak-peek I thought about too much!

They’ve cared so much about showing how differently they each react to and process the same situation.

Through the scene Raph is excited to tear things up and true to every iteration ever tries things his way until it doesn’t work, Don’s flight response pings into analyst mode and you just know he’s figuring out how to break stuff, Mike is thriving in team-mode and keeping them all on track, and Leo flails around like a giant ball of chronic anxiety before figuring out a plan. They’re original formula with gently new toppings and I’m ready for this slice.

Raphael

This guy! We get so much. He’s rearing to do some fighting that isn’t sparring and be free to do some actual damage. So we know he’s bored fighting is brothers and wants a challenge. He can’t handle this one and in figuring that out is “open to suggestions” which is quite the overlooked Raph quality, he’ll listen he just has to work through that impulsive reactive streak first. He’s strong and knows it, and that robot gets a harder fight. The Raph highlight for me was taking time while fighting to honour the time-old tradition of making fun of Michelangelo. <Sobs in last ronin.>

Donatello

This kid, man! It’s a long standing opinion of mine that everyone should be more scared of Donatello. His interest in understanding the threat overrides most of his fear. Cerebral af. This is his face most of the time while a robot programmed to obliterate him is directly behind him. On the surface it looks like he’s running away a lot, but he can’t exactly press pause on it to figure out how they work. His gentle heart characterisation is well intact, apologising to the robot when he damages it having already personified the thing. I honestly believe he would take it home like he’d found a new pet if that were an option.

Michelangelo

What a show of Mikey magic. He’s got the comedy relief on a casual setting with subtle jokes and unintentionally antagonistic observation style. Mike has a tiny attention span but is 100% in every moment and they draw a lot of attention to his speed and agility. He shines doing what Mikey is known so well for; keeping the family together. It was awesome to see him effectively orienting his brothers into the situation, and see them listen to him so readily. He still calls to Leo for guidance when he feels out of control, but we might be in for a more surprising personal arc than ~nobody takes me seriously~ this time around.

Leonardo

This is a blessing for Leo fans because MM Tales Leo sucks /srs. Not in the way Raph fans say it on Instagram posts, in the way that his flaws are so disparate from other versions that a mastery arc is screaming his nervous muppet name. The giftedness is still sewn in; even flailing around he has more advanced weapon control, is observant enough to be the right level of stressed when a threat shows up, and jumps into strategy finding a vantage point to make a plan like a good little Leo, but instead of our usual Leo trauma ball we (at least for now) get to watch a Leo with the confidence of a processed cheese slice be terrible at things because he’s just some kid…

Pfffffffahahhhahhahba

The Mutant Mayhem kids are the most realistically green (and by that I mean inexperienced) we've ever seen them and it's continued into Tales. With detaching from source origin and establishing a much more grounded reflection of teen life in the current world, the growth arcs over Tales and the next MM movie have such immense unburdened potential that it really could lead anywhere and I don’t know what to expect.

(Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will air in August 9th 2024 on Paramount+)

[its-ya-girl-phoeni]

Link: Enough talk! I dream about fighting every night!

Peppino: You've got a rage problem, kid...

Link: IT'S NOT A PROBLEM!

@zay-does-things

Thanks to @cjslenderboss bringing it up a while back, I love the idea that Link in the PT crossover is totally unfazed during Pizza Time, since he's dealt with the pressure of time limits and being killed by an evil floating face before...

[sciderman]

Sci, Mutant Mayhem wasn't THAT good. It was good but-

Changed basically everything about the lore except the fact they are mutant turtles in nyc

Hang on, do you think any of the Spider-Men have been friend with the tmnt?

okay i have no personal stake in the teenage mutant ninja turtles lore whatsoever so i came into it as a novice and i did not expect to like the turtles but came out really liking the turtles so that's the barometer of success to me. i think as a standalone thing without any prior investment in the IP it's really, really solid. like it's a good movie, objectively, on it's own. if teenage mutant ninja turtles didn't exist prior, it's just straight up a good movie. it's a good movie. narratively sound, has a lot of heart, you like all the characters... art direction makes me salivate. i never thought about the turtles before. now i can't stop thinking about them. movie did good job on that front. 👍

i don't know if i'll ever get into the teenage mutant ninja turtles lore but i mean it did what it said on the tin. there were definitely teenage mutant ninja turtles in it. so i got what i was expecting, i think. i wasn't mismarketed.

i think every adaptation of a property SHOULD do something new with it. i don't think an adaptation necessarily owes something to the source material - it owes it to the audience to justify it's own existence as something new. something that exists on it's own, and has a reason to exist, more than just retreading what already exists, y'know, y'know. so i love adaptations that are good on their own. not something to discredit, me don't think!

buuuut i'm sure if i had any personal stake in tmnt i'd have gripes. but maybe not. i love when people do something NEW with spider-man, as long as it's actually good and interesting, and not stupid and bad and soulless. i don't hate on the mcu spider-man adaptation because it's different - i hate on it because it doesn't work, on it's own. there's a reason why the original is effective and the new one isn't. and those reasons go beyond "it's different." miles' story is different, and isn't faithful to the comics exactly, and it's better for it. it's fresh and new. fresh and new is good, sometimes. when something is good, it's good. doesn't have to be faithful. and in fact, being faithful can be a bit of a curse sometimes. it's easy to be faithful. it's more of a challenge to reinterpret something to make it accessible and interesting for new viewers. so! credit to tmnt:mm for that!! sexy of them. so sexy.

i don't think there's a canonical team-up between the turtles and any spider-men - but man, there SHOULD be...

[wecandoit]

what i read | aug-sep

notes: (1) '*' indicates a content warning for references to death, abuse, violence, obvious triggers for mental illnesses (2) bolded links show sources that i found super interesting or introduced me to a new/profound concept

Books

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

Articles/Essays

Revisiting the Languages of Love: An Empirical Test of the Validity Assumptions Underlying Chapman’s (2015) Five Love Languages Typology

Topical treatments for acne

The True Story of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond—and Why the British Won’t Give It Back

Repatriation of the Kohinoor Diamond: Expanding the Legal Paradigm for Cultural Heritage

Challenging the colonisation of birth: Koori women's birthing knowledge and practice

A cognitive developmental approach to understanding how children cope with disasters

Nature-Based Early Childhood Education and Children's Social, Emotional and Cognitive Development: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review.

Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological model: a theoretical framework to explore the forest school approach?

How AI Generates Images from Text

Discrimination Has Trapped People of Color in Unhealthy Urban 'Heat Islands'

A Newly Discovered Brain Signal Marks Recovery from Depression

Poems

Message to My Beloved Sibling

Movies/Videos

The Kingmaker by Lauren Greenfield

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem by Jeff Rowe

[prowl-autism-extraordinaire]

april's notebook

i transcribed april's notebook from mutant mayhem. anything in [brackets] im not 100% sure of; part of the top was cut off from the first page so i only have a sentence fragment. enjoy! page one: [cut off] other diseases? - Have you caught covid? (Can you get sick) - Are you the source of covid?

on the right side of the page are a few words with emphasis marks around them and several are underlined. i cant read any of them :(

- Are the weapons from Hot Topic? Pawn shop? Self made?

-How many people has the red bandana turtle stabbed? Does he need therapy? - Can you [indistinct] my apartment [cut off] (clogs a lot)

Unrelated: How much toilet paper is too much for the sewer to handle? - Can you guys be good ninjas if I've seen you [indistinct] (Will you have to kill me now?)

on the left side of the page is a drawing of a turtle foot with an arrow beneath it pointing down to two pictures of turtle hands, one of which is poorly draw and crossed out. the other has '3 FINGERS? HANDLES OR [cut off]' written beneath it in all caps.

page two:

- Do you have superhuman (turtle?) strength? - What do you eat besides pizza? Are there any pizza spots you'd recommend? - Does your blood have acid-like properties?

- What's your lifespan?

- Do your shells molt? - Does your rat dad molt? - Do you have ears? They think they have ears

around the page are various doodles of pizza slices, ninja stars, and a teenage mutant ninja turtle's head, as well as april's signature. thanks @boom-reblogs for the correction on the acid-like blood!

[stimmymagic]

Raphael (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem) sensory board with a partial birthday theme for a sweet anon whose birthday is coming up! I hope you have such a happy day ♡

Gif Sources: (🐢 / 🎂 / 🐢) (🎂 / 🐢) (🎂 / 🐢 / 🎂)

Center image: Raphael, as seen in teasers for TMNT: Mutant Mayhem

[ragnarockz]

TMNT Mutant Mayhem spoilers under the cut!

WHAT A BREATH OF FRESH AIR THIS MOVIE IS

OH

MY

GOD

Can we talk about how incredible it was to have these four that we know and love, through so many versions and to have them strike HARD at the teenage aspect?

They're teens. They're growing into the individuals they want to be. There is no strong personality traits that take over the entire film.

Mikey is not ONLY the jokester.

Raph is not ONLY the hothead.

Leo is not ONLY the confident leader.

Donnie is not ONLY the brainiac.

Mikey had such a range of emotions we RARELY see with him. He wasn't ONLY just funny. He was sad, he was scared, he was excited, he was a voice of REASON so many TIMES. And yes, he was funny and light-hearted but that wasn't his ONLY depth range.

These four are trying to figure it all out WHILE being mutants and turtles and ninjas. But they aren't super into letting that mark them as WHO they are. They in this moment ARE TEENS.

They care about movies, clothes, music, POP CULTURE. They care about it. It's part of their lives, above and under the surface.

The layers here, truly, each part of their title was equally explored and it just felt so good?!

It was a movie that pulled from really every TMNT source. Honored it, gave it room to play out, pulled ideas and scenes and characters that we know and can reflect back on. And it still felt NEW. It still felt like undiscovered TMNT territory.

You CAN have them be teens and still be funny and relatable and still drive home hard with things teens worry about (friends, fitting in, popularity, PROM, etc.)

I cannot wait to see where this movie takes us now on the TMNT journey.

Thank you sincerely, Seth.

[satoshi-mochida]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem game announced for consoles, PC

Gematsu Source

Outright Games has announced a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game set in the world of the recently released animated feature film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. It will launch for unspecified consoles and PC in 2024.

Here is an overview of the game and franchise, via Outright Games:

Taking place months after the events of the movie, the game will feature unique visuals inspired by the film’s bold, painterly art style. Combining energetic ninja teamwork gameplay with a humorous narrative, players will take control of the Turtles as they interact with a host of memorable characters from the franchise and fight to save this stylized take on New York City from a new mutant threat. Considered one of the most popular kids’ franchises, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a classic, global property created in 1984 by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman. It first debuted as a successful comic book series and then became a hit animated TV show, a live-action television series and later spawned numerous blockbuster theatrical releases. The property is a global consumer products powerhouse, winning in every category that has hit shelves to date—with toys, apparel, video games, DVDs, and more—and generating billions of dollars at retail.

“Nickelodeon is one of our longest standing licensing collaborators and we’re overjoyed to have the opportunity to bring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to life in a brand new and original video game,” said Outright Games chief operating officer Stephanie Malham in a press release. “This is one of the most enduring and beloved franchises in the world and we’re beyond excited to use our expertise to expand the Turtles’ global reach even further through the world of video games.”

Paramount senior vice president of games and emerging media Doug Rosen added, “It’s exciting to launch our first console game set in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem universe, especially as the franchise only continues to grow. The vibrancy of this new film’s animation lends itself perfectly to video games, and we can’t wait for everyone to play it.”

Further information was not announced.

[duckdodger]

BEST FOR LAST !!!!! MICHELANGELO PROMO !!

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

Here we are... Best Animated Feature noms...

My predictions were 4-out-of-5...

THE BOY AND THE HERON, NIMONA, ROBOT DREAMS, and SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE all got in...

The one I got wrong was TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM, which to be fair, I did say in my previous post that that one was the wild card out of my predictions. Despite the high praise and tons of nominations TMNT:MM got elsewhere, in addition to a single win, I guess those who were nominating it for the Oscar just didn't think the oozy gross-out turtle action-superhero movie cut it.

Instead, we have ELEMENTAL, so Disney Pictures gets at least one slot this year. The last time they were shut out entirely was for the features of 2011, the year they released the critical dud CARS 2 and the completely dumped WINNIE THE POOH. I was pretty sure that this year, they also wouldn't make it. ELEMENTAL's critical reception was fine at best, nowhere near the acclaim MUTANT MAYHEM got. WISH was both a critical and commercial dud, so that had no chance, only ELEMENTAL did... Maybe the Academy just didn't feel like pulling a 2018 and nominating two superhero action animated movies. Maybe they decided to have just one IP-based movie in the race, and opted for an original story. (As NIMONA and ROBOT DREAMS are based on pre-existing source material, BOY AND THE HERON references a novel that plays a part in its story.) Maybe something else about it wasn't all to their liking. Maybe Disney is just that powerful that they got themselves a slot.

I still think this is a strong line-up, and again, it speaks to how robust this year was for features both mainstream and independent.

And I will admit, even though I wasn't in love with the movie, ELEMENTAL getting into the race is very nice, I feel. Director Peter Sohn's first Pixar feature, THE GOOD DINOSAUR, was both a box office flop and didn't get a nominated for the Oscar (it shared the year with sister Pixar movie INSIDE OUT). It was also a film that he inherited after its original director got removed from it. ELEMENTAL was his personal project from the ground-up, and after a rough opening and all the press jeering that it was going to be this big flopperooni, it had excellent legs at the box office... and now... It has a Best Animated Feature nom. Talk about staying power! Maybe Pete Docter should think twice about that statement he made back in the summer, about trying to go back to Pixar's "roots" in trying to figure out what audiences supposedly want from this studio.

Anyways, Pixar usually gets a nom every year. For 2022's animated features, TURNING RED was in the running. 2021, LUCA. 2020, SOUL, which won for that year. Last time Pixar didn't get a nom at all was for 2016, their sole feature that year was FINDING DORY. Got good reviews and made beaucoup bucks, but it shared a year with Disney Animation's ZOOTOPIA and MOANA, two heavy hitters which ended up getting the noms. So, outside of FINDING DORY, MONSTERS UNIVERSITY, and CARS 2, Pixar usually never misses a nom whenever they release a single movie in a calendar year.

Most of Paramount's Oscar noms in animation were for DreamWorks movies they released circa 2006-2012, which are all now Universal movies since Comcast owns all of DreamWorks Animation outright. Funnily enough, the inaugural Best Animated Feature nominations included Paramount's JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS, which was up against eventual winner SHREK, and MONSTERS, INC. Paramount then began distributing DreamWorks movies in 2006, and scored nominations with KUNG FU PANDA, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, KUNG FU PANDA 2, and PUSS IN BOOTS. For a non-DreamWorks nom, there was RANGO, which won for Best Animated Feature of 2011... Ever since then? Only one movie, ANOMALISA. The films they released from 2015 to now just never made it: SHERLOCK GNOMES, WONDER PARK, SPONGEBOB 3, RUMBLE, etc. MUTANT MAYHEM really had a good shot at getting in... Maybe TRANSFORMERS: ONE surprises later this year, I don't know. Paramount's animation history post-80s is so weird...

Anyways, congrats to everyone. I'm personally rooting for either BOY AND THE HERON, or NIMONA.

[omegatheunknown]

Top 10 of 2023 -- Theatrical Releases

Started using letterboxd as a journal two years ago, mostly so I could remember just how recently I'd watched Big Trouble in Little China or Hot Fuzz, but also to hit 'em with of the moment reviews and ratings fresh from the theatre. Which is to say, I'm a little nervous to see what'll come up at the top, but let's take a trip.

10- The Boogeyman (**1/2) - Technically in theatres for a week or two. Buried otherwise, a low stakes King adaptation/remake/reboot that makes the list so I don't have to say anything about AntMan, Elemental, Renfield, or, god forbid, Mario. Effective horror, kind of a neat creature at the center of it, pleasantly surprised that I didn't hate it.

9- Asteroid City (***) - Did lead to a minor personal epiphany, so not all bad. The amount of meta-fictional artifice (lest we for a second want to empathize or consider Wes' paper doll characters in his paper doll theatre as being recognizably human) has gone well-beyond the 'as Royal Tenenbaum' and 'let me tell you about my boat,' past the authorial frame of the Grand Budapest and as of The French Dispatch, Mssr Anderson is now almost entirely preoccupied with stories within stories and it is actually very annoying. (The minor epiphany is that I have also been doing this, as metafiction delights me too, Wes, but why should anyone else care?) Anyway, highlight here is the usual meticulous design, the ridiculous stop-motion sequence, some crackerjack dialogue (muted because now every character has the same blunted affect and without subtitles I sorta glazed over in parts) and these movies remain quite funny.

8- Barbie (***1/2) - Watched a lot of pablum this year, most of it with very naked corporate ambition. Barbie's central trick is to critique itself and the very cynical context in which it critiques itself and hopefully contain within it the entire discourse (good luck to you.) Wish I hadn't had to listen to people earnestly tell me how brilliant and resonant certain 'pause for applause' moments were, but the humour may well stand the test of time, and people were rightly hyped on Ryan Gosling's over-delivery on what once was seen as an unlikely bit of casting.

7- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (***1/2) - Not too proud to admit I was, in 2023, still kind of excited to see this one (1) marvel movie. Crisp Rat aside, the Guardians deliver best on the comic-to-screen vibe and rarely seem embarrassed with their source, leading to the intense emotional journey of a CGI mutant raccoon bounty hunter reckoning with his maker, no winking involved. Rocket Raccoon is my fucking guy, anyway, no more of these, please and thanks.

6- Dungeons and Dragons, Honor Among Thieves (***1/2) - Yeah, okay, more popcorn flick pablum. Hasbro hoping to further capitalize on the pop culture rise of and monetize and micro-transaction-atize and thereby enshitiffy one of my dearest hobbies (I am diversifying away from D&D TM) looming large in the background here, given the whole OGL blowback it was briefly reasonable large portions of diehards might boycott this thing. Anyway, saw it, liked it, succeeded wildly in the goal of effectively conveying what it's actually like to play a fantasy ttrpg, all the weird in-jokes, wild variations in tone, hand-waving and quirks of 'the rules' there for snorts of recognition. Cannot imagine this was much fun for non-players, but maybe.

5- Across the Spider-Verse (****) - Extremely hyped, but hopefully not the zenith of the trilogy, a lot is riding on part 3, which is thankfully due, uhhh, sometime next year? Dragged out its ending laying more groundwork, but before then, another ceiling breaking exercise in contemporary animation, an almost non-stop kinetic kaleidoscope of visual creativity that augurs well for animation's continued evolution.

4- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Mutant Mayhem (****) - Speaking of. Now, I've loved the Turtles since I was 4 years old, so my personal belief has always been, even though I love the 1990 rubber-suited cash grab, that the central premise is something that in the right hands can actually be objectively good, as opposed to personally delightful to me. This is that movie, the good Ninja Turtles movie. 'Teenage' -- to the point of being endearingly, obnoxiously immature, 'Mutant' -- to the point that the world around them is just as grody and fucked up looking as they are, 'Ninja' -- with sly handheld camera angles and satisfyingly fluid motion to rival Spiderverse, and uh, 'Turtles' -- they sure fucking are. I loved this. Jackie Chan forever.More, please.

3- Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (****) - Exceedingly Quebecois take on the contemporary hipster vampire movie, Can-con for my list. Canadian Indies in 2023 are strikingly similar to American Indies from 2008, if that at all recommends. Ranks high for efficient self-contained everything, very charming, funny, just bizarre enough.

2- The Boy and the Heron (****1/2) - Easy to feel like this is a Ghibli greatest hits compilation, easier to remember that's what we all kinda want-- cute and unsettling creatures, delicious looking food, spirit worlds, quiet moments of reflection, arcane rules for how any and everything works... yet also maybe the truest return to the titanic achievements of Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away (especially.) Story forms a suitably esoteric thesis about grief and creation and, ultimately, endings. I think Miyazaki might actually be done this time.

1- Godzilla Minus One (*****) - An entirely different movie than Shin Godzilla, very possibly even better. It's tense (Godzilla hasn't felt creepy like this for a while.) It's emotional (rivals Godzilla vs Biollante in its human story.) It's very naked in its message (ah, the guilt.) The action is superb. I do not know where Godzilla goes from here. (Mothra!)

(Haven’t seen: Poor Things, Bottoms, Napoleon, the Killer, a bunch of other crap.)